Treadmill!

While I was away, the treadmill that Doug ordered for us arrived. 

The original plan was to put it in the basement, but it was too heavy for Doug and Geoff to work with and get down the stairs. It made it into the mud room, and now the mud room is the official treadmill home. 

I was afraid it would shake the house being in the mudroom, because the floor in there doesn't feel like ... I don't know, a real floor. Feels like it is somehow raised up in a way. But it isn't doing anything bad and my fears are for naught. 

This freaking house is kind of solid. 

It has a lot of buttons, and Doug said he still has to run this one wire/cord down the inside of one of the legs but didn't want to do it unless he knew it worked in the first place. I feel like the 3 mile setting on this thing is faster than the ones at The Planet. I haven't played with the seriousness of the incline. 

It has a mount for an iPad or tablet. Doug and I both feel like that's not necessary - neither of us are interested in watching a show while on the treadmill. It has speakers but Doug said they kind of ... suck. So he uses our JBL speaker when he's on the treadmill. 

Anyway, I'm happy it is here for rainy days and I won't have to drive over to the PF gym in the south end of town unless I want to do weights now. Which I might now that I have wireless earbuds! 

When I signed up for the town 100 mile challenge, I signed up Toffee too. She had not yet been with me  for a mile walk but the weather was agreeable today so we went out together. I wish she would just walk next to me and not zig zag all over the place. But we even got a good trot going at points. 

I finally figured out the goal tracker website. It is supposed to automatically interface with my fitbit. It's not 100% accurate, so I just spent some time adding in Fri/Sat which were not picked up by the app, and fixing today because it didn't count my last minute steps today.

The treadmill is nice, but just like at the gym I know that my fitbit is more accurate. The speed of the treadmill is different than the speed of me ON the treadmill. I can run a 13 min. mile but the setting on the treadmill is for 3 miles an hour, 20 min. mile. I set the fitbit up based on my stride in a measured mile years ago when I got it, so I feel.... this is truth. One thing I'd like to do is go to a measured mile track again, and verify this is still accurate. 

Anyway. Enough boring shit. 

Steelers lost tonight and that sucks but hey. Go Patriots. Right?! Yay. 

I took a super blurry picture of Toffee on our walk, it was dark so my camera doesn't do a good job in dim lighting. Proof that I took my dog on my challenge walk today. 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. Two walks. One with Miss Toffee, 26 min/1.38 mi. Treadmill, 18 min/1.09 mi. 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8am: 141 
4:30pm: 121
11pm: 120

food & meds:
8am: phentermine+jardiance
9:30am: atkins protein shake
1pm: turkey and sharp cheddar on Oatmeal bread; met+glip
6pm: chicken marsala a la geoff
white wine; mixed nuts
8:45pm: met+glip