It's that time of night again where I have finished my Exercises for the day. I didn't keep track like this on a daily basis the last couple of months. I saved it to my fitbit Dashboard, but didn't post it in writing anywhere most of the time.
I am finding that posting this information daily helps me remain more accountable and to especially stick with the challenges to which I have commited myself this month.
I want to sit down and write a weekly log from Feb 1-7 sometime, but I am not feeling up to that today.
At some point, I would like to sit down and write a monthly summary of my exercises from the point in which I started Dietbet through now too. I have been trying to increase the amount of exercise I have been getting slowly over time throughout this journey and so far it has worked for me from my results I have seem over the course of my Dietbet games from beginning to end.
2/9:
I walked a total of 7,093 steps and 3.16 miles according to my fitbit. 95% of this was when I was pacing around my kitchen for steps for about 45 minutes from 10:30-11:30 PM with a few water breaks in between. I logged these on my tracker for the Eat, Drink & Be Skinny 100 Mile Month Tracker.
I had 3.5 miles marked on my 100 Mile Month Challenge Tracker for my plan, but had thought today was a 3.0 mile planned day. I will make up the distance over the course of the rest of the week though. In order to get 100 miles this month, I must walk an average of 25 miles per week and I totaled 26.06 miles last week, so at this point I am still doing pretty well.
My Fitbit goal is only 6,000 steps per day right now because I have been working on increasing the step goals by 500 steps each time over time only after meeting each goal for 30 miles in a row. There was another Fitbit Friends challenge today that asked our daily step goal and challenged us to walk 1,000 more, so my 7k today met this too.
For the Fitbit Friends Beginner Squat Challenge today was a goal of 40 reps of the Prisoner Box Squats. I completed all of these.
For the Blogilates 30 Day Butt Lift Challenge, today's plan was 10 Squats, 10 Pointed Butt Lifts per leg, 10 Fire Hydrants per leg, and 7 Heel Kicks per leg. I completed all of these exercises too. (Yes with this 10 squats added to the 40 squats above, I managed 50 squats today!)
For the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans' 28 Day Lose the Love Handles Challenge, Day 9 consisted of 2 sets of 12 Side Planks (12 per side per set for a total of 24 per side or 48 side planks depending on how you look at it), 2 sets of 12 Russian Twists, and 2 sets of 15 bicycle crunches (I count one rep after touching both elbows to opposite knees here).
I made a mistake when I first started doing the Lose the Love Handles Challenge. The first 3 days I had forgotten that the plan was to do 2 sets every day during days 1-19 and 3 sets every day from days 20-28. Since I missed a set on those first few days, I modified my calendar so that I am doing 1 set Days 1-7, 2 sets Days 8-14, 3 sets Days 15-21, and 4 sets Days 22-28.
I feel like I am cheating myself because I have not completed any Yoga since last Thursday night/early Friday morning. On Friday night/early Saturday morning I did the first day of the Blogilates beginners calendar. However, ever since I woke up Saturday after that I haven't been feeling very well. I have been trying to give my body some rest instead. I haven't been getting much sleep still though. I just feel really rundown. My time of the month did hit me today, and I think that helps to explain some of the bloatedness and stomach pain I have been having. I just really don't like doing Yoga or Pilates when my stomach hurts, and especially not when I am having time of the month issues.
I was doing these challenges last week and doing my Yoga from the 21 Days of Commit to You guide from Gaiam TV - My Yoga Online for 5 days in a row and did the beginner's first POP Pilates video on the 6th day and I was feeling awesome though. I know it is possible, and I know keeping up good exercise routine is really best for me during this Dietbet experience. I feel like I am making excuses and I keep telling myself that the excuses won't help me in any way.
Yet, when I look at the challenge exercises I have been doing, it does help me to see that I have still been exercising. It's not like I am sitting still and stuffing my face all day like I used to before I started this Dietbet experience. I understand there is a time to push through our limits and that is when we excel, but I also am trying to understand there is a time to rest and recuperate too when my body isn't feeling all that well.
Hopefully after another night of rest and half a day of rest tomorrow, I will feel up to doing my next Yoga video and/or the next day from the Blogilates Beginners Calendar. I have already watched the next Yoga video (I like to watch them all the way through once before I follow along, so I have a better idea of what to expect). I have watched the Blogilates videos on Day 2 of the beginner's calendar too... the ab workouts look really tough. If I can't manage the ab videos with my crampy tummy, I may opt for one of Cassey's other videos like legs or arms or back or something. I have been watching a lot of her videos to see what they are like, and I have to say I really like them. I am really excited for when I feel better and can start doing her workouts along with the Gaiam Yoga videos. It seems like a great compliment to the exercises I already really enjoy!