That time of the year, went on a checkup recently and let's just say the doctor was surprised when I told him I don't drink at all as he was looking at the lab results. It kind of gave me a kick to start doing things differently moving forward so yesterday I went on the first walk in a long time where the focus is just walking to get that breathing going.
I've yet to install but will try doing so today so you may see some posts on there from me moving forward.
I'm usually the kind of person to focus on one thing mainly when I enjoy and like seeing progress being made, which for the past 7+ years has been this chain and the people here but not so much myself and my own health. I realize I only have myself to blame but the fact that that doesn't bother me has become a bit worrisome lately. As I was talking to the doc about my other bad habits, some of which I've posted about here before, like my sleep, he mentioned that that may be one of the main things that's created some kind of bad spiral for my health.
Basically for the past few years I've had this sleep cycle where I wait until I'm completely exhausted to go to sleep, which after doing no exercise can depend when that happens, some days I'd go to sleep the same hour as the day prior, but most other days it would be a couple to a few hours later. Once I am sleeping I do sleep full 7-8 hours which is good but apparently the change in when I get to sleep confuses the body which can lead to different consequences. Exercise should technically help me fall asleep easier at the time I should go to sleep so from yesterday on forward I'm going to try my hardest to make it a habit to fall asleep around the same hour. He also mentioned that it's kind of a combination with the things I should be doing, i.e. if I exercise then my body is tired and helps me fall asleep easier, sleeping regular hours would give me more energy to want to go out and exercise, or at least get started to do so which is the hardest part usually cause once I'm out I do okay.
Motivated by the "if you keep this up these lab test results will only look worse next time" I went for a walk yesterday. Wasn't a long one cause I didn't want my legs to hurt the next day cause I knew I'd use that as an excuse not to go again but it went fine. I guess not having known the results in the past may have also given me some kind of anxiety about my health as in "oh something feels weird, I better stop" so knowing now there's nothing wrong with my heart or whatever it went a lot better.
Screenshot from Samsung Health app
As I said it was quite a chill walk, nothing far but from now on I intend on increasing the distance daily to ease into it. It's been like 3 days since I logged into the Samsung Health app so I guess it has started tracking other steps where we went out to take care of some other things downtown, so while this doesn't count as fitness I guess steps are still steps so I intend on keeping it going daily and you guys can feel free to hold me accountable to do so. :P
While I won't be aiming for 6k steps yet, depending on if we go out today during the day or not, I'll be aiming to walk longer than 1.5km in the evening when the sun isn't as harsh and not too many can see this fatass walking down the street. xD
My current weight is 110.4 which puts me in a 33 BMI range for my height, I need to bring that down to something like 90 preferably with muscles instead of just fat, if no muscles then it should go lower to 82.
Anyway, I guess other motivators lately to get my health in order have also been , this isn't to undermine other people I care about in my life but I guess if you really enjoy something and want to see it through it helps being alive to see it get there. Exercising should also help me clear my head and think clearer when it comes to the project which I'm looking forward to.
Thanks for reading, wish me luck!
I realize I've posted similar posts before then just ghosted on the follow-up, this time will be different.
I promise.