Day 5

So here is the summary of highs and lows for today.  Lets start with a high.  After my father in-laws brother Bill started reading our blog of progress, he went and enrolled in a health club center.  He said that if we can do it, so can he.  That is great inspiration and motivation that we have created has made us want to do this even more.

Ok, one more high point.  This day is to be marked in history that I ate Broiled salmon today.......AND LOVED IT!!!!  I am not a fish lover.  In fact I really cant stand it.  But it was done my my mom and it was awesome.  DISCLAIMER: (Mom, I'm sorry for giving you grief for the past 38 years about the not wanting to eat fish).  She said, you should try catfish....Ok I draw the line somewhere.  I can't fathom eating a fish that is overly ugly.

Now the bad, but good at the same time.  Erin, Ellie and I went to the Phoenix Zoo today by about 10AM and didn't leave until 5PM.  The minute that we walked in there, Erin thought she was going to lose her mind with the smell of Kettle Corn fuming throughout the zoo.  Those poor giraffe have to smell it every single day.  They are right next to the food court.  But on to the problem.

We ended up walking close to 7 hours for the day.  But here was the work out count on me:

Activity: 38 minutes
Calories: 2700
Steps: 6500

Erin met her Calorie burn goal but I was way off.  7033 Steps for Erin.  She also had to push Ellie in the zoo cart, so she had a little extra force to work with.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!  We walked that whole zoo.  And, we went on the paddle boats and I did all the paddling.  But it was only clocked at 2 minutes of activity.  My foot was in extreme pain.  And I was sweating and breathing a little hard.  That is not an easy thing to do.  SO WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!?!?!  We got home and I was willing to do the band stretches that we do every other day.  But even though we did a lot of stop and go, we still did some harsh walking.  There were some hills that posed a great challenge.

We can't do anymore today.  Not after the zoo.

So we are going to plug in our numbers and go to bed.  This has been a very hard day for our bodies with all of the walking.  I can understand this is wrong if we only did an hour of walking but that was not the case.  We were on our feet in the sun and it was warm there.  We are not giving up, we are just in a slump for one day.

Oh and by the way, Erin said that she had 1 calorie left to burn while we were eating dinner.  So she put down her fork and started doing arm reaches while sitting to get that last calorie in.  Her Bodybugg alarm went off and she finished dinner.  We all laughed, but all I could do was pout because I would have to flap my arms like a chicken until I burn mine.  As I am writing this blog though, I have 66 calories left to burn.

Thanks for reading.

Working to be healthy
Brad and Erin