Okay so as this is my first posting of the year I figure its a good idea to give an overview of where I currently stand. Remembering that I am writing this post the evening before it actually goes live.
I began three of my goal habits back in December. The first one was stretching daily for 10 minutes minimum, the second was that I began to drink between 90 and 110 ounces of water daily, and the third one was making my bed daily. I wanted to ensure I was already in the habit prior to implementing the rest of my ‘physical’ and ‘mental’ goals, to make sure I wasn’t going to stress myself with a lot of change all at once. I most definitely missed some days as I was not yet tracking my progress but the focus was on changing my habits not sticking 100% to the guidelines.
Stepping on the scale this morning I weigh 120.6 kg, for my American friends that equates to 265.8 lbs. My goal for April 15th is to be 104.3 kg or 230 lbs. Which means I need to loose 16.3kg or 36 lbs in four months. I accidentally knocked my knee out of place on December 9th and will have to modify my expectations until both my physio-therapist and family physician tells me others wise but despite this it should be easily doable as long as I stick to my dietary and exercise plans.
At this point of time I am able to touch my toes when standing flat-footed, but only after I stretch my back first. Eventually I would love to be able to do side splits but that is not a goal for this year. My balance is negligible and I would like to be able to both walk on a balance beam at the kids playground and stand on one foot for at least 20 seconds without falling over, currently I can do neither. When the spring arrives I’ll add a jump rope into the mix to work on my cardio and create goals for that as well.
As a re-cap for those who don’t want to go to my long post: Until June, I plan to walk at least 3,500 steps on bad pain days and 7,500 steps on good days. 10 minutes of daily stretching, and twice a week I will partake in more rigorous exercises like pilates, yoga and dance. Since writing my uncomplete goal list I have also added in a rotating monthly goal of squats, planking and crunches in which I will increase the number I am doing daily.
Today is the fifth day of the month and so there isn’t much to show from my journal tracking as of yet, but I figure that as I am being accountable I should do that too. You can find that at this link (I tried to embed the video but it didn’t want to work properly, sorry!)
https://www.tiktok.com/@boweringfamily/video/7320636287386406150
As for dietary, I have written out a weekly dinner meal plan and have made a plan for batch cooking to help with the days that my family is in a rush or I am in too much pain to do much else. I have done meal planning in the past and it was a big success for our household. I am hoping that by creating batch meals we will continue to stick with the plan for a longer time that we did before.