Fitness Fellowship: Week Twelve
Mar. 26th, 2018 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchSo, friends and fellow fitness folks, we've reached the three month mark, and I'm wondering: Do you feel fitter? Has something you've been doing made a difference in your daily life? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)
Please share how your week has been and if you have any new plans for the week ahead. Of course, anyone can jump in at any time. We welcome the company!
This has been a pretty okay week. I exercised two of three promised days; I was going to exercise yesterday, but I was so sore from the day before's exercise that I said, "To hell with it!" Still, that exercise on Saturday was a nice reminder of why I'm trying to be fitter. I spent three-plus hours doing heavy yard work, and boy, was I completely wiped out when it was done. If I'm going to enact that Pre-Apocalypse Garden Project of Dooooom that I've been planning, I'm going to have to get in shape! That's good motivation.
I did meditate once, and it was very, very nice.
My sleep was so-so, but not for any reason I could necessarily control. I had one really bad night of sleeplessness, which I think was caused by a cup of tea I had earlier in the day. I thought I'd had it early enough, but I guess not. Anyway, that was hard; it made the rest of the week more of a challenge.
Eating-wise, I've been pretty well. Lots of fruit and veggies, no added salt, oil, etc., and only moderate intake of vegan sweets. I think I'm doing pretty well, food-wise.
For next week, I plan more of the same. We'll see.
Have a wonderful week ahead, friends!
Please share how your week has been and if you have any new plans for the week ahead. Of course, anyone can jump in at any time. We welcome the company!
This has been a pretty okay week. I exercised two of three promised days; I was going to exercise yesterday, but I was so sore from the day before's exercise that I said, "To hell with it!" Still, that exercise on Saturday was a nice reminder of why I'm trying to be fitter. I spent three-plus hours doing heavy yard work, and boy, was I completely wiped out when it was done. If I'm going to enact that Pre-Apocalypse Garden Project of Dooooom that I've been planning, I'm going to have to get in shape! That's good motivation.
I did meditate once, and it was very, very nice.
My sleep was so-so, but not for any reason I could necessarily control. I had one really bad night of sleeplessness, which I think was caused by a cup of tea I had earlier in the day. I thought I'd had it early enough, but I guess not. Anyway, that was hard; it made the rest of the week more of a challenge.
Eating-wise, I've been pretty well. Lots of fruit and veggies, no added salt, oil, etc., and only moderate intake of vegan sweets. I think I'm doing pretty well, food-wise.
For next week, I plan more of the same. We'll see.
Have a wonderful week ahead, friends!
Peace,
SW
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Date: Wednesday, 28 March 2018 06:46 pm (UTC)I need to think of a goal that would improve my mental health in some way but not be too difficult to execute. I think I should aim for either yoga or a walk outdoors on most days of the week - say, 5 out of 7. Doesn't have to be long, 20 minutes or so are enough if I don't feel like more. But those are the kind of activities that pretty reliably help both my mental and physical state, and they're something I could make into a routine. I'm thinking about which one's better...
Hmm, as for how this has affected my health... The regular strength training and the regular ballet (though I probably would have done the ballet classes anyway) have definitely improved my physical fitness and health. I have some muscles these days! (OMG my calves. Heh, ballet does that...) I even have more strength in my abs and arms these days. And I've discovered that regular exercise really does help with the moods, and I like strength training more than I thought, though it still tends to get dropped when I feel depressed. But at least I keep doing it semi-regularly.
About other things, hard to say. It's good I've at least tried to keep eating healthily, but probably it will only be useful to really try to cut on sweet treats once my moods are a bit better, because I've got zero self-control about chocolate etc. when I'm depressed or anxious, and I only feel worse if I beat myself up over it.
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Date: Saturday, 31 March 2018 02:23 pm (UTC)Your idea of choosing a goal to improve your mental health is such a good one, and I hope that you've picked something that you can stick with and not feel stressed out by. That's sometimes a challenge--walking that line between doing it because you know it will help you and feeling pressured by the having to do it in such a way that it makes you feel worse if you don't do it.
I have situational anxiety that is most often triggered by either ongoing stress in my life (the first time I experienced it was when my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, for example) or by specific events (I always have anxiety when I travel, though I try not to let it stop me from traveling). Anyway, with the move last year and then still having the old house to get on the market and having a lot of temporary debt, my anxiety has been bad lately, and I was just talking to T. about it at dinner the other night, how I know that exercising regularly, even just a twenty minute walk or twenty minutes on the exercise bike or whatever, will help me to feel better and have fewer attacks, yet I can't seem to make it a regular thing BECAUSE I'm anxious and that tends to make me "turtle" in my shell, so to speak.
All that is to say that I understand where you're coming from on wanting to choose a goal that will help you to just feel better, mentally and emotionally. I completely relate in that regard.
Also, it's wonderful that you're dancing and that you seem to really love it and what it's doing for you. I really admire that you're doing it, and I hope it continues to be a source of joy for you.