Any time you make a change in your life you will encounter obstacles, road blocks. I did.

I know I need to drink water and I know I need to move. I did not add movement by spending hours on the tread mill. In my case what was added was a long brisk walk, with some jogging. And I added water to my life. Not as much as the eighty ounces some people insist you need but I added more water. I still had coffee for breakfast, but at my mid morning break, and a half hour before lunch I drank water. Then I read you should drink a half hour before any meal, not to fill you up, but so your body does not confuse dehydration with hunger. That made sense, so I added some water before breakfast. It didn’t last long. Why not?

Well if you drink a couple of glasses of water before breakfast, have coffee with breakfast and then after breakfast go for a looong walk it can create a difficult situation. The river path I was walking on was beautiful and I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of my excursion. Enjoying the exercise and movement I heard is a major ingredient to keeping it up. The second half was another story. Hundreds of people use the path I was on (spread out through the day). Why did no one think to put washrooms or even those portable toilets anywhere along the path. I was desperate. Tried jogging to get home faster, but the jostling movement made things worse so I walked as briskly as I could without the jostling. The last two blocks I wasn’t sure I would make it. The next day, I drank my water, but could not force myself to go out. Instead I tried walking in place, in my living room. The washroom was close. I could walk for the same amount of time inside. It would work. It didn’t work. It was so completely boring. After a couple of minutes instead of walking in place, I tried walking in circles around the living room. My dog thought I was playing with him, but soon figured out I wasn’t and started to whine. I sat down. How do people on tread mills stand it? That was the end of my morning walks. A few days later, I had an early morning appointment. I was afraid to drink the water. I didn’t do it. I just stopped drinking all the water I had added to my day.