every step you take...

 Apparently the recommended number of steps per day  is 10,000.


10,000!

Do you know how hard that is!?

On Monday I counted my steps using an app for my tab and walking to the supermarket and back was a measly 3,000.
Tuesday  I managed 5,000 because I went for a long walk along the sea front. I was out for about an hour and a half!
So I reckon to reach 10,000 you have to be a lady of leisure! Or the opposite, that you spend all day running from place to place...
Yesterday I managed 5,000 steps in the morning as had a few errands to run locally, but we were invited to dinner in the evening where I was presented with four types of homemade pizza, home grown olives, artichokes in oil, home made wine and grappa. I managed not to overdo it, but still daren't step on the scales.

Apart from that, I'm eating lots of fresh fruit and veg, now  the hot weather is here that is much easier. just need to find the time and the energy to up the exercise!

Pulled out my bag of summer clothes last night and found some jeans which I was unable to get into! This is the kind of challenge I like, something tangible, not a number on the scales which seems at times so unfair! You know how it is, you're convinced you've been careful and the bloody thing says you put on! Or when you decide to have a drastic haircut and nothing even registers, what is that all about!?

So I'm hanging the jeans up on my wardrobe door and from time to time will give them a try. Right now, just holding them up against my blubbery thighs I can see that they're missing about  5cm of material from the top of each leg.

I will measure myself and post it here too so we can  track the (disappearing) flabby bits.

BUST; 106cm (41.7in)
BACK; 89cm  (35in)
WAIST; 90cm!! (slack stomach muscles bulging out over the top of trousers!) (35.4 in)
HIPS;116cm (45.7in)
LEFT UPPER ARM; 35cm (13.8in)
RIGHT UPPER ARM; 34cm (13.4in)
L THIGH IN FATTEST PLACE; 65cm (25.6in)
R THIGH IN FATTEST PLACE; 68cm (26.8in)
L CALF;37cm (14.56in)
R CALF 38cm (14.96in)

Ok, so those are the damning stats...I can hardly believe my stomach is actually bigger than my back! because from the front it doesn't look like that!

Ok, off to eat a slice of cake then to cheer myself up...