Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in 42
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sylvanwitchHow has the week treated you, friends? I hope you've had some success or, at least, a chance to rest and regain your equilibrium. Everything is moving so fast lately, or at least, that's how it seems to me.
Please share your ups and downs, fitness-wise and otherwise, and know that this is a safe space for such sharing.
Weight: 204.2, down 2.4 from last week, for a total loss since 1 September of 8.2 pounds. I am...staggered, frankly. I mean, I've been quite intentional this week, but still. It's like my body is finally remembering how to let go of the weight.
Exercise: I did yoga four times, strength-training three, and walked every day. Saturday was particularly big for exercise, as we attended a No Kings rally and were very energetic for the whole two hours. There was a lot of walking and then some dancing, flag- and sign-waving, etc., and then more walking. It was awesome!
Eating plan: I've just been focused as much as possible on whole foods and clean eating. I do eat processed foods (i.e. canned organic vegan soup), but I try not to have too much of it in any day or for the week.
Meditation: Yes!
Hydration: Yes! Sometimes, when it gets cold outside, my water-drinking drops off, so I've been more mindful about it lately, and that seems to be working.
Sleep: Okay? I've had some minor anxiety around work stuff and was also nervous about Saturday's rally, so that made sleep a little more challenging the past week. Plus, I've been finding escape in some tender filth (m/m romance ebooks), and sometimes I want just "five more minutes," which naturally leads to not being ready to sleep on time. I'm working on correcting that habit because I cannot lose quality of sleep for anxiety AND quantity of sleep because I'm staying up past my bedtime.
The week ahead: Better sleep, more of the same where everything else is concerned.
I'm wishing you a good week, full of those intangibles you most need to feel strong, healthy, and whole.
Please share your ups and downs, fitness-wise and otherwise, and know that this is a safe space for such sharing.
Weight: 204.2, down 2.4 from last week, for a total loss since 1 September of 8.2 pounds. I am...staggered, frankly. I mean, I've been quite intentional this week, but still. It's like my body is finally remembering how to let go of the weight.
Exercise: I did yoga four times, strength-training three, and walked every day. Saturday was particularly big for exercise, as we attended a No Kings rally and were very energetic for the whole two hours. There was a lot of walking and then some dancing, flag- and sign-waving, etc., and then more walking. It was awesome!
Eating plan: I've just been focused as much as possible on whole foods and clean eating. I do eat processed foods (i.e. canned organic vegan soup), but I try not to have too much of it in any day or for the week.
Meditation: Yes!
Hydration: Yes! Sometimes, when it gets cold outside, my water-drinking drops off, so I've been more mindful about it lately, and that seems to be working.
Sleep: Okay? I've had some minor anxiety around work stuff and was also nervous about Saturday's rally, so that made sleep a little more challenging the past week. Plus, I've been finding escape in some tender filth (m/m romance ebooks), and sometimes I want just "five more minutes," which naturally leads to not being ready to sleep on time. I'm working on correcting that habit because I cannot lose quality of sleep for anxiety AND quantity of sleep because I'm staying up past my bedtime.
The week ahead: Better sleep, more of the same where everything else is concerned.
I'm wishing you a good week, full of those intangibles you most need to feel strong, healthy, and whole.
Re: 💙💙💙
Date: Wednesday, 22 October 2025 11:09 pm (UTC)One of the things I miss about the old apartment was having more freezer space. My fridge is on the small side with the teensiest freezer. (Imagine the size of freezer in a half-size mini-fridge and that's what I've got. I can fit the ice cube tray and maybe two or three other things.)
But also, even if I had the best kitchen in the world, I'd still have days where I'd just be, "But I don't want to eat the food that I've prepped. I don't want to cook something today." I am fortunate/unfortunate enough to have dozens and dozens of options for food I can grab on the way home. And when I'm tired or cranky or cold, I slip into this whiny, "I deserve ... " mindset and I'll convince myself that I need a pizza or a deli sandwich or a falafel sandwich or a burger or ...
I've not been doing great with the impulse purchases lately either. (I just spent $40 for a game I'm taking to school and I'll be super cranky the first time they lose my dice.)
This place pays better than the school last year, so all those little things that I'm tempted to buy suddenly seem reasonable, except I cannot afford to go crazy with this. I not only don't get paid over the summer, there's no guarantee that I get this gig again next year. (A friend keeps reminding me that my job hinges on federal funding that certain people in power have already said they want to cut. So there's a high chance that the program I work for won't exist next year.) So I really need to focus on saving.
For today, I'm trying to get back to the eating window concept and I set a timer on my phone and I will say that having that timer to glance at whenever I was tempted helped keep me out of the candy today. One Tootsie Roll is not worth having to cancel the timer and admit failure. (This follows eating way too much yesterday and feeling gross as a result and being too chicken to even weigh myself this morning.)