Fitness - Week 4

Welcome to the end of my first month keeping this blog. I pushed the miles this week and got more done with fewer days of exercise. I feel comfortable walking a 5k.

Didn't quite stick with the 30 day walking challenge as set up by my earlier post, but this is far more than I was doing a month ago.

Despite being a couch potato for the better part of two and a half years, I seem to have maintained a pretty high baseline fitness. I even ran a little bit.

I was never a runner. Mainly because the last time I was forced to run was high school and I was terribly out of shape. While skinny, resting pulse hovered around 100 and I could never breathe right due to allergies. Might still have that second problem.

I did set up a youtube account to correlate with this blog, but no videos quite yet. I meant to do a quick animated intro this weekend, but got lazy.

I did however crochet a basketball (pillow) does that count for something?

Fitness - Week 3

I worked out 5 days last week. Woohoo! Probably not going to match it this week. But I did go for an almost 4 mile walk today. I did lose about half of last week's weight gain so I'm only 2 pounds heavier than two weeks ago. My measurements have stayed about the same as well.

Part of my workout motivation are these medals/coins from Yes.Fit. The medal I had gotten mostly by walking with one final push on the bike. The coins I'm getting for pure walking. This coin was for a mile. I have another one in the mail and my 3.8 mile walk today got me the third coin.

Beauty - My eye shape

Google 'What is my eye shape?' and you get a lot of results stating the 6 basic shapes and the best makeup for them. I don't think they cover my eyes.

Based on the black line I have upturned eyes as my outer corner is higher than my right.
So to create a cat's eyes/winged eyeliner, I should follow the green line. Looks perfect.

However, I may also have deep set eyes? Because that orange line is my extended crease. This causes me to look like I have downturned eyes. And between that and the downward curve of my lips, I have RBF.

Before that term was coined, I had so many people ask if I was OK because I looked sad or mad. Nope, that's just my natural face. Joy.

Fitness - Week 2 update

Some good news, some not so good news. I didn't do as well with my water intake this week. Still more than I usually do, but averaged 20-24 ounces a day. Also gained 4 pounds. Possibly water weight, possibly other factors including building back muscle from walking/cycling. Not too worried, but not happy about being back above a certain weight ending in 0.

Sunday I hopped on a stationary bike for over 30 minutes while watching the Oscar's red carpet. Biked over 10 miles. Earlier in the week I did 1.75 miles of walking in about 24 minutes. All workouts were within my normal/natural pace and I could've probably kept going. Although my legs were certainly feeling wobbly after I stopped. Kind of like when I went on the swings for the whole of recess when I was a kid.

Going to keep pushing time/distance rather than pace this week. Mainly treadmill/bike due to rainy weather. I hate rain.

Beauty - My basic makeup

This is my basic make up routine. Chubby stick from Clinique for undereye and blush (2 different colors obviously), funky colored eyeliner, and a lipstick.

The colors switch up for the eyeliner and lipstick, but I get it done in under a minute, usually. I am not a morning person and this is usually all I am capable of before heading off to work.

The eyeliner just goes to the corner rather than down my entire 'lid'.

Fitness - Week 1 update

Aside from Sunday, I managed to drink 24 to 32 ounces of water a day. My mother, the nurse, says I'll feel better. Only difference I can see so far is I have to pee a lot. Possibly my body doesn't know what to do with this sudden influx of water?

I weighed myself over the weekend. I'm at my lightest in a few years. Probably since I stopped dancing. My measurements seem to have stabilized, except my bust. That's continued to go down, even though it's probably the one measurement I wish could have remained. I'm going to just assume I've lost the inch or so across my back... (Ha! Wishful thinking.)

My weekly report from Fitbit:

Also tried to do a 'leg raise' challenge from the Yes.Fit community. I completed day one with a few moments of rest. However I guess I pushed too far because on day 2, I could feel my lower abs were pulled trying to do the first leg raise. So, skipping this challenge, or modifying it once my poor abs are healed.

Fitness - Walking and Water

This week I have started a 30 day walking challenge and a water challenge.

Walking: I found a 30 day walking challenge that seemed to be for the beginner on HeandSheEatClean.com and figured it's a good place to start for getting me back to fitness.

Apparently, my normal walking speed puts me at about a 15 minute mile. Yay?

I have a spreadsheet to keep track of distance/time. Also should get back to keeping track of weight/measurements (different spreadsheet).

Water: I hate drinking water. It's a bit better when there's fruit in it, but only time I down a bottle is after a workout, which I haven't really been doing lately. I like to say I'm used to living in a semi-dehydrated state.

That being said I bought one of those water bottles with the time markers on them.

This is my progress for today. I started at 1pm. I did drink something else with dinner. How is it recommended to drink two of these a day?

Will have to flavor these eventually.