Hashing and Cross fit

I am and have been working towards a better me. As has been stated I have been on the primal diet full time since September and last week I stated doing a level 1 cross fit challenge for 30 days. At this point I still do not have any numbers on my 400 lbs home scale, however changes are still happening at a constant rate. My belt that I use is just about useless. I am on the last belt hole and it isn't as snug as I am comfortable with. Not quite to the point of pants falling off, yet I feel that I am literally weeks away from that. I am noticing small body changes in the way that my stomach and legs are reshaping. It's quite weird to find divots where fat nodules have shrunk down faster than the surrounding areas and there is no pain associated with it as it is a normal process. I am fitting better in to public places such as restaurant booths and chairs with arms on it. They are snug but not uncomfortable. I am tempted to do a couple sets of pictures to compare them to my before set and see if I can see a noticeable difference or not. The other thing that struck me as different today was my cognition in writing and replying to posts I found online. Usually I am good for maybe a sentence or two, but today I was writing paragraphs in reply that spawned off further conversations. It was rather exciting and enjoyable.

My next goal in the next few weeks to to get out to walking again. The cross fit training is stretching and toning the muscles that I will be using for walking, unlike when I was in Florida where I was simply walking at work during lunch time. Lunge steps, air squats and jogging in a circle in my basement for timed miles have been a large part of what I have been working with, my leg muscles are sore but not overly so. I am keeping an eye on how my body is responding to the exercise, I don't want to blow out a knee because I overdid it by accident. Once I get back into the walking stride, I will be posting the results like I have been. My walking goal is simply to be able to participate in a hash trail. If you haven't heard of hashing, look it up in your area. Odds are, there is a hashing group running around that you can hookup with if you so desire. The quick way to describe it is that they are a drinking group with a running addiction. I have gone to two hash events, pimping both. At my second event I was dutifully named an appropriate/inappropriate name. If you want to know said name, ask me off-blog and I will gladly share it,  if you dare want to know it that is. :) The hash trails run 3 to 7 miles in off road terrain and I live now in a mountainous area, so unless I want to actually hurt myself, I need to train up to it.

Overall, things are going steadily well, I will be a tad happier when I can weigh myself at home and get results. Patience, as always, is the key. It took time to put it on, it takes time to pull it off. I trust anyone reading this will take away that important point from this blog. Never let time get you down, just keep on keeping on and you will be ok.