RE: Health Goals 2020 | Peak Flow Readings and Building Breathing Capacity

I love how well defined your health goals are. This makes it much easier to check if your actions really help to achieve the defined goals... I guess I write this, because although my goal is clear cut (reduce pain intensity and frequency), progress towards it is not easy measurable (or better: I do not know how to measure it) So far it is mostly recommanded to try the therapy for three month and then see if after the time something changed to the better. If not it may be that the therapy does not work or the patient made mistakes while doing it and the letter is more or less always the case, so the procedure starts enew.
I have to think about my methods especially as in my 'holidays' I stopped running completely as I got heavy migraines afterwards. There seem to be so many possible helpful things regarding migraines which only work for some. And all have in common that they have high "costs" like medication with intense side effects or drastic changes to eating habits, 4 timres a week sports which is nearly impossible if you have frequent migraines etc.... And for none of these methods there is strikingly better prognosis then with a placebo therapy (this applys to medical and non-medical interventions/therapies). And besides this meagre outcome (especially if you try medication) there is this in German called honeymoon effect: meaning all methods work for a short time if they are drastic enough because the hope alone, that the change in regime will help, creates a placebo effect for its own. Sorry, again I am rambling (I need an English infusion, so that my writing is more coherent and shorter :-DDD)

But back to your regime... I hope it is ok if I write my thoughts about it, because I am sure you are much more learned about your own condition. I do not want to disrupt or impose stupid advice; I am honestly interested in learning more about your health management (I already did profit by the way... I never thought about the problem to measure improvement in migraine management during the therapy).
I am a bit surprised that you have chosen Pilates to enhance lung function, as in my memory Pilates teaches a kind of “flat” breathing which is restricted to the rip/lateral breathing. On the other hand, my experience with Pilates is a while ago, so there may be a lot of changes to the method. I am curious to see how this will work (really curious, as I liked Pilates). My first idea (but I am not learned in any capacitiy about lung health) would have been yogic (or other) breathing exercises, learning/playing a wind instrument, singing or perhaps breast stroke swimming (because of the forced rhythm as the head is under water while releasing breath).

And then I must congratulate you that you already have managed to get walking and sports into your daily routine!
Now I also want such a well defined plan <3 <3