You are not alone. It’s a nutritional powerhouse, but I just can’t. lol
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I can’t believe you don’t eat liver but make me eat my greens. LOL
My mum makes a liver casserole and it is the best. The sauce makes the dryness of the meat less obvious and the gravy is the best ever.
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Down here is Oz, it is actually quite hard to buy liver. You can only really get it from a butcher special order. If you ever see it in the supermarket it is always in the pet food section. Definitely not popular with humans.
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Man, I guess if that’s what it’ll take to keep you hitting the veggies, I’m just gonna have to suck it up and choke that nastiness down. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make because I like you and I want you to be super healthy!
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This is funny! My dad raises feeder cattle. When we butcher, we always get all the parts and my mom feeds the liver to the barn cats. lol
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Quite easy to get in SYD if you know where to look. Not sure about MEL but here always available from Portuguese Butchers in ‘latin’ areas like Petersham, Bondi & Manly. My current wife is Brazilian so there’s always some sort of guts around the house… don’t mind bovine liver with a little Farofa, but I can’t cop chicken liver!
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Hi there! Your username looks brand new to me (or just brand new in this particular log), so welcome!
This cracked me up! Sometimes I introduce Chris as “my first husband” even though he’s obviously my forever husband.
Sounds like she’s an amazing cook. Anyone who can make offal palatable is impressive in my book.
Mexicans do a great job with the tripe in menudo, but there’s no hiding that texture. The mouth feel of intestines is exactly what you’d expect it to be.
HAHA YAY! I just got the dogs some liver treats and the smell when opening the bag is just horrendous.
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Almost a Workout
I felt wrecked this morning. Maybe it’s luteal phase combined with too many sessions in the range last week, but my body ached everywhere. So I started with a leg press, ramped up to a set of 180, then went home.
- Leg Press: 1 x 5
My grip strength is trash right now and my forearms are on fire from shooting on Saturday, then dryfiring a bunch on Sunday. So, upper body training wasn’t an option either.
When you’re in an obvious recovery hole, training through it will only dig yourself deeper.
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Navigating this area of my life (peri-menopausal) and all four phases of the female cycle takes strategy and flexibility. What I’m able to do in the gym doesn’t just depend on the last workout, it also depends on other life activities.
Training at the range, working on my house, and heck, even serving at church (moving around in platform heels for a few hours at a time) have an affect on how hard I can work out and what I’m even able to do.
So, when coaches state that you must follow a training plan created by someone else, I disregard that immediately. My workouts are improvisational because they have to be. That’s the only way I can be consistent in the gym, and consistency looks different on a week to week basis because luteal-phase-me and ovulatory-phase-me are two different bodies.
Maybe women with high testosterone who aren’t iron deficient can’t relate to this, but it’s not a rare condition.
And most coaches will never understand this because they simply don’t want to. It’s easier to say that “women should exercise just like men” because they don’t want to have to walk back what they’ve said about their training programs, which they’ve marketed to both men and women.
Incidentally, they probably don’t realize that they’re making an argument for a woke agenda which claims that males and females can do the same things and can therefore compete against one another in sports… as long as the dude has a girly sounding name.
Anywhoodle, I’m okay with the results of being improvisational in the gym.
This is my favorite wig. I don’t wear it very often because I don’t want to look like a Biden voter.
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FWIW, most coaches I’ve talked to wont even take on female clients, mostly for this reason.
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Interesting. That’s news to me! From what I’ve seen, coaches (online and in person) are on the lookout for new clients, and many prefer females. What I’ve heard is that women are (in general) more compliant and conscientious about technique.
The guy who did the best job with me actually never gave me a training plan; he knew I didn’t want that.
Instead, we trained in person once a week and only targeted my lagging areas: shoulders and back. He blew up my upper body better than anyone ever had before, and his training sessions were a total blast.
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I LOVE IT!!!
And, fair. Lol
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Thank you for validating my sillies. 
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This is always a sign for me that I need to train a little less, and eat a little more. Oh and some nice liver pate would probably help. 
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I’ve been eating tons and only lifting 3 times a week, but I’m thinking about not lifting at all this week; maybe just lots of walking.
Haha I might have to be inebriated to eat that. 
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Sounds like a good plan, even a little sled drag or prowler pushing or sprints might work. just something to take weight out of you hands and off your shoulders.
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Your timing is impeccable. I have been feeling wrecked for over a week. Low energy, tired to the bone. So much so my eyes look like a racoon’s and got puffy for a couple of days… looked like I got punched in the face.
Mostly from life stuff, but I keep trying to lift, do conditioning, just something involving iron. It’s very much an obligation at this point, I justify it by calling it “consistency”.
Even my hubby is saying… You know you can take a week off. It’s needed sometimes, we’ll get back to the gym next week.
Maybe I should listen to people wiser than me and just go for lots of walks.
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Oh noooo!!!
Your hubby is right. I think it was Paul Carter who wrote about training stress and life stress being equally tough on the body. So if you’ve been dealing with both, your body is doing the right thing by sending you a “hey can we back off a bit?” message.
You are just as wise as anyone else, but so dedicated that you benefit from an outside set of eyes helping you see that it’s time for a deload or even a complete break. Sounds like you and your husband make a fantastic team! 
The best thing about backing off is that the decrease in cortisol often leads to a release of water retention. So you end up de-puffing by just relaxing.
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My coach is getting on me constantly about reducing stress and getting more sleep. Like those are the two biggest items he’s on me about. Not the training, not the diet, not the gear. It’s the sleep and stress he’s pointing at as what’s holding me back (both for fat loss and muscle gain).
So I’m really starting to lean towards taking rest days when you need it, as opposed to some arbitrary pre-planned deload week.
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I think this is the best way too. One argument I’ve heard for pre-planned deloads is that it prevents burnout. Not sure how well that works, but it makes sense.
It just seems like our bodies and life circumstances are evolving so much that it’s wise to just take a “do what works for me now” approach. And leave plenty of room for this:
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