Fitness Fellowship 2026: Check-in Two
Jan. 12th, 2026 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvanwitchGreetings, Fitness Friends!
How has the week been for you--ups, downs, triumphs, struggles? Please do share in the comments how you've done with reaching for and/or achieving your goals. As always, you are welcome to adjust those goals to what best suits you. There is no judgement here.
Weight: 195.6, down one pound from last week. Yay!
Exercise: I did yoga four times out of four pledged, strength-training three times out of three pledged, and walked every day. I also made sure we got outside to walk twice, once in the evening in a neighborhood with sidewalks and streetlights and another in the early afternoon on Saturday, a nice long ramble by the river.
Eating plan: We had a splurge meal on Saturday evening, but even there, I kept to reasonable portions and felt good about my choices, particularly since we'd gone for a long walk earlier in the day. Otherwise, I'm eating as cleanly as possible, lots of fruits, veggies, and whole foods whenever possible.
Hydration: Yes.
Meditation: Twice out of twice pledged.
Sleep: I was mostly good. I had one weeknight when I was later than I should have been getting to sleep because I didn't want to stop reading my ebook, but otherwise, I was good about keeping to my no-screens bedtime.
The week ahead: More of the same, with hopefully further outdoor opportunities.
I'm wishing for all of us a good week of rest, health, and vitality!
How has the week been for you--ups, downs, triumphs, struggles? Please do share in the comments how you've done with reaching for and/or achieving your goals. As always, you are welcome to adjust those goals to what best suits you. There is no judgement here.
Weight: 195.6, down one pound from last week. Yay!
Exercise: I did yoga four times out of four pledged, strength-training three times out of three pledged, and walked every day. I also made sure we got outside to walk twice, once in the evening in a neighborhood with sidewalks and streetlights and another in the early afternoon on Saturday, a nice long ramble by the river.
Eating plan: We had a splurge meal on Saturday evening, but even there, I kept to reasonable portions and felt good about my choices, particularly since we'd gone for a long walk earlier in the day. Otherwise, I'm eating as cleanly as possible, lots of fruits, veggies, and whole foods whenever possible.
Hydration: Yes.
Meditation: Twice out of twice pledged.
Sleep: I was mostly good. I had one weeknight when I was later than I should have been getting to sleep because I didn't want to stop reading my ebook, but otherwise, I was good about keeping to my no-screens bedtime.
The week ahead: More of the same, with hopefully further outdoor opportunities.
I'm wishing for all of us a good week of rest, health, and vitality!
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Date: Saturday, 17 January 2026 05:45 pm (UTC)I have been to that personal trainer now. I think he was good. He gave me some exercises that were really interesting, focusing on the back of my shoulders and between my shoulderblades and how not to end up in a hunched-forward position. Which meshes well with what I've read, but it was very helpful to have a session in person. Also he taught me something I didn't know, which is that if you stand with your feet parallel and with a stance that's a little broader than your hips, and then try to push your feet out towards the sides (kind of hard to describe in words), and then bend your knees and go up again, you will be stronger, because you are activating other muscles for leg-bending than the ones on the front of your thighs.
Otherwise I am good! I'm exercising and have been skiing as long as that was possible (the snow is gone now), I'm working outside, weight is okay.
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Date: Sunday, 18 January 2026 10:24 pm (UTC)I think I know what you mean about the move you're describing. I'm imagining it as a yoga move and can definitely see how that posture shift would change the muscle ratio. How exciting!
One thing I've learned from doing yoga is how just a tiniest adjustment of posture changes *every*thing; it's astonishing! (It also makes me wonder how any of us go about in the world without constantly throwing out backs out or pulling a muscle or pinching a nerve! Lol!)
YAY for exercising and skiing (when there's snow) and working outside! That's all wonderful stuff! YAY!