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I really love to walk and since it's worked for me in the past...Here's a free printable walking log for 2007. It's important to track your progress!

• Calorie Counters
• Pedometers - step counters (very necessary and totally encouraging! Mine's a cheapy from Wal-Mart)
• Free calorie counter

It's important to have a plan. If you change nothing else (i.e. your diet), it's imperitive that you exercise! Leonardo de Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers of our time, offered the following specific advice on maintainig well-being:

"To keep in health these rules are wise:

• Beware of anger and avoid grievous moods.
• Rest your head and keep your mind cheerful.
• Be covered at night.
• Exercise moderately.
• Shun wantonness, and pay attention to diet.
• Eat only when you want and sup light.
• Keep upright when you rise from the dining table. (Too bad for us couch potatoes)
• Do not be with the belly upwards or the head lowered. (In sleep)
• Let your wine be mixed with water, take a little at a time, not between meals and not on an empty stomach.
• Eat simple(i.e., vegetarian) food. (Maestro was a vegetarian)
• Chew well.
• Go to the toilet regularly!

"I have met but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of walking, that is, of taking walks - who had a genious, so to speak for sauntering," noted Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Walking".

As he pointed out, humans were built to walk! It is the best exercise there is and it's free for the taking. He believed that it shouldn't be called exercise, for exercise is a modern word that separates us from the joy associated with walking! Calling it a blessing instead! A half an hour's worth, after eating, conditions the entire body. With arms swinging and legs stepping freely according to your own pace, you are exercising your muscles, heart, respiratory  and circulatory systems without even thinking of the fact that you are exercising. That's my  kind of aerobic conditioning! So, I got back here sooner that I thought I would, but now the sun's shining and I have a dog to walk! More tomorrow!

Blessings,

Thea >< ><