Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 15 Check-in
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sylvanwitchHello, friends!
How has this past week been for you: Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Please share your triumphs and tribulations here, so we can commiserate/cheerlead, as needed.
My "Week 15" started in the middle, as I was on break until then.
Starting Wed., I went back to a calorie-restricted diet of 1400 calories/day, with a plan to have sustained exercise for at least 30 minutes each day.
I'm pleased to report that I lost a pound and a half in those five days (I actually lost quite a bit more than that, but I regained it thanks to my "splurge" meal last night). The only day on which I didn't get the full 30 minutes (or many more--usually more like 50 minutes) of exercise was yesterday (Saturday), when we had errands all day and I'd almost reached my steps goal before we even returned home. I did get in a short walk after supper, however, so that's something.
My sleep hasn't been great, however. When I can get to sleep unaided, I don't seem to be able to stay asleep. Part of this is probably the sudden rise in temperature--we're in the low 80s now, which didn't used to be typical for spring in my part of the world--which made sleeping less comfortable (we don't have our ACs installed yet). Part of it is just my brain. *sighs* When I use melatonin, I fall asleep and stay asleep all night, but if I don't have at least 7 hours in which to sleep, I wake up groggy.
So, the week ahead:
Get to bed by 11:00pm on work nights--for real!
Continue hydrating.
Meditate, damn it!
Keep up the good work, exercise-wise.
Keep counting those calories and making good food choices.
I think for now the sleep thing is key to making sure I have the energy to exercise but also the focus, etc., necessary to function in life.
Have a good week, my friends, and be well!
How has this past week been for you: Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Please share your triumphs and tribulations here, so we can commiserate/cheerlead, as needed.
My "Week 15" started in the middle, as I was on break until then.
Starting Wed., I went back to a calorie-restricted diet of 1400 calories/day, with a plan to have sustained exercise for at least 30 minutes each day.
I'm pleased to report that I lost a pound and a half in those five days (I actually lost quite a bit more than that, but I regained it thanks to my "splurge" meal last night). The only day on which I didn't get the full 30 minutes (or many more--usually more like 50 minutes) of exercise was yesterday (Saturday), when we had errands all day and I'd almost reached my steps goal before we even returned home. I did get in a short walk after supper, however, so that's something.
My sleep hasn't been great, however. When I can get to sleep unaided, I don't seem to be able to stay asleep. Part of this is probably the sudden rise in temperature--we're in the low 80s now, which didn't used to be typical for spring in my part of the world--which made sleeping less comfortable (we don't have our ACs installed yet). Part of it is just my brain. *sighs* When I use melatonin, I fall asleep and stay asleep all night, but if I don't have at least 7 hours in which to sleep, I wake up groggy.
So, the week ahead:
Get to bed by 11:00pm on work nights--for real!
Continue hydrating.
Meditate, damn it!
Keep up the good work, exercise-wise.
Keep counting those calories and making good food choices.
I think for now the sleep thing is key to making sure I have the energy to exercise but also the focus, etc., necessary to function in life.
Have a good week, my friends, and be well!
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Date: Tuesday, 18 April 2023 07:33 pm (UTC)Go you with the food and exercise, and sorry about the sleep. : ( I hope you can make it work.
Last week's goals:
- Do not do things related to my environmental organization (or to work) after 9 pm, or 8 pm if I can.
Yes!
- Turn off computer at 10 pm every day.
Yes, except for Saturday, when my friend and I sat up until 12 and excitedly surfed the web for possible houses to buy together (see recent post). Predictably, I did not get to sleep until two or three. *facepalm*
- Go to bed and turn out the light at 11 pm every day.
See above.
- Keep to my food goals.
This one is now kind of...not much reflected upon? I will remove it for now, since it's not doing much, and ponder in the future about what food goals I want to have.
- Go out in the woods every day except Monday and possibly the weekend, even if just a short walk.
Yes, except Friday, when I had less time than I thought. Also not on the weekend.
- Go running twice (am visiting family and friends on the weekend).
Yes.
- Do workouts on four days (again, weekend plans).
Only three, (no time on Friday).
Goals for this week:
- Do not do things related to my environmental organization (or to work) after 9 pm, or 8 pm if I can.
- Turn off computer at 10 pm every day.
- Go to bed and turn out the light at 11 pm every day.
- Go out in the woods four days in the week, even if just a short walk.
- Go running twice or possibly thrice (am traveling on the weekend).
- Do workouts on four days (again, weekend plans).
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Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023 11:57 am (UTC)I think I've mentioned before how much I admire that one of your goals is to get out in nature X number of times a week, plans permitting. I am a nature lover myself, but sometimes I let circumstance get in the way of even the briefest of rambles, which is ridiculous because I literally have two acres of scrub fields, young woods, marsh, and pond *in my own backyard*, so I have no excuse (although right now, I'd need waders on parts of the path). Your dedication to taking that time for yourself is inspiring!
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Date: Sunday, 23 April 2023 12:52 pm (UTC)