Welcome to Litsy!

Ah yes, once more I roll in several days late after being gone for... months. Hi ??

I injured my knee in early May and I'm just now coming back to regular heavy exercise, so getting back to running is my main focus right now. #BFC2022

1) Run 10K each week (lofty, but I am nothing if not optimistic)
2) Read 1000 pages (also very lofty, you know the drill)
3) Read 10 books
4) Eating "mindfully". Actually chewing my dang food. ??

Let's go! ?

#bfc21 has been interesting in Sept - after a kick ass August , I have some answers to my chronic pain - and that I have hypermobility syndrome- so if anyone has knowledge resources or experience in it please share!, diabetes- learning food adjustments must be permanent, torn rotator cuff, and my vitamin D level was 18- so could be worse🤣 Allons-y

1. I think I‘ll up my goal to 6 books to challenge myself more
2. My daughter started a mommy and me gymnastics class, so I‘m giving that 0.5 points since I had to chase after her 😂
3. I slept so good this week!
4. My meal prepping skills were terrible this week. Really going to focus on this one next week
#bfcr3 #smallsteppers

Gosh, I can't believe we're already at the end of this round of #bfc. It didn't go quite according to plan fitness wise for me, but I made and exceeded my reading goal, which is quite enough for me. Super ready for next round where I might actually be able to do fitness things! 😂💃💃 #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

I've been a passenger on the Struggle Bus this week - pictured is a snapshot of today. So bad. My wrist isn't improving as fast as I'd have thought it would, and I'm starting to notice some muscle atrophy in my arm and that's really messing with me? Idk. I've focused all my energy on getting back on the meditation wagon and have thus far managed 5/7 nights, which I'm super happy with! 😄😄

I've been mostly flowing the doctor's orders to not antagonise my wrist all week, so not a lot of general physical fitness has been going on. Did manage 43K steps, though, which baffled me. Returned to guided meditations at bedtime, a practice I loved last summer but stopped doing for some odd reason, and it's just the most calming thing. ALSO finished two books! 📚❤️ That's it, that's my week. 😂 #bookfitnesschallenge #bfc #bfcr2 @wanderinglynn

Pictured is the welcome-home committee when I returned from the one run I've been on this week ❤️ Overall it's been decidedly not good on the fitness part, but much better on the reading. I've spent so much time fretting and anxious about ganglion-surgery on Monday, exercise has been replaced with anti-anxiety cross-stitching and audiobooks 😟 Idk what to do about post-surgery goals, but we shall see. Onwards and upwards! 💃💃

Week 1 done! #bookfitnesschallenge
I surprised myself when I tallied up my numbers this morning. I may not have finished any books, but I'm halfway through the three I've got going, so I'm on track! Thought I was going to get a headstart on W2 by running this morning, but at 7am it was 25 degrees out, so I went back to bed... 😂😂

#bfc #bfcr2 @wanderinglynn

(you'll never meet someone with as many pictures of bees on their phone as I do. never.)

Ready for Round 2 of #bookfitnesschallenge! Lowered my book-goal to what I managed during round one on the off-chance that I nail it so I can feel super accomplished 😂 💪

#bfc #bfcr2 @wanderinglynn

Final check-in for #bookfitnesschallenge reveals that I did surprisingly well on my "50K steps/week"-goal, in the sense that over the 6 weeks I totalled 305K. That's... baffling. I also learned that limiting myself to only counting running and gymming as "exercise" is annoying so I've switched it up for round two. Book goal? Not hit. Missed by 1 ?This has been so much fun and I can't /wait/ for more of it in the next round!

#bfc @wanderinglynn

Did surprisingly well this week. Am still a bit behind on books (mostly due to DNFs 😒) but will catch up during the last week! Also, today's update is featuring my adventures in plant parenthood. My Dieffenbachia got a haircut. A big one. Hoping just a few of the stragglers will root 🌿🌵🌱😂

#bookfitnesschallenge #bfc @wanderinglynn

Week 3 of #bfc was off to a slow start and barely made it - the weather and deadly illness (it is not deadly and it's barely illness, but I am very dramatic) but a stop to all my running dreams, and I just baaaarely got my 50K steps. Am on target book wise, though! On to the next one! #bookfitnesschallenge

@wanderinglynn

It's been a bad week, steps-wise and I only managed one out of two runs, but at least I went to the gym thrice? And finished a book? 💪💃

In other news I'm having surgery in my wrist soon-ish (on an as of yet undetermined but nearby date) and have been told that exercise is out of the question for at least two weeks. What do?? 😂🙄🤔

ALSO, great work everybody! You're killing it and I am SO PROUD of you! 👏💪❤️❤️
#bfc @wanderinglynn

I present to you, my hack-job of a #bookfitnesschallenge tracker. Whatever works! 😂 I succeeded in both going to the gym and running x2, and passed my 50K steps by Wednesday. This is where I thank you all for existing because I hate it when people know I've failed myself and not done anything healthy so I kinda have to. Thank you lots and lots ❤️❤️
According to my maths I've racked up 26 points, but how to do numbers tbh 🤔😂
@wanderinglynn

If any of the #bookfitnesschallenge littens use Samsung Health, I'm jenniferw88 on there as well.

User id is irene_gulliver @ yahoo. co. uk (without spaces)

Been pondering this for days but finally took the plunge. I'm in. I've been slacking too much lately and need the extra motivation of knowing someone is going to know that I did nothing all week 😂😂

Committed myself to 8 books (I think? Might've been 9🤔#25goingon93) as well as running at least 4 km twice a week and go to the gym twice a week, as well at getting at least 50K steps a week. Doable, but a challenge. Halp. 😂

#BookFitnessChallenge

Since my routine is all out of whack I started a new one that includes working out in the morning. I‘ve just been walking on the treadmill because I‘m a weakling and can‘t handle the cold. 😆

#whatididwhilefurloughed #alwaysreading

#healthy #quotsyjan19

So many recipes I can‘t wait to try in this one! #litsycooks

I love my healthy corner of my to go planner 🙂

Another planner and book goal thing- I'm spending each week with a cookbook already in my collection. Since I don't really "plan" on Saturdays I use that space to track the recipes I want to try and what I've made.

Tonight‘s dinner was broccoli soup & whole wheat corn muffins from this good cookbook. #abramsdinnerparty thanks Abrams Books