Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in Four
Jan. 27th, 2025 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchGreetings from the center of the gale! We're having terribly high winds and are expecting 5-10 inches of snow tonight, along with lakeshore flooding and potential ice damage from the wind blowing floes up into people's foundations. We aren't on the water, thankfully, but we are on an island in the river, and the roar of the wind is both awesome and unsettling.
But enough about the weather! How has your week been, fitness-wise and otherwise? I hope you've had success, however you're measuring it, and are feeling well.
Weight: 211.8, up 1.2 from last week. That's disappointing because I did achieve a new low for the year, but it just...disappeared when I got on the scale this morning.
Exercise: I exercised at least 40 minutes every day, did yoga four times, but only lifted light weights once, and I don't even have a reasonable excuse because I was home more than usual due to snow days. Ah, well. I am proud of the fact that I got longer walks in on Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, and I am definitely growing more confident with poses in yoga, too.
Eating plan: I suspect that being over my daily points quota on Saturday and Sunday contributed to today's weigh-in number, though I had the points to spend, and I "spent" some of those points on a salad yesterday, so... Who knows? I am not getting hung up on the scale number because this is a marathon, not a sprint, and it's not about the number (or not only about it, anyway).
Meditation: A little? Yes? Yesterday's walk in nature afforded me both time to do some simple breathing exercises and a few moments of total joy, some of it spiritual in nature. I think that counts.
Hydration: Yes, I've been good about this.
Sleep: Ha! So, I mentioned I had snow days...let's just say I stayed up reading waaaaay too late several days, with the predictable result that getting up THIS week for work has been a challenge. I'm a doofus.
The week ahead: I'm going to lift three times, no arguments, and work on getting my sleep schedule back on track, as well as continuing with all my usual goals. I'll also avoid quite so much splurging next weekend, even when I do have the extra points to spend.
If I could harness the wind, I'd send you all that energy, friends! Have a great week!
But enough about the weather! How has your week been, fitness-wise and otherwise? I hope you've had success, however you're measuring it, and are feeling well.
Weight: 211.8, up 1.2 from last week. That's disappointing because I did achieve a new low for the year, but it just...disappeared when I got on the scale this morning.
Exercise: I exercised at least 40 minutes every day, did yoga four times, but only lifted light weights once, and I don't even have a reasonable excuse because I was home more than usual due to snow days. Ah, well. I am proud of the fact that I got longer walks in on Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, and I am definitely growing more confident with poses in yoga, too.
Eating plan: I suspect that being over my daily points quota on Saturday and Sunday contributed to today's weigh-in number, though I had the points to spend, and I "spent" some of those points on a salad yesterday, so... Who knows? I am not getting hung up on the scale number because this is a marathon, not a sprint, and it's not about the number (or not only about it, anyway).
Meditation: A little? Yes? Yesterday's walk in nature afforded me both time to do some simple breathing exercises and a few moments of total joy, some of it spiritual in nature. I think that counts.
Hydration: Yes, I've been good about this.
Sleep: Ha! So, I mentioned I had snow days...let's just say I stayed up reading waaaaay too late several days, with the predictable result that getting up THIS week for work has been a challenge. I'm a doofus.
The week ahead: I'm going to lift three times, no arguments, and work on getting my sleep schedule back on track, as well as continuing with all my usual goals. I'll also avoid quite so much splurging next weekend, even when I do have the extra points to spend.
If I could harness the wind, I'd send you all that energy, friends! Have a great week!
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Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2025 11:12 am (UTC)Goal 1 – walking: I finally finished the first week of my program! Now onto the second week :D
Goal 2 – push-ups: I worked out twice and increased the reps for the wall push-ups. I hope I can start with incline push-ups soon.
Good luck with your plans for the coming week!
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Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2025 10:46 pm (UTC)You have had a GREAT week! Wooo-hooo! Go, you! May your momentum continue and carry into another great week of progress. :-)