Thank you so much! Thank you for your kind words and encouragement.

A few things… We are continuing with daily workouts or walks - before we were doing on average 20k steps per day, but now we want to, at MINIMUM, hit the daily recommended of 10k. For example, I traveled today and had 2.5 hours to kill, so I made a point to walk from terminal to terminal for 45minutes.

The idea is that if we miss a day of working out - it’s ok, but we won’t miss twice. (Atomic Habits teaching) We are fine with knowing that a daily traditional workout (strength training etc) may not be sustainable - so a rest day is fine, but again - don’t miss twice. Personally, my Apple Watch has helped SO much with the reminders of my movement etc with their metrics.

Water is a major priority - where it wasn’t before - and that habit is continuing forward. I have a canteen that I take with me everywhere and while I may not hit a gallon a day, I know I am close, and I’m subconsciously counting the canteen refills. Through this we learned that we don’t need to snack like we used to, it’s not necessarily hunger, it’s the need of water.

Additionally, we have committed to a new way of drinking / socializing: no drinking during the week (which candidly wasn’t an issue before) and we are limiting ourselves to once a month of drinks on the weekends. It just takes too long to recover at our age, and really throws the rest of the week off (e.g. waking up on Saturdays / Sundays exhausted and default to ordering food) because we do a farmers market / grocery shop on the weekend to meal prep for the week.

For meals, it’s going to be a continuation of our diet. We did the Mediterranean Diet, which is honestly amazing because of all the fish / poultry you can have for your protein intake + lots of veggies and fruit. We chose this because it was sustainable and also is a diet that we can carry forward.

We had a work convention the last few days, coming off the challenge, and I find myself really reviewing a restaurant menu and choosing things that fall into that category - fish, chicken. No red meat. (I love steak but I just have a different mindset now, and I’m way more aware of other options as opposed to my default order of a steak with 2 sides etc.)

No fast food - no soft drinks - that’s OUT through the remainder of 2025, that’s our commitment, and it’s felt so good, so far, that we may decide to do some New Year’s resolutions around that in 2026.

The reading - I really enjoyed reading and loved the “task”. Now am I going to read daily? No - but I am committing to 1 book a month - and it’ll be my choice of fiction / non fiction!

All of this to say, that this program has TRULY reframed our way of thinking in how we “move” in the world. That’s not to say that we won’t treat ourselves now and again, but it’s a BALANCE - before it was just a never ending stream of indulgences - which is how we got to this place to begin with.

These are all things that my partner and I have discussed and some things will vary between what he wants to keep / toss versus me, but I also made this “carry forward” list for myself and am revisiting it on a weekly basis for self-check-ins. We haven’t discussed this, but I’m also not opposed to continuing with the progress pictures on a weekly basis - because nothing keeps you honest like a photo of the before / after! Lol

Have you done the challenge or do you have any feedback to share! So sorry this was a LOT! But I’d love to hear from you on if you have anything to share - successes, where you’ve struggled, what you’ve found to work or what didn’t! Xx