I May Have Lost Sparkpeople But My Journey Continues

Sparkpeople closed its site 2 days ago, and after tracking all my foods/pills/nutrients/exercise on there for about 10 years, I was suddenly adrift. The idea of starting to get to know a new site and inputting all the data for my personal foods, meds and each and every vitamin and mineral that I track, is daunting, and for now I am just listing each day in an email draft and deleting at day's end. I just don't have the oomph to do all the getting stuff together to copy data off labels, right now. 

My interim system may be lacking but it's simple for right now, and I am pretty good at guestimating the nutrients that I am concerned about. The dietary "rules" I've been following for the past few years have given me that skill, and I am a quite boring foodie, I tend to eat much the same things week in and week out.

My biggest goal at the mo is getting my pedalling back up to 2 hours a day, and my gym workouts to a couple of hours each time. 

Since hubby and I had the Covid stuff going on back in December, with 2 bouts of quarantine courtesy of guys at work, and then him sick a month with it in January, and me losing taste and smell for about a week at the same time, I became quite weary, and regaining my energy has been a slow process.

I noticed I began lagging during my pedalling, and my 30 minute regular sessions weren't happening, I was barely scraping 15 minutes sometimes. I just had no oomph.

Not being able to go to the gym for a couple of months undid all the work I'd done before, and my first days back were daunting. I struggled with lesser weights on various resistance machines, and lesser times on my favourite seated stepper. I am gradually regaining both, but I am not yet where I want to be.

When I do make it to my favourite Planet Fitness in Berea, I make sure to indulge on the hydro-massage bed and in the massage chair. I use both as part of my "health" plan, they help reduce my stress levels and thus my blood pressure, which still continues to act up sometimes.

I just have to keep on keeping on. Slow and steady wins the race, as they say, and I continue to plod on.