Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in Eleven

[sylvanwitch]

Greetings, friends! I hope you've found some little things to bring you joy this past week and that your fitness journey has been a smooth one.

As usual, please do share how your week has been and anything you are considering for the week ahead.



Weight: 206.2, down 1.2 from last week.

Exercise: Walking 6 days out of 7-day goal; weights 4 days out of 3-day goal; yoga 4 days out of 4-day goal. The anomaly was yesterday (Sunday), when I just didn't feel like doing much of anything. I wasn't sick or anything like that, just sort of blah? And we had tempestuous weather, sometimes stormy, sometimes sunny, so I didn't want to risk a walk. Otherwise, I was very good all week.

Eating plan: I am abandoning Weight Watchers, even though I have to pay for it for another seven months. The points system doesn't make sense for my plants-based eating, and my suspicion that their "proprietary equation" for figuring out how much I can eat doesn't really work for me was confirmed when I found a way to add a calorie tracking widget to the app and saw how even on "bad" days, by WW's definition, I was still well below my calorie intake goal for My Fitness Pal. I'm back to using MFP to track my daily food.

Sleep: Daylight Savings Time messes me up every year, and this year has been the worst yet. Consequently, I've been trying to get to bed early on weeknights, so I'm not completely useless by midday the next day. This plan has worked, but it does nothing for the waking-up habit, which seems to be much worse since DST began. I'm hoping my body's rhythms settle in soon.

Meditation: Hahahahaha. No. Completely forgot? *sighs*

Hydration: I had two evenings when I experienced muscle cramping, and both were after days in which I was notably stingy about drinking water. I'm being more careful once again.

The week ahead: More of the same, sans WW.



May the road rise up to meet you and the wind be always at your back.

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

I'm back from an all inclusive where I did nothing but eat and swill rum. I am going to have a lot of work to do ...

[sylvanwitch]

As someone who absolutely over-indulges on every holiday/vacation/occasion, let me say I completely understand. Good luck with recovery! :-)

[cornerofmadness]

thanks I'll need it

[luzula]

Great job with the exercise! \o/

My cold is better, though I'm still coughing and my nose is stuffy. But I have started doing farm chores again, and can gradually do more every day. It's getting to be the time of year when physical work takes precedence over working out: my crush and I are fetching manure, spreading it on the field, felling trees, building compost, etc. I am so much enjoying doing that work with him.

My goal this week is to go to bed and turn out the light earlier, so I can also get up earlier.

[sylvanwitch]

I am glad you're feeling better and respecting your body's limits, too, not trying to do it all at once. I think I've said before how great I believe it is that you can do physical labor with tangible results that also means you're being/getting fit. That's *awesome* and I can hardly wait until our property is dry enough to start doing all the awesome stuff I hope to do out there!

YAY for physical work! Go, you!

[delphi]

I hear you about the Daylight Savings Time effect. Here's to our bodies getting with the program!

Speaking of programs, I'm sorry WW didn't work out for you, but you have my serious admiration for figuring out how and why it wasn't. I think that says a lot about your connection to your goals and your clear-eyed approach to your health journey here.

I was still having a more eventful time than I would have liked with my autoimmune/allergy stuff this past week, but I think tentatively it's either getting better or I'm just adjusting to it.

Three Meals a Day: 6/7
30 Minutes of Movement: 4/7 (had to sit a few days out because of migraines)
Pescatarian: 7/7
No Packaged Sweets: 7/7
No Caffeine: 7/7
Stretch Before Bed: 7/7
Bedtime Adherence: 2/7 (still struggling with this one, but at least I've just been out by 30-60 minutes)

[sylvanwitch]

Everyone I talk to is saying similar things about DST this year, so at least we’re not alone in our misery. I am right there with you in wishing that our bodies settle in.

I also hope you have no more migraines to contend with and that you feel better each and every day. Congratulations on sticking with your good habits, and good luck tackling the sleep thing. As you know, I absolutely empathize.

[lenzes]

Congrats on all the exercise you did! Switching to My Fitness Pal sounds quite sensible, and I hope that you'll get used to Daylight Savings Time soon.

Goal 1 – walking: I walked two times, which is better than last week. I'd like to get back on track with the program, though, which means I need to make more of an effort.

Goal 2 – push-ups: I worked out once last week, so no progress there, but also no backsliding.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for no backsliding on the push-ups and good for you for walking more! I am sending you all the good vibes for getting your walks in this week. And thank you for always being so encouraging in your comments. :-)

[oschun]

I'm still recovering from the flu I had last week. I went to pilates last night for the first time in ages and it was *really* hard. I had to lie down when I got home.

Sorry to hear WW hasn't worked out for you. I've abandoned something recently too. Making sourdough with a kefir starter is just too onerous. I did make a wholewheat spelt loaf with dried yeast over the weekend, and it was less of a pain in the ass. I really want to understand breadmaking. I find the process of kneading dough, seeing it rise, baking it etc, all very therapeutic on some basic level. But my bread is not good, it's okay, but not *good*. To make healthy, wholegrain bread is a skill I would like to master, or at least get better at!

Good luck with adjusting to DST.

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you, my friend, and good luck mastering bread making! I find the idea of making bread by hand very daunting. I do have a bread machine, a gift from my MIL many years ago, but I never found that bread especially good. I hope you find what works and that the product of your quest is much deliciousness.

I also hope that you recover your stamina. Tonight, I had dinner with a friend who had the flu around the same time as you did, and she was saying that the fatigue has been very difficult to overcome. Maybe it’s the strain of virus? Anyway, I am sending you all the healing vibes, my friend. *hugs*