Fitness Fellowship 2025: Check-in 43
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sylvanwitchHello, Friends, and welcome back to another week of checking in on one another and offering cheers and commiseration where appropriate and/or necessary.
I hope everyone has had a good week!
Weight: 202.4, which is exactly 10 pounds lighter than on 1 September. Though I've reached my initial goal, I'm just going to keep going as I've been and see what happens. I'd love to break 200 and maybe lose a few more after that. We'll see.
Exercise: Yes: 4/4 yoga, 3/3 strength-training, with longer/more vigorous sessions for the latter, in particular, and some new instructors/material for the former. Walking every day. I had both a pneumonia vaccination and a tetanus shot on Thursday night, and boy, it did a number on me for most of the weekend. Still, we managed to fit in a three-mile hike at a new nature preserve, and it was really cool, so I'm glad I did it, though I went to bed at 8:00 on Saturday night and didn't get up until 7:00 the next morning! (Sunday, I was still a little fatigued but much better.)
Eating plan: I'm just tooling along eating mostly whole foods and some processed but healthier options. I'm definitely having less trouble with portion control and snacking, and I'm not struggling with hunger or urges. It's honestly a little unsettling, like a switch flipped in my Fat Girl(TM) brain, and suddenly I don't have urges? I mean, yes, I get hungry and have an appetite, so I don't think there's a worrying medical explanation for it. Maybe it's the One Good Thing to come out of menopause for me? I was hoping for clear skin, but I'll take this instead!
Meditation: Yes, at least twice, maybe three times (?)
Hydration: Yes!
Sleep: Mostly very good; I've been tired at night, and I'm finding the encroaching seasonal darkness makes me want to hibernate under the warm covers.
The week ahead: More of the same, minus the vaccine-related side effects, I hope.
May the week be a good one for you all!
I hope everyone has had a good week!
Weight: 202.4, which is exactly 10 pounds lighter than on 1 September. Though I've reached my initial goal, I'm just going to keep going as I've been and see what happens. I'd love to break 200 and maybe lose a few more after that. We'll see.
Exercise: Yes: 4/4 yoga, 3/3 strength-training, with longer/more vigorous sessions for the latter, in particular, and some new instructors/material for the former. Walking every day. I had both a pneumonia vaccination and a tetanus shot on Thursday night, and boy, it did a number on me for most of the weekend. Still, we managed to fit in a three-mile hike at a new nature preserve, and it was really cool, so I'm glad I did it, though I went to bed at 8:00 on Saturday night and didn't get up until 7:00 the next morning! (Sunday, I was still a little fatigued but much better.)
Eating plan: I'm just tooling along eating mostly whole foods and some processed but healthier options. I'm definitely having less trouble with portion control and snacking, and I'm not struggling with hunger or urges. It's honestly a little unsettling, like a switch flipped in my Fat Girl(TM) brain, and suddenly I don't have urges? I mean, yes, I get hungry and have an appetite, so I don't think there's a worrying medical explanation for it. Maybe it's the One Good Thing to come out of menopause for me? I was hoping for clear skin, but I'll take this instead!
Meditation: Yes, at least twice, maybe three times (?)
Hydration: Yes!
Sleep: Mostly very good; I've been tired at night, and I'm finding the encroaching seasonal darkness makes me want to hibernate under the warm covers.
The week ahead: More of the same, minus the vaccine-related side effects, I hope.
May the week be a good one for you all!