Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in 25
Jun. 23rd, 2025 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchHello from beneath the sweltering, humid skies of a heat wave! I hope wherever you are the temperatures are a bit more temperate.
As always, please share as much or as little as you'd like of your fitness journey here. Please know that I so appreciate your participation but also understand that sometimes you just cannot. :-)
Weight: 212.4, which might be a little lower than last week. This is something of a miracle for reasons that will be explained below.
Exercise: I did yoga four times of four pledged, strength training five times of four pledged, and walked a TON (though one day only via gardening and one day on the elliptical). I tried a new total body workout yesterday via Fiton, and it kicked my ass (so many squats!), but it felt good to move my body that way and to know that I can. On our mini-vacation this week, we walked on Tuesday evening and hiked on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday's hike wasn't the longest, but it was extremely rigorous--a lot of steep ascents and descents and a lot of tricky footwork. Thursday's hike was just over 3 miles. Friday, T. and I climbed halfway up a gorge to look at waterfalls and then climbed back down. Combined with yesterday's squat-heavy workout, all of this means my thighs are SORE today!
Eating plan: I did okay while away, I thought. I made it a point to have salad each day, and though I did eat some desserts and chips and the like, I thought I'd been more moderate than would be typical of me on vacation, but when I stepped on the scale Saturday morning, I was at 217! I couldn't believe I'd gained so much, especially with all the exercise. So, I immediately switched to a very clean-eating plan, focusing on oatmeal and fruit, salads, rice and beans, and the like, and I lost all that gain and a little more, thankfully. And I feel much better. Every evening of our trip, I had heartburn, which usually comes about as a result of both eating and having gained past a certain threshold. Anyway, all of this is to say that I have embraced summer succulence--including my own homegrown greens--and am enjoying the fresh produce and the healthful feeling eating clean always gives me.
Hydration: Absolutely!
Meditation: Yes, I think so? I wasn't alone much this past week, which made it more challenging, but I think I did meditate at least once.
Sleep: Ugh. I have travel anxiety, so my sleep wasn't great for a couple of nights this past week, but I'm fine now and back to my natural sleep schedule, which is going to bed circa 1-2am and getting up around 8-9am. I love reading deep into the night!
My plan for the week ahead: Clean eating. The usual exercise, with perhaps less outdoors walking and more elliptical, etc. The heat is supposed to moderate on Wednesday. We'll see.
Have an exceptional week, my friends!
As always, please share as much or as little as you'd like of your fitness journey here. Please know that I so appreciate your participation but also understand that sometimes you just cannot. :-)
Weight: 212.4, which might be a little lower than last week. This is something of a miracle for reasons that will be explained below.
Exercise: I did yoga four times of four pledged, strength training five times of four pledged, and walked a TON (though one day only via gardening and one day on the elliptical). I tried a new total body workout yesterday via Fiton, and it kicked my ass (so many squats!), but it felt good to move my body that way and to know that I can. On our mini-vacation this week, we walked on Tuesday evening and hiked on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday's hike wasn't the longest, but it was extremely rigorous--a lot of steep ascents and descents and a lot of tricky footwork. Thursday's hike was just over 3 miles. Friday, T. and I climbed halfway up a gorge to look at waterfalls and then climbed back down. Combined with yesterday's squat-heavy workout, all of this means my thighs are SORE today!
Eating plan: I did okay while away, I thought. I made it a point to have salad each day, and though I did eat some desserts and chips and the like, I thought I'd been more moderate than would be typical of me on vacation, but when I stepped on the scale Saturday morning, I was at 217! I couldn't believe I'd gained so much, especially with all the exercise. So, I immediately switched to a very clean-eating plan, focusing on oatmeal and fruit, salads, rice and beans, and the like, and I lost all that gain and a little more, thankfully. And I feel much better. Every evening of our trip, I had heartburn, which usually comes about as a result of both eating and having gained past a certain threshold. Anyway, all of this is to say that I have embraced summer succulence--including my own homegrown greens--and am enjoying the fresh produce and the healthful feeling eating clean always gives me.
Hydration: Absolutely!
Meditation: Yes, I think so? I wasn't alone much this past week, which made it more challenging, but I think I did meditate at least once.
Sleep: Ugh. I have travel anxiety, so my sleep wasn't great for a couple of nights this past week, but I'm fine now and back to my natural sleep schedule, which is going to bed circa 1-2am and getting up around 8-9am. I love reading deep into the night!
My plan for the week ahead: Clean eating. The usual exercise, with perhaps less outdoors walking and more elliptical, etc. The heat is supposed to moderate on Wednesday. We'll see.
Have an exceptional week, my friends!