I honestly almost forgot about my weekly check-in that I wanted to start doing. You can read my first check-in here. However, it’s something I really, really want to stay up on and be accountable for. I haven’t been kind of on and off strict about my food. So, I still am at a spot where I am doing good maintaining but not really working towards that final goal. To be honest I am not really upset by this. I keep saying it’s not about the numbers and to be happy and love yourself no matter what you look like. I honestly feel I am at a place where I do feel that way. I know, easy to say when I’ve lost most of my weight. Maybe it’s true but I still have those things that I want to fix. Tightening the extra skin and losing the last bits of extra visceral fat in my legs. However, I’m good and I will continue to work towards those things.
New Goal
30 days 100 squats – The women in my family have been “blessed” with some big thighs. “Thunder thighs” we like to refer to them as. My husband and I decided I should try a little experiment. I am going to do 100 squats a day for 30 days and measure my thighs. See what kind of changes may or may not happen. It will be an interesting experiment.
Truth is, that if I can lose some inches in my thighs, I will be very happy. However, if I don’t, I will just work on those extra inches another way. And maybe that is just my body, and I won’t be able to do much more about it. Either way it doesn’t matter. I will still work on my health and strength and continuing to improve myself.
Short Term Goals
Goal weight – As I mentioned above still maintaining but I will get back on track! and soon!
50 push-ups – I am successfully at 20 push-ups twice a day right now. It’s a bit of a struggle and I hope by the end of the week I feel a little stronger with this so I can up it again.
Adventures – Not all of my adventures are going to be amazing adventures. What can I say, I’ve got kids, I live in the city, my car is broken down, and it costs money to do crazy stuff all the time. My adventures have included sheet tents over my kid’s beds, long walks to get to playgrounds and friends’ houses, and a trip to our local play area. Just saying the play area is actually a lot of fun. We get to chase our kids around a jungle gym, and bounce houses. We also got to go walk on a frozen oversized pond. Almost felt like we were skating.
Crane Pose and Trip-pod Head Stand – I am actually successfully doing the head stand 8 times out of ten. I am pretty shaky and not exceptionally graceful. I will continue to work on this. The crane pose is taking a little bit more. I can get into it for a second but holding it isn’t quite there yet.
Grip Strength – I’ve been starting on some forearm exercises. A lot of grip comes from your fore arms, so I’m start there.
Long Term Goals
These ones I won’t spend a whole lot of time on. Obviously being long term there is going to be less to say about them weekly. This includes Toning with a lot of strength training. The Blog, man I suck at this one, I never write anything (can you hear my sarcasm?). And Fitness coach, I will continue to grow my knowledge and look into an educational certification.
What new goals are you guys working towards? Have you been making progress towards those goals?
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