Fitness February – Let’s do this!
Time to Set Good Habits
My health and fitness habits have been consistently inconsistent, and I’d like to shift toward being consistent consistently. There are many times when I don’t feel too great the rest of the day after consuming too much sodium (hello, chips!), and I love food. A couple of my main hobbles include baking and dining at restaurants (then writing reviews on Yelp). The pandemic crushed my dreams of trying more restaurants, and takeout just doesn’t feel the same. The food isn’t as good, and I’ve been consuming a lot more coffee and salt while I’m home and working from home.
Write it Down for Accountability
I won’t lie – one night I had some drinks and saw a Popflex Active/Blogilates email earlier in the month to celebrate Cassey’s birthday with a 20% off Cassey’s favorite items. This 90 day journal popped up, and I thought, “Well, my best friend and I have been talking about exercise and developing better health habits, but make constant excuses that results in minimal to zero follow-through.” That’s when I took the plunge to order both of us these fitness / 90 day journey journals! The hope is for both of us to follow some form of exercise consistently by writing it down, in addition to keeping each other in check. Since the 2 of us wasn’t sure on which exercise program to follow for 90 days, we ultimately decided on Cassey’s / Blogilates monthly workout since a calendar is made each month listing the workout videos to follow. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezey? Or, stressed, depressed, lemon zest?
Journal Quality and Initial Thoughts
It’s a really nice journal! I’ve never filled out a journal from beginning to end before, so that’s something else that’s new that I’ll be doing. The journal is organized by various sections, including an intro/goal settings, weekly comparisons, and tabs breaking down by week. I absolutely adore the weekly breakdown tabs. The quality of those tabs are nice, colorful, and includes an inspirational quote on each.
Goals and What I’ll Use
The beginning of the journal includes pages where you write down your goals. There are your main goals and more specific goals, such as mental health goals, fitness goals, etc. There are also pages to list your weight, body fat %, muscle mass, and various body measurements. I wrote down some goals, mainly to keep a good habit of exercising and to cutdown on certain things, notably to drink less coffee and to consume less salt. I’ll be using the daily entries by filling out how much sleep I’ve gotten, my mood, and since it’s there, my meals, snacks, and drinks. I’m unsure of the accuracy of body fat % and muscle mass and such, so I’ll most likely leave those blank. Ultimately, I’d like to continue to develop a healthier lifestyle after these 90 days to feel more confident about myself (get stronger and finally have a toned midsection) and to have more energy to get me through the day without relying on as much coffee.
Starting Slow and Natural
I made the mistake of trying out Activated You earlier this year in hopes that it’ll reduce bloating and make me go regularly. The product did not help, and I was told that I would need to change my diet. I thought, “If I changed my diet, what if it was just the diet that helps and not the product, tricking me to think it’s the product?” This time around, I’ll add exercise and hope to go slow with the food aspect. I love food so much that I cannot go cold-turkey or completely changing my diet. One of my biggest weaknesses include chips, and chips have a considerable amount of salt. My prior blood test was on the high end of acceptable sodium, so that issue has been around for a while. I’ll try my best to consume less salt, with writing all this down to keep myself accountable.
Let’s Do This!
Last day of January, so this journey begins tomorrow! I’ll set an alarm to give a recap sometime after dinner so that I’ll actually write in the journal and post my thoughts and whatnot. I’ve never been comfortable with my height and my mid-section, but at least I can try to change my mid-section (not much I can do about height). Having 2 kids and not exercising for over a decade didn’t really help with how my belly looks, but I’m looking forward to try to tone up a bit!
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