Fitness Fellowship 2024: Week 36 Check-in (Late)

[sylvanwitch]

How's it going, friends? Are you hanging in there? Hanging by a thread? Having a grand old time?

However you'd characterize your current state, please do share with us, if you're so inclined, how your fitness journey has been for the past week and what, if any, goals you have for the week ahead.



Weight: I'm up to 212, which might be my annual high weight? I'm too tired to be upset about it, but I do recognize that it's not ideal and that I need to get back to a better diet.

Eating plan: I've been eating my usual vegan foods and generally keeping to an eating/fasting routine, but I've just been comfort eating more calories. I need to stop treating food as a reward for the temporary consolation of low-level misery. Unfortunately, my alternative to comfort eating is buying things, and that we cannot afford, so...

Exercise: Yoga every day for about 15 minutes. Light weights five out of seven days. Some walking every day, two longer hikes on each of the weekend days. Most work days, I did between 45 minutes and one hour of exercise, including the yoga and weights.

Sleep: Ugh. I wish I were getting better quality and longer sessions of sleep. I'm doing my best to be off-screen and calmed down at least a half-hour before my bedtime, but there is some struggle. I'm working on it.

Meditation: I'm taking this off the weekly check-in because I'm doing yoga daily, and that always involves at least a few minutes of breathing and clearing the mind.

Hydration: I definitely have been better about this the past week than I had been the week before that.

The plan: Eat fewer calories daily. Keep up with the exercise. Try to get better sleep. Hydrate as regularly as possible.



Riding the good vibes with you, my friends, and sending you ALL the energy for success that I can spare.

Comments

[delphi]

Congratulations on all the exercise. That's such a hard thing to stick with, and such a good thing for hopefully keeping your body happy.

I hear you on the stress and comfort eating, but overall it was actually a pretty good week here. It's the time of year when I start to come out of my seasonal affective stuff. The nights are long enough that I'm sleeping better, and the weather's cool enough that I have more energy and appetite. I went to bed on time, I ate three meals a day, walked every morning, and even started doing some bodyweight exercise pre-walk. Caffeinated drinks was down to one, and that was only because I ended up at a work meeting thing at one of those self-serious coffee shops that only sells caffeinated bitter things.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you! I think it is helping to keep me on an evener keel, mood-wise, than if I weren't getting exercise, for sure.

I'm so glad your SAD is easing up and you're getting more and better sleep, which makes everything better. YAY for morning walks and three meals a day and all the other wonderful stuff you're doing to help yourself feel good! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

I wish I could exercise and lose weight as easily as I turn into a wheezing blister from touching dust (omg the allergies this week)

[sylvanwitch]

Ugh, allergies! I'm so sorry that's happening to you, and I hope that the new meds work to get them under control for you.

[cornerofmadness]

I haven't even looked at the meds but they're in the house

[oschun]

Ugh, I weighed myself this morning and I was up to 75.6 kg which is now the heaviest I have ever been. I normally range between 71-73 kgs, so that means I've put on at least two and a half kilos over the summer break. WTF. My main goal this past year was to drop UNDER 70kgs and to see a six rather than a seven on the scale. (I think I did it for like ONE DAY.) So I now have even more weight to lose *sobs*. My work clothes are definitely tight on me. *more sobbing*

Anyway, I fasted on Mon and Tues until lunchtime, so that's a start. I just need to put back into place all the good things I was trying to do and work on the weak spots. I'm actually feeling pretty stoical about it and am ready to just get on with it.

[sylvanwitch]

It sounds like you have a good attitude for effecting change moving forward, particularly as you already have a good routine/framework in place and just need to return to it. That is excellent, hon. I am sorry about the scale number and the clothes, though, and can definitely empathize with you on both counts, especially with how vacation seems to have some sort of evil magical quality wherein we just gain a bunch of weight despite otherwise being active. *sighs*

Good luck with the fasting and the clean eating and all the other good stuff you do for yourself. I am over here cheering for you!

I so get the comfort eating

[oldtoadwoman]

I've just been bouncing up and down always a few pounds above my next mini-goal. I'll occasionally be right there and I just need to keep things on track for one more day and... then I'm gone. Today, I had a meeting with the principal before school so I wanted to get there early, but not too early so I arrived in the neighborhood early and then loitered at the nearby 7-Eleven where of course I bought snacks to mentally prepare for the meeting. And then after school a couple of the kids asked me to give them $5 for a pastry which I am 99% sure was left over from one of the girls having a birthday that day, but they insisted it was a fund-raiser and at that point I did not care, I was just like fine. I will give you money for an overpriced snack. Oh, and then I found out that the bar downstairs from where I live has cider on tap, which is dangerous knowledge, because, yeah, I got a cider tonight and it was yum.

Re: I so get the comfort eating

[sylvanwitch]

The struggle is SO real! Payday is today, which is the ONLY reason I don't have more crap in the house. I have to do some grocery shopping this weekend and hope I can avoid buying things that I really shouldn't have in the house. If I have to go out to get something, I'm too lazy for that, so if I can just avoid putting it in my house, I'll be better off. But despite understanding the whole process intimately, do you think I'll be able to avoid buying treats? Lol!

Re: I so get the comfort eating

[oldtoadwoman]

My weight has been steadily creeping up every day all week. I'm just so tired and my body confuses mental effort for physical effort so I feel like I need to eat to restore my energy at the end of a long day even though I've been so busy that I haven't been to the gym or pool in ages.

And several of my temptations are super easy to get. There's a convenience store / deli across the street and they have great sandwiches (and I can never make myself order the half size when the whole is only a few dollars more and if I've gone in it's because I'm already "off the wagon" and craving a giant sandwich).