Careful @theBeth, most here think that we live in the same area code…
Also. This is why I have a chance of a good rec letter
@Edgy most if us think there’s a lot more going on than simply living close
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Confession - although I care about not being a totally fat slob, physique goals no longer motivate me like when I was a teenager or 20-something. Maybe it’s a lingering effect of a couple nearly life-ending injuries, but I value and enjoy training for some type of physical task or ability far more than appearance.
The kicker is losing fat would help my current goal of hiking some 14,000-foot-tall mountains (14ers) in Colorado this summer. The hiking goal fuels my training and, while typing this, I had a paradigm shift. If I see eating as part of my training instead of a physique-based effort, the perspective will give purpose to my dietary efforts, too.
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Why is that a confession? There’s too much sound logic and healthy thinking to count 
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Good point. I’m virtually always logical and sound in my reasoning 
The confession is I’m doing the physique challenge, and the challenge is to care about my physique! But I must care more than I believe, or I wouldn’t have disliked what I saw in my January pictures strongly enough to join the challenge.
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Confession:
I looked back through my training log and it turns out I’m weaker now than in October. I currently struggle to dead lift 200kg twice, where as in October I dead lifted 190kg 6 times.
This is in part due to an injury over Christmas and I had to stop all dead lifting and heavy squats. And this was only the 3rd dead lift session since introducing them back in. And I know it will take some time before I get the movement practiced again. But still. It feels crap.
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Don’t get confused, 200 is a bigger number than 190!
Yeah but 190 for 6 - and now 200 for 2. I’d have hoped for a few more. Even 3 I could live with. But dropping 4 reps for 10kg feels weak.
On the other hand - its an encouragement to train harder.
Or, conversely, look how much you kept!
I’ve been pleasantly surprised a couple of times after injury or layoff how much is retained on the deadlift in particular.
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Upgrade to banana.
Bacon and banana is peak pizza. Caramelised onion chutney optional but recommended.
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sacrilege.
I honestly had no idea there were so many pineapple-pizza-loving lunatics in this madhouse. Somebody do me a favor - if my cheat meal is ever a keto crust pineapple pizza, shoot me. Shoot me dead.
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Mrs Balls chutney, mmm.
Screw Kong. I’d pay 10x the ticket price to watch this:
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Man…what happened to flame free…
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Is there any other kind? Anything else isn’t really chutney, just jam trying to be edgy.
At least the keto crust apparently resembled a real crust and wasn’t some crumbly cauliflower shit
Confession:
I’m away surprised by how much food I need to function. I’ve eaten as much food today (by 15:00) than 3 of my work colleges eat a day. And I’m stopping to cook a preworkout meal.