New year challenge
 

Hi all and hope you are all doing well. Today marks day 32 of year 2 but as good a day as any to start thinking more positively and try something almost new.
I myself hate January so to start this year i am going to walk as usual everyday and post a photo and say somthing about where i am and how im feeling.
I will try to be more positive in these strange days and hopefully give some hope to you who struggle like i did for so long.
So people get out there and start walking.
It is hard but so worth it.Happy new year to you all.

Inspired by you, I just went for a walk. So simple, yet so effective!

Thats great Lixie.
I have just got back from mine and it was wet and windy but i feel much better now I've done it.
Todays photo is of a Little Egret . A newcomer to Ireland and has only made it a permanent home since the 1990s so beautiful and elegant and something to be happy about. I wouldn't have seen or appreciated seeing such beauty around me while hungover. Have a wonderful day everyone https://i.postimg.cc/brdsZrWV/20220101-093956.jpg

Great idea! Thanks, excited to follow!❤️🤓

Great idea , thanks

Nice photo. I've never seen an egret, or perhaps did and didn't notice, I'm not one to notice unusual wildlife generally. Are they very common in Ireland? I walk along the grand canal, would I ever see one three? There's a crane that hangs out along the canal near my house, maybe I'll grab a pic of him some walk.

Yeah they are spreading across the country and up the east coast. They hang around the common grey Hern you see in Dublin and all over Ireland like this one.https://i.postimg.cc/3wvP5fQb/Screen...302-Photos.jpg

Another walk in the rain today i passed under an old unused railway bridge. Closed back in the 1930s so much history must have passed over it. I know the last British soilders that left Ireland in the 1922 would have used it to get back to Dublin to go back to England. A lot of old railway lines are now used as cycle and walkways, this one was supposed to be finished by now but unfortunately hasn't even been started yet 10 year's after the ribbon was cut☹. Enjoy your day everyone. https://i.postimg.cc/0NWt6r4h/20220102-110700.jpg

Fantastic Idea AL48! Love the railway bridge pic. I also have decided to walk everyday, even if I bike.

Still windy but dry over here up early and got a 10k in. Todays the last day of the holiday's so back to reality tomorrow and work. Still will get to it with a clear head and lose the Christmas blubber on my waistline. I watched the fishermen get the nets ready and head out to sea this morning. Not my cup of tea as far as work goes. My dad was a Fisherman and its a hard life i never liked going out with him as a young lad. Hope you are all fit and well today.https://i.postimg.cc/SQcKqGTT/20220103-093228.jpg

What a fantastic and interesting photo! I love boats, but indeed that would be a hard life. Fishing villages are always so interesting though.

If you don't have a dog, I'd highly recommend getting one. It makes walking so much more enjoyable. I don't even use my treadmill anymore since getting a dog.

That must hurt his back! (sorry...couldnt resist lol)

Great idea AL!... I need to get into walking too...definite addition to my procrastination list....keep it up!

Thanks guys. I have a dog but she getting old now so i bring her for short a stroll in the evening after work. So if not walking with someone its just me and a podcast of some kind. Id love to see some photos from where you all are, do post them if out and about👍.

I always love your photos Al :) ❤️

I promise I will take pics when it is not too cold to go for a walk.... -C is not Aussie-friendly weather. :)

I don't have any pictures of nature, but here's the 'object of my affection', my beagirl Billie. :) When I look at her I get a tiny picture of the dog species in her actions.

https://i.postimg.cc/nLnpXdXZ/Billie...e-sunlight.jpg

AL, I love your idea and the beautiful photos. Thank you for sharing your walks with us.

Thankyou you're all more than welcome to join in.🙂

Its just typical a beautiful morning and day ahead and im back to the job. The walk to work this morning was nice and early and very cold i met the sun coming up its so pretty. A good start to the day but i felt a bit down about the weight gain so i just had to think back about where i was this time last year. There's no comparison to today and i was happy and positive again.Hope you all enjoy your dayhttps://i.postimg.cc/VNPwwQfD/20220104-074846.jpg

Happy Sober Tuesday morning to ya Al and thank you
for sharing your lovely pictures with us. Much appreciated
as always. :)

It took looking at a picture of my daughter and I with her
little family when they came down this way to visit last yr
to realize I didn't like the way I looked with extra weight
I had gained over the years. :(

I'm not very photogenic and never have been and pictures
don't lie. Seeing myself made me say to myself, enough is
enough. I have to stop eating things that have never worked
for me.

So many time i've tried this and that to loose weight and
once I think that I'm safe and can eat those foods again,
before I know it, ive gain the weight back on again.

I've had to come to terms that many of those unhealthy
foods, just like alcohol, don't work for me and really and
honestly, never have.

If i don't drink alcohol or poison, then I won't get drunk
and sick and won't get back on the merry go round of
insanity that comes with addiction.

It's amazing how many items that fill the shelves at the
grocery store is made of preservatives. Crap that keeps
me and others unhealthy.

It takes reading and researching the healthy foods, those
gems that we can eat and keep us healthy each day. If you
enjoy cooking, then you can create healthy meals for yourself.

I avoid junk food as much as possible and stick to healthy
proteins, low carbs, low salt, more veggies and fruits. If i
don't buy junk food or have it in my home, then I can't eat
it and it won't make me gain weight.

Just like learning how to remain sober each day building
a strong foundation to live our lives upon each day, then
learning how to eat healthy can also help us achieve healthy
hearts and minds too.

I'm on a journey to achieving a body with less weight so
that when a family picture is taken again, then i will look
and feel better about my accomplishment.

I'm taking it a day at a time eating healthy and incorporating
exercise, which is tending to my gardening every day.

It will work if we work it. :c014: