Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in Four

[sylvanwitch]

Greetings 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!

Comments

[delphi]

Congratulations on the daily exercise! The fact that you were able to keep that up, even with snow days, is really impressive. Good luck getting the sleep schedule back on rails.

I'm pretty much over my recent bout of illness, and it was a good week, I think.

Three Meals a Day: 5/5
30 Minutes of Movement: 5/5
Pescatarian: 5/5
No Packaged Sweets: 5/5
No Caffeine: 5/5
Stretch Before Bed: 5/5
Bedtime Adherence: 2/5 (still a work in progress, but one that's at least getting closer and closer - this isn't really an all-or-nothing score, since I figure getting into bed at 10:30 is still a lot better than getting into bed at midnight!)

[sylvanwitch]

Wow! You had a fantastic week! Woooo-hoooo! *\o/*

I entirely agree with you, re: bedtimes as a moveable target. Last night, for example, I finished grading so late in the evening that my resentment over having no reading time caused me to stay up until midnight. I recognize this is childish, but I can't seem to help it when the book is good. ;-)

Anyway, I hope the week we're in is treating you well and that you're achieving those goals you've set for yourself. :-)

[delphi]

I completely understand. I tore through a 700+ page book in a day and a half this week, having hit one of those fevers that a really good book will put you in. It was just lucky that I managed to finish it around 10 p.m. because I would have absolutely stayed up until the small hours rather than put it down.