I got 6.5km walked today but I was in intense pain, the kind of pain you pass out from. I've collapsed 5 times in the last decade resulting each time in ambulance & hospital, so it scared me to be alone in my Mexican city downtown in such bad shape tonight. I made it home, but I hope this pain stops.

It hurt again to walk today like it did yesterday, but I still got 6.2km (3.85 miles) walked. That's kept me steady maintaining my 110lbs weight loss from my bariatric surgery 3 years ago. I'm only a year and a half away from being the age for qualifying for Medicare coverage. It took me a couple of years to pay my part of my 2018 bariatric surgery under private insurance coverage. I'm going to try to tough it out for this next year and a half until Medicate coverage kicks in for me, and then I'm going to see if I can't get some surgery to help end this pain.

I put walking off today because it's been painful lately, but even after nightfall I got myself out there and did 6.1km by 9pm. Ouch, though. Still, I've kept up a 6km+ average for a week now. Yay!

I got to walking earlier today after the lessons of walking so late last night. It’s 3:30pm and I’ve already got 4.1km of my 6km goal walked now. Yay!

I'm logging back on at 8pm this same day Sun 12-5-21 to proudly say I got the other walking in for a total of 6.1km. Yeah!! My new iPhone records every day's walking distance, and now it says that I've walked over 6km every day for 7 days now.

It hurts as I do it on my cane, but it's keeping steady my 110lbs weight loss from bariatric surgery 3 years ago on Dec. 8, 2018. That's something I'm proud of, too, because my surgeon said I'd gain back 10 of those lbs after just 1 year and I've kept from gaining it back for 3 times as long now because of these daily walks.

Sorry you have pain mujica. I've been depressed and really busy lately. Everything's in a state of decay. My mom has stage 4 cancer and a week ago she went to the hospital because she was confused, which happens when she has an infection. She's out now but in a rehabilitation center and she'll probably be there for a few weeks. So I've had to do stuff for her. I took her car in for an oil change and made an appointment for the windshield to be fixed then I went to that. My old couch is a complete pos so I ordered and received a new one; it came but some parts were missing so I had to deal with that. People helped me take my old couch to the trash so I'm sitting in a chair with a half completed couch next to me. I've been visiting my mom and also going to her apt to take care of her cat every other day but the car wouldn't start, at night, after I visited her so I called triple A and got a jump but when I've been driving it around the power to the dash and displays flickers on and off so I went in and the mechanic tested the battery; it's not that so now I have an appointment to get the engine evaluated, then I'll have to get it repaired on another appointment which will make 5 in a month. The car's been hemorrhaging money. My mom's laptop kept crashing so I took it to best buy to get it repaired, picked it up and got it back to her. The lamp in my bedroom got the switch stripped so I have to get a new one but it's just not a good time after buying a couch. So my room has no light except the overhead. And when I was getting gas I found my debit cards had expired so I have to deal with that tomorrow. On top of all that this woman I'm dating has some kind of compulsive resistance to answering messages. She says it's like there's a wall there. So I've been sending her texts but haven't gotten any replies except a brief word from her apologizing for not replying. I'd really like to talk with her more but she isn't replying and it's been 2 months since our first and only date, which I thought went well. So I'm not sure how to handle that. One thing online dating has beaten into my head repeatedly is THERE AREN'T MANY PEOPLE LIKE ME. I really hope this works out. I've just been so worn out I haven't walked.

There's always a million little things to do in life, Rizen. I can relate. A lamp, a couch, a laptop...on and on. Then the big important stuff, like taking care of your mom. I'm impressed that in the midst of all of that you found the time and energy to date someone. I haven't had a date in 11 years now. After retiring to Mexico this past May I thought maybe a date would come my way but no.

I haven't dated but I have walked. Today I'm up to 3.2 km of the 6 km goal I set for myself. I'm on a 7 day streak of meeting that goal now so I hope I can do it in spite of the pain again today.

I got 7.1 km of walking in yesterday! I'm on a winning walking streak. I've walked over 6 km per day now for 10 days straight! Yay!

It was 8.8km today!

It was 8.8km today!

I've been so consistently walking over 6km a day for 10 days now that I feel confident enough to give myself a day off today without worrying about whether I'll get back to it. I don't think it'll hurt my iPhone walking record's daily average too much. It's nice to think I've got a routine going now that can take a day off a week or so.

Hi Rizen, Sorry your mom is so sick. Sounds like you have your hands full. Be sure to take some time out for you.

Muji, sounds like you have a good walking plan. Congrats!

Hi, Secouya, yeah, I'm on a walking hot streak. Today I'm at 5.6km, my 0.4km shy of my 6km daily goal and it's only after 5pm. Yay!

I walked from my suburban apartment to downtown here in my Mexican retirement city today. It took over an hour on my cane, but I got in 5.3km all at once toward my daily 6km goal, and it's only 3:15pm still. I think I'm gonna make it! :-)

More stuff happened. My garbage disposal was leaking water and that took 2 days to fix. I've been really worn out but I walked 2 miles tonight. Unfortunately the stress made me gain 5lbs.