Fitness Fellowship 2024: Week 20

[sylvanwitch]

Greetings, fellow travelers on this fitness journey!

How'd your week go? Did you have challenges? Personal bests? Please do share your progress (or lack thereof--no judgement) with us here.



Weight: 202.8, up .6 from last week, which is not surprising, given the way my weight was trending all week. I think I'm eating a bit more than usual but still well within the calorie limit and also within my given window for eating, so I'm not sure what's going on there. Weight is a mystery sometimes!

Exercise: Every day, yes. Strength training, yes (I'm including hauling around bags of soil here). Intervals, yes. Inclines, yes.

Eating plan: Only one popcorn incident, I think, and otherwise fine. I think it might be the non-dairy ice cream? I think I need to reduce serving size, even though I have more than enough of a calorie surplus to cover it. I have a weakness for the stuff, and giving it up would be counter-productive, so I do think I just need to get out the measuring cup again.

Meditation/breathing: Yes? Probably? I can't recall a specific instance, but it has become something of a habit, so I think I probably have done some breathing exercise?

Sleep: Yes! Until last night. T. had a v. late shift, and I couldn't fall asleep until he was home and then not for quite a bit after that. *sighs*

Hydration: I worked outside in the sun for most of yesterday afternoon and was DEFINITELY dehydrated but didn't stop to drink water, so that's on me. Headachy and weird-headed for a lot of last evening. You'd think I'd have learned this lesson by now, but no....

The week ahead: My goals are the same, and this time I plan to pay stricter attention to my hydration goal in particular.


I'm sending you all the warm spring joy I can spare!

Comments

[oschun]

My main goal for this week is to focus on embedding the routine of having a shorter eating window. Last week I accidentally fasted again all day up to about 4pm on both Mon and Fri because I missed lunch. I was good though and only had a couple of handfuls of nuts when I got home and then a healthy dinner.

I managed to only drink black coffee up until lunchtime yesterday and today, so I've made a good start.

Have a lovely week.

[sylvanwitch]

Good luck with shortening your eating window, hon! It certainly sounds as if you've made good progress already. YAY!

And thank you for the good-week wishes. We have graduation Thursday evening, and then I can relax a little. (We still have underclassmen finals, but that's a problem for near-future-me. ;-)

[ysilme]

Congrats to your achievements and goals met, and good luck for the next week! *hugs*

I'm still struggling with interacting socially and commenting on entries... *sigh* So I'm trying to just do a quick update of the week up to my comment's date, as my tendency to catch up really doesn't help. *g*

Weight is still not moving which annoys me, as I still haven't found out how to tweak it better, and the thing that helps most - sufficient sleep - is elduing me since weeks. I don't sleep badly but just not that much extra that is helping with my weight. Eating is a little better but I'm now struggling with the balance of consuming sufficient carbs for my current level of physical activity while keeping my blood sugar in the desired range. I've had a set-back on that due circumstances outside my influence, but while my numbers went higher than I like them to be they are still overall low, and the circumstances are improving.
I've also struggled a bit with getting enough exercise in - the indoor treadmill helps a lot, but I was so immersed in my (very successful) writing I lacked part of my regular exercise, so all in all it still wasn't as much as I wanted. Very belatedly I've now started to get my veggie garden started, and since the weekend the exercise is going MUCH better due to that. No surprise there. ;op
Mentally I'm doing best, as the intense immersion in my current fannish love and the writing is doing me so good, as is the cutting down on social interaction. So let's say the overall state is ok but the variants need a bit more tweaking, but I'm going into the right direction even if it doesn't always feel like it. ;op

[sylvanwitch]

I am glad to hear that your overall state is good and that things are moving in the right direction for you, and I hope that progress continues. I can definitely relate to avoiding social interactions because I'm having more anxiety around social stuff than usual, including the dreaded rehashing of every single conversation and the intrusive voices leading me to feel that I've said something wrong, upset people, etc. I don't think I've quite ever had it at this level, and I'm wondering if I'm just "socialed-out," so to speak, by my job and various extra obligations around graduation, etc. I'm hoping that once I get to my summer break things will be better.

I hope you're able to get in the exercise you need this week and find balance again with your diet. I also hope you are able to find better/more sleep, if that's what you need to feel better too. I know I'm looking forward to the better sleep I get when I'm not working (because I can return to my nocturnal--more natural--habits).

Big, big *HUGS* to you and wishing you MUCH success on your fitness goals this week!

[luzula]

Gah, I'm in the middle of moving! Packing has been fine though, it's not wearing me out too much physically. I got a massage mid-week which was glorious, and hopefully fixed much of the issue with my shoulder. Trying to get in some walks and breaks and small workouts between moving stuff, work stuff, life admin stuff, etc.

[sylvanwitch]

Packing--ugh! I wish you speed, efficiency, and patience as you work through it. YAY for taking care of yourself in the midst of this stressful time. I hope you are able to get everything done in a way that is least invasive and stress-inducing!