In Review: June

June was my comeback month!

Memorial Day weekend I made a pact with myself to get back to a regular routine of working out, eating better, and not letting myself stay in the slump I was in.

I still have moments of anger and sadness over the things that put me in the slump - I still have moments of being down on myself for falling apart instead of staying strong - I still have moments where the guilt creeps in because I feel selfish for wanting to focus on other goals instead of those things I wanted so badly (namely trying to refocus on running goals instead of pushing harder to do more fertility treatments - I've never looked at those to things as compatible) -

But I am getting there.

Workouts have become part of my regular routine again.

I feel better. I feel stronger. Overall, I feel happier. I am starting to feel refreshed and put back together.

I have two weeks of teaching summer school left, and then I hope to add feeling balanced back to that list, too.

These emotional victories can't really be quantified. You're just going to have to believe me that it has been a good month.

Here's what I can put numbers to:

I went from having logged next to zero miles most of the year, to mainly walking 20 miles in May, to running (run/walk) 41.2 miles in June.

I also attended 10 group fitness classes at the Y.

Altogether, I logged some sort of exercise on 21/29 days!

When I made the pact with myself, I had high hopes of seeing fast results on the scale. That has not happened yet. I am working on a post just about the weight and my weigh-ins, but after a lot of bouncing around, I've netted just a two pound weight loss this month.


I can only hope July is as good to me as June was.


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How was your month? What goals are you working towards?
How do you measure progress that can't necessarily be quantified?

(Posts like this would be more fun with pictures. I have to get better about including pictures in my posts again! I'll work on it!)