Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 37 Check-in
Sep. 10th, 2023 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchSeptember used to be a harbinger of excitement for me. Now, it's mostly dread I feel until my body and brain settle into being back-to-school. What marks the calendar in your life that makes for body-and-brain changes annually? Any regular season/event/holiday/month you dread or love? How do your feelings about that impending date affect your physical habits? Feel free to ignore these questions entirely! Lol!
Please do NOT ignore the opportunity to check in with us about your fitness journey though. Yay? Nay? Something in between?
My weight this morning is the same as it was last week, so I guess that's better than it going up. I didn't expect much of a change because although I'm eating less (because I'm so busy and often don't have the time or privacy--I'm masking again--to eat at work), I'm not getting enough exercise.
Now, every work day, I came home with more than or almost 10K steps, so I *am* getting a lot of walking in at school. However, that's not the same as purposeful exercise, and there was one day this week when I didn't exercise at all--too tired. Another two days, I got maybe 15-20 minutes (once on the bike, once walking around the library where I work the late shift twice a week). Yesterday, however, I walked almost four miles (on purpose), so I think that shows a willingness not to slack when my flesh is as willing as my spirit.
My sleep pattern has contributed to my exhaustion. I have been getting to bed on time, but I don't always fall asleep right away (or at all). One night, I got up and took half a dose of melatonin just to finally shut my brain down. Friday night, of course, I went to bed at 9:30 and slept for 10 hours, which is extremely uncharacteristic of me. So, you know, my brain is having difficulty adjusting to the constant rotation of stressors that is my life at school, particularly now that I've picked up two new responsibilities. (Ugh, I KNOW. I'm supposed to be saying NO. But one is a project *I* proposed without entirely thinking through the inevitable consequence of me having to then DO said project, and the other should be just me offering ideas and guidance and someone else doing the organizing.)
ANYway...
There was some meditation and breathing. I do my best to hydrate, though bathroom breaks are tricky now that I'm so far from the nearest ladies room. I'm also having some mild cramping and bleeding related to that endometrial fibroid, but I have another ultrasound coming up in a couple of weeks, so that should shed some light on things. (I'm not worried at all. It's just inconvenient.)
Oh, and eating...I mean, I haven't been eating crap, but I also haven't been making fresh prepped meals at home in the evenings because I'm so tired. Today, I'm making a big (healthy) baked pasta dish and probably a second dish (maybe chili), so I have easy meals to reheat. I have four later evenings this week thanks to extracurriculars and aforementioned library duties, so I'm definitely going to need to have easy meal options, and I'm going to have to do my best to force myself to exercise after dinner each night despite my exhaustion.
Here's hoping I can get good sleep tonight to anchor the busy week ahead. *sighs*
I hope the week ahead gives you the kind of balance you most desire.
Please do NOT ignore the opportunity to check in with us about your fitness journey though. Yay? Nay? Something in between?
My weight this morning is the same as it was last week, so I guess that's better than it going up. I didn't expect much of a change because although I'm eating less (because I'm so busy and often don't have the time or privacy--I'm masking again--to eat at work), I'm not getting enough exercise.
Now, every work day, I came home with more than or almost 10K steps, so I *am* getting a lot of walking in at school. However, that's not the same as purposeful exercise, and there was one day this week when I didn't exercise at all--too tired. Another two days, I got maybe 15-20 minutes (once on the bike, once walking around the library where I work the late shift twice a week). Yesterday, however, I walked almost four miles (on purpose), so I think that shows a willingness not to slack when my flesh is as willing as my spirit.
My sleep pattern has contributed to my exhaustion. I have been getting to bed on time, but I don't always fall asleep right away (or at all). One night, I got up and took half a dose of melatonin just to finally shut my brain down. Friday night, of course, I went to bed at 9:30 and slept for 10 hours, which is extremely uncharacteristic of me. So, you know, my brain is having difficulty adjusting to the constant rotation of stressors that is my life at school, particularly now that I've picked up two new responsibilities. (Ugh, I KNOW. I'm supposed to be saying NO. But one is a project *I* proposed without entirely thinking through the inevitable consequence of me having to then DO said project, and the other should be just me offering ideas and guidance and someone else doing the organizing.)
ANYway...
There was some meditation and breathing. I do my best to hydrate, though bathroom breaks are tricky now that I'm so far from the nearest ladies room. I'm also having some mild cramping and bleeding related to that endometrial fibroid, but I have another ultrasound coming up in a couple of weeks, so that should shed some light on things. (I'm not worried at all. It's just inconvenient.)
Oh, and eating...I mean, I haven't been eating crap, but I also haven't been making fresh prepped meals at home in the evenings because I'm so tired. Today, I'm making a big (healthy) baked pasta dish and probably a second dish (maybe chili), so I have easy meals to reheat. I have four later evenings this week thanks to extracurriculars and aforementioned library duties, so I'm definitely going to need to have easy meal options, and I'm going to have to do my best to force myself to exercise after dinner each night despite my exhaustion.
Here's hoping I can get good sleep tonight to anchor the busy week ahead. *sighs*
I hope the week ahead gives you the kind of balance you most desire.
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Date: Monday, 11 September 2023 12:19 pm (UTC)YAY for pilates! BOO for busyness! :-)
I SO agree, re: pasta and chili. The latter I can strain to remove the juice and use on whole wheat tortillas for burritos, too, so I can change it up a little. Honestly, though, I'd live on pasta if it wouldn't mean bad things for my future. Lol!