Alright, four years. So what’s been going on in my fitness journey? A lot, actually. So four years after my weight loss I have been maintaining my weight at around 14 pounds over my initial goal weight. I don’t love that but I like it. My goal weight was 128 and that was really hard to maintain. It slid up bit by bit. My ceiling of tolerance for it is the low 140s. When I hit that, I start food tracking again using http://www.chronometer.com. It’s well worth the subscription cost to keep it. It seems like getting on 1,500 calories per day or so will reverse any upward drift.

I’ve maintained a membership to https://www.planetfitness.com. I did suspend it during COVID. They’ve probably benefitted as much from it as I have. Most of the time I’ve been an intermittent user but i do appreciate that there are clubs near my home and near my work. The hydromassage is so wonderful… And my local club did a major equipment upgrade with all the extra money I have them so there’s that.

Maybe a year or so ago, I got a subscription to http://www.yogainternational.com. That’s been well worth the cost, too. I can’t say enough good about this site. I think I have seldom taken the same class twice. There are a couple of thousand classes on there in every style and duration. It allows me to say on any given day, what do I feel like needs work and address it. A class on this site featuring Guilia Pline https://www.giuliapline.com/ taught me quite a lot about the biomechanics of the foot, and led to a big change for me.

Over the last four months, I have made a complete transition to minimalist shoes. The brief version of this part of my fitness journey is that after taking the class above, I really began to think about whether my assessment of my feet– that I had irreparably damaged them– was in fact true. I began thinking that there might in fact be something I could do about them. Yoga made me interested in strengthening my ankles and at least somewhat addressing my lack of proper toe splay, both of which were making it harder to balance in one legged poses. I observed the admonition to transition gradually and spent the summer of 2023 wearing only shoes that did not crowd my toes. I didn’t immediately transition to minimalist soles. I began introducing them slowly and at this point have established a decent wardrobe of barefoot-inspired shoes. That deserves it’s own post and links.

This enterprise led me to establish a Poshmark seller business where I sold and am selling my entire prior collection of shoes and boots. It’s helped me procure some of the new stuff and seemed a bit more responsible than just giving them all away as I had a great collection of Dr. Marten’s and more. You can check out my closed at: https://poshmark.com/closet/fiercest_finds.

Thanks for joining my as I catch up.