If you want to be healthy, inside and out, incorporating exercise into your life is important. Research has shown that regular physical activity is a major contributor to effective weight loss, improved physical health and emotional well-being. Ready to finally commit to getting in shape?
"Did another 3 mile run, this time with a way up and cool down, totaling to 3.39 miles. It felt easier than the last one because it's a bit warmer, no wind or snow on the trail! "
"Today I will reach the 2 days/week exercise based on week started on Thursday. It’s been a bit difficult to keep the habit this week due to to night shift that are shortening the hours available for exercising.
Accomplished one day of 5km run and today upper body gym workout. Happy with that."
"Dear journal. This week started out great but I’ve descended into a routine of drinking alcohol and eating snacks while watching “I’m a celebrity rather” - pretty much neglecting the stretch.
Seeing nice progress in my calves, hamstrings and hips flexors. I’d like to get to a point that I can lay both hands flat on the floor while stretching...
Anyways next week I’ll try and be more consistent! "
"The terms are as such:
Work out for at LEAST 30 minutes per day, for at LEAST 5 days a week, for 6 months (26 Weeks). For every time I drop the ball, I must pay $5 to House Majority PAC."
"I am committing to completing a km on the treadmill 5 days a week walking or running. Working towards running a km straight without stopping and eventually a 5km race. Right now focusing on building a habit of daily exercise."
"I’m not sure if the cramps are because I’m getting my period or because I had a rather thorough pelvic exam yesterday as they searched for my iud strings. Either way, the cramps suck. "
"Tried a couple times w baking soda. Mark spent over an hour cleaning it this morning so hopefully that will help. I've had a Buff neck thing over my nose all morning and it's helped. "
"Well, I’m on the fucking gazelle today. Only 10 minutes and it took me over an hour to work up the motivation. I’m crampy as hell, and I’m tired and feel like garbage, so 10 minutes is all I’m doing. "
"I ran 3 miles on the treadmill yesterday at the Y. My asthma is still awful because the fucking enzyme cleanser smell WON'T GO AWAY. Every single night I've woken up having an asthma attack, and I've had at least 1 during the day each day. Like scary bad ones. Ugh. "
"I went on a four day camping trip near Mt Hood for Thanksgiving break so I had to do yoga in a little dry patch of ground under a tree surrounded by snow in 35 degree weather! "
"Today, I had a small but important revelation on habit building. I missed stretching first thing, because I had no warm floor space where I woke up. So I knew I had to do 5 minutes of stretching for posture at some point during the day. At 9:30, I was parked and waiting on the street for a friend and decided to do the stretches standing up, in the cold, on the street, with people looking at me. That is a test of a habit: is it worth making a bit of a fool of myself just to make good on my habit? I find today that it is. And this is a milestone. "
"It's been a tough 4 months of recurring weight gain. I have eaten in-between meals and had sugar items daily and occasionally flour items. My portions are too large. I'm not planning and committing to my food in advance. I'm not sticking to just 3 meals a day. I'm eating too late at night and throwing in snacks. I'm been gaining 3+ pounds per week. My low point around April was 218 and I had held that for at least a couple months. Since then I've gained 35 pounds, mostly since post-formal disclosure in late June 2019. My self image has gone done hill. I've talked about feeling sexually dead. I sometimes think: "What's the point?" Stephanie is being particularly standoffish regarding any thought or option of sexual intimacy. She is pretty quite harsh with me, post-formal disclosure. I need to be patient, accept her decision, be my own person and continue to work and grow in my recovery. I am giving a lot of effort to my sexual sobriety recovery, however, I realized quite some time ago that sobriety means with food and emotions also."
"I want to exercise on Monday, wednesday and fridays (minimum). If I have more time, also on saturdays and sundays, or if for any reason I can't hit the gym on friday i'll do it either sat or sun."
"Went for my first run in 2 weeks. I paused my half marathon training plan 'til I can get a couple more easy runs in this week since I've lost some momentum. Work deadlines pile up-->stress-->no running-->MORE stress-->overwhelmed--->more work. You would think I'd learn to maintain self-care better to consistently manage my stress. But I'm getting back on track so I can be in shape for my March half-marathon. The light in today's struggle is that I was still able to keep my 3 miles under 30 minutes in the ice and snow! "
"Ugh it's just ridiculous. I'm finally feeling human, although I was also dealing with a crazy asthma situation thanks to a horribly scented cat urine enzyme cleaner"
