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I admit to some Schadenfreude watching the price fall. Today is a good day. Got a call from the mortgage people and we are confirmed for closing Thursday of next week pending final audit! We have packed up the guest room already. I have also set up internet, water, and electricity (not hooked up for natural gas, and trash pickup is tied to the electric bill). We also found out our cash to close is about $3000 less than the initial quote from the mortgage company, so that's more money to get stuff when we do get the house.

My co-workers ended up making me eat some peanut butter crackers. They helped. Pretty significantly. Not sure what was up with that, apparently I just hadn't eaten enough or something. Note: this isn't a regular occurrence in regards to dizziness or anything. I did end up going to the gym, however it was a pretty light day (for me). It was chest and shoulder day, then a 15% incline for 15 minutes distance trial. I definitely decided to swallow pride on the weights / reps I was using / doing. Then I ate a burger for dinner. Also, thanks, I think.... I'm torn on it. I know that a lot of people would be super excited, but I just keep thinking I should be able to do more. Actually, I know I can do more, however I'm not because there is a process to following a program and I know I need to keep to the process instead of doing my own thing. But I'm just like, meh about it because it seems light. I am my own worst critic.

I am! It's not like we have a common account or money pool, but we do share expenses and keep track of our spending, though we still have the freedom of doing some (reasonable) spending of our own without checking for each other's permission first. In hindsight, she did have a point, I spent a large amount of money to pay off my debt plus I spent my monthly "family financial assistance" on groceries, bills etc which got me halfway into the month with nothing but a 5E bill in my wallet. It's not like we're broke, she can chip in for the rest of the month (plus I was counting on a little extra from the family) but it would have been wiser if I'd saved some to get me through the month as far as daily expenses go. To take that a step further, I can understand how such financial management on my part can stress her out and make her feel insecure. One day I got a few hundred in my pocket, then after a couple of days most of it is gone and worse, I can't remember where I spent most of it. The shock of the moment/amount, coupled with days of emotional duress after arguing is what got us. I'm happy to say the long weekend gave me some much needed mental clarity when it comes to both how I see our relationship's future and that monetary issue. In other news, I'm helping the SRLF's mom with a serious legal issue she's got and (I'm guessing instead of monetary payment) she got me a gig ticket, meaning I got to see Planet of Zeus, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Clutch last night!

I made dis. Moroccan Spiced Couscous from Thug Kitchen. Ignore everyone else's trash behind the bowl. Did not make the chicken I wanted tonight because the couscous took too many spoons, but there's a shit ton of couscous in the fridge so chicken will happen tomorrow to accompany it.

Drive by update: Yesterday at work was a wash, but I’m ok with it. Taught dance, then just took a relaxed drive home jamming out to music. Got home, decided I didn’t feel like cooking dinner so it was cereal and milk time. Somewhere in the evening, took a nice hot bath (new tub is SO MUCH bigger than my old apartment’s!) and then read the foreword and intro to “The Brothers Karamazov” (yes, Russian literature is part of my relaxing). Got in bed at a reasonable hour and hit the gym this morning. All in all, a quality Tuesday of CHILL. Also, I’m already done with my grad school homework for next week - operation Hermione is a success so far!

Bought food to cook, but also bought a premade sandwich since my last minute haircut decision meant I didn't eat lunch. Ate sandwich, pissed off my stomach somehow. So food will wait to be cooked tomorrow. Sadness. In other news: And to think, I thought I was fat then. D: Not pictured: $5 silver flip flops. My mother was so upset with that decision. I clearly didn't give a shit. I was also the only person to get solo photos. People looked at me funny, but hell if I wasn't getting a decent photo after putting all that effort in.

So true. I need to just tell them what they want to hear... which is that I'm awesome, and then they'll believe it because they want to, and I'll have a job, and they can not do more interviews and everyone will be content for a short while. I did some research about the company and working there... Pros: Good benefits, their building has a gym, pay range for the position is right above where I need to be right now, the job description is a really good place to start in data driven fields (database queries, basic stats, and visualization). Cons: Reviews complain about turnover, inefficient management (but so does everyone, everywhere else), lack of upward mobility Basically, it sounds like a good start, but not a company to really stick to long term. I'm still trying to schedule the phone interview. I offered up two possible times, and the interviewer couldn't make either, so it'll probably happen next week, which is good because that gives me time to prepare. Interview reviews for this position/company say they took about a month from application to offer so expect 3-4 weeks of anxious and/or excited Brogo. I really should eat some more protein before I go to bed.

It's a well know principle of physics that the mass of your stuff will expand to completely fill the volume of whatever home you purchase, with virtually no loss in the stuff's density. The stuff can never be re-compressed in the future, and excess stuff must be moved into off-site storage facilities, wherein its inertia will increase exponentially with the passage of time.

Day 4.3 I spent some of the day working standing and some of the day sitting/stretching, anticipating that I might get weird twinges again, but nothing arose! So, I went to the gym for take 2 at squat day. Nothing cropped up during my warm-up sets or during any of my stretching, so by the time I got to my work sets, I was just so happy that I was able to squat that I wasn't even nervous about them. Plus, my theory about Sundays killing my squats turned out to be pretty accurate -- this was the best heavy day I've had for squats in ages. Squats: 3 x 3 x 260# Bench: 3 x 3 x 135# Chin-ups: 4, 4, 3 Push-ups: 3 x 15 RDLs: 3 x 6 x 185# I should have done more accessory work because this was technically supposed to be two workouts in one day, but I just didn't have the time/patience for it and I was starting to get hungryyyy. Instead, I went home and ate dinner from my mostly pre-prepared food from Sunday (including a esquites inspired salad, chicken sausages, and cheese and crackers with cucumber). I took a power nap before D&D because I was SUPER SLEEPY and managed to get up and on right on time. Unfortunately, my internet connection was TERRIBLE the entire time and I kept lagging out. This seemed to be endlessly amusing to the party, though, so no real loss, I guess! We still progressed pretty far along where I was hoping they'd go. They've left Detritropolis in a plush tram to head back to the local Duergar queen's territory and investigate a mining rush that seems to be spurred on by demon diamonds. One of my players is having a baby within the next week or two, so we may have a bit of a hiatus during that time. Or have someone play his character for him... which always goes well. Lifting: 11/13 Shenanigans: 3/4 Writing: 7/8

Been called for interview, it's next week, with 3 people... going to be interesting...

June 19th: sleep - went to bed around 10pm. Wife let me fall asleep bit after 11. Will not complain. workout (strength) - done veggie in every meal - done protein - lunch 101g, dinner - 51g, supper 25g - 177g total. I gave myself accountability reward for not skipping workouts since march - got myself proper running shoes (until now I was using my bushcraft boots).

I just found an envelope with high school graduation photos and a couple my parents took before prom. I’m so mad now. It feels so stupid to say but goddammit I was pretty! And I never saw it. But now I’m looking back at these pictures and I would kill someone to be that girl again. Or at least the comparable version for my age. Ugh.

Week 4 Day 3 Is it week four? Geeze. I had a lot of cleaning I wanted to do today. I didn't. I was really exhausted when I got home. Had to close my eyes briefly. Ugh. But I did set up the watercress fountain, and planted it. It's sort of a planting experiment; if the seeds don't sprout this way, I'll start them hydroponically this weekend. Now I just have to wait forever. Oh, and I moved all the onions and garlic to a nice attractive basket with good airflow. And watered the garden. So sort of a garden day all day. But man, I needed to clean. I'm gonna have a late dinner and sleep instead.

Garden update: I just went by to water and inspect, but I did end up taking one beet. They looked nice, and they need thinning. I now have 120% germination on the purple beans. (No, not really, but I forgot I put all the leftovers in my hand around the new ground cherry. I think even the broken ones sprouted, which I didn't expect.) They seem vigorous. I think I saw lemongrass seedlings. But no sign of basically all the flowers I planted at the same time. Well, maybe they take longer. The transplanted yarrow will definitely make it. All the existing foliage died, but the new stuff is already coming up. The ground cherry cutting might make it. Maybe. I didn't do a great job selecting and preparing it, but, while the leaves and flowers have died back, the branch still seems okay, so now it just has to root in time. It's tough, it could do it. The thyme is starting to flower, and is also taking over everything again. I think I'm gonna have to start drinking thyme herbal tea just to control this stuff. But I will say this, it's a fabulous living mulch. It keeps the ground really moist. I might move some over the ginger, which needs that moisture. The currant tomato had a growth spurt, and has now been ceremonially lashed to the cold frame to climb. It also has some vigorous side stems. I might do some interesting plant stuff to it, by burying part of the stem to give it more root mass, and braiding those side stems so they fuse together into a more sturdy stem. Maybe I can make it a tree. The California poppies have gone wild, they look great, if a bit floppy. It's a stylish dishevelment, though. Mostly orange and pale blush pink today. I collected a gazillion seed pods. They also were attracting pretty butterflies. The marigolds have also really taken off. Tons of flowers. (The alyssum planted the same time is still MIA. I might have some coming in, but I'm really not sure. What I thought might be it seems to be something left by the last gardener that I now need to identify. It's weedy, but looks deliberately distributed.) My replacement heat-loving squash has sprouted and looks healthy, though they both sprouted so close together that I'm worried about transplanting one. So I guess I kill one, or let them grow together. This is a really fast squash, I should have some in 40 days. (It's apparently also a good dual use summer and winter squash, so I may let some mature.) Still no eggplant. Still little hot pepper growth. Down to a sane, originally planned two melon plants, one each of two varieties. Both strong. I'm considering rhubarb and more root vegetables, and mizuna for the home hydroponic system. Because clearly what I need is more seeds. (No, for good reason! If I can do all my green leaves at home, I can get more variety in them, and also use my dirt for things that need dirt or more vertical space.) I also have butternut squash seeds, and it's a monster of a plant, but I have this space that still has no replacement plant, and squash can be ground cover... Well, maybe that's wishful thinking, but I could always just jam it in for now. My garlic is getting rave reviews from a co-worker. It's on the small side, but really fresh and strong, without being biting. One little clove is worth two or three big grocery store ones, he says. I've also been using it in small, rationed amounts, and have no complaints. It's nice. Will grow more next year. Particularly since I seem to be intending to grow enough greens for an army.

I drove through Burger King today thinking "I'm so hungry. It's been ages since I went here! This will be an easy lunch." By the time I got home, I remembered why I don't drive through fast food places anymore. My guts completely and utterly rejected it. Well, I'm going to remember that for a very long while. I'm almost done with writing my goals for the next challenge. I struggle in creating goals, because it's very easy to take something I enjoy and turn it into a chore. I remember very fondly a psychologist telling me Dr. : "You can enjoy your life too. Take a vacation, relax, try a new hobby." Me: "You're absolutely right. I'm going to work really hard on that!" Dr: "No DON'T work on it. That my point! Just do it. Relax!" Me: (sitting awkwardly in an forced position of relaxation) "Like this?" Dr.: (sighs)

I finally got the haircut I’ve been thinking about getting for months. My hair feels so much better omg. Although my scalp is itchy as hell now and I don’t know why. My eyebrows, on the other hand, are completely fucked. Got them waxed and they looked okay when they showed me what they’d done, but when I took a closer look after getting in the car... womp. Oh well. It’s not like I have anyone to impress. Prom pictures will be posted when I get home. Currently grocery shopping because I told my brother I’d get him stuff and I’m also trying to figure out if I want to cook. Decisions, decisions.

I love this unit

Yesterday I hung out with a parrot, got my hair colored, and benched 100lbs for sets! I'm SO EXCITED! I've not benched this much in 2.5 years, and I've never benched this much at this low of a body weight. My best ever bench was 120 for a single, and I'm desperate to overtake that number. I'm so exhausted and I have so much to do that meal prep has fallen to the side. I'm too stressed to sleep well, and too tired to function well. I'm thankful that my lifts are going as well as they are considering I'm fried. Goal 1: 83.67%/80% compliant. Goal 2: Chin-up and pull-up work 4x a week: 7/20 Goal 3: Lift 2X week. 9/10 Goal 4: Cardio 1x/week: 7/5

Week 3 Day 4 #3 Rest It all started with yesterday's afternoon of rest and an AMAZING night of sleep, after which I woke up right before my alarm for the first time in...forever. #1 Food Weirdly I broke a bunch of my eating guidelines today and felt fine - maybe I'm finally past the worst of the first trimester nausea nonsense? I had a protein bar for breakfast, then nothing until a quite heavy BBQ lunch with carby carby sides. Then nothing until my run (except prenatal gummies and Nuun). #2 Exercise I got to try out my brand-new handheld Nathan bottle, and I think I have to get used to it but I do like it. Probably could have gotten the 10oz instead of the 12oz, but it wasn't that hot out today so not the best dehydration test. I intended to run my normal 3 miles (after a brief moment where I considered 5+mi but decided not to commit myself to that loop because once I'm out...I have to get back). But I felt so great after the first mile or two that I just kept going. And was thrilled to get home and hit a round 4 miles! At a decent pace too (I auto-stop at lights). Today was the first time testing out the Airpods that my mom gave me, and even though I still think they look super silly...I kind of love them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you! Wow. That dream makes me smile so much. I would one day love to meet you, Sra. Tanque and Laura Thanks Sal. It was a good day. Thanks Miau. I've not really found anything that works so far, but I'm not giving up. Thanks for checking in, Sal. It really means alot. I'm doing okay. A lot of personal stress, together with work stress, and it's been way too long since I posted again. And a happy Thursday evening to you Life is... a little on the low side of things, sadly. So, I'm going to start this update off with yet another apology for not keeping up on here. I know that posting often helps me, but instead I just... don't. I lose hours in the sims or staring at the TV, watching programme after programme without taking a single thing about it in. I have also made a big decision. With exactly a month to the day to go, before Man v Lakes... I pulled out. I can get most of the cost back to spend on another event, when I am ready. This was not an easy decision to make. I really wanted to do it. The excitement of that race was - and is - tugging at me. Part of me, even now, whispers that maybe I can do it, against all odds. But I know it was the right decision. I have not put the training in, I'm not ready, mentally or physically, for this race. I will still travel to my favourite part of the world and cheer @jonfirestar on (not to mention be his chauffeur!) and then I'm planning to take off camping for a few days, make a bit of a holiday of it. This is one of three major decisions I have made in the last month or so, but the only one I can reveal right now. The other two... the cogs are turning, slowly. Goals - ha. Oh yeah. Those things. I need to pull myself together and regroup. Now the pressure has lifted in regards to Man V Lakes, I can strip my training right back, examine it all, start from the ground up and hopefully start to eliminate the little niggles that seem to constantly crop up, like my super tight calves causing me pain when I run, or my hip aching. Goal this week: post at least twice on here and stop disappearing, dammit!

Another drive-by update: Yesterday was mostly productive, work-wise. Didn't hit my superhuman goals but made solid progress and did some reading on better structuring my work environment to support sustained attention (scrolling through the blog of Cal Newport, one of my favorite authors on productivity). Biggest changes I made were setting up parental controls on my phone so that during the workday, I can only access texts and work-relevant apps (plus online banking to look at unexpected charges coming through). Otherwise, nothing on the internet (also blocked facebook and the forums completely from my phone, and hid instagram so it's not as accessible even when I'm not at work). Hoping this leads to less lost hours during the work week from mindless stuff. Then followed it up with dance teaching and dance practice, both of which went pretty well - especially the dance practice, things are chugging along slowly but surely on that front. Still on track with grad school - started the end of unit project due on July 1st and it feels good to be working ahead on stuff. It helps that this class is overall a lot more interesting and job-relevant than my previous class, which was a little too theoretical math heavy (and heavy on tricky calculus) for me to really enjoy it.

Aparently I didn't post an update last night. Funny, I think I remember writing one. Oh well. Food was good, no exercise though. Well, I did spend a couple hours weeding the garden and took a short bike ride with my kids, so that's not nothing. Today is likely to be more of the same. Food is going to be good, mindful eating is in place. I haven't exercised today, but I might get a few sets of pushups or something later. It's hard to exercise at work, but it's not impossible. I just have to remember to do it.

Wow, custom meme and an appropriate gif? Gosh. I didn't get you anything. * Wednesday was relatively quiet. I thought I'd get out, go to my friend's place and get away with a beer or two and a couple eps of Star Trek. Instead, they fed me and we stayed up late playing board games and card games. We were beaten by Pandemic, and then they were nice enough to let me smoke them at Wizard, which is sort of like Euchre except no teams and with a couple extra cards. Good times. No yoga of any kind though. Got home really late, ate some dinner, went to bed. Today should be at least BJJ and yoga. I don't think I care enough to stay late and miss Karate, so I might go to do that as well; my only hold up is a psychological hangup about having a gi that isn't standard to the school, which frankly is probably just a me thing. Then again, I do have to make up some time, so. I dunno.

And I need to remember that!!!

Are you keeping your core braced/tight throughout the lift? When I start to get tired on deadlifts, that's when I lose tightness in my core, my back extends and picks up some of the slack, and that makes it sore. This is exclusively lower back I'm talking about. I'm not sure if that's what happened with you, but this is a regular occurence for me so it seems likely, especially if you're grinding to fit all those reps into 10 minutes.

Something that afflicts us all.

Not very long at all (two weeks). My normal program is very run heavy over the summer, plus I've been running consistently to work on distance / speed. But I felt that I wasn't getting enough lifting in, so I added a three time a week rest-pause program. I think part of the reason I'm okay (usually) with not having significantly heavy weights is this program isn't designed that way.

Oh wow, aramis. I though it was "just me"! The fancy diagnostic term for this per my doc was "reactive hypoglycemia" and I was told to eat more proteins and fats, and to limit simple carbs like refined pasta and white bread, sugary fruits (think the keto fruit list when selecting your nature's candy), not drink soda/juice/sugary water, and to ensure I'm getting enough "good greens"...that is, non-starchy green vegetables. She actually recommended keto. So far a majority of the advice seems to be helping, but without some sort of easily digested carbohydrate that is NOT fruit, my gums start to bleed and I start bruising at the slightest touch. That's, um, actually two symptoms of scurvy--turns out my body needs a few simple carbs in order to do the Vitamin C processing correctly. I couldn't keep eating six oranges a day to try to keep up with it. I started to hate oranges, and decided enough was enough. Also, if I don't have a breadstick with that chicken-and-greens salad I may gnaw someone's arm off. So there's a satiation thing there too which means it's gotta be a delicate balance. I've taken to eating the bread or noodles nearly last. My biggest frustrations are: Things like bread and ramen are easy/convenient/shelf-stable Things like bread and ramen cause my body to overreact to them, meaning weight gain and insatiable hunger. Protein/fat are expensive in comparison to things like bread/ramen. Now I recall why I hate hate HATE counting calories--most trackers only have single item foods (think: potato, X grams, with jacket) or processed foods (think: Lean Cuisine Roast Pheasant with Brussels Sprouts). I just don't eat that way. None of the recipes I use frequently are in the trackers, and it's a pain to add them. I know, I know...I need to track, because that sets me up for success. But I really do hate it. It's inefficient, it's annoying, and it's--it's downright time consuming! For the recipe? Hmm. I have this tendency to "improve" recipes I come across. I think my challenge may have to be to "follow the recipe precisely". Gotta find a recipe...

They were . I’m gonna wrap this puppy up. Here’s my results: Exercise........big fat nope. Lots of reasons, weather, back injury, etc. IF.........also a nope. I’m thinking this may just not work for me. I did better with tracking. I think I’ll go back to that. Soda...........not even one. Woo-hoo!! Sweets...............1 dippin dots, 1 nutty bar. Cheat day don’t count, but I didn’t go nuts that day. I count this as a win, since I would usually have 2-3 “sweets” a week, and I had ~2~ in 4 1/2 weeks. Next challenge, Hmmmm, we’ll see. Ciao, Bella

Who needs to pay more attention to measuring? This girl!!! Was measuring out my lunch and went to rinse the cup and was like "this is really 1 cup, it seems so small." Then I looked at the actual marking and it was 1/2 cup! So, when I've been measuring all week thinking I've been have 2/2.5 cups of something, I haven't. I've been eating half of that. Oops.

Weights: 50 lb shoulder press(x5), first set done with 40 lb (x8), someone took the 50 lb barbell.  Goblet squat with just the bar 110 lbs 100 lbs deadlift (x5) 10 push ups Jumping up then catching bar and holding for 12 secs before resting for another 10 secs and repeat for 12 secs(4 sets).  Chest press with bar  50 lbs clean and press (x4) 1 min plank 4 sets total. Rather dismal, but didn't want to overtax myself. Breakfast: Black pepper pork zucchini boat Milk with a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder added 6 apricots, kernels were eaten as well Lunch: 150g cauliflower 100g brocoli 250g tau kwa 1 tablespoon singlong Thai chilli sauce 6 stuffed tofu puffs Afternoon snack: 1 orange

Yeah, but dont tell him, he might get a big head. There's only enough room for one big head in my unit. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] Sent from my CPH1725 using Tapatalk

How is it Thursday already? Nutrition - [ xxx] Macros - [ ] Dietician Visit - [xxx ] Symptoms on Cara - [ xxx] Collage - [ ] Meal Planning Monday, batch cooked a couple recipes, went out with friends for lunch - had nicoisse salad. Dinner was catch-up with a friend and dropping off some non-compliant groceries + some Whole30’staples we can’t get here I ordered for her on Amazon. Tuesday was coffee group - lunches with a friend who has been out of town for an extended period of time. Dinner was one of my batch cooked items. Wednesday I breakfasted with DH before he left for another trip, had a simple late lunch when my stomach decided to play nice, hit the mall to actually buy shit, and only wanted popcorn for dinner. Physical Fitness - [ x] 2-3 yoga sessions - [ ] Treadmill walks or rowing if I didn’t leave the house - [ ] June Darebee - [x ] Work with my doctor on lungs Did Tuesday’s yoga class; unthrilled about the schedule vs my schedule for the rest of the week. Continued taking my lung meds. Moar Fulfillment - [x ] Read retirement $ article - [ ] Stick to weekly budget - [ ] Pick another tiny job thing to research - [ x] Sign up for Skillshare - [ x] Dog training Continuing reading $ articles. Added to that spreadsheet. Signed up for a workshop on Skillshare. Been working on waiting for food and walks still - didn’t walk them last night because the wind was crazy and the dust was terrible. I hate windy season. Sitting in my house is oppressive to my ears. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As I can't see your expression nor hear your voice I may not catch a joke. Because it was a joke, right? ...RIGHT?! Shrug Anyway... report for June 19th: Nutrition: Breakfast - none Lunch - chicken stew, grilled veggies (cauliflower, broccoli, carrot frozen mix) - 696kcal, 98g protein Dinner - fried potatoes, stewed pork shoulder in gravy, tomato and cucumber salad - 957kcal, 51g protein Supper - smoked cod in lettuce - 111kcal, 25g protein Drinks - black coffee, water. Morning coffee with 100ml whole milk - 60kcal, 3g protein Total 1824kcal, 177g protein. I needed to skip my after workout protein shake, just to eat anything for supper. Didn't realize gravy is so caloric... sigh. Workout (strength): warmup - 5min elliptical 9 | 8 | 9 body rows from little above ground 3x circuit (20 squats with exercise band, 13 push-ups) - on first set of push-ups I just went full-on and did 20 reps! T W E N T Y ! ! ! And 15 on last. streching - bit of dynamic strech, bit of yoga poses Yeah, I just felt like - it's too easy, let's see what Im capable of. Needed longer rests between circuits tho to catch my breath and wasn't able to push my last number (17reps) on last set, but I'm happy as a clam anyway Oh, and since I haven't skip any workout since first one back in March, I decided to give myself a gift. I bought myself new running shoes

Such headache. Headache is strong. Store had no archery stuff. Poop. So I basically just checked out all the camping stuff then sat in a tent while BF did his rod shopping. I almost stayed on track with my calories but had a breakfast sausage lol.

Had 18,000 step yesterday.I went on a short lunchtime walk, and then did some housework, and then went on another walk with hubby in the evening. He's in a contest at work, so he's super inspired to get all the steps in The scale had gone up two pounds since last week. Some of that was just more eating out, sodium. But, I had been on a birthday eat all the foods fun time, so I scaled it back. Tracked my calories in MFP, but then didn't enter the calories burned from our evening walk. Today the scale was down a pound. I'll do the same today and see how that works. Pretty easy way to scale back, as walking doesn't make me super hungry. Copy and paste from my training logs the last two days warm up then crow training.Crow training was amazing. One of those perfect days where you feel like everything is clicking. I almost didn’t do it, because when I woke up my shoulder felt sort of cranky (not sore, just stiff) but after I warmed up it felt fine. I found the right balance spot, and it almost seemed easy. Was able to do a few 30 second holds Warmed up some more then did 4 circuit 5 reps goblet squat- 25#/30#/30#35# single leg deadlift 25# x 3 last set 30# walking lunge- across room and back and then across jump squats frog stretch Today warm up Then I did 100 Kettlebell one hand swings with 25Lb. I heard a coach on a podcast say that for women, doing things like swings before your strength workout can boost testosterone and the other good hormones, and help you with the strength. So, I thought I’d try for a bit and see how it worked. 5 sets reverse row 5 reps- did pulling prep felt strong push up - nailed them felt super strong rest 5 sets dips- did a couple full dips each set, then toes on ground pull up - mix of full, partial, negative rest then 2 sets plank hold RTO top position was going to do 3 sets, but I was tired Then did a cool down

You look amazing!

Yeah if I expand a lot of energy through the day, I find myself looking for noodles/pasta as well. Especially when eating out because its hard for me to feel full otherwise. I KNOW I am a hungry, hungry monster. I have to direct the hunger in the right directions or the wrong food goes in.

There's a variation to this recipe you may want to try: add sliced dried shiitake mushrooms(after they have been soaked) to the mix, just after then you brown your garlic. I've done it before and I like the earthy flavour shiitake mushrooms add to the dish. It adds a layer of complexity. Shiitake mushrooms: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.taste.com.au/quick-easy/articles/how-to-prepare-dried-shiitake-mushrooms/8jwnrwwb You can also add sliced carrots to the dish as well. Makes the whole thing look like a rainbow.

Their saying that they'll Do The Things would be masterfully supplemented by actually Doing The Things. Also, you are way more gracious in your situation than I would be if I were in it. Kudos to you. You are a master class on Class Under Pressure.

Whoops, forgot to post updates for Monday and Tuesday. Calories: 9/20 Steps: 7/21 Gym Visits: 0/8 Had late nights at work on both Monday and Tuesday, but now I don't have to work at all tomorrow (had originally planned to take a half-day of vacation). Sadly, this resulted in no time to exercise, but I did manage to get my steps in both days. Monday I had ramen from the convenience-store thing at my office for dinner, but stayed in my calorie goal. Yesterday I picked up stuff to cook from the grocery store on my way home, but then realized I wouldn't even get to start cooking until almost 8, so I went to Wendy's. Not great, but not the end of the world. Definitely going to cancel the membership to the office gym, because I'm just not able to go right now.

I despise food tracking. Absolutely hate it. Calorie counting is in my mind firmly connected to so many negative things that I doubt I'll ever bother with it again, and my brain sees a food diary as being the same thing as calorie counting. I prefer to eat intuitively and mindfully, and to leave it at that. However, I have been trying to figure out how to hold myself more accountable for making smart choices for my mindful eating, and I'm not sure how I'll be able to see improvement without tracking anything. So I'm using this week's challenge as an excuse to try and find a compromise between the two extremes, and I think maybe I have found a way to track that will not trigger all the negative emotions from when I tracked in the past. A few challenges ago, someone in a Warriors thread mentioned the app You Ate ( @Harriet, wast this you?) It's a tracker that doesn't count calories or food! Last night at the gym, in between sets, I installed the app and played with it the settings and started using it in earnest this morning. To begin with, you set a goal in the app. There is a very strict character limit in this field, so you are forced to be brief and specific. Then it shows you a very, very long list of actions to take towards that goal, and wants you to select a number of them. After selecting these actions are not displayed on the main screen, you have to go to edit your goal and actions to see them, so I picked three that will be easy to remember. To use the app, either type in what you're eating or take a picture of the meal, and then answer this one question: Is this on the path towards your goal? And that's it. I can do guilt free tracking! I hope. I will certainly give it a fair chance and keep an open mind about it this week.

Gotten even more done! You look so adorable. Pretty good! -- So I ended up fully decorating the living room and dining room. I moved the two loveseats upstairs. I set up all of the pictures that I was able to snag from the old closed cafe and it all looks really good together. I put together a footstool and a small end table, got a loveseat cover for one of the love seats, and I've started the deck. For the deck, I washed all the walls and swept the floor. There was old painter's tape still stuck on from the last time it was painted over a decade ago. It would flake off in little bits so I was picking and picking and picking away for a while until I tried using the rough end of a sponge to scrub and the paint started caking up and coming off of the 7 windows. I started doing that and then I used wet-wipes to wash the floor down. Then it was time to start painting. I got a couple of the small paint samples and then I was going color by color and putting smatterings of paint all over the room. It ended up getting waaaay too humid and the paint was still damp so I had to stop about halfway into the paint process. Tomorrow I'm going to try to finish it, as well as start hitting up the gym, I think. Whole30 is going pretty damn good. Now that I got over the initial ridiculous cravings, paired with the almond milk banana smoothies if I want something tasty; I'm able to stick with it pretty easy now. I like this a lot. I think I can sustain this. I'm ready to fucking kick ass finally when it comes to my health. Today I had some green beans with beef strips and Ms Dash table seasoning blend along with some V8 blueberry pomegranate juice. I made some really good food yesterday while I was painting: sausage, scallops, bell peppers, onions, smoked spanish paprika, turmeric, chili powder, garlic powder, cumin, 2 juiced limes, and a can of coconut cream. HOOOO-boy it was good. It was so packed with flavor that I need to make something bland like cauliflower to pour this spicy smokey sauce on top of. I experimented and adding protein powder to the almond-milkshake works pretty well. Chocolate-almond-banana-protein shake needs a better name for it. I hereby dumb my whole30 almond butter-protein-chocolate almond-milkshake to be called: Reece's Bomb. Ok, I need to hurry up and finish getting ready for work. Wednesdays are my doubles so I'll be back home after 11pm tonight and when I get home I'll make a Reece's Bomb.

Wauw! a whole lot of them! Your quads look AWESOME. Glad you had something to make up for the sucky squat day You can go a lot of different ways but I'd recommend trying a basic flip first. A simple somersaulting bell or a horizontal flip (the handle being horizontal) are probably easiest.. and ehm.. resist the urge to do the hip forward thing, that makes it impossible. it's a squatty swing, not a hinge-y swing. Sorry I was late replying to this! I'll just leave this video here, Sergey Rudnev was a kettlebell sport world championship several times over in his day, but this performance is mostly hirlarious. Especially the leg in the air at the very end.

Alright. Just scribbling down roughly what I ate. No macros or calories or grams or measurements of any kind, because I have done enough crying about stupid calories for a lifetime. Intuitive eating is working fine for me. Carbs are my friends. My lifts demand lots of food, and I am but a humble and obedient servant to my lifts.

Today's a short day at work because we have our company picnic. That means I'm "done" with work at 11 . Woot woot! I've already done 2 loans today and working on my third but I wanted to update real quick on how my weeks gone. Saturday: Conditioning Day 06/15- Sprints I went to the park to run sprints, here was the workout: 15 min running clock- Hill sprints w/ 5 push-ups at the bottom of the hill 10 rounds, 50 total push-ups This was a great little workout. I took about 10 min to warm up doing various exercises like skips, karaoke, side shuffle, butt kicks and high knees Monday Push Day 06/17: Warm-up mobilizing shoulders/jumping rope 2x5 bench press 10x 65# 8x 95# 6x 125# 5x 135# 5x 145# 2x8 incline DB bench > overcoming isometrics cable cross for 30 seconds (squeezing upper)- 35# DB's > 32.5# cable 2x4 dips > overcoming isometrics cable cross for 30 seconds (squeezing lower)- 32.5# then dropped to 27.5# for better form 2x (10x tricep push downs > 7x OH tricep extension >Tricep push down iso hold TF- 55# cable 25 sec hold 20 sec hold 8x landmine press -rest pause- landmine press TF using 25# Right 8/5 Left 8/6 8x Arnold press -rest pause- Arnold press TF using 20# DB's 8/4 Tuesday Pull Day 06/18 5 min foam rolling/dynamic stretching/ 2x10 KB swing w/ 35# KB 2x4 trapbar deadlifts (I just realized I was supposed to do 4 reps, lol. I coulda gone up another 10-15#.) 8x 95# 7x 115# 6x 135# 2x5 155# 2x laps on TRX monkey bars 2x: pull-ups 3-5 > inverted row TF 5/7 4/5 1x chin-ups 3-4 -rest pause- chin-ups TF 3 strict/3 jumping chin-ups (I was already feeling the burn/pump and had to switch to jumping chin-ups) Hang TF- 24 seconds.My grip was worn out. 2x10 DB curls > 2x8 cross body hammer curls w/ 15# DB's Cable curls drop set: 10x >10x > 10x 55/40/25# 10x wide grip overhand bicep w/ 25# BB 20x light bent over row 50# BB > 10x face pulls 25# cable 2.5 min intervals- row machine 2:02 average/643m 2:08 average/635m Stretch/Cooldown Overall, it's been a good run of training days and I'm excited to kick some butt today for a leg workout . Wolf

I did end up applying for the job, i haven't interviewed for 11 years so it will be good practice if they call me anyway. My resume hadn't been updated for 5 years either so at least i have it ready now. I may not even move jobs but at least I'm prepared if i get too over it. I think my boss has picked up on my unhappiness, they've given me a plum new project with some interesting new cutting edge tech to work on. Problem is I'm very loyal and will put up with a lot of shit for a long time but once i decide I'm finally done i find it hard to reverse that feeling. I'm trying to be objective though. I passed a technical exam on the weekend, will sit another one next week. I have to refresh my certifications every 2 years so it will be good to have them done just in case as well. I'm walking around 5k every day, eating well - no junk hardly any sugar, no alcohol and going to bed early. I also signed up for a 10k in mid-sept that includes running over the Sydney harbour bridge, that will be cool. My colleague is joining in again too. He's also doing dry july so i have reciprocated and committed to do that with him as well. I got the 5 to 10k app and will start in next couple days.

It's fine, I don't think my form is the issue. I think the issue is it is heavier than I gave myself initial credit for. It was a bit sore, but it wasn't even DOMS sore. I'll get a form check the next time I do them, but I'm not too worried. This morning, I am dizzy. Not sure why, but probably means I need a rest day. So I'm going to do so.

Dad’s surgery went really well! He’s sitting comfortably listening to the news right now. Tomorrow he goes back to the doctor wehrre they will test his pressure and see how it really went. But he’s okay. He’s fighting with his phone to play an audiobook. Siri is great, but not perfect We got up super early, so everyone took naps this afternoon. We’re all still tired, but good! Thanks for putting up with me while I was worrying about this.

I got emailed today to schedule a phone interview with the company I applied at last week...