July 19th is the halfway point of this challenge I have set to change my life in one year, and I would be lying if I said it wasn't brunch time to have a stellar halfway post ready for you all!

That pressure has made me push myself a little bit harder and feel better about myself. For a while, I was in a lull, stuck in the monotony of the everyday. I felt like this cocoon of a challenge I am in became less extraordinary and more routine. Which, to be candid, might be a part of the goal I didn't realize. I want my daily life to evolve and improve, and while I think it has been, I have also felt stuck.

So, here we are, at the beginning of July, and this may have been one of my most productive weeks yet. I keep bullet points in my planner as I do things worth noting on here, so this might be a little jumbled, but still all good!

I made an appointment with a new Primary Care Physician, who I like a lot, and went for a physical for the first time in three-four years. I liked my old PCP a lot, we got on really well. When she left the practice and I lost my job, I fell off of the health wagon for about a year. But now we're back at full force. He listened to me, prescribed my ADHD medication again, and also sent through a prescription for a GLP-1 that is covered by my insurance (which I haven't started yet, but if I choose to, I'll update you all.)

Piggybacking off of health, I gave myself a new physical goal: get 10k steps each day and log a workout once a day. While I'm aware the universal number is 10k steps, I haven't been reaching those, but now I am pushing myself to reach them. I've spent evenings this week with a Leslie Sansone video, Grow With Jo, and on evening walks once the heat wave broke up. I think if I'm going to restart medication then I also want to start taking better care of my body. I'm at the gym 3-4 times/week, but it was difficult for me to get back into a routine after our weekend in Michigan, so I feel like this small challenge is kickstarting my fitness journey for the second half of the year.

Two big financial moves were made: I paid off my second largest credit card! I've been in CC debt to some degree since I was 18 or 19 and I can't wait to be out of it. It's like I can finally see some kind of light at the end of this tunnel.

I got up to date on an Affirm order I kept forgetting about. Okay, well, I didn't forget. I had auto-pay on, but it was attached to my old debit card. I updated everything and now my account is current!