Oy. Even getting back to writing posts is hard to remember when it’s not a habit.
So, Sunday after putzing around doing menial things, I ended up working for several hours at night because I had to get a time estimate for a budget to some people. Monday, after a nooner, I finally forced myself to at least drive down to the mailboxes and then do the 5k walk to the county line (and back, so 2.5 km each way). It’s a decent walk, but I think I’m FINALLY trusting the altimeter reading.
See, Apple keeps changing their watch software, and it seems like every-other-update either fixes or breaks the “flights climbed” on my watch. So I learned you could reset the fitness data calibration, which I did, and then you’re supposed to do an outdoor walk or run with the GPS on so it can learn your motions. Did that. Twice. Same walk, it said my climb distance was 160 meters and the second time was 340 meters. That’s the same walk as yesterday that was 73 meters. The way I got the lower reading yesterday is that I started a GPS track on my phone, using other software, at the house. I’ve found that if I start it when I don’t have wifi nor cell phone reception, it doesn’t automatically go to GPS. I kept that going through the entire drive down, my walk (on my watch), and the drive back. And, a net 73 meter gain (≈150 feet) is reasonable for that road.
But, it’s Tuesday as I write this, and clearly my watch hasn’t learned: I’ve been on the same floor of my house all day, I haven’t even been outside, and it says I’ve climbed 42 floors. Oh, wait no, I walked to the kitchen since I looked last. 43 floors. 🙄
That out of the way, food-wise, I’ve done fairly well the last two days. I went a bit over on carbs yesterday because I wanted to try a new recipe I saw: eggnog snickerdoodle cookies. They were decent sugar cookies, even decent snickerdoodle cookies, but they do NOT taste like eggnog. Oh well.
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