I realized we set goals at the start of the month but never check back in at the end of it. I read that accountability increases your chances of meeting your goals like 60% or more, so I thought those who posted fitness goals at the start of the month could take a moment to reflect on whatever progress has been made (or not), esp since it was the start of the year and all. So: how well did you meet your goals? If not, what might have gotten in the way of doing so? Were they reasonable goals? Do they need amending for next month.
I will say that writing down my goals at the beginning of the month and having others offer tips made me more conscious of meeting my goals. I am happy to say that I think I have established a habit of going to the gym 3x a week, or making up a missed day in some other way, like with yoga, which I have finally returned to after months of absence out of shame about my age and lost skills since I got sick (I used to be able to do vinyasa in my mid-50s and now that isn't possible--yet). I have reduced the amount of food I consume by skipping lunch several days a week, and doing intermittent fasting (lol--by sleeping!) for up to 10-11 hours (more when I had COVID at the start of the month). It seems to be working. I have lost 5 lbs. I know it comes off fast at the beginning, so I am not expecting this to happen every month, but still celebrating the results of my dedication, such as it is. Even though I did not make it to the gym as often as I like (or get off the couch as much as I had hoped), I can feel myself getting antsy and my skin crawling when I don't go, and that impelled me to go the next day.
Fantastic! Wonderful! Thank you!
Although this may trigger a pile-on, I would like to ask those who don't want their posts to be included in the archives to reconsider, if those requests stand in the way of archiving Ovarit. Here's why:
Ovarit is a valuable part of feminist history and we want it to be available online forever.
We all posted here, under handles that we chose, and let our posts sit here on a website that anyone in the world could see for years and years. Why would we backtrack on that decision now? What's the difference between the world seeing your post on ovarit.com or seeing it on ovarit-archive.com?
If you really, truly don't want your posts visible on ovarit-archive.com, you still have a month to go back through the site and delete them all. Please do not place that burden on someone else's shoulders.
But if the archive's 90% complete, it's too late?
Yeah I'm just gonna have to rerun a lot of it to make sure any deletions are not included.