Fitness/Self Care Check In

Nice one, happywoman, that's awesome. What kinda things did you do?

That's great! Congratulations.

Today is my rest day from exercise. For self care I wrote in my journal and read a chapter in my Thoughts and Feelings workbook

30-minute workout done. Did a lot of pullups last night and now I kinda regret it, because my biceps and elbows are giving me crap.

EDIT: a lil over 3 hours later, I seem to have mostly recovered from the aforementioned "crap", so that's something.

5:515pm and I still haven't worked out. :\ Got a bit distracted, wasn't feeling particularly great, mentally. I guess I'll get to it later on, but I'll be going to college in about 15 minutes, then going to my parents' house for a bit, then coming back home, but by then it'll be late. I refuse to miss it, though... you know what I say to you guys.

Well, I'm taking the week off from healthy eating and exercise. I know it will set me back, but between a party and thanksgiving this week I'm planning on eating some unhealthy stuff, then celebrating getting accepted into college. I relax during the holidays. I went to group today for self care.

Going to a 12 step meeting tonight, gym first. I keep telling myself that I'm going to meditate daily, not yet. My goal is to meditate 15 minutes or so before bed, this might help with my insomnia. I've been trying the guided Buddhist meditations on YouTube, since my brain is to "busy" to meditate on my own. I hope with some regular practice I can meditate more easily.

This may not sound like much. After helping four clients in home care, I had a very unpleasant odor on me. I took a very refreshing soapy shower. It feels so good to be clean.

I've been reading a lot about habit change (actually a favorite topic for years now, despite limited progress!) and one things that I've seen & experimented with is to make the desired habit easier and easier until you can actually do it. So instead of 15 minutes, maybe it's 5 minutes, or even just 1. Or just opening youtube at all..

Another thing that's worked for me regarding meditation is learning a very simple breath-counting meditation (I usually just count to 3 over & over) that I can do anywhere, with no gadgets. But I also love audio guided meditation on my phone - the app I loved has changed to a rather-expensive paid one so I can't recommend it, I've downloaded a few new ones to try but no experience yet - but if you have a smartphone that's another idea.

In the end, I've found the best way for me to meditate semi-regularly is to have it be what I do before I fall asleep, lying in bed... I know from my own experience that a separate, ideally morning, meditation time is best, but the bedtime thing works best for me to develop the habit and it always makes me fall deeply asleep quickly.

Are there ways you could look at making your 15 minute daily meditation become a longer-term goal, and find smaller steps to implement now?

Great job everyone for self care I just took a hot shower to try and clear my sinuses out, put some eye drops in, and am drinking a hot cup of tea. Also, will be calling my pdoc's office to inquire about a medication later.

So... um... missed yesterday's workout. I feel crappy about it, but I worked out today, for the 30-40 minute mark. Things are stirring between a woman and I...

I'm going to try to get into a steady sleeping routine so that I can get enough sleep. Sometimes I stay up way too late and it messes up the whole next day.

The day after Thanksgiving, I'm going to go swim at the Y early in the morning. I missed my swim today and I kind of felt off for much of the day. I wish I had just gone early in the morning without thinking about it much.

Congrats Zwang!

just keep swimming, I love to swim, it's good exercise and a lot of fun.

I'll just be enjoying the holiday today, happy Thanksgiving!

For self care today I just relaxed, had a great Thanksgiving and wrote in my journal. Tomorrow for self care I will be starting an additional medicine for anxiety and calling my regular doctor to get an appointment to discuss my horrible allergies and how what she prescribed isn't helping at all.

30+ minute workout. Pushed hard enough, I suppose. Crap day yesterday, and still feel sucky. I think I've gained weight, which BETTER be because of muscle. ¬_¬ Not happy. Have been eating the odd bit of crap, but I'm gonna try to get back on track, because I don't want to end up right back at square one.

Today I used my coping skills and relaxation techniques for anxiety. I made it the entire day without feeling the need to take any of my anxiety medicine

Left the workout until the evening, but it was a good one. 35:30 long. Pushed hard. Feels great... achy and ****ed, but great. The worst part of my workout is not the workout, it's AFTER the workout, when I have to put my (reasonably heavy after a workout) chair back on the floor, move my plates, dumbbells, and pullup bar back to the usual places, oh, and the shower. Right after the workout, all I wanna do is pass out, but nope... don't work like that! xD

Unfortunately didn't get to pool this weekend for aquaeorobics (swimming exercises with foam weights) but today finally went for a 50 min walk around the river. Feels like months since I last did that. Today being the 1st of the month maybe I can make it a habit .

I finally got out of panic mode, and went out horseback riding. I have to make financial sacrifices to afford this. I go into a perfect mindfulness mode when I ride.

Got some exercise in today walking to and from the library. Also got caught in the cold pouring rain with a stack of books in my hand which I had to take my coat off to cover to keep from getting wet

Day 2 of exercise-walking around the river for about an hour, at twilight still 26. Cel.
Note for tomorrow is to drink more water for self care.

For self care today I went to my pdoc appointment. I'm going to be reading in a few minutes, and will write in my journal later. Tomorrow I start eating healthier again. My goal is to lose 30lbs this coming year. I don't think that's too outrageous or unattainable.

I have been doing refeeds quite regularly while on a keto diet. following the method of doing one after 4 clear days of fat and protein, today I was due another refeed but I decided to skip this one, I decided I am going to see how the diet goes with longer periods of time in between refeeds.
I have found that the refeeds are not just a helpful thing in terms of how it affects my body by replacing depleted glycogen, raising hormone levels,keeping leptin in check. but its helps my mindset too, having cheat meals/days give me something to look forward to. but I think I may have become a bit too dependent on them and I also think I don't need to be doing them as often as I am. I think how often might depend on how much working out a person does. I have said for a while I am gonna try longer periods of being keto before cheat days but so far I have had difficulty sticking with that and I always end up caving in to the lure of what I can eat. my current meds i'm on mirtazapine doesn't help as I find it increases hunger and when I get into a routine and begin to look forward to the cheat days it becomes hard to skip them, especially when I am craving carbs. I have done ok in the last few days though and I am going to try and push a bit longer before a refeed. I noticed that on average looking at graphs of my calories in and my calorie expenditure that with refeed days factored in every 5th day I am not in a caloric deficit, I think I need to get back to being in one, I was when I started keto.

Day 3 of daily exercise. Walked for about 50 mins. Got caught in the rain and came home drenched but still enjoyed it. After 5 months of inactivity and lying on the couch I am trying ! As I also can't fit into my clothes from last summer , I have to concentrate on healthier eating.
Self care managed to increase drinking water today but It was 38. C I still need to drink more though as I sweating a lot.
Thanks for this thread bluebird. Focusing on positive thoughts and actions

Missed another workout, yesterday. I felt too tired in the evening, and I guess I just didn't feel up to it during the day. Will definitely workout today, but this is getting to be a problem. On the bright side, I'm still eating a caloric deficit and still eating healthily (if you ignore the treats ) so, in theory, I should still lose weight even without a continuous, strict regime of exercise.