September Checkin

Yes, I know, it's almost time for the October checkin :(  September seems so long ago - good thing I have notes to remember what happened!

In terms of activity, I was active for over 150 minutes on three of the four weeks. On that fourth week, I had a day off work, which derailed my regular walking to and from work, and I just never made it up.  That seems to happen every time I've got time off, so I will definitely have to work on being more active during vacations and holidays!

I ended up ordering some more Chef's Plate boxes (they sent me a deal where I got a percentage off three boxes), so I made seven new recipes this month.  And one of those recipes wasn't from Chef's Plate (I needed to make a dessert for a birthday) - I flipped through my cookbooks and found a diabetes-friendly dessert that was really tasty!  That recipe was definitely a keeper! :)

I did restart Karin Dimitrova's Reset in September, but unfortunately didn't get very far.  I got up to the first intuitive movement section (I think that's day 5), then just kind of stopped.  I'm thinking I should restart it again, but just skip the intuitive movement days so I don't get derailed (I wasn't really a fan of them).

One other thing that happened in September: I slowly started seeing friends again.  Thanks to the pandemic, I had been only seeing a very limited social circle.  But now that myself and many of my friends are vaccinated, I felt it was time to start branching out a little more.  I've found that mentally this has been rather hard after being told to keep to yourself for over a year, but once I actually was with some of my friends, I was totally fine.  But I do admit, it's weird actually having plans again outside of my house!