Weekly Healthy Living Check-In January 4th, 2025

⭐ This past week went by like a whirlwind it seemed~ ... I love the Holidays, but its always such a feeling of let-down for me personally as it all comes to an end~ And as everything goes back to it's  usual~... Last weekend was spent at home just relaxing due to the uncooperative weather... And just spent reeling from the Christmas holiday (While also anticipating the New Year ahead)... New Years Eve was well & spent at home with all our usual Traditions as we rang in the New Year... So I was simply focused on enjoying that... And While I got in & met all my Fitness & activity goals for the week, I again took some time off of tracking/meal-planning. And just went with the flow of things....(While also taking care of myself with a quick appointment & a new prescription for my Allergy issue) before the New Year started off. 

🎈 The past week again held limited Group fitness classes, so I made-do where I could, & got in the rest at home... New years Eve whether actually cooperated, so I managed to be able to get outdoors with the Furbaby for one last walk of 2024.... I also managed to try to tackle a tricky & challenging situation (& upsetting situation) at one of my gyms this week with another member.... Needless to say it was kind of an emotional upset as that's supposed to be a place of positivity, support & "me" time... The incident did challenge my mental wellness for a bit afterwards, as I definitely did not want to start off the New Years that way on the first day back to class!... So I'm working on trying to push past it and praying for a better class next time once I return back to that particular facility. So I took steps/measures that hopefully dealt with it going forwards.

💪 This weekend ahead, I'm looking forwards to just completely getting back on track with things & my January goals. And hopefully back to a Saturday morning Zumba class now that the Holidays are over. There will also be another brand New Class starting this weekend on Sunday afternoons at my regular full-time facility... I'm totally looking forwards to that so that I don't have to try to motivate myself anymore on that day... And it would be a great start to the week itself... The weather will again be back to being uncooperative & turning much colder again & throughout the following week ahead…. So it will be an errand-kind of weekend, & then to finish taking down all of the Christmas decorations afterwards (although I got a few things down already)... It seems like I just put it all up?!... I will miss the soft evening glow of the lights & the tree, but also looking forwards to cleaning-up and having a more organized home again. Which puts me in better focus mentally.~ 

@PoliteOcean Hey there. Haven't spoke to you since last year, lol. 😆 Just wanted to say hi and Happy New Year! ♡ I'm doing ok for now. Despite being in some pain, I'm thankful for my mobility when I'm able. 😀

My positive word that begins with the letter Y is...

@PoliteOcean This past week I went to the library 3 times and went for a walk 3 times. Tuesday night Leslie came back from New Zealand. Her 4 granddaughters were here for 3 1/2 hours before the noise went away. If I wanted to be around child noises I'd be a nursery school teacher. It was very stressful.  I've completed watching documentaries on every British monarch since William the Conqueror in 1066. It took about 3 months. There were only 41 monarchs. I thought it was a lot more like 100 or 120.  Friday morning I completed my intake for therapy. All that information is already in my medical record. My therapist said the insurance rules require he get it from me verbally.  My PTSD poetry book arrived. I don't have time to get into it. I started my next book "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy. I've been wanting to read it for many years. I worked on my quotation journal some also. Friday night Leslie was talking on the phone with her mouth full. That is so rude. Ugh. Saturday Tunde cancelled because he wasn't feeling well. At least I didn't have anything important to do. My girlfriend Sandra turned out to be a scammer. Oh well whatever. Time to move on to the next one. I have a blood test on Jan 15th and another therapy appointment on Jan 17th. 

@PoliteOcean

Losing some weight is one of my goals for this month.

Active listening 

@PoliteOcean

The struggles and challenges I faced this week is the inability to manage my time with personal and professional life. I was also stressed and didn't give myself the enough physical activity I needed. I am looking forward to working on them.

Hey Everyone~ Welcome to the weekend~ (And to the New Year)!.. How are you doing today?~ I'm doing well today.  I Have a whole laundry list of things I want to try to get done on my two days off, but lets be honest, I'll probably procrastinate and put off......How did you Ring in your New Years?...I was in bed by 8:30pm NYE and worked 4:30am to 8:30pm on New Years Day....One positive that came out of the day, I tracked 20,659 steps and 7.9 miles from my Garmin watch while at work...... And how are you feeling about 2025 so far?! I haven't really formed an opinion on 2025 yet....Friday and Saturday were tough days for me at work....if anything, the tough days have pushed me harder to come up with solutions for change in 2025.....

🎈This is our very "First" Check-in for the Month of "JANUARY & 2025"! .... A brand New Month, New  year, & Fresh New Start~... WHAT is something "Fresh & New" that you'd like to start working on for yourself "First" in this month ahead?....Fresh and new.....food....more fresh foods, new, better for me foods......its not a new goal but one that I really need to buckle down on and get a meal plan in place....My girlfriend is on board with this and we both decided to get this off the ground and stop just "researching and talking" about it.....My girlfriend has her annual physical this month and we have decided that she is going to see if her Dr. can refer her to a dietician to help get us on the right path rather than relying on what we find for our own research on the internet....

💪As We have entered another New Year, and look forwards ahead, What will be your Motivators this year to help keep you "moving forwards" in & keeping up with your intentions, goals, or resolutions that you have for yourself (Mentally, Physically, Emotionally) or otherwise?! My main goal for a long time has been to have a retirement plan and possibly put myself in a position to retire early....money is the motivator in why I haven't done this yet...the money I will be losing retiring early......This is going to sound crazy, and as much I hate the bad days at work, it's those days, the days that are bad for my mental and emotional well being, that are going to motivate me to keep pushing toward my goal of finding a way of making this work...whether that way be financial so I can retire early, or mental and emotional ways to help me through the hard times so I can stick it out.......but its a cycle....I have a week that is terrible and decide its not worth staying (I'd lose about 7K a year in my retirement by leaving this year vs staying until March of 2027)....then things start the upswing and I have a week or 10 days of "not so bad" and my mind tells me I can hang on....what I think I need to do is just make a decision and a plan for one way or the other, and commit to it....but I keep playing the "what if" in my head which make me so indecisive......

⭐JUST FOR FUN:.. Leave One "Positive Or Healthy" Word for others here to help start off the New Year, using the 'FIRST LETTER' of your "7cups" Name! (....I'll start.. Mine is "Positivity")~ Positive or healthy word with the letter "C"......commit....commit to your plan....something I am not doing lol(read above) but will definitely work on...

@PoliteOcean

Thank you 👍🏼