Health & Fitness Check-In 2/13/17-2/19/17

[emmaswan]

This check-in is for anyone who wants some accountability when it comes to health/fitness. Feel free to join in anytime. I'll try to remember to do this check-in every Monday.

1. What are you focusing on this week?

2. What is your short term goal?

3. What is your long term goal?

4. What is one thing that's motivating you?

5. Bonus Question: What's your biggest downfall when it comes to diet? What can you do to overcome it?

[emmaswan]

1. What are you focusing on this week? This week, I'm trying to avoid eating out. I already failed today due to lack of planning, but I'm gonna get back on the horse tomorrow.

2. What is your short term goal? I want to lose 26 lbs by the end of the month, going from what I weighed on 2/1. I haven't weighed in since then. It's a lofty goal, I doubt I will meet it BUT I am going to try nonetheless (at least I'll hopefully lose something).

3. What is your long term goal? To lose 170lbs. That will put me at the high end of healthy for my height.

4. What is one thing that's motivating you? Defeating depression, having more energy, living longer. My mom died in 2015 from obesity-related illnesses and I'm trying to not end up like her.

5. Bonus Question: What's your biggest downfall when it comes to diet? What can you do to overcome it? Lack of planning (see #1). I know what I need to eat and how I need to track my food but planning ahead for the work week is always the hard part.

[scoutradley]

1. What are you focusing on this week? Being able to eat without getting sick. Damn stomach bug.

2. What is your short term goal? Lose weight. I use Happy Scale app and it breaks up weight loss into mile stones. I'm halfway to my first milestone, so I guess that is my super short term goal.

3. What is your long term goal? Healthier living. My family has a history of gastrointestinal issues and I already have started having them. I want to find a way to eat/live that minimizes the probability of being sick everyday.

4. What is one thing that's motivating you? Right now, pregnancy. I know I'm more likely to get pregnant if I lose some weight and selfishly I would like to be small and pregnant.

5. Bonus Question: What's your biggest downfall when it comes to diet? What can you do to overcome it? Not wanting to cook. Meal prep helps when I actually do it, but life has been insane the past month. My mother and I are planning on having a shopping/cooking day when we can get all our ducks in a row.

[cnf2013]

1. What are you focusing on this week? Get my fat ass outside and go for a damn run. Preferably one of some actual distance.

2. What is your short term goal? Get my 8 mile run in, because slacker.

3. What is your long term goal? Not die during my half marathon next month that I basically have done zero training for. I ran a marathon in October, I'm basically still fit from that, right..? I'd also still like to lose weight, always. I was down to prepregnancy weight, but then I gained ten pounds back. I'd like to lose those then the 30lbs I packed on prior to getting pregnant two years ago. 

4. What is one thing that's motivating you? Right now, nothing. My loss last cycle just sucked every ounce of motivation right out of me. Maybe once FIL comes over and gets our broken treadmill running again I'll get some motivation back. I'm tired of running outside regardless of weather. Some days I just want a movie and the comfort of my basement.

5. Bonus Question: What's your biggest downfall when it comes to diet? What can you do to overcome it? If someone else knows the answer to this, please share. I'm so bad about food. I want all the pizza, pasta, and fried foods. I need a swift kick in the ass right now.

[daisy818]

1. What are you focusing on this week? Trying to hit 8,000 steps every day

2. What is your short term goal? Lose 1-2 lbs. this week

3. What is your long term goal? Lose a total of 15 lbs.

4. What is one thing that's motivating you? Short term, getting my clothes to fit better; long term, prepping for what I think is inevitable IVF in the fall by getting myself in better shape

5. Bonus Question: What's your biggest downfall when it comes to diet? What can you do to overcome it? Dessert is my downfall. Right now I'm trying to overcome it by not having it in the house DH's ex-wife made that challenging though by giving us a custom box of chocolates with my favorites when DH picked up SS on Friday (his ex works at a chocolate shop) - I appreciate the gesture, but my waistline doesn't!

[jax1182014]

Good luck to everyone trying to meet their goals this week!

1. This week I'm going to focus on not eating out.
2. My short term goal is to stick with doing something activity wise 3-4 times this week. I did last week!
3. My long term goal is to live a healthy lifestyle.
4. Getting my body fit to have a healthy pregnancy is what's motivating me.
5. Bonus question: Working nights and snacking is my downfall. I have a love/hate relationship with my schedule.

[mamanbebe]

1. What are you focusing on this week?

- this may be the same as last week, but getting out and walking at least once a day + keeping my meal size in check

2. What is your short term goal?

- getting a regular/affordable workout routine. i started going to pilates training sessions a few weeks ago but now working to transition to doing group sessions and mat classes so that i can get the best results for my buck.

3. What is your long term goal?

- be stronger, be toned, be fit. i want to make it harder to get injured, having ongoing back and sciatica issues has been a problem for a while. but also i want to be able to make it through next pregnancy in better health and rebound faster.

4. What is one thing that's motivating you?

- being in my mid 30s and knowing that metabolism and overall health is going to decline unless i do something about it.

5. Bonus Question: What's your biggest downfall when it comes to diet? What can you do to overcome it?

- i would say sweets or wine but mostly it's being the president of the clean plate club. i am trying to learn to listen to my body more while i am eating to recognize when i have eaten enough and should stop.

[leekpartyof2]

I'll join in because I've been really struggling to find any motivation for wellness type goals:
1) I'm trying to at least get in one walk a day--even if it's just 30 minutes at lunch. I've done ok, but was sick on Tuesday, so it won't be everyday. The weather is supposed to be nice this weekend though so I think I can get some longer walks in, especially if we take Ladybug (our Golden Retriever) to the dog park a few times.
2) Short-term goal is to build back up to a more intense workout schedule. At the beginning of the year, I started to train for my second half marathon, but my knees just didn't seem to be on board with that. I'm hoping to start swimming at our rec center soon and need to get back into a consistent yoga practice.
3) Longer-term--I have about 15 stubborn pounds that have been refusing to budge for the past few years. While I'm currently within the healthy BMI range, I'm at the high end and would feel better if I was somewhere in the middle.
4) What's motivating me? I think that losing a few pounds might help regulate my PCOS cycles at least a bit, and since we're not sure how far down the IF treatment road we're willing to go, I want to do as much as I can to boost our chances of making Junior.
5) Biggest downfall--I get super munchy between the time I get home from work and dinner...to the point where I'm pretty much eating everything in the fridge. I know the best way to overcome it is to start doing something when I get home instead of netflixing until it's time to cook dinner. It's worse in the winter when it's dark and cold. Now that it's still light when I get home, I can usually take the dog for a walk and sort of avoid the after-work binge session.