Fitness Fellowship 2024: Week 35 Check-in
Sep. 2nd, 2024 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchGreetings, fellow spinners on this planet Earth!
How has the week that has been treated you? I hope it's been a good one, full of little joys and accomplishments. Please do share your fitness ups and downs here, as usual, and know that--also as usual--there will be no judgement, only kindness and support.
Weight: Just a tiny bit up from last week's weight.
Eating plan: I get tired of hearing me talk about how I can't stick to my own plans. *sighs* The fact is, I've been anxious and sad about going back to work this week (tomorrow is the first full day of classes for the new school year), and I've been eating to drown that out. I have mostly been eating healthy food, but I've been eating too much of it (and too many pints of non-diary frozen dessert).
Exercise: Despite being tired on the three days I had full or partial days at work last week, I did manage to get an hour or nearly an hour of exercise every day, including daily yoga and lifting. For the first time, I earned a monthly "Gains" badge for registering four hours of weight training. I was proud of myself for that and hope to duplicate the achievement in September.
Meditation: I'm doing 15 minutes of yoga every day, and part of that practice is Savasana, which allows me some deep breathing and mind-clearing.
Hydration: Ugh. I struggled with this and found myself truly parched a few times while at school, despite carrying around a big bottle of iced water. I will do better as I readjust to my new teaching schedule.
Sleep: This has been rough. I've been all over the place with bedtimes and have had a real struggle to fall and stay asleep. I'm hoping I'll be so tired this week that I do start getting more regular, longer bouts of sleep.
Plan: Do my best.
I'm sending out all the groovy vibes I can spare for a good week for you all!
How has the week that has been treated you? I hope it's been a good one, full of little joys and accomplishments. Please do share your fitness ups and downs here, as usual, and know that--also as usual--there will be no judgement, only kindness and support.
Weight: Just a tiny bit up from last week's weight.
Eating plan: I get tired of hearing me talk about how I can't stick to my own plans. *sighs* The fact is, I've been anxious and sad about going back to work this week (tomorrow is the first full day of classes for the new school year), and I've been eating to drown that out. I have mostly been eating healthy food, but I've been eating too much of it (and too many pints of non-diary frozen dessert).
Exercise: Despite being tired on the three days I had full or partial days at work last week, I did manage to get an hour or nearly an hour of exercise every day, including daily yoga and lifting. For the first time, I earned a monthly "Gains" badge for registering four hours of weight training. I was proud of myself for that and hope to duplicate the achievement in September.
Meditation: I'm doing 15 minutes of yoga every day, and part of that practice is Savasana, which allows me some deep breathing and mind-clearing.
Hydration: Ugh. I struggled with this and found myself truly parched a few times while at school, despite carrying around a big bottle of iced water. I will do better as I readjust to my new teaching schedule.
Sleep: This has been rough. I've been all over the place with bedtimes and have had a real struggle to fall and stay asleep. I'm hoping I'll be so tired this week that I do start getting more regular, longer bouts of sleep.
Plan: Do my best.
I'm sending out all the groovy vibes I can spare for a good week for you all!
still hanging in there
Date: Monday, 2 September 2024 10:32 pm (UTC)I'm doing okay weight-wise though I'm not sure why. I have not been behaving myself this week. I'm entirely there with you on beginning-of-the-schoolyear anxiety and stress and/or comfort eating. I fully expected to be way up when I weighed in this morning, but I'm only up a pound from my recent low. (I've always said that I'd probably be a better dieter if my weight more obviously mirrored my behavior. But sometimes I eat stuff I shouldn't and still lose weight and other times I'm super diligent and still gain weight and even though, intellectually, I know that on average the healthier eating is the way to go, it's hard to resist an "occasional" treat when it doesn't always seem to matter ... until it does.)
Re: still hanging in there
Date: Tuesday, 3 September 2024 12:04 pm (UTC)SO much empathy and commiseration about the new teaching job, my friend! Good luck!