Feeling Good Friday-Three Weeks To Many Many Stairs Edition

The thing about conferences as opposed to other work travel is the networking. Networking occurs over breakfast, over another cup of coffee, over lunch, over happy hour, and then again over dinner. While there is walking to different presentations, there is a lot of sitting. Add a lot of sitting to a lot of extra nibbles, plus the staleness of hotel conference center, airports, and planes, I come home feeling sluggish and in need of a major food and body overhaul. We leave three weeks from this coming Sunday. I can't even estimate how many stairs I will climb, but the way I'm feeling this morning, I will struggle to keep up with my family. Before the work trip, I hadn't totally let my healthy eating and exercise go. but need an infusion and self directed motivation. Like many want to be runners will embrace a Couch to 5 K approach, sometimes in a four week cycle, I'm going to try something similar. I'm calling this my Snacking to a Thousand Stairs.

• Water, water, water. I will hydrate on water before anything else-except my morning coffee.
• Fit in extra stairs and extra steps. I already park across the street and walk about an equivalent of perhaps a city block to the  building. If I park on the opposite side, and use the farthest door, I can almost double those steps in the morning and at night. I never use the elevator anyway, but this route also adds a flight of stairs to climb as there is a gradual decline on the outside of the building that will bring me actually into a half floor entrance. 
• Diligence on the food I eat. Being at the mercy of restaurant menus and buffet lunches, I made poor choices. Time to take back my meals, bulking up with fruits and vegetables before any fats and carbs. 
• This one is for Wendy. Getting my minimum of 11 minute yoga video in each day. I'll do more as time allows. 
• Clean my house! Ok, not a real strategy, but the bending, lifting, and stooping will add those steps and give my body a work out. 

I don't have a real weight loss target I mind and quite frankly, might be nothing. This is really about getting back to a better me that I let slip in the last week, and the physical me impacted by my May and June mental slump. I've got a full day of activity planned with DD2 on Monday, so that will be my first test of endurance. If other have ideas to jump start physical motivation, please share.