Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 8 Check-in
Feb. 26th, 2023 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchHey, there! How have you all been this past week? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Whatever the case, please let us know how you're doing on this fitness journey we're taking together. Share your ups and downs, what's working and what isn't. We're here to listen and not to judge. :-)
The good news is that eating what I liked, in moderation, and trying to balance healthy food with less healthy options worked out pretty well. At midweek, I'd lost a couple of pounds. I credit this to all the walking I was doing as the weather had finally moderated, and I was taking regular strolls, and then to biking indoors when the weather turned bad mid-break.
Then we had an ice storm, and I fell while clearing my car, pulling a groin muscle, and I spent Friday and Saturday in pain and doing very little physical activity. I was also comfort-eating (because my husband is sick--not COVID, thankfully--and my 91-year-old mother tested positive in an outbreak at her nursing home and because my break is almost over and we have five LONG weeks until spring break and...*sighs*). So, I'm at my January starting weight again. Ah, well.
Today, I felt well enough to get out for a long walk, which was awesome, and I'm also going to get on the bike to finish the month's challenge series. I am feeling positive despite the weight gain because I've proven to myself that I don't have to be *as* strict with what I eat as long as I'm getting a good amount of exercise.
My sleep has been okay. I've been having trouble going to sleep, so last night I took melatonin, and that helped. I'm probably going to start back to work with a sleep deficit because I suspect I'll go to bed on time tonight but not sleep right away. We'll see. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
I didn't meditate, though I did think about it, which I recognize doesn't count.
Hydration has been a-okay.
My plan for the week ahead is to quit the comfort eating but keep with eating less strictly as long as I exercise, and we'll see what happens. How exciting! Lol! If I can find that sweet spot between eating to lose weight and NOT resenting what I'm giving up, I will be very happy.
Whatever the case, please let us know how you're doing on this fitness journey we're taking together. Share your ups and downs, what's working and what isn't. We're here to listen and not to judge. :-)
The good news is that eating what I liked, in moderation, and trying to balance healthy food with less healthy options worked out pretty well. At midweek, I'd lost a couple of pounds. I credit this to all the walking I was doing as the weather had finally moderated, and I was taking regular strolls, and then to biking indoors when the weather turned bad mid-break.
Then we had an ice storm, and I fell while clearing my car, pulling a groin muscle, and I spent Friday and Saturday in pain and doing very little physical activity. I was also comfort-eating (because my husband is sick--not COVID, thankfully--and my 91-year-old mother tested positive in an outbreak at her nursing home and because my break is almost over and we have five LONG weeks until spring break and...*sighs*). So, I'm at my January starting weight again. Ah, well.
Today, I felt well enough to get out for a long walk, which was awesome, and I'm also going to get on the bike to finish the month's challenge series. I am feeling positive despite the weight gain because I've proven to myself that I don't have to be *as* strict with what I eat as long as I'm getting a good amount of exercise.
My sleep has been okay. I've been having trouble going to sleep, so last night I took melatonin, and that helped. I'm probably going to start back to work with a sleep deficit because I suspect I'll go to bed on time tonight but not sleep right away. We'll see. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
I didn't meditate, though I did think about it, which I recognize doesn't count.
Hydration has been a-okay.
My plan for the week ahead is to quit the comfort eating but keep with eating less strictly as long as I exercise, and we'll see what happens. How exciting! Lol! If I can find that sweet spot between eating to lose weight and NOT resenting what I'm giving up, I will be very happy.
May the week ahead bring you what you most need to thrive, my friends!
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Date: Monday, 27 February 2023 07:02 pm (UTC)That made me smile. IMO thinking about it does count. You'll get there eventually if that's what you need.
Sorry to hear about you falling and about T and your mom. I got covid last week and spent Thurs-Sun in bed. It wasn't pleasant - had a constant low grade headache and sweated an insane amount - but it was nothing like the first time I got it at the end of 2021. I felt well enough to go back to work today and it was mostly okay except for the pressure-pain in my head when I coughed or leaned forward. Luckily, the cough is pretty minor and intermittent. Is T alright? And your mom?
I'm glad to hear things are balancing out with the eating/exercise/resentment ratio. I guess you weigh yourself regularly so you can monitor if it's working for you.
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Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023 02:06 am (UTC)T. is still coughing and sneezing, but he worked a full shift yesterday and seemed to feel okay when he got home. I think he’s on the mend. We’ve been taking elderberry-zinc lozenges and using Zicam swabs to try to cut down the severity in his case and prevent it entirely in mine.
11 residents and 7 staff members currently have Covid at Mom’s nursing home, but I was able to get through to her room yesterday. She dropped the receiver but kept talking to me—and to invisible people, as well, which is not Covid-related—and though she sounded hoarse, she wasn’t coughing nor did she seem to be more out of breath than usual, so I am taking that as a good sign. The home said they’d call if there were any negative changes, so no news does seem to be good news there. Thank you for asking, hon.
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Date: Wednesday, 1 March 2023 06:17 pm (UTC)How gorgeous is this website?! So many forests! I thought you might want to use it for meditation.
https://www.tree.fm/forest/9
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Date: Thursday, 9 March 2023 03:22 pm (UTC)