Saturday, 6 March 2021

February 2021 Checkin

It's a little hard to remember, because the beginning of March hasn't been great, but February was a pretty good month!  

I hit the exercise goal every week. :) Most of that was through walking and Beyond Flexibility.  Unfortunately very little skiing though - we had a cold snap through about two weeks of February, then it warmed up too much and everything started melting.  But I was able to get out one afternoon with my mom, so that was great. :)

In terms of recipes, I tried a simple stovetop carrots recipe earlier in the month (while I was happy to try something new, I wasn't a huge fan of it).  Then at the end of February, a friend of mine gave me a coupon to try Chef's Plate for really cheap, with no strings attached to buy more.  I made two recipes from that box, with the third one saved until March.  They were really tasty!  I don't know if I'll be buying much more from them though - I know how to cook (and enjoy cooking), and find that their recipes seem pretty straightforward.  But they also have some new flavours and cooking combinations I'm interested in trying, so at this point I plan to keep checking their menu to see if anything else appeals to me (and that's also why I ordered a second box for this week - there were two recipes I wanted to try, and a third one that just sounded good!)

At the end of February, Karin Dimitrova announced Reset, a 21 day program which is all about reconnecting with and grounding yourself.  The last year has been hard for everyone, so once she announced the new program has forever access, I decided I was in.  At the time, I thought that any tools she could offer for helping keep my mental health in a better place right now was a good enough reason for joining.  But then at the end of the month, my work started dealing with an at the time (now confirmed) possible exposure to Covid.  My mental health took a major hit literally a few days before the course started on March 1st (also, February 28th was just a super bad day unrelated to Covid), and since that time I've been so thankful that I decided to join!  My mental health has taken a real beating over the last week, and while it's still not great, I don't know what I would have done without it, and the Community that was created especially for the program (so everyone can be doing the program together).

So that's where I'm at right now.  February was good (if cold!) overall, and hopefully things will get better as March progresses!

Weight Update for Feb 19, Mar 2 and Mar 6

 Here's a quick weight update from the last few weeks!

Feb 19:

weight: 211.8 lbs
fat percentage: 46.4%
hydration: 36.8%
muscle: 26.3%
bone: 11.0%
cal: 2331

Mar 2:

weight: 210.4 lbs
fat percentage: 45.6%
hydration: 37.4%
muscle: 26.7%
bone: 11.0%
cal: 2323

And because I forgot I checked my weight a few days ago, today:

weight: 212.2 lbs
fat percentage: 46.2%
hydration: 36.9%
muscle: 26.4%
bone: 11.0%
cal: 2334