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This week, I meal-prepped. I have a fridge full of healthy, ready to heat and eat food. There are prepped veggies. There are prepped fruits. There are ready to assemble salad fixin's. Yesterday I ate said prepped meals. I had pasta and veggies for lunch and an egg and veggie burrito for dinner. I felt pretty dang good about myself.

Today as hubby left for work, I put the leash on the dog and went for a walk. Poor Scout-The-Dog is part Corgi and has tiny little legs. He made it .8 miles before this happened.


He is zonked! I dropped him off at home and set out for another round of walking for 1.5 miles today. It's not a lot, I'm not as zonked as Scout-The-Dog, but I feel it in my legs. I've been majorly slacking on any and all things "Get Your Ass In Gear" but damned if I realized I was this out of shape... AGAIN.

I'm proud that I got my ass off the couch and went for it. I'm a little ashamed that so little actually makes me feel like I did so much. There was a time, several years ago but in memory, that seven miles would make my legs sore. Today it was 1.5.

Tomorrow it will be 2, I hope. Then after that 3, then 4....

I may even got out again today for another go to add some miles to today's total.

A start is a start, right?

Even if it is a start AGAIN?
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