Exercise simplification

There is no doubt, when my exercise is going well and I am happy about it, I am much more in control of my eating.

However, with the short winter days, frequent nasty weather and my somewhat unpredictable life at the moment, I am finding it difficult to stick to the formal training schedule I had written for the half-marathon walk. Then I get pissed off with myself and my eating goes off track...

So, no more schedules, no more specific types of training on specific days. My new plan is this:

Every day, I will walk a minimum of 15,000 steps.

That's it, it doesn't get any simpler. I will not average 15,000 a day, thereby giving myself license to have lazy days followed by days of frenzied catching up. I will do a minimum of 15,000.

And I can get to the number whatever way I like, giving me the flexibility I need just now. So if I go to the gym in the morning, I won't need to go for such a long walk at night (or if I spend the whole day rushing around like an idiot I might be able to collapse in a heap when I get home). All I really need to do is make sure I chuck in a couple of good long walks (like 15km) before the half-marathon and it will all be sweet!

Of course, the lazy day might come when I find myself needing to fit in 13,000 between dinner and bedtime...