Fitness Fellowship 2022: Week 8 Check-in
Feb. 27th, 2022 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchMy sincere apologies for posting a day late. I completely forgot until late last evening and just didn't have the energy to log in and post.
I hope you've all had a good week, though given current conditions *gestures at world*, it's totally understandable if you did not. Please do feel free to share whatever you'd like, whether that's related to fitness (however you define that word and to whatever you apply it) or otherwise. We're a small but fierce community, and we are here to listen.
Weight: Ugh. I'm way up, higher than I was on 1 January, in fact, though only by a little bit. I'll admit, it irritates me that I can have a couple of so-so days (not even huge binge days, just not super-healthy), and it's reflected in a significant weight gain on the scales. I suppose this is probably related to peri-menopause, since so much else seems to be these days. (The hot flashes and night sweats can just fuck right off. Pardon my language.) I'm about at the upper limit of fitting into my work pants, however, so I'd best get on this, seriously.
Exercise: Faithful as ever, though my ankle is definitely borked--a lot of pain there. I'm trying not to make it worse, but I seem to have seriously irritated it. *sighs* Anyway, I got some good, long walks in (including one during which I twisted the bad ankle) on the decent weather days, and I also did a bunch of elliptical workouts and spent some time on the recumbent bike, as well.
Eating plan: So, I've been on break, and that turned out to mean healthy breakfasts and lunches, good dinners, and then just...so much snacking. I simply cannot have temptations in the house. Even on those days when I avoided snacking, however, I didn't see a significant shift on that weight uptick, and these are days when I'm (see above) really working out. Something metabolic, maybe? Whatever the case, it's immensely irritating and makes me want to comfort eat, which is, obviously, self-defeating. Grrrrr!
Meditation: Nope, though I have been praying more. *gestures at world again*
Sleep: I fell back into my natural night owl habits, which I'm going to regret tomorrow morning, I'm sure. But even with the chance to sleep in (which I took), my sleep was troubled with night sweats and bad dreams. I've started taking an OTC natural supplement that is supposed to help with night sweats and hot flashes, and I've also added Vitamin D3 to my daily supplements (I already take a 50+ women's vitamin supplement and a Magnesium supplement, which I need for dietary deficits related to being sporadically crap at getting dark greens and the ensuing painful leg cramps). I'm only two days into the new routine, and the menopause supplement recommends 60 days before real effects set in. I'm skeptical, but I did my homework, and some of the supplement's active ingredients may help, so I'm going to try it. Desperate times, etc.
The week ahead: I'm back to work, worried about my ankle because I'll be on my feet so much, loathing the idea of wearing my rigid brace again and resigned to the fact that I'll probably have to. I'm going to try to get to sleep at a reasonable hour, once my body readjusts to my work schedule, and I'm going to keep exercising as usual. I'm going to stop snacking if I have to bury even the healthy snacks out in the snow. I'm giving it an honest week's try.
May the week ahead be a good one for you. Hang in there, my friends.
I hope you've all had a good week, though given current conditions *gestures at world*, it's totally understandable if you did not. Please do feel free to share whatever you'd like, whether that's related to fitness (however you define that word and to whatever you apply it) or otherwise. We're a small but fierce community, and we are here to listen.
Weight: Ugh. I'm way up, higher than I was on 1 January, in fact, though only by a little bit. I'll admit, it irritates me that I can have a couple of so-so days (not even huge binge days, just not super-healthy), and it's reflected in a significant weight gain on the scales. I suppose this is probably related to peri-menopause, since so much else seems to be these days. (The hot flashes and night sweats can just fuck right off. Pardon my language.) I'm about at the upper limit of fitting into my work pants, however, so I'd best get on this, seriously.
Exercise: Faithful as ever, though my ankle is definitely borked--a lot of pain there. I'm trying not to make it worse, but I seem to have seriously irritated it. *sighs* Anyway, I got some good, long walks in (including one during which I twisted the bad ankle) on the decent weather days, and I also did a bunch of elliptical workouts and spent some time on the recumbent bike, as well.
Eating plan: So, I've been on break, and that turned out to mean healthy breakfasts and lunches, good dinners, and then just...so much snacking. I simply cannot have temptations in the house. Even on those days when I avoided snacking, however, I didn't see a significant shift on that weight uptick, and these are days when I'm (see above) really working out. Something metabolic, maybe? Whatever the case, it's immensely irritating and makes me want to comfort eat, which is, obviously, self-defeating. Grrrrr!
Meditation: Nope, though I have been praying more. *gestures at world again*
Sleep: I fell back into my natural night owl habits, which I'm going to regret tomorrow morning, I'm sure. But even with the chance to sleep in (which I took), my sleep was troubled with night sweats and bad dreams. I've started taking an OTC natural supplement that is supposed to help with night sweats and hot flashes, and I've also added Vitamin D3 to my daily supplements (I already take a 50+ women's vitamin supplement and a Magnesium supplement, which I need for dietary deficits related to being sporadically crap at getting dark greens and the ensuing painful leg cramps). I'm only two days into the new routine, and the menopause supplement recommends 60 days before real effects set in. I'm skeptical, but I did my homework, and some of the supplement's active ingredients may help, so I'm going to try it. Desperate times, etc.
The week ahead: I'm back to work, worried about my ankle because I'll be on my feet so much, loathing the idea of wearing my rigid brace again and resigned to the fact that I'll probably have to. I'm going to try to get to sleep at a reasonable hour, once my body readjusts to my work schedule, and I'm going to keep exercising as usual. I'm going to stop snacking if I have to bury even the healthy snacks out in the snow. I'm giving it an honest week's try.
May the week ahead be a good one for you. Hang in there, my friends.
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Date: Tuesday, 1 March 2022 08:29 pm (UTC)Burying the snacks in the snow sounds like a good strategy for avoiding temptation. In fact, as a metaphor, that image is working really well for me right now! Just clearing things away and putting them aside for some necessary clarity and focus.
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Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2022 01:02 pm (UTC)It is absolutely exhausting.
I am pleased to report that the no-snacking rule I put in place for this week has held so far, though, and I'm beginning to regain some strength of mind from having that little bit of control.
We're getting snow tonight, though, so if I *DO* need to bury snacks in it, there will be some! Lol!
*hugs*