A very grateful shoutout to Spinch for making this blog! A place we can track our goals and keep a track record of our progress. Personally, I’d like to lose ten pounds, incorporate more exercise for the sake of finding joy in movement, drink more water, and find a helpful routine/structure that helps me to upkeep changes I make without expectations that reinforce all-or-nothing thinking. I’d like this journey to be a kind one, one where I can have a few days off of my routine and not have the next few months unravel because I feel I “failed”. So I’m looking to move in an overall generally positive direction and find ways to gently maintain amidst the natural fluctuations that happen.

Here is the plan so far:

• Incorporate daily “workouts” that are enjoyable and help find the joy in moving my body; dance, walking/hiking, playing with our cat (we chase eachother room to room sometimes) , stretching, climbing trees even

• Doing several movement activities that are short in duration through the day so exercise doesn’t feel like a huge chunk of time I need to carve out or find tremendous energy for. For me, doing 4 ten minute exercises is more sustainable than setting aside 40 solid minutes for it. Though there will be days I will do 40 minutes too… but out of joy and not out of obligation.

• Drinking a few glasses of water a day and letting the momentum build. I know in time that will lead to drinking more water.

I have a lot of things I’d like to try creatively, spiritually, and professionally too, but I think for here I will track my fitness and health progress first. Thanks for reading.

-spinkuhl