Walking Shoes - Walking and Other Exercise

[Guest_1055]

Hey to anyone reading this.

Last night I had an idea about starting a new thread about exercise especially walking. I am aware that walking is very beneficial for our mental, emotional and physical well being. And by actually doing it....well it can make a huge difference to how we cope with the storms that we face in life.

OK, I am not real good at disciplining myself to walk, and have to really push myself to do it. And sometimes it is even hard to leave this bedroom. Anyway I am not a beginner walker, as I have stuck to sort of a plan before. So I know that it does make me feel somewhat better. But I only stayed on the plan for a couple of months, then gave up.....for whatever reason. So here I am again wanting desperately to not fail this time.

So I guess this thread is for anyone that does walk, anyone that is struggling to walk because of depression or anxiety issues. And anyone else really......

I am unsure of the outcome of all this. But my ideas included: Sharing about things we have found out about exercise especially about walking. Writing down the reasons that one would chose to walk ( like something to help motivate). Being accountable in same way. Sharing about the places where we actually do walk, like the beach, gym, around the block, with the dog, out to the clothesline and back. And any other useful tips that could help others. So here we go......

[Shell4]

Went for a bit of a walk with my little nephew baby. He is so so cute and I love him. I pushed his pram up a small hill. I pointed out the ducks to him saying quack quack. It did start to rain some so I connected this weatherproof cover on to his pram. He thought it was great and was tapping the plastic and giggling. As I was pushing the pram he was talking his baby talk. We had to make our way back because the rain was getting heavier. I did find it challenging pushing this pram down a hill , holding an umbrella in one hand. And I keep checking him because the covering was covering all if the pram. And I thought could he breathe in there. Then I saw like a circle of open holes in the plastic on the side. That made me feel better seeing those. And he was nice and dry 

[Shell4]

Today I went out on a longish walk out on the main road near my place. There is pretty much a path all the way along. It goes up a slight hill, up to the lights near the primary school. We keep walking. And more walking. We cross over a narrow bridge which is over a body of water..like a muddy wetlands pond. We keep walking with wetlands on the right of us. I noticed a tall white water bird perched on a fence. It was a very clean white with skinny long legs. And quite a long almost curvy neck. I am not sure what it was. It was super skinny and elegant looking. I will look it up soon. I looked at it fly away into the wetlands. We kept heading towards a roundabout which is situated at the very end of the freeway. We heading back from there. All the way from which we had come and some more. As we veered to the left at the lights near the primary school. And walked towards the supermarket to buy some coconut water. I was feeling like a refreshing smoothie. After buying that we heading back home. 

Smoothie serves 1 person

1 cup cocobella coconut water

1 peeled and chopped orange

1 - 2 pitted medjool dates chopped

1 cup frozen strawberries 

1/2 cup frozen mango

Blend in a powerful blender 

It was very cold to drink on a winters day. 

[Shell4]

An egret I think that bird was.

Today I went walking with my sister around that park that we use to walk around. It was nice to feel some sunshine. We walked 3 laps of it. So about 2 hours