Fitness Fellowship 2024: Week 28 Check-in
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sylvanwitchWelcome on this rainy-rainy Monday! I hope you've had a drier one than we've had here.
As usual, please do share how your fitness journey has gone over the past week and any goals, long- or short-term, you'd like to share too.
Weight: I'm down 1.4 pounds from last week. YAY!
Exercise: I am super excited to report that I have FINALLY (after years and years) developed a YOGA habit! I subscribed to Yoga-Go, a yoga-centric fitness app, on Tuesday of last week and have been doing at least 10 minutes of yoga each day. It is strenuous, sometimes sweaty, always challenging, and it makes me feel awesome! I have also made sure I've exercised a total of at least one hour every day (yoga and strength-training included), did some cardio, and a little incline work as well.
Eating plan: I've been pretty good about not snacking at night. I've had only TWO slips this week; the rest of the nights, I've managed to stay within my window and avoid snacking. I've had a couple of later-than-usual dinnertimes, too, but I just moved the next day's fast-breaking time back to keep the same spread.
Meditation/breathing: See above, re: Yoga.
Hydration: Yes. This has been important for longer rambles in the heat.
Sleep: I WISH! Ugh. So, I've been pretty good about getting to bed by 2:00am every day, but falling asleep, even when I've been off-screens for at least a half-hour before bedtime, has been difficult, even with a half-dose of melatonin. (I try to avoid the full dose because unless I get eight solid, quality hours of sleep, it leaves me a little logy the next day.) Anyway, I'll keep trying.
The week ahead: Yoga every day, walking every day, some cardio, weights at least twice (or more), gardening when/where possible. (This past week, it was either too hot or too wet--or both!--to garden.)
Good week vibes coming your way, friends!
As usual, please do share how your fitness journey has gone over the past week and any goals, long- or short-term, you'd like to share too.
Weight: I'm down 1.4 pounds from last week. YAY!
Exercise: I am super excited to report that I have FINALLY (after years and years) developed a YOGA habit! I subscribed to Yoga-Go, a yoga-centric fitness app, on Tuesday of last week and have been doing at least 10 minutes of yoga each day. It is strenuous, sometimes sweaty, always challenging, and it makes me feel awesome! I have also made sure I've exercised a total of at least one hour every day (yoga and strength-training included), did some cardio, and a little incline work as well.
Eating plan: I've been pretty good about not snacking at night. I've had only TWO slips this week; the rest of the nights, I've managed to stay within my window and avoid snacking. I've had a couple of later-than-usual dinnertimes, too, but I just moved the next day's fast-breaking time back to keep the same spread.
Meditation/breathing: See above, re: Yoga.
Hydration: Yes. This has been important for longer rambles in the heat.
Sleep: I WISH! Ugh. So, I've been pretty good about getting to bed by 2:00am every day, but falling asleep, even when I've been off-screens for at least a half-hour before bedtime, has been difficult, even with a half-dose of melatonin. (I try to avoid the full dose because unless I get eight solid, quality hours of sleep, it leaves me a little logy the next day.) Anyway, I'll keep trying.
The week ahead: Yoga every day, walking every day, some cardio, weights at least twice (or more), gardening when/where possible. (This past week, it was either too hot or too wet--or both!--to garden.)
Good week vibes coming your way, friends!
way up
Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2024 01:23 am (UTC)I'm way up today, but I'm hoping I can smooth things out by the end of the week.
I was cat-sitting for a friend which meant several days without a weigh-in. And the night before my friend left town, we got Thai food takeout and then I ate all the leftovers the next day, and then I had one of those days where it seemed like a good idea to eat all the candy in the universe, and then the day my friend returned, we went out to another restaurant. And later last night it was so hot and muggy out, that I was just like, "I need ice cream!" like it was an actual requirement. Then I got on the scales this morning, knowing it would be bad, but ... seven pounds. I gained seven pounds since just Thursday. Hopefully some of that is just the bloat of back to back big meals and tomorrow it won't be quite as terrible. But this really underscores that I need to weigh in every single day. Otherwise my brain gets convinced that candy and ice cream have no consequences.
EDIT: As of Tuesday morning, I'm "only" up five pounds since last week.
Re: way up
Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2024 05:11 pm (UTC)Re: way up
Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2024 05:21 pm (UTC)I just read an interview with Richard Simmons that he did only days before he died and he was talking about a new musical autobiography that he was writing. He wrote all the song lyrics and a professional song writer wrote the music and he was all excited about the stage show. It sounds terrible and I really hope someone makes it happen, because it sounds terrible in a delightful way. (If anyone puts this into production, I hope they understand that they cannot hold back on the sequins. If this isn't the tackiest, most over-the-top thing ever, they haven't done it right.)
Re: way up
Date: Wednesday, 17 July 2024 04:09 pm (UTC)