Trying to stay one step ahead

Trying to stay one step ahead

I have been a little tardy with my blog updates. Last week didn’t happen at all and this one is towards the end of the week rather than as I planned it to be at the beginning. As with many of us, life gets in the way of good intentions, but all one can do is to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again (are you singing along with me). So here I am with my third blog in the series – better late than never!

Both last week and this week showed overall improvements in my activity level in general and I am delighted to be able to say that I am maintaining my new target of an average of 9,000 steps a day – albeit not by a huge margin. I am sharing my Fitbit logs again and hope this helps inspire others.

Interestingly, I am noticing a pattern emerging in that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are by far my most inactive days on both weeks – and the pattern is re-emerging this week too. I must make a mental note to myself that I must try and up my activity levels mid-week as I seem to be hitting the doldrums on a regular basis. I put it down to being increasingly busy over my four working days with desk-based tasks and getting too engrossed to maintain the discipline to get up and ‘walk’ at my work station each hour as I had committed to do.

Now, this motivation can only come from me and I am endeavoring to achieve this. However, I am not perfect – none of us are – so we shall see how I far over the next couple of weeks moving forward.

Overall, I am happy with my efforts, especially as every single step helps towards our #StepUpToStopClots team effort to do a virtual walk from John O’ Groats to Lands End by World Thrombosis Day. But I need to make sure I stay focused, be aware of those ‘bad’ days, and keep striving to make them ‘better’ ones!

Good luck to us all – keep on, keeping on!

Annya Stephens-Boal
The author

Annya Stephens-Boal

I am the Executive Officer with Thrombosis UK.

I have a family history of VTE, with both myself and other family members having been affected by clots. Sadly, we lost my Mum to a missed pulmonary embolism back in the 1980s.