Whoops! I almost completely forgot to do this for April!
Thanks to Easter being in April, I didn't end up active for 150+ minutes for the first couple of weeks. Missing a day of walking to and from work means I only walk for 120 minutes over the week (without adding in another walk). And because I was getting ready for and celebrating Easter, I didn't fit in another workout on either of those two weeks to make up the time. Luckily I was active for 150+ minutes on the remaining weeks of the month, so overall this was an okay month for exercise.
The one problem I had was that I haven't been doing anything else other than walking. I've managed to fit a yoga session in here or there, but nothing at all consistent. And this pattern continued into May (but I'll talk more about that in a later post), so I'll have to make more of an effort in June.
I also made three new recipes this week! I went through a pile of magazines, pulling out recipes that sounded interesting, and ended up making three of those. One recipe I was particularly excited about was a lentil soup. It was super easy (crockpot recipe!) and really good!!!
It's a little hard to remember now, but I think my stress level stayed relatively okay through the month of April. Thankfully nothing super stressful happened at work last month, so that really helped!
So that's about it. April went by super quick (and obviously, so did May, since I'm writing this post now!) and was a fairly good month. I just need to work on adding in more activity, especially during weeks with a long weekend when I can't rely on walking to work on that fifth day of the week!
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While cleaning up some old drafts I never posted, I came across the beginning of an April 2021 Checkin post that I started writing on April 5th, 2021. Here's what it said:
I don't know what happened, but I felt so exhausted on the first week of April. It was a short week thanks to the Easter long weekend, but I still had a hard time getting through Thursday. So that weekend I tried to focus more on relaxing as much as I could (while still doing some things I needed to do, like laundry, and cleaning out my fridge because something spilled). I also started going through a stack of magazines I had, mostly looking at interesting recipes to try. So I felt fairly productive while also not stressing about anything, so that was good. Unfortunately I didn't fit in exercise. I had multiple days where I intended to do some yoga, but then just didn't. I guess I just really needed the break from everything.
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