Yesterday did 40 minutes TM LISS with KB swings interspersed. I increasingly like combining them. Time moves more quickly doing sprints of any sort.
Today full body weights with 5 min wu and 10 min cd to a cardio video.
I’m feeing really achy today. It’s been a social weekend, which means eating out. I hit a new low weight on Saturday morning, then lost my mind eating Thai food for dinner. Oh, and Ghirardelli baking chocolate chips. Yesterday was yet another birthday party, during which I did okay - I only had maybe 5 chips and managed to no-thank-you the cake, but then we went to dinner after and I had pizza and three Coors Lights. Which was all super yummy and buzzy and good, but here it is, the end of the challenge. So I’m going to really pull myself together this week, grab some pics, and then start moving my calories up. Not that they haven’t been up - they have, obviously! But formally. I’ll hold for 2-3 months, then maybe drop back down.
May 31 Weight 148.1 Average calories: 1596 Steps: 10,469 (Not bad I think given how sedentary I am at work.)
Today ends the T-ransformation challenge, so it’s time for the next segment. I’m reverse dieting with the plan being to maintain weight for a bit while I increase strength and conditioning. To that end, I’ve decided to do a Friday morning recap of the week’s calories and steps, so here it is.
Also Friday 3.25 mile hike, very pleasant aside from the black flies. I’ve just dropped a pile of money on permethrin-treated shirts and socks. I have a couple of shirts and they definitely help, but they’re both long sleeved and also husband bought them for me when he was getting stuff for himself for a three week Alaskan canoe trip years ago, and we don’t really have the same taste in bug clothes for me.
After our hike we checked in at our land. I hadn’t been this summer yet, and husband has been doing a lot of work. So beautiful there. Time for a camping weekend.
Full body weight workout, 5 min WU and 20 min CD cardio video.
Today is my first day back after last week’s big deload and the increasing of my calories. Last night I had pizzeria pizza - the first time this year. I’ve had craft pizza from a place we like a couple of times - it seems like the healthiest option for reasonable price - but that’s not the same as an OG slice. So I thought I’d be laying down PR’s all over the place. Not so, however, and I even regressed on a couple of lifts. : /
Thank you @SkyzykS and @ChickenLittle! It’s actually not accurate - I’ve been here since 2005 or maybe 2006, and it wouldn’t have been June that I first posted (I was in school when I started posting, and graduated May 2006). But regardless, it’s been a weirdly long time, which is worth celebrating.
Don’t stress this often happens to me also when I deload. The strength will still be there and come back with more repetition. Can’t wait to see how your next block of training goes. I get a real sense of purposeful intent with your training right now and that is very exciting.
Full body workout with 10 minutes WU and 20 minutes CD light cardio. Took me almost 2 hours, but I suppose what better have I got to do? I’m feeling really pleased with the way I feel aside from a tweaked back and a hip issue. I think the KB swings may be responsible, but not sure. I’ve laid off those and am stretching a lot. I think it’s getting better. The week of just walking helped.
I got a really funny, sort of creepy, but super flattering compliment yesterday. My daughter coaches soccer and we went to the game. As we approached a kid on the bench said “That’s your MOM? She looks GOOD for her age!” He’s 10 or so, so it really stunned me (is he assessing women’s looks already? isn’t that awfully young?) but because he is only 10 it made my day. I get compliments, of course, but they all come from adults who know me, so I assume there’s an element of polite and take them with a grain of salt. This one was unquestionably genuine. Good motivation, because it would not have happened in January. (My daughter in a tired voice: “I know.” lol)
It did today, haha.
I feel exactly that way, and it is exciting. This has happened in the past, but if I’m being honest it’s generally been when things have been shaky in other arenas of my life. Something I could control. That’s not the case this time. I dropped to three days/wk of work last July, and I guess this is what I’m doing with some of the extra time I have now.
I was thinking about this as I went about my day, and realized I wasn’t being fair to myself at ALL. I’ve definitely leaned into working out during troubled times, but thinking back I can’t remember a time in my adulthood that I wasn’t either working out or doing athletic things with my time. Working in the gym and dancing all night, softball with friends, my first piece of home workout equipment a couple of months after my oldest was born, rollerblading with babies in strollers, eventually “mountain biking” with the kids in suburban Texas. Skiing when we came north, traded rollerblades for ice skates. Gym memberships along the way, more home equipment bought. A hiking honeymoon not long ago, vacationing on my bicycle. I guess I don’t think of myself as athletic - more bookish and nerdy and always telling people about important studies. That I don’t do any of it particularly well may also be what stops me from feeling athletic. But I think I really must be.
This made me smile so much. You know you are a great parent when your kids are embarrassed by your success.
My middle daughter always tells me how much her friends (boys and girls) all think I am scary, then at the same time she tells me they want to come over to our house because the love coming over. This tells me I am doing something right.
30 minutes TM LISS. Achy today, the walk helped sort it out.
I didn’t have a 9:00 this morning and have just come back from a walk around the parking lots here at work.
Calories have gone up, weight has come down. I credit @throwawayfitness for the loss - I’ve been circling the yard at home (2.6 acres, so a little bit of walk) and the office complex at work as many times a day as possible to top off my steps. Do I feel ridiculous figure-eighting around outpatient clinics? Yes. But if @throwawayfitness can walk up and down his driveway to meet his goals, then I can do this. I think “my people” can’t be my sedentary coworkers. They have to be you guys, because here is where I find similar natures to my own, in this regard at least.
