1,000 Push Ups. My fitty buddy and I are all geared up for the next challenge. So far we've done 1,000 burpees (in about 6 weeks) and 2,500 crunches. 1,000 push ups is the next logical step. (And one of us is wearing a strapless wedding dress in 4 months so ... bring on the upper body work!) Geneen Roth Course. I've been listening to an online course with Geneen Roth (Women, Food, and God) and am really enjoying it thus far and am enjoying how it's changing how I think about my relationship with food. I read the book a while back and really liked it, but ending with a big lump of to-dos without the weekly checkins, etc. made it a little less actionable. This course is meant to be more action focused. For example, this week the actions steps are to "eat when you're hungry (at least some of the time)" and to "remember to be in awe of what you already have." I can already feel little shifts happening. For example, yesterday, I was on my way to meet Damon for dinner. We had early reservations, but I had eaten a late (small) lunch and found myself hungrier than usual while I was en route. Usually this would cause an outright panic. But this time, I just noticed it. What does hunger feel like? Where do I feel it? How long does it last? Turns out, there was a little moment of tummy rumbling and a high-frequency panicky feeling ... and then it went away. I was uncomfortable for a moment ... and then I was just fine. Being hungry isn't the end of the world. (Goodness ... if I can learn that one thing, the whole course will be worth it!) Walk the Walk As of this morning, I have walked 636,425 steps in the month of January (according to my FitBit). My February goal -- with only 28 days to work in!! -- is to hit 650,000 steps. I can absolutely do this. (And I'm not going to make running an explicit goal this month, but running a bit here and there will help me log more steps more quickly. So ... I'll just file that away as knowledge.) Scale-Free February: I am restricting my use of the scale in February to one weigh-in mid month. The scale is telling such a small part of mhy story these days that I want to get a little distance. And if I'm doing all of the other things -- tracking food, eating when I'm hungry, getting in movement and exercise -- the scale won't matter. And to make things a little more interesting this month, if I meet all of my goals, I'm going to gift myself an Aria scale from FitBit (which tracks body fat percentage, as well as weight).
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