Fitness Fellowship: Week Eight

[sylvanwitch]

Hello, Fitness Friends:

I hope your week has been a good one. Please do share your goals, ups and downs, tips, tricks, advice, rants...pretty much anything goes here these days. We promise non-judgmental support and positive encouragement. :-)


Seriously, I'm glad none of you are counting on me to "win" my goals because I keep failing at them miserably.

I was on break this past week and just didn't feel like exercising. The weather was pretty crappy except for yesterday, when I DID get out for two (shorter) walks, but that's no excuse. I have an actual exercise room with equipment and TV/DVR/DVD player. No excuse. *sighs*

Eating...oh, gods. So I was on break, as I may have mentioned, and I just didn't feel like cooking a lot of the time. Now, to be fair to me, we were busy for some of the days (doing work at the old house, trying to get it cleared out for putting it on the market), and some of the days I was having "it's my break, I'll eat if I want to," but really, I think I ate takeout and/or ate out at least four or five times in a nine-day span.

One of those days, I ate too much, too rich, too late in the day and so spent a night being super-anxious, which means I even failed on my sleep goal.

And there was no meditating.

So for the week ahead, I can say that I'll be eating better because we went grocery shopping on Saturday, and I bought nothing but produce of all kinds, which we spent some of yesterday prepping for the week's use, and I already feel better about that. My fruit and veggie consumption the last two days has been pretty awesome.

And I do intend to get some exercise. But not today. As I type this, I'm dragging. It was my first day back to work after a break, and though I did actually get plenty of sleep, I'm just exhausted tonight. So I'm cutting myself some slack.

For the week ahead, I plan to exercise at least three times, meditate at least once, and maintain healthy eating and sleep habits.

My goal line keeps moving closer to me. I think I'm supposed to move closer to it. Ah, well...

Peace,
SW

Comments

[miss_morland]

I failed at meditation again. :-S I really need to give it a proper go - surely 10 minutes a day shouldn't be too hard?

[sylvanwitch]

Is it bad that I feel better knowing I'm not the only one guilty of #meditationfail? Lol! Why is it so hard to motivate ourselves, I wonder??? In my case, I used to do it all the time, and I certainly remember the benefits of it, so you'd think that would be motivation enough, but nooooo.

I have no idea...

[iberiandoctor]

If it makes you feel any better, I have literally fallen off the wagon? This fortnight has involved more alcohol and sugar than the last two months combined. The only thing I can say in my defence is that it's the Lunar New Year festive period, which basically means us entertaining clients every day for the fifteen days this festive holiday lasts. Last Saturday I went to a fancy gala dinner and basically drank my weight in champagne.

So tomorrow is the last day, and after that I'm recommitting to austerity and exercise and detox. I've been keen to cut my hair for ages, and maybe the new do will energise me regarding my fitness goals. Wish me luck! (And I'm sending some to you, too ;))

[sylvanwitch]

Misery definitely loves company; it does help to know that I'm not the only one struggling. You sound like you have much better excuses reasons than I do, though. :-)

I wish you MUCH luck in reaching your goals, and I thank you for sharing your luck with me. Let's keep at it, shall we? :-)