Steady Progress on a Long Journey...

This morning I've been reflecting on the changes I've made to my lifestyle, and the progress I've been making.  I'm surprised by how easy the diet changes have been.  I've had limited success in the past with trying to eat healthy, but I always seemed to slip back into bad habits.  This time, though, I've had no urge to do so.  I can only put this down to cutting most carbohydrates (especially the processed ones) completely out of my diet.

I no longer have the rapidly returning hunger pangs that I used to while I was still eating lots of processed carbohydrates.  Any hunger pangs I do get between meals are quelled with a handful of almonds or cashews.  Something else that's made me happy is the 1.5kg I've lost since last Wednesday, despite switching to high fat foods.

There's only one aspect of my lifestyle that's proving difficult to change, and that's my exercise habits.  I do walk fairly frequently, although I'm sure I'd benefit from more.  It's trying to get myself doing the other aspects of Primal exercise, the lifting of heavy things and sprinting, that are difficult.

To a certain extent I've been getting some of my heavy lifting from work around the house, but that's not going to be a reliable source of exercise.  I tried setting my alarm five minutes earlier this morning, with the express intent of doing some body weight exercises (push ups, sit ups and squats), but unfortunately I squandered the extra five minutes in my morning reading the news, not exercising.  I guess dark mornings in winter aren't exactly the best for getting up early to exercise.

Still, the exercise is something I need to work on.  I'm considering riding to work on the weekends that I work to give me a combination of sprinting and moving slowly, but I'm still missing out on the lifting of heavy things.  Ideally I'd like to be walking most days after work, and starting the day with a few sets of push ups, sit ups and squats perhaps 3 days a week.  A quick bike ride can fill the sprint role, at least until I lose enough weight to make running an option.