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I'm bad at the "Daily" part of Daily Battle Logs. 4/21 Definitely ate gluten-free veggie pizza and had a beer (Whoa. What? I drank a beer? Weird.) 4/22 Miso soup omnomnom Sexercised. Yep, you read that right. Pull-ups 4/23 No exercises. Forgot to eat in general, but stuck to yogurt, fruit, granola, eggs, cheese, and finished up with glazed tofu "steak" and stirfry. 4/24 3x5 pullups Ate yogurt, fruit, granola, leftover stirfry and tofu, cheese, fish, miso soup, peas, hot apple cider with brandy.

If the math works, great!

0.0 I want to squat with a puppy!

Oh gosh, I would kill for a 6 pack. Or that pre-sixpack look. I need to go looking for some unhealthy habits to slay!

This is my favorite thread, and Soft Soul had my favorite contribution. Also that "BMI says I'm too short". Hah! I fight this all the time, especially because every pound that I add to my lift goes to my ass. It means that my ass is awesome, but also that when I think about the size pants I have to wear, I feel like a fatass. Even though I KNOW it's because my ass and quads make me able to squat my own weight. When my pants don't fit, my reflex is "Oh no! I need to stop eating forever and workout like crazy and maybe get liposuction", instead of "Wow, yeah, look at those legs that can squat 20# more!" I despise this self-defeating attitude. Stupid ingrained want-to-be-a-stick psychoses.

Oooh, hammock naps...I want a hammock nap. I think you did really well last week. It is hard to do things the way you want on vacation, and ESPECIALLy so when it's with a lot of family members. So many conflicting interests. well, some data is better than none. By smoothie, I didn't necessarily mean a very caloric one. Perhaps just some milk/juice/water, a little fruit to affect the taste and texture, and the natural calm? Of course, this is if you find the plain supplement doesn't work. I am eager to see your data as this progresses!

I have found that it is easier to work out with nothing at all in my stomach, or to exercise 30 min-hour after eating. Eating with just a shake or something in me makes me feel queasier than nothing at all.

Wow, if that pattern continues, that sounds fantastic! Is there a way you could mix it in with a smoothie to mask the taste/texture?

Well aren't you badass, getting battle scars and whatnot.

These comments would be so blasted funny if they weren't so annoying.

I've found the some of the easier-out ways of getting out of these conversations (especially when they're people who I don't care about) is to mention the more incidental reasons that I eat or exercise how I do, like "I don't eat wheat because it makes my joints stiff" "I'm flat up top, but squatting gives me a great ass" "My body doesn't process ____ well" They aren't my primary motivations, but I don't feel like giving a lecture and they'd probably not understand anyway, so these make it easier to deflect the "are you sure you're healthy?!" things.

The thing I've done to control my closet is to institute and In-and-Out policy: if I buy something new, something old has to go, unless it is *very* clearly filling a pre-existing hole (such as the brown cardigan that I FINALLY got, after years of saying I needed one. Or the first pair of jeans that fits in 2 years.)

Oh wow, I hadn't realized I had forgotten to update for a whole week. Any lack of exercise is because I've broken my damned toe and, well, that rules out much of leg day, and I really like legs. 4/14-4/17 Did not exercise, except for 5-10 pull-ups most days. Ate vegetarian, no meat, no sweet things. Had 2 drinks somewhere in there. 4/18 Walked a lot at work, ate no meat or sweet things, did pull-ups. 4/19 Walked at work Had meat with parents for early Easter dinner Ate the cake that my mother served us, and a peanut butter egg (the only Easter candy I care about!) 4/20 Exercised! 20 minutes of a push-up, walk-out, KB-swing flow. It worked pretty well. 10-15 pull-ups. Wasn't counting but trying for chest-to-bar form. 30 KB squats with 35# Ate a bit of cake because it was Easter 4/21 Walked at work Have eaten appropriately so far, except for a peanut butter egg. Will probably have a drink and a wee bit of GF pizza tonight. Hey Bacon! I came up with something approximating it Run: 6:00 mile or 18:00 for 3 miles (same thing, though one emphasizes endurance) Crunches/Sit-ups/Curl-ups: Every branch has a different name, so I'm just going for crunches. 109 of them. Pull-ups: 20 Push-ups: 92 (However, I neglected to note the time limits for these, so I have to go check them) Bonus round: Marine swim test 25 meters 4 minutes treading 25 meters The armed forces stuff is a good specific bench mark for me to work towards, and a reason to force myself to run. Most of my workouts right now are focusing just on gaining strength through a combo of bodyweight and barbells. I'm putting a lot of emphasis on upper body at the moment, since I am without excuse for that exercise. I kind of want to trim down some fat, but honestly it's such a headache over a couple inches and I'm at a perfectly healthy weight and BF%. If I pay attention to training and continue to eat well, I'll slim down. Or I'll just get so strong that I won't care about my pants size.

What about the financial studies do you find intimidating?

Oh I'm so glad you came back! That sounds really really terrible. I am sorry for all of the kicks. I'm with you on the Japanese food. My husband and I eat about half latino food and half asian food. Rice is the one grain exemption that we allow, and (as I think I've told you before), we don't concern ourselves with the paleo-ness of condiments. They exist in a small enough proportion to the other food that it doesn't make a big difference to me. But perhaps to some people it does. *shrug*

Happy birthday!!!!! That's kind of ridiculous that they asked you to leave, but I'm with you--why argue when you can just come back later? I am excited for your Paleo success--I bet you can get into a 10!

Shiny!

Interesting Easter it sounds like. I know what you mean--some churches can be overly welcoming. It's a lot about finding the right one. Why might you be moving to SC?

Seriously, trying to run after lunges can be dreadfully difficult. The workout looks good

Happy Easter, Jenn, and hooray for monkey bars and hand stands!

Check out tahini yogurt sauce and cheese-based dips(acceptable if you're of the dairy-ok system), shrimp/tuna/crab dips, almond and sunflower butter, and a whole lot of veggies for dipping in them! Otherwise, for snacks, dried fruit, nuts, and veggies are the way to go.

Good for you for joining us! It's an excellent place to learn the facts of nutrition and fitness--because, you know, nerds love their facts. We're happy to have you here.

That is precisely 27x less awkward than it would be watching me trying to do it. I'm thin, but not nearly as capable as you seem to be!

I'd forgotten that passage! It has so much good instruction about how to act Christlike in daily life. This week I've been following the Holy Week readings in preparation for Easter Sunday. So the readings are all over the place, but an interesting thing that I've noted is how various readings, which perhaps I may not have noticed before as relating to Jesus, are perfect descriptions of his actions, his character, or the events surrounding his time on earth. The interconnection is affirming to me.

The YMCA method *sounds* much more true to your pictures. I would agree that skinny limbs are complicating the matter (My ass of squatting throws off my calculations a good bit). I was following someone last challenge who shelled out the money for a Bod Pod analysis, and said it was totally worth it because he got great data out of it--more than just a %.