Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 24 Check-in
Jun. 11th, 2023 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchWhat's the air like where you are? I'll admit I had the luxury of taking clean air for granted until this past week, when I was forced indoors by Canadian wildfire smoke. (No shade on Canada, and I'm sorry you folks are going through this.) It curtailed many of my usual outdoor pursuits and required that I pivot to indoor exercise on the machines. I recognize that I am privileged in several ways: First, I don't work out of doors (or at all right now, as I'm on summer break); second, I have exercise machines in my own house; third, I have AC that filters the worst of the smoke, so I can use those machines.
And I know that for many folks, smoky air is a regular seasonal concern. I'm also aware that there must be other seasonal, personal, and/or health-and-safety concerns that prevent folks from going outdoors to exercise.
So what do you do, friends, when you cannot go outside to exercise? Do you have some surefire indoor activities that you might suggest for folks who are kept indoors for whatever reason? I'd love to hear your suggestions, if you're inclined to share.
And, of course, please do share how your week has gone.
My weight is at the highest it's been since January 2020 and that is entirely because I have been eating my feelings, and I've taken that sense of needing food for comfort to the grocery store, which means my house is full of things I probably shouldn't be eating and certainly not in the quantities in which I've been consuming them. To be fair to me, I am still trying to make sure I eat fruit and veggies and other healthy stuff each day. I'm just supplementing the good stuff with the not-so-good stuff.
For good news, there has been hydration aplenty and regular exercise despite the air quality issues.
However, my sleep has been crappy, just broken or delayed or absent altogether (looking at you, insomnia). Last night was the first time in as long as I can remember that I slept mostly through the night and got a full 7+ hours.
As for meditation, I did some breathing exercises, very deliberately, yesterday, so I'm going to count that toward my weekly meditation goal.
My plan for the week ahead is to stop eating so much. The crap is in the house, and I'm going to end up eating it. I just need to stop eating SO MUCH of it. Moderation is key. I will continue to exercise daily, work on better sleep quality and quantity, practice some sort of meditation/spiritual work, and hydrate.
Here's hoping the week ahead is clear for you, whatever "clear" means in your life.
And I know that for many folks, smoky air is a regular seasonal concern. I'm also aware that there must be other seasonal, personal, and/or health-and-safety concerns that prevent folks from going outdoors to exercise.
So what do you do, friends, when you cannot go outside to exercise? Do you have some surefire indoor activities that you might suggest for folks who are kept indoors for whatever reason? I'd love to hear your suggestions, if you're inclined to share.
And, of course, please do share how your week has gone.
My weight is at the highest it's been since January 2020 and that is entirely because I have been eating my feelings, and I've taken that sense of needing food for comfort to the grocery store, which means my house is full of things I probably shouldn't be eating and certainly not in the quantities in which I've been consuming them. To be fair to me, I am still trying to make sure I eat fruit and veggies and other healthy stuff each day. I'm just supplementing the good stuff with the not-so-good stuff.
For good news, there has been hydration aplenty and regular exercise despite the air quality issues.
However, my sleep has been crappy, just broken or delayed or absent altogether (looking at you, insomnia). Last night was the first time in as long as I can remember that I slept mostly through the night and got a full 7+ hours.
As for meditation, I did some breathing exercises, very deliberately, yesterday, so I'm going to count that toward my weekly meditation goal.
My plan for the week ahead is to stop eating so much. The crap is in the house, and I'm going to end up eating it. I just need to stop eating SO MUCH of it. Moderation is key. I will continue to exercise daily, work on better sleep quality and quantity, practice some sort of meditation/spiritual work, and hydrate.
Here's hoping the week ahead is clear for you, whatever "clear" means in your life.
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Date: Friday, 16 June 2023 03:02 pm (UTC)I have weighed in two days in a row. Baby steps towards accountability. (I also consolidated the data from the phone app where I'd been recording weigh-ins earlier this year and the spreadsheet where I've been tracking weight for the last three years, but had slacked off because the phone app was easier ... but really I was just hiding from myself how much I've backslid.)