Wednesday, May 14
Weight 153.8
Ave steps 10,304
Iron day 24-30 - full body - 1.5 mile walk with the dog.
It’s going well!
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Sunday, May 18
Weight 154
Step ave 9624
Cal ave 1337
Iron day 25/30 - shoulders - 30 minute cardio warmup. Loved this today; it just felt really good.
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Tuesday, May 20
Weight 153.4
Step ave 9403
Started Iron day 26/30 - legs - both Monday and again last night after work, aborted both times. Last night I made it halfway. I think it’s a combination of the increased walking and hiking since Louie got here and in yesterday’s case, not enough food onboard to fuel it. I’m just going to blow it off and move on to upper body, maybe tonight. The schedule feels impossibly tight with the dog here and husband gone. Louie needs a lot of attention, and the 40 minute morning walk is interfering with my before-work workouts. Last night I had to make rice for dinner, so tried to do the workout while it steamed, but lunch was at noon, so it didn’t go well, particularly as I have been doing pretty well keeping my calories down. Things will ease with husband home more than he has been - the morning walk can be shortened, etc.
Feeling good generally, though. Tight and fit. Which is not to say I look tight and fit, but I do feel it, haha.
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Wednesday, May 21
(Last post was mis-dated, it was this morning.)
Iron day 27/30 - upper body - with 15 minute/1mile cardio warmup. Plus two mile walk this morning, as every morning now.
Went well. I’m always especially proud when I manage to follow through with an evening workout.
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I meant to congratulate you on getting the scale to budge.
So, congrats! 
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You’ve done really good with life on lifes terms. 
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Thanks!
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Thursday, May 22
Weight 153.4
Steps 9625
Calories good
Iron day 28/30 - glutes - with 1 mile walk/jog warmup. So 2 workouts left, and I’ll be finishing the program just as we wrap up the T-ransformation challenge. This pleases me more than it should, as I would like to be less OCD/autistic-ish. But pleased I am nonetheless.
I need to get my pics done.
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Same here. I was watching a Hybrid Athlete lady on YouTube the other day and she was saying to be flexible with your training, i.e: don’t do heavy legs then a hard run, if you feel like crap, do mobility and KB work instead of the heavy lifting you had planned.
I’m sitting there thinking… But what if that’s what I had planned that day? I HAVE to do THAT workout!
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Right - “I’ll never have that schedule again!”
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Do you two ladies have time to discuss our lord and savior Chaos and his plan for us?
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I did do chaos! Did you not see that I bypassed the leg day after two tries?
I was compelled to write “dud” on the calendar, but I did move on with my life.
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That’s the only difference with my approach. “Oh good: this is exactly what I planned”, haha. Which, really, I embraced for the exact same sentiments expressed here: I fall apart when the plan falls apart.
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If I followed this advice, I would be great at kettelbell workouts.
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And thats the last we heard of our dear Emily. 
Just kidding. Saw them in the t-ransformation thread. 
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So, how you doin’?
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So busy I’m gulping air. Louie takes a lot of time, and work has been busy (good things both).
But I hear my family trying to get into my office building, so no time now!
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Friday, May 30
Weight 152
Steps good
Calories good
Have not lifted this week and need to figure all of that out - both the timing and what next. Louie and I are running more and more of his walks, mostly to save time and go the full 2 miles.
Part of my time crunch is that my Pittsburgh son is here. They arrived on Wednesday, so we took the dogs (they have theirs with them) for a walk and hung out for a few minutes after work, then last night we had reservations right near my office for 5:30 with my last session ending at 5. Husband said “we’ll be there at 5:15” and I had to text back to say “5:20 would be better.” Like, I really need those five minutes to shut down the work stuff, take a breath, and brush my teeth. So last weekend was getting things ready and Memorial Day is also spring planting day in my zone, so the veggies and potted flowers had to go in.
Things should ease now. I’m toying with moving to 3 full body workouts a week.
I’m also really toying with a brief trial of a weight loss drug. But there’s a lot to unpack in that.
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With all the walking you’re doing, you may benefit from Dan John’s Easy Strength for Fat Loss approach. Full body workouts that take 15 minutes followed by a walk. I feel like you’ve got some home weights, if you had kettlebells you’d be in a real good way for it.
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Whaaaaat? Don’t toy with me!
I’ll look into it!
I don’t know that I feel that the workouts and good diet alone are going to do me at 61. I’ve been really working it (not like you do, or @throwawayfitness or @s.gentz, you guys are really next-level and I can’t/wont be) for a year and a half now, and am still in the same sized pants. So I’m considering a cheat code.
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Here is a great video overview
But quick summary:
5 movements: an upper body push, an upper body pull, a hinge, some sort of ab work, and a loaded carry
No more than 10 reps per movement. 2 sets of 5, 5 sets of 2, 3 sets of 3, a set of 2, 3 and a set of 5, one set of 10, etc.
You never struggle on the lifts. Keep it easy (hence the name).
After your final lift, you go for a walk.
You do the same workout every day, only difference is the loaded carry is supposed to be different each workout.
There is a noted absence of squats. They don’t fit into the workout. Warm up is a good place to do them.
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He escaped the rain!
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