Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 33 Check-in

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, there, friends!

I hope your week has been passable to good and not the other direction on the spectrum. As usual, if you're up for it, please share your trials and triumphs with us as you make your fitness journey. We're here to listen and not judge.



Weight: I'm up a little (again), largely because I am eating my feelings while I await medical tests and then their results. *sighs*

My sleep has also sucked because I've been anxious, which causes anxiety dreams (so much suckage), and also because T. has been participating in a film contest, so he's been away until late or altogether. I don't sleep as well when he's not home.

I have done a bit of breathing, and I am definitely hydrating, and, of course, there has been exercise. In fact, I've been using S3 of The Witcher as motivation to get on the recumbent bike again, and that's been good. Truly, if I am at all healthy, it has to be in good part because I exercise literally every day. Sometimes, I have to drag myself out for a walk or onto the bike, but I always do it anyway, and I never regret it afterward.

For the week ahead: Medical tests tomorrow. Anniversary Tuesday--we're celebrating Wednesday. Potential work-related meeting Thurs/Fri? Walk with a friend Thurs. This is too much stuff all at once; I'm not ready to be a functional adult again. Plus, I have lots of school prep work to complete. UGH! I will absolutely walk every day and hydrate. I will try to get decent sleep. I will do my best to stick to Intermittent Fasting. We'll see. We'll see.






May the week ahead bring you good things.

Comments

[oschun]

Good luck with the medical tests. And my commiserations on having to do prep work - so much UGH. I'm leaving that for next week. I might be lying to myself but I don't feel like I have a lot to do.

I'm going to start getting back into a more normal routine this week:
* start exercise routine (pilates, callanetics, a proper hike)
* no more holiday drinking
* fast for 2 days and make 2 new healthy vegan recipes (adding to the recipe repertoire)

[sylvanwitch]

I have yet another new person in my 11th grade teaching cohort. (In fact, it is just the two of us this year--shrinking enrollment.) And every year, my students seems less capable of the basics, so I have to keep backing the curriculum up a step or two. Together, this means more prep work than usual, as I'm combining units and eliminating texts to try to spend more time on the essentials (and also to give the new guy a fighting chance of getting it all done--he has no real teaching experience of this sort, and it's going to be a steep climb for him).

YAY for normal routines! As much as I semi-dread the return to school, I *do* appreciate the built-in routine of it; it makes it easier to eat at the same time every day, for example.

I also LOVE that you've got a specific goal of expanding your cooking repertoire! That's awesome! Go, you! :-)