JCC 2019 Fitness Goals

I had an okay week. I did good with food for the most part. Even only partially "cheated" at dinner last night and we went out. I did really good with swimming and yoga, got some walking in. I really wish I could walk more. The best news is I swam 3,700 metes this AM (2.29 miles)! The worst news is I made my whole leg ache by accident on Monday night when I helped my husband carry our Christmas tree out to the curb. So it's feeling better, but it's about to snow and who has to shovel? Me and who's going to be hurt all over again? I'd love to just go push an inch off the sidewalk each hour so I don't get hurt. But when is the majority of the snow coming? Between 7PM and 7AM. Oh well. All I can do is take it slow and hope for the best. Gosh I miss being in shape.

 

Well I noticed something with it. I have a hard time running. If I was on my own I would not of completed that in almost 11 min. People around me pushed me in a way to go further than I could. So that's good

 

Yeah, my horde of Locusts vacuum style of eating is kind of ridiculous.

Besides slowly getting my diet back on track and walking more, I am taking action in how to avoid stress. Some of that is getting the positive thinking back in gear and listening to my body far more carefully than I did before.

Body is also telling me to stop doing something and I am listening. Stop with the “you gotta, you must, you should” and working deadline-centric unless the situation demands it.

Plus being healthier about the way I process and think about a lot of things: just letting some BS go.

 

My scale died so I'll have to get another to check weight

 

Well I hope you gave the former scale the funeral that it deserves.

 

Like what? Send it off in a boat over a cliff or while it's a distance away shoot a flaming arrow to set it on fire?

 

My fitness goals for this year is to eat less junk food. Unfortunately I carpool with people who like going to McDonalds and it is really hard for me to go there and not get anything. I want to work on strength training and getting up to my goal to run in a half marathon. I can run like five miles, but I am not very fast. I do weigh less (I am a normal weight) than I have in years, but I want to work on liking myself more.

 

awesome, heels! was this on your new indoor bike, or outdoors?

 

I always feel like the worst road trip companion because I don't eat fast food. Like the car stops at Taco Bell and I run across the street 7-11 for a cliff bar and a bag of chex mix . Everyone feels sorry for me and I'm happy as a clam. Or I would be, if everyone wasn't staring at me like I'm some kinda alien.

I got some exercise today, shoveled snow there times and had a nice little snow ball fight with my son. I also ate way better than I usually do on Sundays!

 

yeah...last week was not so good. Got 20 minutes of cardio in on Monday morning before going in to work, and then that was it until today (30 minutes). One of my overall health goals is also to get 8 hours of sleep consistently during the work week, and sometimes I feel like that goal is clashing with my exercise goals. I worked 10-hour (or more) days most of last week, and just was too wiped at the end of the day to try to get any exercise in. It's probably going to have to happen in the morning during the week or not at all, which means I'm going to have to get up earlier, which is hard for me in general but especially hard at this time of the year when it's still not really light until 7:30. I've had plenty of times over the years when I would get up at ungodly hours to work (5:00, even 4:00 a.m.) if I was under a big deadline crunch, but somehow I've never been able to force myself to get up "extra"-early to exercise. Obviously I will have to change that...

I saw an author (James Clear, author of Atomic Habits: An Easy &Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones) being interviewed on the news during New Year's week. He stressed the point that new (good) habits "have to be established before they can be improved" and in one of his YT vids, he gave an example of someone following his plan who eventually lost 100 pounds but started by going to the gym for just 5 minutes consistently for several weeks before actually doing much of anything there (!)

I'm somewhat skeptical, but maybe I should set my initial weekly goal even lower than I had (walk for 10 minutes each day) in order to establish the habit at any level. That makes me feel kind of lame/pathetic compared to what others in this thread are doing, but I should probably try to think more positively about it (that's another one of my bad habits...negative internal "self-talk"...)

But enough of my tale of woe, lol...onward and upward to week 3!

 

Time for a run tonight!

*Harry Potter 1 is on TV*

Ugggghhhhhhh

 

@Pensivia when I graduated college I was on the big side. No one believes this now but my whole adult life I have weighed less than I did in high school. I started by giving up coca cola and running. On my first day I did 8 minutes of exercise. I walked out the door ran 8 minutes at a pathetically slow pace for someone who was 22 and that was it. I ran 8 minutes each day for a few weeks until I was brave enough to add more time to that. When I gave up coke I allowed myself to drink Sprite. I don't like Sprite nearly as much, but it allowed me to drink something sweet and miss coke less. Giving up Sprite was easy cause I never really liked it. So starting small is huge.

 

How's the wine?

 

I wish that article was true. I have been an avid swimmer my whole life. I have also been injured since high school. Two of my hard core cardio days each week before this injury started were swim days. I'm just abnormally injury prone . I am super lucky I don't have a shoulder injury. It's a super bad myth that you can swim and not get injured. Google Missy Franklin.

I have an appointment with a new doctor Monday. If he can help me a new more positive me will emerge.

 

Good luck with that appointment, Runner! I will be crossing my fingers for you.

Thanks also for the encouraging replies to my previous post, @Runjedirun ,@anakinfansince1983 and @Obi Anne . It's been a challenging week (I went from working 10 hour days the week before to 12 hour days this past week), but I'm looking forward to getting some good activity in later today and over the upcoming long weekend (I don't have to go in to the office on Monday!)

 

I had a pretty busy week. I passed my fitness test on Monday and I done a circuits session with some colleagues on Tuesday night. I've got a much more intense physical challenge coming up in July, which will involve two weeks of tests and circuits. I'm happy about this as it gives me another goal to work towards and will force me to up my training.