Our Walk-Weight Chart

We update this chart every month

<:> Lenore is 87 and I am 90. Comparatively speaking, we have always been and still are, relatively active. Whereas before I retired we used to be ardent sailors, we now play golf during the regular season and Lenore bowls every week in the Heritage Hills Bowling league. But, like so many other people here in Heritage, we are dedicated walkers. We try to walk at least a mile or two up and down our local hills every day, winter, summer, spring and fall. Indeed, road maintenance here is so assiduous we rarely have to worry about ice or accumulations of snow during the winter. And a little rain hardly ever dampens our resolve.

<:> But aside from these activities, Lenore is a "hausfrau" like none you have ever seen. Our residential unit has almost two flights of stairs. Undaunted, she is up and down those stairs with a vacuum cleaner, brooms and dusters nearly every day. Every room in our house receives her same determined attention. When I rise from our bed in the morning, and before I have taken two or three steps toward the bathroom, the bed is made. She is a whirlwind like none other in creation.

<:> However, the key to whatever fitness we both currently enjoy is our modest consumption of food. We do much of our cooking together and while we make truly delectable dishes, we have a healthy and natural aversion to overeating. We keep track of our daily weight and the distances we walk. Then at the end of each month we do the cumulative calculations you see in the chart above.

<:> While our record keeping may be obsessive-compulsive, we do find it self-disciplinary. And because we can keep our numbers and figures as constant as they appear on the chart, it provides us with an additional incentive to carry on with our simple routines.