Hmm… Wonder if mrs doomy would be ok with installing a pig leg in the kitchen 
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Gotta chance it, Doom!
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That would be a really expensive hog’s ass sammich. 
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That would be my version of “Leaving Las Vegas”.
House destroyed, egg cartons and bakery bun bags laying everywhere, Sautee pans all crusted up on the stove.
So that would just mount right on a butchers block table, huh?
Yeah, well. Perhaps I am not that brave 
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Six hundred and fifty for a prosciutto?!!!
If you’re from NYC, head to Astoria, Eastern European stores there sell aged bone-in prosciutto for less than 10 bucks / pound.
There were ones selling in Shanghai for well over 1000
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I confess that my two favorite purchases of 2020 were a new fridge and a standing conversion for my desk. We went from a fridge packed so heavily that we couldn’t find anything we were looking for (and ended up wasting a bunch of food) to one that’s big enough for a family of 6. We’ve thrown away 6 oz of food since we got it. And my back is already thanking me for the standing desk…if it saves me 2 chiro appointments it pays for itself.
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I confess I really feel like skipping my leg workout today… And I justified eating a chocolate caramel in anticipation of said workout
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It’s perfectly fine to do both. Here’s a way to think about it that I’ve myself have done, as we have similar struggles (scenario was I ate a carby pre-workout meal but didn’t go to the gym):
I gave my body carbs, that instead of using it to fuel my workout it can now convert to some serotonin which will make me feel better, and feeling good is good because then I can perform better another day.
The extra calories ensure growth, combined with the protein I had the resulting insulin release will serve to further muscle protein synthesis in the muscles I trained yesterday.
That was tasty, delicious, and well-deserved.
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The problem is that I don’t have a good excuse other than “I don’t feel like it”
- I’ll probably do some kickboxing later… but that doesn’t bode well for next semester, when I won’t have the time to punt workouts
I didn’t feel like it either, was a good enough excuse for me. It allowed me to feel like it another day.
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This is legit the only good excuse. Everything else IS just an excuse.
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That’s a very interesting perspective- usually you hear the opposite
Or I’m completely misinterpreting the post…
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Usually people fail to achieve their goals. I don’t find it useful to do what is usually done or said.
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Disagree. Most people are great at hitting their actual goal. It’s their stated goals they miss so frequently.
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Used to lift with a dude that would spout off to everyone he could find all these grandiose lifting goals he was gonna hit. It annoyed the shit out of me, but he actually hit most of them so I can’t hate too hard.
I confess I missed almost all of my actual and stated training goals this year. I’m going to hide behind the “gyms were closed for 4 months of the year” excuse, but I’m still disappointed.
The only one I hit was number of training sessions. I trained in my garden throughout summer; but limited equipment (and motivation if I’m honest) meant that a lot of that was just damage limitation rather than progress.
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I remember reading this post, maybe in the 531 section. A guy was asking how to get bigger / stronger. Some guys laid out a pretty standard plan. But the OP just came back:
“If that’s what it takes - I can’t be bothered”
I’ll be fair that level of honest is refreshing. Getting strong is hard work and takes a lot of effort.
Getting lean takes even more. Its okay to go - this is enough. I’m not willing to sacrifice any more for my goals. They are not that important to me.
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I have never felt this way. Getting lean takes the opposite of effort for me: it requires INaction.
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