Today isn't really worth an update but I said I would still show up today, so here I am. I didn't do anything noteworthy today. Just a few squats one time today. I am exhausted from not sleeping plus ate something I shouldn't have and it caused my face to itch around my mouth and intense intestinal pain for a few hours or so. Now I am sleepy and off to bed shortly. I still did 5000 steps today. Not much, but it's something. Tomorrow should be a better day. Hope everyone is doing well. 😊

Hi, i'm Sandra I'm 56, my sister has just been given a year to a year and a half to live at 48. I'll be the last family member left as a lot of my family have died of cancer or a heart attack at a young age. I have 3 grown up children. 2 small grandchildren and another on the way. I've started taking my health and life choices seriously. I have people who rely on me. I'm doing everything i can to make sure they still have me around.

I am new here and wrote my first post last night. If you didn't see that yet, feel free to check out that post. The only thing you should know for context is that I am 337 pounds currently making calisthenics extremely hard for me. I am still doing what I can do and have to start somewhere. I had such a busy day and not too much time to workout today, but I did 20 knee push ups today (I did a few then took a few seconds break then did a few more and break and so on until I did 20 knee push ups). I also swam at the pool and did laps for 15 minutes straight then had fun with my husband and toddler. I hope to be able to do a lot more tomorrow as it shouldn't be as busy of a day for me tomorrow. I plan to do daily workout updates here to share my journey and also keep me accountable (as I have a tendency to quit because calisthenics is really hard, especially at my weight) and now I have a community here to help keep me accountable to do daily calisthenics. Thanks for reading and following along on my journey. I am off to bed now.

I had another busy day on lack of sleep, but hopefully my sleep will return to normal soon (my toddler is in a growth spurt ATM and wakes up in the night). I did some inverted rows at the park, lots of incline pushups throughout the day everywhere, more glute bridges, the forearm plank for 45 seconds and over a minute rest then 20 more seconds (that's all I could do--it's SO, SO HARD!), and used 15 pound weights to hold my arms out like the iron cross for as long as I can twice and later in the day did 15 reps with them (literally a few seconds break after each one by the time I started that as my arms were already tired and sore), a few squats, and leg raises. So although I had a very busy day, I prioritized more exercise today everywhere. A little bit at a time throughout, not all at once. With all that said, I am still in my typical step range and have only 4, 736 steps at the end of the day. I don't understand how busy people can consistently get 10,000+ steps per day. I have done it a few times this year, but that's me going on two 30 minute walks plus general moving around the house. It's so hard to get steps in. What's an easy and fun way to get at least 10,000 steps per day? I struggle big time with that, especially with my busy life. I will probably do daily updates for only 7 days or so then I will switch to a weekly update. I tend to stay up way too late writing these updates and it's best if I can at least go to bed earlier if my baby girl is going to wake me up in the middle of the night. I may be able to write some other posts in the week, but not like these updates at the end of the day. We will see what happens. I do still want to remain fairly active on here whether that be making posts or actually being able to comment on others posts, that would be nice. Off to bed now. Thanks for reading!

My baby girl (toddler) woke up again in the middle of the night again last night, making me tired again, but that didn't stop me from exercising. This community and the daily updates that I chose to do have been helpful to make sure I do some form of exercise daily without excuses. I don't know how long I will do daily updates for, but for now, it's helpful-at least to me anyways. Hopefully one day I can be an inspiration to others on their fitness journey. Today I didn't really have a designated workout session, but did exercises whenever I felt like it and had a moment of spare time--so everything was done at random times of the day. I did some glute bridges as long as I can hold a few times (I actually got my butt up off the ground for once! About a month ago was the last time I tried and I tried so hard and just couldn't lift my bum off the ground/floor. I was 359 pounds then and I have lost 22 pounds now)...I did some incline push ups, knee push ups, squats, laying down on the floor and lifting my legs up and down, and I did 8, 463 steps today. Normally, my daily steps are under 5000 and typically 2000-3000. See you all tomorrow for my next update. Thanks for reading.