Asa Pond's Birthday Challenge!

[Asa Pond]

 

Okay - not yet, but it will be on May 8th! It's also finals season at law school (Monday was the last day of classes!). So I really want to have some idea of what I'm doing / not doing in order to keep me sane and on track. 

 

Goals: 

1. Don't eat like an idiot.

• Track my food.
• Mostly - just be smart about what I'm eating.

2. Yoga everyday.

• Well... mostly everyday.
• At least 20 minutes. 
• Stretching counts if I'm too tired to safely do difficult stuff.

3. Cardio 2 times a week

• I'd prefer 1 cycling session and 1 running session but I'll take whatever I can do.

 

 

[Asa Pond]

For the rest of this week:

 

Wednesday: Study, Yoga, Track Food

Thursday: Barre, Track Food, Study

Friday: Cardio, Track Food, Study

Saturday: Cardio, Study, Track Food

[RogueLibrarian]

 

[raptron]

Yayayay, get it.

 

When's your first exam?

[Asa Pond]

3 minutes ago, raptron said:

When's your first exam?

 

Monday. I somehow managed to get really well-spaced exams this semester so it's going to be low(er) stress and I really appreciate it.

 

My 2nd one is May 2nd and then my last is May 7th!

 

[raptron]

Ooooh, that's ideal!  

[Asa Pond]

Ugh. Yesterday was a bit of a wash and it was because I was lazy and procrastinating.  

 

Oh well... on to the next one.

[RogueLibrarian]

One slip-up day does not blow your momentum! It happens. 

[Asa Pond]

Well... I think I just went a bit overboard but I really want to enter 27 in my best light possible. So - I signed up to do a 28 day no alcohol challenge which is going to be really hard with my birthday and a vacation and a new job all happening in those next 28 days but we'll see. If I fail, I fail and try again. 

 

I also just signed up for an Orange Theory class because I had a friend sell me hard on it. For no gain of her own - just because she's had fantastic results and seems so much happier than she did 6 months ago. It also really seems up my alley (like spin classes) but is way more of a rounded workout. 

 

I'm scared out of my mind though. If I don't check in tonight - it's because I died. Send flowers.

 

[RogueLibrarian]

12 minutes ago, Asa Pond said:

Well... I think I just went a bit overboard but I really want to enter 27 in my best light possible. So - I signed up to do a 28 day no alcohol challenge which is going to be really hard with my birthday and a vacation and a new job all happening in those next 28 days but we'll see.

 

Wow! You picked hard mode for this challenge. The great thing, though, is that even if you don't complete the 28 days, you will have more information about how you feel going without for a while, and how you make decisions about it one way or the other.

 

12 minutes ago, Asa Pond said:

If I fail, I fail and try again. 

 

THAT's our Agent Pond tho

 

12 minutes ago, Asa Pond said:

I also just signed up for an Orange Theory class because I had a friend sell me hard on it. For no gain of her own - just because she's had fantastic results and seems so much happier than she did 6 months ago. It also really seems up my alley (like spin classes) but is way more of a rounded workout. 

 

Hey, new stuff is FUN

 

12 minutes ago, Asa Pond said:

 I'm scared out of my mind though. If I don't check in tonight - it's because I died. Send flowers.

 

Look ... don't die, okay. But what kind of flowers do you like

[Asa Pond]

26 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:

 

Wow! You picked hard mode for this challenge.  

 

I do what I can.  (It might also come from being raised Catholic and their weird obsession with never being able to achieve good enough...? Idk.)

 

26 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:

 

you will have more information about how you feel going without for a while, and how you make decisions about it one way or the other.

 

This is such a good way to approach everything. Thank you Sensei.

 

26 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:

 

 

THAT's our Agent Pond tho

 

 

26 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:

Look ... don't die, okay. But what kind of flowers do you like

 

This is the hardest question to ask because my answer is literally - you know, those pretty ones, with the petals, and... the colors?

[raptron]

Don't die!!! <3 

[RogueLibrarian]

 

1 minute ago, Asa Pond said:

This is such a good way to approach everything. Thank you Sensei.

 

TBH, I also heard my therapist's voice in my head as I was writing that, so give her credit too.

 

1 minute ago, Asa Pond said:

 

You could totally cosplay the hell out of Carol, btw.

 

1 minute ago, Asa Pond said:

This is the hardest question to ask because my answer is literally - you know, those pretty ones, with the petals, and... the colors?

 

We'll take up a collection and order something tasteful, don't worry

 

[Asa Pond]

23 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:

 

 

TBH, I also heard my therapist's voice in my head as I was writing that, so give her credit too.

 

 

You could totally cosplay the hell out of Carol, btw.

 

 

We'll take up a collection and order something tasteful, don't worry

 

 

 

Say thanks next time you see her!  

 

I'm going to go google Captain Marvel workout gear now. Thank you. 

 

Very much appreciated. <3 

[Asa Pond]

I'm alive and I loved it! It was one of the hardest workouts I've done in a long time and I've missed this kind of exhaustion. I'm definitely going back.

[Mad Hatter]

Hooray for not dying!  

[Lara]

You end your exams right before your birthday. That's great!

[raptron]

On 4/26/2019 at 7:43 PM, Asa Pond said:

I'm alive and I loved it! It was one of the hardest workouts I've done in a long time and I've missed this kind of exhaustion. I'm definitely going back.

\o/