Yeah, I know I said Wednesday...and I am very aware that today is Sunday. This week has been a week and that is putting it mildly. Now, I did get up, got the weight and the tape. I have my baseline numbers and actually already lost a bit of weight from the first time I stepped on the fancy scale.
So, for the two-week updates to work I have to share numbers...
Weight: 313 (down 10 lbs. from 12/31)
Muscle Mass: 163.4 (52.2%)
Fat Mass: 140.9 (45.0%)
Total Body Inches: 294.25
Umm...excuse me? There are other percentages in there (water, protein, bone...you get it) to and total the 100% but I am over here focusing on the fact that the Muscle is more than the fat! I have been on this journey for a long time and have collected a shit ton of data NEVER...I mean NEVER has my muscle mass been that high with a fat percentage that much lower.
With all that out of the way till the 29th...let's chat about what has happened this week that threw me off my game and what has spurred what is happening for the next week and a halfish.
Long time readers, you all know what happened in 2022/2023...cliff notes for new readers, we lost our apartment, spent 9 months in a hotel, moved to New York in 2023 and began the rebuild. After almost 2 years of hustle and grind...we are back to where we were when my husband got out of the military in 2017. 8 years of hustle and working together to get back to a level of comfort that at times really seemed hopeless...but FUCK IT here we are doing the thing!
2025 has started with so many pivots and plot twists that I am pretty sure I have whiplash and heading for a flare, so I am going today to ask for a mental health day tomorrow from work. I am nervous about it, but I know I need it to prevent a major crash that I can feel coming.
I had three pieces of information hit me this week that took me right back to the feeling I had in 2022. I am feeling myself slip back into a mindset of Fuck the World, and having clawed my way out of that blackness, I REFUSE to allow myself to get back to that darkness.
So, I started the self-care protocols this week. I made a major change. I have not had short hair in probably a few years now. I went makeup shopping on Ulta and Amazon. I am patiently waiting on new tools and some old favorites to play with. I am asking for the mental health day to go shopping and to lunch with my family, weather permitting as we are supposed to have a snowstorm today into tomorrow, but a day to drink coffee and write stories? I can work with that too.
I decided that I am simplifying my goals for the romance readers on the run challenge, 5500 steps a day and low/moderate stress levels. I am simplifying food for the week. Cook at home 5 nights this week, no eating after 8:30, and pack a lunch for the pub shifts on Wednesday and Saturday.
I will run those goals this week and next week. Then when we set the goals for February 3rd to the 7th, I will start with what will be the next two weeks.
That is the biggest decision. I have been trying to bring that element back into my life of doing things two weeks at a time and yet, I keep getting ahead of myself and taking a seat on the struggle bus and that is probably a big contributor to the mental acrobatics that I have going through.
I made my investment of 2025 into my writing and got my scribe home and loving the setup of DISTRACTIONLESS reading and notetaking for my stories in progress. I have a writing challenge I am in with a very diverse group of people that is pushing not only my writing style but my patients when dealing with people. It serves a purpose though, because while I know my writing is not for everyone, I do know when you put it out there for everyone to read, you open yourself open to opinions that you may not need or want, but it will happen, and you have to be ready to deal with that.
I did not get any writing done this week except for a few drabbles and with that a challenge to develop one of them into a series told through a prompt and 100 words at time. Sure, no sweat, I totally got this.
I also started a revamp of the Facebook and the IG page to become more reader/writer focused. The blog is next. I am working up a design that floats between all pages and just makes sense. In this revamp, the fact that I am an LGQBT+ writer and reader is going to be a thing. The fact that I read dark and twisty, morally gray, and sports books will not be hidden either. If this is not for you, I am okay with that! I just don't want you to be surprised as the shifts happen. I have a five-year plan and the brand I am building needs to be established.
So, in a quick recap what can we expect from me for 2025???
1. More blogs! These will be the journey, book reviews, writing updates, life updates, and just randomness that crosses my mind this year.
2. Less of the weight loss talk, more of the book stuff!
3. Mental Health matters and self-care is key to keeping it in the forefront of what I am doing.
4. Year one of the 5-year plan! Operation Sip Iced Coffee while holding conversations with the characters in my head. This year's intention shop one all mine manuscript to publishers!
Till Next Time-
Audie
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