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

[cornerofmadness]

Mom and Dad's place and my brother's are split levels and I'm finding that worse really because I'm up and down a lot of more than I would if I had a bedroom up and really would only need to climb those stairs twice a day maybe three times. My brother's place is worse because you have to climb stairs to get into the house and then climb up from there.

[sylvanwitch]

That makes total sense, now that you describe the situation.

We do have a ground-level entrance around the back, which leads to what was the garage but which we converted into our big TV/exercise/living room (because I converted the actual living room and dining room into a library). There's a small bathroom (no shower) there. Up one flight is the kitchen and library (formerly known as the LR/DR), and then up another short flight is the main bath and three bedrooms (only one of which is actually a bedroom). I'm *hoping* we don't get to the point where we cannot at least manage the shorter flight between kitchen/library level and bathroom/bedroom/workroom level, but that's a wait and see kind of deal. I was hoping if it did come to that we could install a chairlift? Or I could maybe scoot on my butt? I don't know, of course.

Also, we inherited this house, which somewhat removed choice from the matter. I'd hate to have to move to a single level home because I love my gardens and my house, but I can imagine circumstances in which that might be necessary.

Man, bodies were a mistake. ;-)

[cornerofmadness]

luckily mom's place does have ground level entry. There's a house now for sale in my area with a chair lift and I'm thinking hmmm....