Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in One
Jan. 6th, 2025 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchEach Monday throughout the year, I'll post a check-in. I'm breaking with earlier tradition and instead of numbering it by the week we've had, I'll simply go in ascending numerical order. I'm wild, I know. ;-)
If you are so inclined, please tell us how you've done on your fitness goals since the goals post on 1 January 2025. You may go into as much or as little detail as possible.
If you're just joining us, you're welcome to jump in. If you need to skip check-in this week (or any week), that's fine, too!
Weight: 214 as of this morning, down 3.4 from 1/1/25. (Note: I am apparently bad at even simple math, so the edit here is in weight lost.)
Exercise: I have not gotten 2-3 miles of walking in every day, largely because it has been colder than usual for our region, so I haven't walked much outdoors, and I have to regain stamina on the elliptical. I have, however, done at least 40 minutes of exercise each day, including twenty-minute stretches on the elliptical, walking in place, one outdoor stroll, and yoga. The one exercise goal I did not achieve at all is resuming lifting light weights. I shall rectify that this week.
Eating plan: I was on break until today, so I had the true luxury of cooking for myself at every meal, if I so chose, and that was wonderful. I made lots of healthy, plants-based meals with very little or no processed foods. Today's lunch consisted of carrots and hummus, a banana, and mixed berries with mango. A passing conversation with a colleague reminded me of her plug-in hot lunchbox, wherein she can bring leftovers, soup, chili, etc., so I spent my lunch browsing online and found one to try. Hot lunches, here I come!
Sleep: I have been good about going off-screen before bed and got to bed on time last night, though it did take me a while to fall asleep. I suspect I'll have no trouble with that tonight!
Meditation: I have not meditated beyond some boxed-breathing exercises during yoga and will rectify that for this next week to.
Hydration: Today has not been ideal as my bladder readjusts to the constraints of teaching. I'm parched as I type this and suspect I will be downing a lot of water when I get home. Other than today, I've been pretty good about hydrating, though when it's so cold, I sometimes have difficulty drinking cold beverages. The solution is tea, of course. Lol!
May the week ahead be a good one for you, giving you the energy you need to achieve the goals you've set for yourself.
If you are so inclined, please tell us how you've done on your fitness goals since the goals post on 1 January 2025. You may go into as much or as little detail as possible.
If you're just joining us, you're welcome to jump in. If you need to skip check-in this week (or any week), that's fine, too!
Weight: 214 as of this morning, down 3.4 from 1/1/25. (Note: I am apparently bad at even simple math, so the edit here is in weight lost.)
Exercise: I have not gotten 2-3 miles of walking in every day, largely because it has been colder than usual for our region, so I haven't walked much outdoors, and I have to regain stamina on the elliptical. I have, however, done at least 40 minutes of exercise each day, including twenty-minute stretches on the elliptical, walking in place, one outdoor stroll, and yoga. The one exercise goal I did not achieve at all is resuming lifting light weights. I shall rectify that this week.
Eating plan: I was on break until today, so I had the true luxury of cooking for myself at every meal, if I so chose, and that was wonderful. I made lots of healthy, plants-based meals with very little or no processed foods. Today's lunch consisted of carrots and hummus, a banana, and mixed berries with mango. A passing conversation with a colleague reminded me of her plug-in hot lunchbox, wherein she can bring leftovers, soup, chili, etc., so I spent my lunch browsing online and found one to try. Hot lunches, here I come!
Sleep: I have been good about going off-screen before bed and got to bed on time last night, though it did take me a while to fall asleep. I suspect I'll have no trouble with that tonight!
Meditation: I have not meditated beyond some boxed-breathing exercises during yoga and will rectify that for this next week to.
Hydration: Today has not been ideal as my bladder readjusts to the constraints of teaching. I'm parched as I type this and suspect I will be downing a lot of water when I get home. Other than today, I've been pretty good about hydrating, though when it's so cold, I sometimes have difficulty drinking cold beverages. The solution is tea, of course. Lol!
May the week ahead be a good one for you, giving you the energy you need to achieve the goals you've set for yourself.
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Date: Saturday, 11 January 2025 03:11 am (UTC)I learned to cook from my dad, not my mom. My mom did basic meals, but she was never really interested in being in the kitchen. My dad was the creative cook. He used to butcher at home. We lived in a farmhouse with an enormous kitchen. I always associate him with the smell of coriander.
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Date: Saturday, 11 January 2025 06:30 pm (UTC)I love hearing about men who cook. My dad was very much a fifties guy; he couldn't cook at all. T. is sort of similar. He can manage microwaved foods (i.e. burritos, mini-pizzas)--all the stuff that's bad for him, in fact. And he will walk through cooking some low-intensity stuff with me, so he'll have some kitchen skills if he needs them. I think it's because T's mom was an amazing cook (and, indeed, worked as a dietary line supervisor in a hospital kitchen), so he never had to. She loved cooking for him. I wish I'd spent more time with her, asking her questions about how to cook, but I had mother issues (see above) and didn't trust myself to get into that relationship more deeply. Anyway, when we were cleaning out the house, I found a whole bunch of her recipes and cookbooks (many in Dutch and one, at least, in the dialect of Indonesian they spoke in her village), and I've kept them against a time when I have the patience to figure out how to do her justice.
It shouldn't be shocking, but it still sort of staggers me how interwoven food is with all my neuroses and issues (and joys). I guess we never escape our origins, only grow out of, beyond, or more comfortably into them.
And you and I are living proof that we can grow beyond our food origins and have adventures in cooking. Happy kitchen adventures! :-)