Walking and other things

Today my husband was working a later shift so before lunch, when he was playing with daughter I took the time for myself and went for a walk. No stroller to push was really nice. That same old nasty wind was there so I just started my walk facing it to do the hardest part first. I took a new trail and made it to the rotary park and followed another new path that leads to a street that I normally walk with daughter. It was nice to walk through the bush, hear the river and even some birds. When I got home 1 hour later my legs were all shaky and I was really tired. I sat down for 5 minutes and made myself something to eat, then I found out that I was not as tired anymore. I mean before it would have taken me longer to get over the walk!

Almost 5 km

I just went for a walk and now that I am back I can see on my Fitbit that I walked for 1 hour and 13 minutes. I did 6503 steps which is 4.96 km. I burned 433 calories!!! Yay! The gadget didn’t know that I was pushing my daughter in the stroller so it might be even more calories. I am tired but happy with myself.

Stressed because of calories?

If you are stressing with calorie intake sometimes here is a great post about calories that really made me laugh.

Calorie leakage and other tales we hope are true from 1fatgirlshrinking

Is freezing your toes burn more calories?

My family and I had such a beautiful day, we got up late and took it easy for the first hour. I had a latte with 3 Tim tams  after my breakfast of course. For those who don’t know what Tim tams are let me explain. My husband is from Australia and his family sent him a box of treats. Tim tams are a chocolate sandwich cookie covered with chocolate and shape like long rectangles. If you bite both ends of it you can sip your coffee through the cookie which becomes all soaked with it. After you just stick it in your mouth before you lose it in your coffee. The coffee and the chocolate together is so delicious!

Not long after we got ready to go ice fishing. The tent, auger, ice fishing rods, heater, lunch, etc. We got there around 1hpm and popped up the tent and got cosy inside.  It was about –10 Celsius outside and even tough we had a heater in the tent I was still getting cold. The heater uses propane so we had to live a part of the door and a little window open. With all that cold air and husband getting in and out all the time I got even colder after an hour so I got out and danced with daughter outside the tent and it warmed me up.

While I was being cold (especially my toes) I was wondering if I was burning more calories because my body was trying to keep warm. So here is an article that is talking about that. Don’t get your hopes to high because it looks like we need to shiver in order to lose a good amount. I think I would rather wear an extra pair of socks and do some exercise. loll

After about 4 hours of alternating moving to warm up and sitting in front of the heater we had 1 big trout and a small one. We decided to pack up as the sun was going down. When everything was in the jeep and there was just 1 fishing rod left in the hole we caught another big one. My daughter was so exited that we had caught a family of 3 just like our family!

We  stuffed the trout with orange, ginger and garlic and cooked it in the oven. Served with asparagus, carrots and love. It was a delicious and healthy supper. The fact that we had caught our own meal made it taste even better. Mmm…I just love fresh fish!

Birthday cake and skates

My work out was hard this morning because my back was hurting. I don’t know what I have done but somehow I think it has to do with the Wii spinal twist. I will make sure to go easy on the twisting thing. I guess I will get better at it and eventually it will be easier and won’t hurt anymore.

Easy way out

It is always annoying when starting a new diet . I mean at first I struggle, don’t know what to eat so I eat the same thing all the time. I also think about it constantly  because I try to figure out a way to make it easier on me.Once I get the hold of it, it gets better and I can make up some menus and recipes.