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Fitness Update After 10,000 Steps Challenge
I realized that it’s been quite a while since I posted a fitness update. The reason being that the progress has been very slow. I’d been posting my measurements each week, and it looked like the numbers were barely moving, so I got kind of discouraged and stopped posting. But I didn’t stop exercising, I’m proud to say! Or at least walking. Walking has been the one thing I’ve been consistent with the past several months actually. If you go back and read my previous fitness posts, the 10,000 steps posts, you’ll see that I was a little bit all over the place, trying different YouTube videos, and working myself up to 10,000 steps.…
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Finding My Wildly Authentic Self, Courtesy of Maria Shriver
I was originally going to focus today’s post on Maria Shriver’s weekly newsletter, particularly, this post. She wrote it at the beginning of the year as a kind of taking stock of where things are and where they’re going. More so, where you want them to go. At the same time, I’m sitting here putting together my work objectives for this year for my 9-5 desk job. (Yes, in case you’re wondering, I am procrastinating the job thing by writing this blog post!) Also, it is the end of March at the time I’m writing this, the astrological new year, around the spring equinox, and there’s a new moon at the end…
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Are Routines the Means to a More Mindful, Meaningful Life?
I’ve been struggling with my routines lately, and consequently am not getting done all I want to each day. It’s a bit annoying, because back in December I had worked out a whole schedule for myself. One in which I got everything done that I wanted to in a day. Both things for my 9-5 desk job, and also things for my blog. I had plenty of time, more than enough time in fact. And not just for work related tasks, but for exercising, and personal care (face washing, showering). I had it all worked out, and for the month of December it did work out just as planned. But…
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10,000 Steps Week 4, GrowWithJo, PahlaB
Weight (lbs) Bust (inches) Waist (inches) Hips (inches) left arm (inches) right arm (inches) left thigh (inches) right thigh (inches) 12/13/21 121.80 33.25 31.00 38.00 12.50 12.00 22.50 22.50 12/20/21 120.80 33.25 30.00 36.00 12.25 11.50 22.00 21.50 12/27/21 120.80 33.00 30.00 36.50 12.00 11.25 22.00 22.00 1/3/22 120.60 33.50 30.00 37.50 12.00 11.50 21.50 21.25 1/10/22 120.80 This week it snowed, and it was really really cold. So, I didn’t get out much to walk. I tried doing videos to make up for the fact that I wasn’t getting out much. Well, really at all this week, except to shovel. I thought they would sort of counterbalance the fact…
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10,000 Steps – Week Three
Date Weight (lbs) Bust (inches) Waist (inches) Hips (inches) left arm (inches) right arm (inches) left thigh (inches) right thigh (inches) 12/13/21 121.80 33.25 31.00 38.00 12.50 12.00 22.50 22.50 12/20/21 120.80 33.25 30.00 36.00 12.25 11.50 22.00 21.50 12/27/21 120.80 33.00 30.00 36.50 12.00 11.25 22.00 22.00 Above are my measurements from last week and previous. The dates listed are Mondays when I took my measurements. Not sure why I chose Mondays, but there you go. It’s rather cool to see that my arms and legs went down even though my weight stayed the same. And I was getting my period last week, actually got it on Sunday, so…
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10,000 Steps and GrowWithJo – Week Two
Did you see my stats from last week?! I’m headed in the right direction! At first this week I was going to just walk in the afternoon. A 2.5 mile walk so definitely not a stroll, but I wouldn’t have been targeting my arms or my abs. I had just about talked myself out of doing the GrowWithJo videos because I’ve just never really liked doing exercise videos, really exercising for the sake of exercising at all. And so in general, I really have to talk myself into putting them on and doing them. Also this weekend, I wasn’t really feeling like I had made a difference. I had a bit…
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10,000 Steps and #GrowWithJo – Week One
This week I decided to take a lunch break, which I haven’t been doing at all, and decided to use it for an exercise video each day, #GrowWithJo.
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My 10,000 Steps Challenge
I’ve decided that I need to start moving more. Between the pandemic, working from home, this pre/peri menopausal middle (and thighs!) I’m starting to feel, well, downright sloth like. I do normally eat fairly healthy, I think anyway. Grain-free (or mostly), very limited dairy and sugar. I don’t consider myself a fanatic about stuff, an I’m not a nutritionist or anything. But bout 10 years ago or so I found this book and this one, and they changed my whole way of thinking about food. That summer that I followed exactly these eating guidelines I lost about 25 pounds, my skin cleared up, my body odor practically disappeared, I was sleeping better, and…
