Healthy Living Ckin 8/8 Eve Edition

[4furrypaws]

Hey ladies



We are a group of women striving to live healthier lives, whether that means losing weight, gaining weight, sticking to a specific diet, counting calories, avoiding counting calories, starting to exercise, continuing to exercise or anything in between.



We check in on Mondays. Feel free to use this ckin throughout the week if you are struggling or have an awesome achievement to share!



bethkate , cali , dendylouwho , menrandes , muscari , MissSally , skategirl128 , glb30 , iheartbroccoli , elephantmomma
, cardhard , elliecat17




So Tell Me:



The Good:



The Bad:



The Proud:



The Plan:





QOTD: Sleep is an important factor in being healthy...how much sleep do you get a night? 

[skategirl128]

The good: I hit my step goal all 7 days!

The bad: the heat is affecting my eating habits. I'm making some cool food things for lunches to help

The proud: I hit 90,000 steps this week!

The plan: eat healthier and keep walking!

QOTD: I get about 7 hours a night. I usually feel ok in the mornings

[bethkate]

skategirl128, woohoo for 90,000 steps!

The good: I ran 4 days last week which is more than I had done since before my ER.

The bad: My H was on vacation from work last week and we ate like crap almost every day. We also went to a few wineries, so there was a lot of wine too.

The proud: I ran 5.5 miles today which was my longest run in over 3 weeks.

The plan: I'd like to run at least 4 days this week and do the elliptical or bike at the gym 2 days. I also need to get my eating back on track which I've been successful with so far today and yesterday.

QOTD: A lot. I tend to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night, if not more.

[muscari]

The Good: I gained 3-4 lbs during IVF and am glad to say I'm back at my pre-IVF weight and it didn't even really took much effort (though perhaps the fact I haven't felt very hungry has helped..)
The Bad: eating that whole bar of yummie hazelnut chocolate while watching a movie other night / also, having been way to stationary lately
The Proud: not buying more hazulnut chocolate even though I wanted to
The Plan: getting out more again, and continue to eat healthy(-ish). Also, I am thinking of cutting down on soda (I'm a Pepsi max addict..).

[muscari]

skategirl128, wow, way to go! I hardly ever reach my step goal these days oops

bethkate, I bet it feels good to be back to running!

Oh and I forgot the QoTW; I get way to little sleep unfortunately.. I usually get between 4-6 hours spread out over like 8-9 hours in bed. Insomnia can be a biatch.. I've tried a lot of different tactics and what not but none of it seems to help/work long term bah.

[MissSally]

The Good: I don't have one right now...

The Bad: The beach. I wanted all the tacos. And I ate them. FOUR times in three days...

The Proud: Nope.

The Plan: Try and eat really well this week before we leave friday for the beach for vacation. Because I already know its going to be hard to resist food. I'm going to try and be really healthy for breakfast and lunch though. That way I can eat dinner without feeling too guilty. Oh and go for walks/play in the ocean as much as possible to burn calories!

QOTD: I don't sleep ever. I don't think I've slept through the night in 6 years. My insomnia hasn't been as bad in the past few weeks... but I've had it for about 6 years now. Not fun. And when I stress about how I need more sleep... it only makes me sleep less. Boo.

[bethkate]

MissSally, mmmm....tacos.... I hear you about food while on vacation. It's so hard to try to eat healthy when you're away from home or out of your usual routine.
muscari, it feels awesome to be running again. I'm incredibly slow, so that sucks, but I'm always slower in the summer anyway. I'll hopefully get back to full speed soon. Also, yay for you dropping the lbs you gained during IVF.

[elephantmomma]

Didn't do too well the past week.
The good: not a lot, went to the gym once, hit 10,000 steps once.
The bad: Didn't meet my goals from last week, even the thought of putting on exercise clothes felt draining.
The proud: Went to a yoga class for the first time since Sidney died
The plan: Meet 10,000 steps three times, go to gym or yoga twice, drink more water.

Sleep: not great, I usually go to sleep around 11:45 or midnight, and am woken up in the sixes.

[iheartbroccoli]

The Good: I think I'm finally addicted to green smoothies for breakfast! I kind of miss it when I do have one.
The Bad: Nothing terrible. Yay!
The Proud: Ate pretty well and exercised 5 days last week! A good balance of healthy and junk of food.
The plan: Need to work out again 5 days this, committing to getting 70 ounces of water a day, and eating well.

QOTW: I usually get around 7 hours/night, but I have been sleeping less this past week because I'm staying up late to watch TV. Probably should stop doing that.

[elliecat17]

The Good: I hit my step goal for three days as had been my plan


The Bad: I did not eat healthy this week because girl scout camp.


The Proud: I did choose the healthier of the options that were given! Thus I did not eat the free cookies.


The Plan: Try to get in another 10K steps at least three times this week. I would try for more, but I know that with a 13 hour drive in there somewhere it just won't happen.

QOTW: 7-8 hours a night. Normally closer to the 8 side. And I wake pretty well rested!

[bethkate]

elephantmomma, I'm sorry last week didn't go so well. I hope this week is better! How is it going so far?
cardhard, Nice work with the eating well and working out! What kind of workouts are you doing during lunch?
iheartbroccoli, I was doing green smoothies for a while too. Lately I've been doing overnight oats for breakfast, though. Good work working out 5 days last week!
elliecat17, Yay for hitting your step goal 3 days as planned! GL hitting 10k steps at least 3 times this week!

[4furrypaws]

skategirl128 killin it!!

bethkate awesome job on the runs!

muscari 3-4 is nothin! Glad you got it off so quickly!

MissSally I can't be mad at ya. Tacos are amazing. Sounds like a good plan for vaca!

elephantmomma be proud of the fact that you DID do things!

cardhard great job with the workouts!!

iheartbroccoli great job! I need to up my water intake!!

elliecat17 good job with the food choices!

[iheartbroccoli]

Aug 10, 2016 19:31:06 GMT -5 cardhard said:

Aug 10, 2016 13:20:19 GMT -5 bethkate said:

elephantmomma , I'm sorry last week didn't go so well. I hope this week is better! How is it going so far?
cardhard , Nice work with the eating well and working out! What kind of workouts are you doing during lunch?
iheartbroccoli , I was doing green smoothies for a while too. Lately I've been doing overnight oats for breakfast, though. Good work working out 5 days last week!
elliecat17 , Yay for hitting your step goal 3 days as planned! GL hitting 10k steps at least 3 times this week!

I am doing 50 minutes on the elliptical during lunch.  My goal is to do this at least 4 days a week, but I am shooting for 5.  It's a nice break from being at my desk around my coworkers.  My employer built a very nice gym in our building a few years ago. 

I originally read this as 50 miles and was like how is that even possible?? 50 minutes makes more sense and is very impressive! Lol.