Haha, actually yes. Much better than pain from injury!
I’ve been meticulous about my diet for all of four days now, and that, too, is the good kind of hurt.
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Friday, September 20
Weight 154.8 (And I’ve been so good for days and days - almost a week! No grapes!)
Started creatine.
20 minutes mobility and light cardio, then Day 2 CG UB. A happy thing happened while I was doing goblet squats; my arms looked pretty defined in the mirror. It may have been the way the excess weight was squished around, but I’m gonna take the win. Everything felt good - I found myself smiling a couple of times. I’m really focusing on form and keeping my core steady and tight.
A weird thing that I may ask the larger group about if it continues is that I woke up with calf cramps several times last night, both sides, and one foot was cramping during the workout today. I’m taking magnesium and it’s hard for me to imagine that I’m dehydrated. Hopefully it’s just a weird one-off.
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Regarding the calf cramps - how’s your potassium intake? That could be a thing.
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I don’t know. I had a potato with dinner last night, though.
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They may have been! I wonder if your time “off” didn’t act as a protracted recovery/topping off period after a long time prior of restriction + effort.
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Saturday, September 21
Weight 153.9
Two mile walk.
I figured out my life while making the drive to go clothes shopping. I think I’ve gotten my food under control-ish. I need to add core work in, and that should be on Mondays, so my most intense weight workout will be right before I can sit on my ass at work for three days, talking, recovering, and taking walks when I don’t have patients.
I’ll lift on M-W-F and do hikes or whatever active fun thing one of the two weekend days, mobility and yoga the other (with or without treadmill or hike). @Njord, I’ve been doing the Agile 8 a couple of times a week. I’m still super awkward with it, so I haven’t gotten agile yet, but hopefully soon, haha. The foam roller is hard for me to manage. I remember seeing the video - and thinking it would be a lot of extra work - not long ago.
So lift 3 days, some with and some without cardio, one extra core workout, and the other two days mobility and yoga, which I’m liking more and more because it’s such a compliment to my sore-in-the-good-way muscles. Two days off.
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Lots of great agility routines out there but this one has been a winner for me. I suspect if you keep at it, as your fluidity increases, you’ll feel & move really well.
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Sunday, September 22
Weight 152.9
Thirty minutes or so of a combination of DeFranko’s Agile 8, McGill’s Big 3, and yoga. Very pleasant. It’s all getting smoother for me.
I agree. It’s not enough for me on its own, but I do like having it in the mix. And you’re right; it is helping me move better.
Walk, 45 slow minutes with Buttons. Oh, I also jumped rope briefly this morning before doing the mobility work.
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Monday, September 23
Weight 152.9
15 minutes warmup - light cardio and jump rope - and Day 3 CG UB. Editing to add ab work. I almost forgot that it was the plan for today. Now it’s done. So about an hour of work altogether.
Second edit: just stopped by the PT place to pay my balance and say that I’m not going to reschedule for now, because everything feels great (enough). Happy about that.
Hike is planned for later - something more challenging than my favorite rock. Both Buttons and I are up for it.
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Pumpkin has a ton of potassium, as do the other gourds.
So I dunno how you feel about pumpkin pie, but I’m putting it squarely in the group of superfoods. Butternut too.
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You’re being a bad influence!
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Mòi? 
Butternut with cocoa is LOADED with antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, anthocyanidins, phytosuperyummonoids & stuff.
Its just a matter of managing the macros.
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Ribbing aside, nothing would make me happier than to see you accomplish your goals.
Wednesday, September 25
Weight 153.4
Warmup and light mobility, then attempted and failed to mirror both my phone and laptop to do weights. Eventually gave up and did Agile 8 and McGill’s Big 3 instead, which was fine, actually, because I had twinging in my back. I’ll hit it tomorrow.
@SkyzykS I know, no worries!
Honestly, if I were going to be tempted away it would not be by pumpkin or squash, lol.
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Thursday, September 26
Weight 154.1
Weight is climbing, not sure why. I’ve been very good about my diet. The creatine has been in play for two weeks now - maybe that? I’m going to not worry about it for the time being.
Husband left this morning for (hopefully) Disney. I could hear him rustling around at his desk when something woke me at 5:30. I got up and got dressed, planning for a long workout, but as I was getting my coffee he came back and we spent the time before I got ready for work hanging out. He’ll be back late Monday, so a lot of time for me to focus on me.
Miraculously, I managed to maintain motivation through work and did it when I got home. So 10 minute cardio warmup, Day 4 CG UB. It felt really good.
I’m not feeling like I did ten days ago; all bloated and yucky. This is not a progress pic, but I felt like regular me (not ideal me, but not crippled couch me). I feel so good about moving forward! I’m very ready to move to upper/lower split workouts, which won’t be for another couple of weeks unless I jump back to where I left off last time. So much better for when life gets in the way than total body.
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Yes.
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Friday, September 27
Weight 152.8
I do think the scale is deceiving at this point. I’m happy about a loss, of course, but already knew things were going well. I expected this weekend to be all about cutting and working out, but things have taken a turn. I have dinner plans with my bff tonight, dinner with my Pittsburgh son tomorrow (in town for his father’s celebration of life), and lunch with a kid I’ve kept under my wing since working with her through her teens.
So now I’m back to my usual weekend challenge of keeping my shit together instead of living like a monk, as planned. WHY MUST MY LIFE BE SO HARD?? 
Edit to add: brief walk. Forgot to grab the dog’s water dish, so had no way to serve the 10 lbs of water I carry.
So recovery day.
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Saturday, September 28
Weight 152.2
Light mobility and cardio warmup, 10-12 minutes, Day 5 Girvan beginner:
SQUATS
‘CLOSER’ STANCE LUNGE
LATERAL LUNGE
CHEST PRESS
SUPINE ROW
SHOULDER PRESS
FINISHER: BODYWEIGHT 3/4 REP SQUATS
Feeling fantastic, really. I’m not getting DOMS at this point, but I am feeling the kind of low-key sore that feels good - just enough to let me know the muscles are there and have been working, and would maybe like an awesome little stretch.
I am feeling my back, which scares me, but it just twinges randomly so I’m ignoring it aside from continued stretching along with core and mobility work. I have not yet done any sprinting, which I want to get back to, but am waiting for the twinges to go away.
Probably taking two short (1 mile) walks today.
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Sunday, September 29
Okay! Got back together with my treadmill this morning, just briefly as a toe-dip. Did 5 EMOM sprints, though “sprint” may suggest something more than what I did, which was to run an easy distance pace (5.6mph) for five minutes total. I found it challenging initially, which brought me some despair, but then realized I was running uphill because in the six weeks I’ve been off I’ve forgotten how to operate my life. After lowering the incline it felt more like one minute of easy distance pace, lol. I was able to walk at my normal pace without any gait weirdness. A huge relief.
So I’m putting sprints back into the mix.
Heading out with the dog for our slow walk. My son brought his dog here yesterday and we took a walk to the good rock to show them and hang out, and I noticed that with the other dog there (a lightening-fast 7-year-old basset mix, haha) Buttons sped up. So she’s just shilly-shallying when we’re alone.
Got home from slow walk, jumped rope for a couple of minutes, and did Agile 8, McGill’s Big 3 and a couple of other random things.
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