to all my ladies in here - happy international women’s day!!! I hope you have been reflecting on your strength, wisdom, and how generally incredible you are — and I hope you’re as thankful for this space surrounded by other inspiring and awesome women as I am! The time change has been a slight challenge today… but we managed to get laundry, a bunch of meal prep, swim lessons, an F1 race, cleaning up outside and a bike ride, and this check in done! I’m still not finished with my to do list but I am proud of what I’ve done so far! Hope you’ve had a great day too!

Sat for most of the afternoon at the hospital with my dad. Still managed 8,600+ steps but I have to wonder how much more I could have had if I didn’t even sit for almost all of the 3.5 hours. He’s got to stay another night now because he woke up today ready to be discharged and then his heart started acting up (same thing happened a year ago when he had pneumonia). It seems a little less stressful than last time but still isn’t settling. Just trying to stay focused on the fact that he’s in the safest place to be right now while this is going on and stay positive

Today at spin the instructor talked alot about rebuilding roots

After a rest from workouts yesterday (and doing mobility on Wednesday), I decided to get a jump start on this week. Lower body week 5 was the dirty mofo ladders and WOOF, that was amazing and brutal at once! This week plan is Sun-Lower, Mon-Upper, Tues-Lower, Wed-Upper, Thurs-Mobility, then Spin Fri and Sat Already logged my food for the week to work toward my calorie and macros target goal I set for the week, and plan to plug in all our dinners and lunches ahead as well right now to be set in that respect! (Should I talk about this process live? Would it help??) i’m making pizza for the superbowl and a protein ice cream!!! For me it is so helpful to plug in what you know you want first and build around it! The meal prep, laundry and other Sunday tasks also are on deck. It’ll be a busy one but productive!! How’s everyone else doing on Sunday?? Any goals for the week? Post them in goals & accountability!

I’m going to be brutally honest with myself here and admit that I’ve been lax on my nutrition. I have been tracking, but I’ve been going over my calories and indulging in candy (just because it’s here) almost daily for the last 2 weeks (at least!). And while I’m not about guilting or shaming myself I’m just trying to be honest about how it is aligning with the person I want to be (and become). This week is not about “no candy” but about having more integrity about sticking to hitting my calorie and macro targets as they’re set. If the candy fits, it’s fine. If it doesn’t, I have to be more realistic with myself and stop before just saying screw it like I have been. >>I’m aiming for 5/7 days of hitting the targets giving myself some wiggle room if life happens and also knowing that Friday is a night out and I’m not going to restrict or be hard on myself there! So that is my ONE focus for this week, on top of my other goals I set (like workouts, step count/movement) Please remember that checking in with yourself weekly like this about what’s working (or not) is how we get better!