Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in Eleven
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sylvanwitchGreetings, 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.
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.
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Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025 04:28 am (UTC)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)
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Date: Thursday, 20 March 2025 12:31 am (UTC)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.