Some April Weight Updates

 I just wanted to give a couple of quick weight updates:

April 17:

weight: 226
fat percentage: 54
hydration: 31.6
muscle: 22.6
bone: 10.6
cal: 2387

April 22 (I think):

weight: 228.6
fat percentage: 52.8
hydration: 32.4
muscle: 23.1
bone: 10.5
cal: 2403

April 29:

weight: 226.6
fat percentage: 54.2
hydration: 31.4
muscle: 22.4
bone: 10.6
cal: 2391

More Vertigo :(

So yesterday, my vertigo started to flare up once again. It definitely seems like I am going to be prone to vertigo. I've been battling a minor cold this week, and I know back in January 2023, it flared after I had Covid. My vertigo seems more likely to flare right after I've been sick (but may sometimes flare for other reasons, too - I think the last time it flared I wasn't recovering from being sick, but had other things going on). I have been feeling worn down lately too, which may also have contributed to the vertigo, but I do not know for sure. 

Now that this has happened, I may need to rethink my plan of attack for the month. I think I'm going to change the goal to a two month goal, to give me a bit of time to recover right now without worrying about my back.

2024 Goal 2

This time around, I am going to try setting one goal for the month of April. As I said back in January, when I set my first goal, ultimately I want to be healthier. I have a number of areas that I need to work on to accomplish that (and losing some weight is definitely one of them). But right now I think the most important thing I need to do is focus on healing my body. I've been dealing with back pain for years now, and have been hurting other areas as well recently. Some of that is due to work, which involves a lot of bending and squatting. But I think other pain issues might develop because I am trying to work around the pain.

While it is going to be a bit hard to quantify this goal, especially in one month's time, I am going to focus on healing my back. I'm going to do a yoga for back pain workout once a week minimum (twice a week would be better, but I want to start somewhere). I've got a book from the library on back pain, which I will read and hopefully get more recommendations from. And when eating out, I am going to strive to order healthier choices.

I go to the chiropractor for help a lot, so ultimately I am hoping to have to go once a month or less than that. But I won't be able to see that progress in only a month. So for April I will focus on trying to heal it, and reassess in May.

2024 Goal 1 Review

Alright, so 2024's Goal #1, lose 5lbs by March 31st, failed miserably. I ended the period weighing 4lbs more than I started. In order to accomplish this goal, I planned to eat out once every two weeks or less, do a workout twice a week minimum, and avoid food in the break room at work. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, this proved more difficult than I expected: I ended up eating out probably on average once a week (there were a few weeks with more than once, but other weeks where we actually didn't eat out). I've hurt myself a few times, which has made working out consistently harder (the most recent one was hurting my foot after following some stretching advice I found on YouTube). And I've noticed that the higher my stress levels at work, the more likely I am to go looking in the breakroom for snacks.

I also think that a three month goal might be a little too long. I think I need to set shorter goals (maybe monthly) so I can readjust easier. I knew fairly early on that the way things were going, it didn't seem likely that I was going to succeed. 

Finally, I may need to rethink the steps/key results that I set, if I continue to try using this method of goal setting. While I thought my goal #1 key results were reasonable, two of the three definitely were not. Eating out was dependent on circumstances and what was going on, and staying away from stuff in the breakroom wasn't super measurable. 

Weight Update for April 1

Confirming what I already knew, I have officially failed my first goal for 2024:

weight: 228.2
fat percentage: 52.4
hydration: 32.7
muscle: 23.4
bone: 10.5
cal: 2400

Though I am happy to see that things look a little better than they did last week (which is especially surprising since this was Easter weekend, with several big dinners!)