2024 July 1st - 7th

Goals for this week

  • Walk, average at least 1 mile a day over the course of the week - Completed
  • Do 1 dance exercise session - 1 song only
  • Go to Park Yoga on the 7th
  • Mont Blanc Circular - Garmin (3.6km remaining) - Completed
  • Deep breathing 3 - Garmin (1 breathework exercise remaining)
  • Zen Master - Garmin (1 yoga exercise remaining)
  • Treat ears using steroid drops and try and clear ears up - Completed
  • Go to Slimming World - Completed
  • Start eating porridge with fruit for breakfast again - 5/7
  • List Joe Browns Coat
  • Identify two things to sell next week

Goals for this Month

  • Complete Inca Trail - Conqueror (42.2km)
  • Walk between 50km and 60km
  • Log more than 52 minutes brisk walking - Active 10
  • July Time to Walk - Garmin (15 hours of walking activities)
  • July Warrior - Garmin (4 hours of yoga activities)
  • Active July - Garmin (20 activities of more than 20 minutes)

Goals for this Quarter

  • 2024 Walking Stage 3 - Garmin (average 1 mile per day for 3 months)

Long Term Goals

  • Via Transilvanica - Garmin (1400km)
  • Swim
  • Finish English Channel Challenge
  • Go to a Lido
  • Increase VO2max to 25
  • Complete local 12km circular trail
  • Ride a bike
  • Get a rowing machine

So the week started well exercise wise.  I did average just over a mile a day but not by much.  I even got an Active 10 one day.  By the end of the week I was struggling though and the weekend saw me feeling very bleurgh.  I did not go to yoga and I did not do any of the extra bits and pieces I wanted to do.

Food wise, it was not great.  At the beginning of the week, my husband had a bug and we missed our shopping window and I didn't plan for the following week.  I need that plan to persuade myself to cook healthily from scratch.  Without it, things slide and after several weeks of not losing anything and feeling bleurgh, they really did slide.  We ate some of my bulk cooking from the freezer but we also had chips a couple of times.    We were just generally not on it.

And then there was the chocolate....  I had several large bars.  Not my normal habit these days.  Feeling bleurgh encourages chocolate eating.  

We had a lot on at the weekend and we knew it was coming.  Just life stuff.  It didn't help.

So although I got on it with my breakfasts at the beginning of the week, it was a drop in the ocean.  By the weekend, I was not eating good breakfasts either.

Some weeks are just tough.  You don't give up, you keep going and at some point, the tide shifts



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