Get Off Your Broom Take two Week One check in

Woo, the check-in is up so I can post this. Anymonkey, on to my progress with my goals. (Reading my prior post compels me to apologise for my terrible typographical errors. Its very hard to type coherently with a broken keyboard. I have a new one now, though.)

Earth
I did a So-So job here. Did really good until I went on a bike ride that accidentally lasted 5x what I planned because I got lost, then got lost again, then almost ended up on the freeway. Anyway after that I came home and ate a lot.

Air
Well.. I dragged my bum to class, so that counts right?

Fire
I'm doing pretty good at both of these, strength trained 5 times this week and biked 4. Plus various bike rides around town.

Water
Doing pretty good on the water front, I just need to remember to get electrolyte solution on board before I feel dizzy.

Spirit:
Epic fail.. I forgot all about this one.
There's always next week.

Goals for the week:

Earth: Write down what I eat. Plan meals and snacks so I don't just start eating randomly. Take my vitamins everyday.


Fire: Strength train 5 times this week. Bike 5 times this week.

Water: Drink a little bit of electrolyte solution every day. Passing out in class should NOT be repeated. :P

Spirit:
Get back on track with the book.

Overall I think I'm off to a good start. There are a few things that I want to change this week but I'll post about them next check-in.

An Elemental Fitness Challenge

This challenge was cancelled, but was revived just in time! Yay!
Im talking about Get Off Your Broom. This challenge is called Spring Into Fitness and to be truly pagan-oriented the goals are based on the Elements.

So here are mine.

Earth
I personally associated Earth with food, because most food grows. If you eat meat, you are usually eating herbivores as well, so the earth in my mind is pretty relevant to our dining. So my earth goals are to pay more attention to my eating habits, and get an adequate ammount of protien. The second one is not usually a problem for most popl bt my body dosnt digest most protien sorces well at all so it is an issue for me.

Air
Exercise the mind. I couldn't find a good association in my mind for air, besides say, cardio, but exercise in general seems to fit under fire for me, so this is it. A reminder to not focus on one thing to the exclusion off all others, a significant struggle for me.

Water
Drink water, but not too much.
I'm restricting myself to drink only water for the duration of the challenge, with two exceptions. I can have one caffinated drink each day, and sports drink to balance my electrolytes, since I am very prone to fainting all summer long.

Fire
Bike for 30 minutes at least three times a week, excluding my commute.
Follow a strength training routine.
Pretty straightforward, I guess. The more mundane fitness stuff youd expect from any other challenge. I'm excluding my commutes to class and theatre geeky goodness because due to my town laws, the fact that my trips around are multi-stop, and not wanting to die, there's a lot of walking, stopping, and waiting at red lights. I need 30 minutes of actual bike time.

Spirit
Complete the Be A Goddess book I have already started.
Meditate daily.
Walk barefoot daily.
None of these things seem particularly fitness related at the surface, but we need to be entire people, not just focused in one area. In my mind anyway. Being barefoot for me is deeply connecting and centering. My bendiness has called the quits on running for now, so I think its important to get in touch some other way.

I am sure many people have integrated their Pagan beliefs into the challenge far better than I have, so what are your goals in the challenge?

Where have I been?

Yeah, good question.
From the beginning..

Had to move out of our old apartment because the lease expired. Moved to a new town.

Started taking a class. Its mostly a huge energy drain (The other class members are all significantly older and give off vibes that they "own the class" and are always yelling back and forth. Not a conductive learning environment.) but I'm doing okay. Slowly learning some math, learning how much I love mathematical concepts even though I'm completely inept with the numbers.

Fell in love. Yay. :D

My mom went out of town for three months (She's still gone for another two.) Helping me to get my head screwed back on. (Trying to be as respectful as possible, she tells people to do things but whether you take her advice or not she gets very upset. For somebody who struggles figuring out people's meanings and intentions the inconsistency is terrifying.)

Moved out of the second apartment, because the city came in and condemned the entire apartment building for a mold problem. Ewww.

Decided the two moves in such a short period of time was a kick in the ass from Goddess. Decided to work on a viable career path, and go back to the goal I sort of got distracted from. Currently working on that, basically two things have to be lined up and I am headed Onward and Upward.

I hope to get to writing a little bit more on here as well. Maybe every two weeks or so.

Blessed Be.

GOYB Week 2 or.. someone stole my tags!

I am not much of an emotional eater, but I can be really bad about snacking when bored. Something that often helps me is chewing gum, since often I want the sensory input of chewing and taste. A slightly less age appropriate is silicone wrist bands.. If I am wearing one and I find myself to be "hungry" I usually stick it into my mouth and chew on it. (Isn't that an image!) Something else that helps is a food log. I'm much less likely to make repetitive trips to the kitchen if I am holding myself accountable for what I eat, as long as my sensory needs are met. A food log also reduces my problem of forgetting to eat all day and then eating like Cheech and Chong.

I'm not going to log my fitness, even though today was my week to start running. Someone stole my plates, so I have been walking to and from work, about 45 minutes each way. If I were just walking that I would feel fine running after, but walking that with about 7 kilograms in my back pack, plus I have a physicalish job.. not gonna happen lol. Got my new plates yesterday so better luck next week.
I did do my strength routine on the proper days at least.

First post goodness.

I'm Starre.
I used to blog, but I deleted my account a while ago. I felt like I had boxed myself in to my blog, and then by fixing it I felt like I had locked myself out of it. Then after about a year of not blogging I felt like I wanted to blog again so I started over.
I am on the autism spectrum, with sensory processing disorder, cluttered speech, and word retrieval/substitution issues. I have a few funny stories about it that I may share in another post.
I have JHS or EDS with a Beighton of 8/9.
I'm a Pagan with strong Wiccan leanings. Right now I am working on reconnecting to the "bottom" of my faith.. Meditation, prayer, journaling, etc. I have found myself becoming too ritual-oriented, without enough connection.
I'm trying to start running. Bad idea? Maybe.. Going to give it a try though. I've heard of a few EDS runners so whats the worst that can happen? (rhetorical question!) I'm going to use the C25k program, run a 1k on November 24th, and hopefully a 5k on December 25th.