Adventures in Bat Country

My legs hurt a bit. The kind of sore of you have starting working out again after being lazy for a while.

After two years of Camarilla road trips and lots of fast food, I gained a bit of extra unhealthy weight.

I decided this weekend to do something about it. I started walking and exercising again. insatia and I did a major walking tour of the EMP and Sci-Fi Museum on Saturday. The Sci-Fi Museum is always inspiring to me. Sure, there are bits of fluff like the uniform from the Lost in Space movie, but there are a number of excellent exhibits. If nothing else, it reminds me to ask What If…

I’ve been spending lunch walking around the track between the buildings at the Evil Empire.

Are there any good and yet beginning level trails around the Seattle area that my friends might recommend? I want to hit one this weekend.

My legs hurt after Day #2 of running.

It will get easier. It will.

I have always been big boned aka festively plump once I quit sports.

I got really heavy this last year. I decided I wanted to do some walking to avoid that pothole.

I think I've lost around 5 to 10 pounds. I don't have a scale, but I have a belt and I have to do down one. And when I went to try on my old work shirts, they fit.

I limited myself to one soda per day. I started eating less. And I walk.

And oddly, I started letting myself have an occasional sweet treat, which made me want soda less.

No magic solution.

I think it helped that I've developed a mad taste for Strawberry Lemonade.

I was curious if anyone local was interesting in doing a walking thing a couple nights a week.

I noticed when I was hired that everyone here was fit. Especially for an IT company.

I am one of the two chubbest people here whereas normally I am the medium.

However, we are the the bottom of the hill on First Hill and you have to walk a grueling five blocks up hill to get to any good food.

And most of us bus it.

Oh yeah, and did I mention that everyone loves going to one of the coffee places and having meetings.

I expect that I will lose 20 pounds in the next three months just walking up that hill twice a day. And complain a lot the first two weeks.