If ya want to talk strategy - you know where to find me!!
Just so awesome!! I love this.
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Seriously. Her level of leaness is what I would love to get to. May not ever happen, but one can try!
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She has the same tanned, plastic-looking skin as Joe, too! Barbie face on a Joe body, haha.
I could not love her more.
@QuadQueen in all honesty, I know exactly what to do. It’s about mixed priorities, not lack of knowledge. However, our talk is something I very much want. I need to talk about my mixed priorities, lol.
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Just let me know when you’re ready and we’ll make it happen.
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Monday, October 14
Weight 154.9
15 minutes/1 mile cardio warmup, Day 12 Girvan UB. This was our last full body workout for the series - next we move from 3x/wk to 4x/wk and upper/lower splits. Two more weeks if I manage to keep to the 4 days. This is where I was in August when I got hurt and had to stop. Happy to be here again.
I haven’t been tracking weights, feeling that it would be a distraction from my main goal, which is form. I did have to get higher weights out of the pile this morning, though, which made me happy. I’ll start tracking next month when I start Iron.
Adding a couple of cold, rainy walks/hikes to the day’s log. It was 41 here today, and the fall colors have mostly passed peak. Here and there there are pockets of it, but it’s a super gloomy, foggy day, and the walks were awesome. Wet, though. Now I’m making soup, about which I’m very excited.
Here are the cows I’m going to eat at some point:
And here are the cows and veggies I’m eating tonight:
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Your property is beautiful. Dinner looks good as well!
Wednesday, October 16
10 minute cardio warmup, Day 13 Girvan’s UB Day 13 - first day of upper/lower split. I was lying in bed this morning, thinking about my workout schedule, and got it all sorted out (I go from 3 to 4x/week now and was already one day behind), then realized I have a training tomorrow an hour and a half away, so won’t be working out beforehand. Now I have to do it tonight and then I’ll be back on track for completion at the end of next week.
I need to maintain focus so I don’t accidentally go to regular work tomorrow.
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I have definitely done that before. Put a post-it note on your steering wheel!
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Still Wednesday
I did my upper body after work, the third time now I’ve managed an evening workout. Lifting seems easier for me to embrace at night than running ever has been. So 10 minute cardio warmup and Day 14 of Girvan’s UB.
I’m now on track to finish next week. Super psyched about it.
Now I’m going to eat a ribeye. 
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Friday, October 18
15 minutes/1 mile cardio warmup, Day 15/20 Girvan UB.
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Saturday, October 19
5 minutes warmup, day 16/20 Girvan UB, McGill’s Big 3.
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I seem to be gaining muscle at a steady rate, according to the scale. Never let anyone tell you you can’t put on a pound of muscle a week! 
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Now that deserves more than a like. Quality
Monday, October 21
Weight same
15 minute/1 mi cardio warmup, Day 17/20 Girvan, today lower body, which kicked my ass literally, then 6 minutes walking (w/ 2 sprints, but they didn’t feel right, so I stopped) then yoga and foam rolling.
@simo74 thank you, but I was being tongue-in-cheek about gaining “muscle.” I will say, though, that when I flex, things do move into place, mostly, so I most definitely am building muscle. I think the gain is probably mostly NOT muscle, however. At least, that’s what my clothes are telling me.
I have a wedding this evening and will stay overnight, which means more excess. I keep freaking out that I need to lose 5-10 lbs, then veer in the other direction, telling myself to just lift weights and try to be reasonable about diet through this busy time. And, like, enjoy the social stuff. Friday was dinner with my bestie (wine), Saturday with my son (beer, curry), and today a wedding. Tent camping in the cold weekend after next, which will be a hungry thing, plus whatever drinking. And then BAM! the holidays.
I am planning on crushing things during the T-ransformation, though. @TrainForPain you’re awfully busy lately. Any talk of what happens with the challenge?
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These all sound like wonderful times and rare occasions that are worth celebrating. We stay “on point” away from the celebrations so that we can HAVE the celebrations when they show up, vs eating vending machine chicken samosas everyday and then also celebrating.
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What I’m reading here is healthy balance. You mostly eat well, but you also enjoy your life a little. You sound like you experience a lot of guilt when you colour outside the nutritional lines a little, but I think maybe you worry too much.
When it bugs me, I try to turn it around: what if I ate unhealthily 80% of the time, but occasionally had a broccoli and kale meal or a protein shake? That “healthy” meal three times a week wouldn’t help at all.
So if you’re eating healthily 80% of the time and having a treat a few times a week, so what? Unless you’re an elite athlete… get stuck in: relish it!
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Totally agree with @T3hPwnisher and @Polar-Bear - this is all about improving your life, not consuming it.
I don’t know on transformation 2025. I might need some help this time.
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Tuesday, October 22
Girvan day 18/20, 10 minute cardio warmup.
@T3hPwnisher, @Polar-Bear, @TrainForPain thanks! I completely agree that this is meant to be a small part of my life, not the main thing. I do like to fit well into my clothes, though. But for now everything is going well enough.
Wedding was fantastic. Excess was committed with relish, though I could have done much worse.
Mr. Q is currently grilling a big pile of chicken for dinner and my work lunches. Back on track.
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I’m the same way with pickled banana peppers. I put them on everything.
Let me know what I can do! I’d be happy to tag team this one with ya!
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