This is great news!
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March 29, Friday: down 1.2, weight an even 150. Very pleased, despite already knowing that things are going well in terms of recomp. Still, it’s nice to see the scale move!
Just in time for Easter, which is still a big question mark. My in-laws do a ravioli feast, which would mean a for-sure spike in my weight, which is fine in the big scheme of things, but I haven’t decided yet whether or not I’m going. It’s 3.5 hours away, and we have the dog. So if I go we get there at 1 and leave at 4-5, and spend 7 hours in the car.
Or I can let the husband go without having to worry over getting back and have a day with Buttons, working out and eating well. We’ll see. Pros and cons.
Anyway, 30 minutes on the treadmill yesterday, ran the middle 10. It was actually pretty satisfying. I think I’ve found my compromise.
May lift today, may push it to tomorrow and really hunker down and get chores done.
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March 29, Friday still. I had the BEST workout. Added weight to 2-3 lifts, but also had the mirror in there with me to check form, and I saw a little tiny bit of definition! Very exciting. Obviously I stopped everything to photograph it. See it there, to the right of my doughy belly, the slight indent? It was an actual DIMPLE while I was doing front raises. (Sort of, lol.) I’m not going to post it because it’s so mortifying, but I looked back at a pic I took on Jan 29th, and there’s a huge change. I wish I’d been less paralyzed at the beginning of this transformation and able to take full-disclosure pics. But eh, I guess that’s life.
(Lifted, 5 min TM wu and cd, 50 KB swings.)
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Yay!
More yay! It is definitely there, those abs are are coming out ready to party!
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Sheesh, you’re not giving yourself nearly enough credit here! If you’re not actively prepping for a figure contest, then give yourself a massive thumbs-up and be proud of where you are, you’re in better shape than 99.9% of the population! (Fully acknowledging that I’m guiltier than anyone of comparing my middle-aged body against elite athletes and beating myself up about it.)
Enjoy the winning!
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I can go as high as 75%, but 99.5? Haha, no. But thank you!
March 31, Easter Sunday:
Took a long, slow hike with the dog yesterday. It was warm (maybe almost 50°), and we went down to where it was mostly snowless, which meant closer to town and more people than we like on the trails, but what can you do. Came home with a little sunburn on my face, which felt good.
I’ve decided I need (want?) to eat my hikes. During the work week I’m sedentary enough that I don’t think I need extra calories for my day-to-day fitness pursuits, but on the weekends when I’m doing both 1200-1300 calories aren’t enough. So rather than being ravenous, eating, and then feeling guilty, I’ll try to keep it clean and stop when I find satiety - and as a bonus feel happy.
Today lifted, 10 minutes TM wu/cd, KB swings
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I can’t see being so hungry as to become depressed (temporarily) and lethargic as a great pathway to success.
A nice little stop-gap like salami rolled up in provolone might help? 
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Oh @SkyzykS. 
I can’t eat salami and cheese rolled up because I’m on a heart-healthy diet and those are very fatty. 
Actually, giving-you-shit aside, I’ve bought into @T3hPwnisher’s view of cheese as poor satiety for the calories, at least for the duration of my cut. I miss it a little, but cheese has never been the big deal for me it is for some people.
I’m grabbing pieces of rotisserie chicken or grape tomatoes when I need something to get me to the next meal (I now buy boxes of meat, lol), and also - but don’t tell @QuadQueen - I sometimes grab grapes. Sometimes grapes and box meat. Not because I’m not willing to eat veggies, but because they more often need to be messed with, e.g. clean and cut up a pepper.
The chicken…it’s occasionally a little sketchy, but I have to survive, so.
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Glad it’s been helpful! Cheese is like food magic. How is it something so calorically dense can be so unsatiating? I think it speaks to the idea that our bodies don’t hunger for ENERGY: they hunger for nutrition, and cheese just doesn’t deliver in that regard. You can just eat and eat and eat it and it just doesn’t end. Hell, you can practically drink it in queso form and same effect.
Note: I have no medical training whatsoever, but I am fairly certain 9 out of 10 physicians do NOT recommend cheese as a beverage. We couldn’t understand what the 10th one was saying, because his mouth was full of liquid cheese.
And I’m more than certain our man from Philly @SkyzykS has at least on one occasion taken a hit of cheese whiz right from the can!
Where was I…oh yeah, cheese food magic: it’s worth appreciating that these aspects of cheese are GREAT when looking to put on some muscle. It’s basically free calories. One of my favorite pre-bed meals was cottage cheese mixed with an avocado and some powdered peanut butter. Slow absorbing protein and fats: perfect to feed on and recover.
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And
So, it might be a stretch, but I’m going to blame my old lizard brain for this.
In order of importance it says- 1. Calories! 2. Content. 3. Flavor…
65, 432. Heart healthy. 
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Whoa! You stop right there! As a rule, I don’t argue with results, so on differences in food selection you will never get a peep from me.
But I am not from Philly. 
I’m from the much more classy and intelligent side of the state. 
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yinz, y’all, or yous?
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Yinz, anat.
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Oh man, you’re right: I conflated Pittsburgh in my mind for some reason: a foul on my part!
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The Wisconsin in me would like to fight you on this…
“Deliciousness” is NOT a nutritional quality, haha. Believe me: I’m a Culver’s convert. Love me some Wisconsin cheese. Culver’s beats Runza, and they’ll run me out of the state of Nebraska for saying that.
…I am so, SO sorry for what I have done to your training log @EmilyQ
Cheese is the second level of the Wisconsin food pyramid. The first level is bratwurst and venison and the top level is beer.
Wisconsin is a bit different…
Culver’s finally made it to our area of Florida a couple of years ago and the local one was packed out for almost a year after it opened…
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Wait…are you saying queso is sub-optimal?? Because I don’t count that as cheese, which as I’ve just lectured @SkyzykS I now turn my optimized-nutrition nose up at. Queso is not cheese, it’s Mexican food, which as everyone knows is tomato-based and therefore very fine to eat regardless of goals. I myself had a good bit of it at a family birthday dinner on March 9, which I believe was logged just before one of my extremely mysterious big bumps up in weight. 
I mean…hasn’t everyone?
Not a problem at all! I enjoy it.
My son is there, so you’ve probably noticed a jump in classiness. Although he has a rescue cat who walks around sort of perpetually carrying dingleberries, so maybe not.
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ingelligence? most definitely.
Although, I’m not sure the tshirt/sweatpant wearing, chronically sleep deprived doctors and computer people that area produces really does much from classiness… 
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