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pics or it didn't happen! That sounds great! Working in a clutter free kitchen with a lot of space is so much more inviting. My kitchen goal is one day having a free standing counter where we can sit and also work. Counter tops are magnetic though and attract allll the stuff all the time.

@Alanna Thanks a lot, I'll definitely try what you suggested up there, and also dig out my older thread where you already wrote a bunch and gave me videos about progression and follow up programs. Crazy how time flies by Thought about it, too. Might try.

Slow and steady getting back to it, sounds great! Welcome back!

Hi guys, wanted to wait for a new challenge but I need it NOW so here I am No theme, not prepared for it. Topics: Weight loss Exercise Bootcamp Mental Health Fun Weight loss Started to lose weight without using a (body) scale. I signed up for a 3 month challenge via James Smith Academy bc I like James' no bullshit approach and thought hey, maybe this provides the momentum to finally get started. It did. After 2 weeks, people started to have real progress and I had not even started tracking calories, so I started. I prepared a spreadsheet for myself because I decided to go about it differently this time, solely by counting saved calories. When I have saved 7700 calories, I consider a kg of fat lost. No need to step on the scale for it. Linear progress I can fully control. I know the Fitbit is not 100% accurate but it has shown to be accurate enough in the past. Period due in 10 days and I'm hitting my first rough patch after saving 15.400 calories. I love that James has advice especially for women in this situation and I try to keep it in mind, like, slow down the weight loss in that period of time and aim for maintenance. My deficit is not as high currently. The starting 3 weeks I was able to save between 500 and 1000 calories a day, now I can merely safe 300. It's fine. The motivation will come back and the desire to eat poptarts will stop. Ew poptarts. So yummy. Yuck. Exercise Still going with the (modified) Greyskull LP but I'm a bit lost currently. I strayed from the original layout of 2x5 + 1xAMRAP because I kept failing at max and had to deload several times, plus it was mentally taxing to keep lifting my max or very close to it all the time, so I started doing more volume instead. Which didn't help much. Or maybe it did. No idea. As example, I hit 35 kg for Bench Press relatively quickly, then kept deloading and working my way back up to 35 kg, but the second or third time I could do even less repetitions, so I decided instead to bench press lower weights but more often. So now I bench 20 kg for 3x8 for warm up, then 25 for 3x5 or 3x8, then 32 or 33, and 33 and 32 suddenly feel so difficult as before 35. It's even worse with OHP. I warm up with 3x8 20kg, then 25 kg 3x5, then 27, and struggle a lot with 27 and the struggle does not get much easier. It all started before having the deficit already. I guess it will just take more time for me to build more muscle. Funny that I used to think I would build muscle fast or easily. Neither is the case, at least not for upper body. I also added several more pull exercises to help me achieve a pull up, like active bar hangs, farmer's carries etc., which prolong a workout to over 2 hours, so I am now going for a pull/push split. PLUS: I finally ordered swim wear I might feel comfortable in so I can go swimming which I miss very much. The past years my thought train was like lose 10 kg and wear the bikini but then it never happened and now I don't want to wait that long anymore. Bootcamp (rant ahead) So this is the backstory. I need to implement a routine of doing 2 hours or so a day and get back to learning. The subjects were useful and interesting and I got 10000 ideas while doing the exercises. The incident has been 2 weeks ago and I haven't done anything since then. Went to the doctor though afterwards and was diagnosed with ADHD. FInally. Might try medication for it soon because I struggle a lot. Key learning points: Take your 7k and go on a nice long vacation next time Mental Health Which brings me to this. This year is so much better than last year overall. I feel so much better physically despite not being in an ideal weight range yet just from the weight lifting, and even though I still struggle with it and it still somewhat bores me, I refuse to give it up. It does so much good for me. I'm also slowly accepting that I have to move more every single day, that this is time I should take and my head and body need this, no matter what. It should be a priority. What also aids me in feeling better is the fact my job is only part time currently. Sadly I can't keep it this way because I need the money but it helps a lot to feel much better and much less frustrated in this boring dead end job I am so privileged to have because it is home office and nothing is expected of me ever because I'm just a support idiot and not a developer. I need to watch how October until December go when I am back to fulltime work, if my mental health declines rapidly. I really need to build my skillset until then as well. Currently I am in enjoying summer mode, gaming a lot, sleeping a lot, my sleep rhythm is completely out of whack with going to bed at 7 am, we go on long bike tours, we go for walks, it all feels like vacation and the time is flying by. I want to enjoy it as long as it lasts. What did I want in this category? Fix my sleep rhythm. I don't like to miss so much of the day. Keep reading. Got a kindle for my birthday I'm still reading novels but have to force myself to not read reddit instead Build a routine of working on coding Balance recreation with work I have no idea yet how this is supposed to look like. My bullet journal is next to me for weeks and I haven't plotted anything out yet. This thread is to help me remember and prioritize it asap. Also considering a ADHD specialized therapist or a self help group. Not sure about either yet. Would be nice to be among like-minded people though. Even though they could have vastly different interests 🤔 I have coworkers with ADHD and different interests but I love talking to them. The topics switch a lot, often in a "oh, a bird" kind of way. I also never need to come up with introduction sentences to other topics, lol. Just blatantly spout what I wanna say. They immediately know what it is about. Oh and I am helping a neighbor who had hip surgery with going for walks with their dog. It's a cute dog, a bit stubborn, an elderly lady. Well, they both are, the dog and the neighbor. Elderly ladies, not stubborn (I think. Don't know the neighbor enough to tell yet) Fun There are tons of more things on my to do list I don't really let me do. And I don't know why. I want to do them. Maybe I want to do other things more because they are more rewarding. Currently I am addicted to Far Cry 6. I want to finish my 2 cross stitch projects Start with unity coding tutorials Write something Implement a few things with the Unreal Engine Continue my Pixel Art Udemy course Watch Innocence and Earwig Finish Season 2 Tuca and Bertie Continue Blender Donut Tutorial Start my own project in Blender Sign up for a horseback tour with my bf in August/September at a near horse farm Do some digital painting Check if I like Sailor Moon Make Summer rolls Enough now. Glad I got this going and have a place to turn to. Wish you all the best with your challenges!

Hello, popping in unannounced to catch up a little, hope things are going well, and congrats on the house!

Thank you for the encouragement! ❤️ You're right. I'm reading more and more about how cardio is helpful to burn excess fat, and I feel better since we at least go for the walks more often, I think I also sleep better. I want to start with a bit of HIIT again as planned before but not done until now. Also: Cleaning day has arrived. And with that, 2 weeks of work are (almost) over. They went by so fast.

Yes, realized, started following her. it's Schrödinger's faff. One day it seems like preparing and eating green vegetables, especially in large amounts, is a hassle and making a smoothie so much easier and faster, as well as simply drinking the green. Then, after doing it a few times and getting tired of preparing the ginger and the lemons and whatever else goes in there, suddenly it seems so much easier to just grab and chomp on an entire broccoli. Until I actually do that, then suddenly smoothies seem like they would have been a much better idea - repeat ad infinitum. At least by now I am accepting frozen green vegetables as perfectly valid alternative and sometimes we simply buy green salad or spinach, wash it, and place the rest of the meal on it. It makes it taste fresher and is no effort at all. I sometimes hype myself up by just looking at beautiful pictures of veggie bowls. njom. One question about the deload where you do less volume and, let's say, half the weight: But is that enough to not lose muscle mass? I am getting a bit paranoid about that. Recently I ordered new earphones to make jogging nicer and was wondering if I even should go jogging because some website said it could make me lose muscle mass. Basically anything that sounds like it would make me lose muscle mass scares me by now 🤣 even though I know that a week is not enough to hinder progress and often you're even stronger afterwards.

Yesterday I decided to be cocky and did 2x25kgx5 on OHP, felt like I was done already, but then tried 30kg, managed 1x5, and then did AMRAP with 25 kg (managed 8 ) So, there's definitely improvement, I've never managed to lift 30 5 times in a row ever before. That was uplifting, and the chin ups went much better as well, and basically everything. definitely this though! Thanks a lot! Love those visuals and cues. Watched a video by some fitness dude and he said it borders on bro science but he felt like eating a lot of greens helped him with strength and it encourages me to keep up the green smoothie habit which I was just about to drop for laziness.

one more thing I did not mention, lol: I deloaded from 29 kg to 26 (~10%) for OP. Then for 26, where my first AMRAP was 7, I managed 7 again, with bad form. Then for 27 kg I did not manage to lift 5 again in the final set. So I have to deload again. From 27. I'm glad at least Bench Press went very well. I really was like

Absolutely not. Prefer weights. Maybe the grease the groove has to be a challenge at least. They say to take the reps you can regularly do (4 in case of assisted chin ups) and cut it in half. If it were 5, I would have to round down anyway to 2. Then you're supposed to do it 6x in week 1, 7x in week 2 and so on. There are 2 issues with it: Remembering it every 2-3 hours to reasonably spread the 6x (and even more, goes up to 10x) over the day. And as I said, it's not exactly a challenge. What would be more challenging is doing 5 every time. Maybe I'll try that. OR MAYBE I JUST DON'T AND REST INSTEAD. I don't feel it is interfering with the regular workout though, it's just also not doing anything I can measure currently to me or my body. The only reason being though that I started so ridiculously low with them and did not up them as fast as I was supposed to. I should have added 2,5 kg each time but I overlooked this part and added only 1 kg, as I did with the upper body. I only did this with DL but with squats, I struggle a lot with holding the barbell anyway. Not sure if I mentioned but usually my stamina and upper body is suffering a lot while my legs yawn and wonder if they were supposed to feel something. Since I would often be sore after the workout anyway and could feel my legs getting firmer, I decided to not progress too quickly with it. Especially because squats still feel weird to me, still feel kinda wrong, but I can gladly announce I do not have this weird back pain anymore. My lower back still feels weird doing them but at least no pain afterwards and I feel that bracing is easier, more core strength etc. I currently am at 32 kg for squats and 45 DL. When I did DL in 2018 I progressed too quickly and was quickly at 65 but with bad form and I would have back pain all the time, so I prefer to go slow. I know that a workout is not worthless when I can not add weight. There are still plenty of benefits. I just lost my beginner enthusiasm I guess, maybe also because the workout has become longer and longer gradually and now it requires more time, and more effort to get motivated. But I will not give this up now. It might have become harder mentally, but I am pretty happy with the routine and the growth in strength and how I, relatively easily and quickly, am now lifting more weight than ever before, just by sticking with it (besides DL). I'm really glad I incorporated this, it's also peace of mind knowing I am doing something for my health and body and developing muscle and becoming stronger.

Just a quick wrap up. Didn't manage to create another tracker because got engulfed with work again. Still roughly tracking calories and aiming for a deficit, weight though is still unchanged at 80 since January. I lost a bit of motivation for the training after having to deload on bench press and overhead press, plus after the work day and a lack of sleep because now I have trouble falling asleep again thinking about work, I don't feel too fit to work out in the evening. I know it's an excuse but I'm just feeling overall deflated. Well but my stomach, that for sure feels the opposite most of the time. Last workout 2 days ago was bench press and I managed x9 with 31 kg so I am making progress, and I'm still doing the daily chin ups and daily push ups but without any noticable improvement on anything. Maybe it's just not helpful for me to crank out things I can do anyway, even when repeated during the day. Maybe this is why I was head over heels for greasing the groove - it's not an actual challenge and fairly easy to do. Of course I can do 2 assisted chin ups 6 times a day. It's not even tiring in any way. Still can't do 3x5 in my workout. We are pretty lucky this year so far with the weather. Rather sunny and warm. We are now going for walks more often. Recently we walked our usual round of ~3 km and the cat followed us all the way and at the end of it, he even had a mouse suddenly. It's so funny when he trots along next to us, or stays back, sniffing something, and then sprinting back to us, overtaking us with the tail up like a flag and very enthusiastic and hyper, going up trees occasionally. He's really like a puppy sometimes (despite that tree climbing). Also going back to bike tours. Absolutely zero progress on the projects and bootcamp because I feel so braindead in the evening. I wonder if some people simply can't cope with 8h work days well and can't function otherwise, or if it is normal to not be able to. I work, then we cook and eat, have a bit downtime, sometimes training, maybe a walk, and that's about it. Until part time starts, my coworker is on vacation and I have to cover his part of work additionally. I love that after having a vacation and relaxing, you come back to an absolute stress fest and have to cover other people's shifts, making your relaxation and vacation null and void. Really counting the days until the next 2 weeks are finally over. BUT! Managed to do something like tying a cat to a buttered sandwich. Last Friday we had the deep clean, the next one will be next Friday, and it always feels it comes around so quickly again, so when I now worry about the time passing slowly at work, I am reminding myself that I am lucky that at least it's not deep clean Friday yet and there is still so much more time until then.

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If I weren't, I'd probably go for it anyway, 20 minutes to grease the groove and a healthier habit than browsing reddit and Twitter, but I could get my drawing in during a meeting then. unfortunately a day or two completely off won't change the political situation. it's that and possibly having to move again in the end of the year that is ruining my vigour. Maybe. or it's just another story I keep telling myself of why I can't be productive. I'm addicted to doom scrolling 😩 this is the real fight here. Need to gather days off that.

There's no helping it - I can every day have the goal to work 1 hour, but if I never do it, nothing changes, so I got to start build momentum slower. The whole vacation is not going as planned, much less productive than I wanted to be. Urgh, and then 3 full weeks of work until part time starts 🤮

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This night I googled grease the groove and the frequency layer of Greyskull, will give it a try. Tracker March 7th - March 13th 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣ ☀️◻️☀️◻️☀️◻️☀️ Lifting ☀️☀️◻️☀️◻️☀️☀️ Green Smoothie ✅◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ Track Calories 🐒◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ Have at least 200 calories deficit 🐒◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ Unity course for at least 20 minutes 🐒◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ Work on bootcamp at least 20 minutes ☀️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ Draw 20 minutes or more ☀️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ 6x2 Chin Ups ☀️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ 6x2 Push Ups 🐒◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ Out for a walk, no matter how short or long, running/bike counts as well ✅◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️ No news and/or Twitter ✅ = Did it ☀️= Rest/Break 🐒 = Monkey brain won Weekly goals Go to post office to return Elden Ring Bi-weekly deep clean Read entire book by neighbor Order new LEDs

Right? I'm aware a lot of this is theoretical stuff that does not necessarily apply to you, me or anyone reading this (like, yeah, physics and all do apply to everyone, what I mean is that all of this theory varies from person to person and might not have super practical use) We have gymnastic rings currently but they are hanging very low, I use them for ring rows during the Greyskull (alternating with assisted chin-ups).

At the end of this conversation, I'd like to post my favorite gif.

Good to know, I did 26 kg today with the deload and I did not exactly breeze through it. Managed to somehow grind out 7 during AMRAP set with very bad form and momentum (usually I don't do that, but I really wanted to see if I could lift it once again). I can see working myself up to 29 with the linear progression and stalling again 😆 I found this unrealistic, accidentally calculated it like this first, but if I take 80 kg as first weight with 33% fat, and then 80 kg with only 21% fat, would mean the rest is muscle mass, which is quite unlikely to happen. If it's only to show how muscle mass raises the TDEE, I get your point. It is, and I was wondering why is that. It might be because of what you mention here: Seems to be the key here. So the lean mass matters for TDEE and the fat just sits there with both weights/body fat %? Also lean mass.. I know you subtracted the body fat from the weight, but there are also bones and stuff. Body fat is the only component we calculate with, right? If I had more muscle mass, my weight would be higher at the same amount of body fat. Is there a way to actually measure the amount of muscle alone? Guess it's not overly important since we can calculate precisely enough with body fat, and I assume bones and organs always are roughly the same in average for certain heights. Ow - I hope this is not a misunderstanding. What I mean is that it does not necessarily create a deficit, but it uses calories to build muscle. No? I was thinking like, in an exaggeration, I need 2000 calories a day for organs and activities, but 200 are needed to build muscle, so won't be used for other stuff, so if I eat 2000 calories, it's like I ate 1800, because 200 are used for building muscle mass. Since I did not eat 2200, the body has to use the calories from the 2000 I ate for either building muscle or organs/activities, and take 200 from body fat. I thought this was extra to the calories used to build muscle. No idea if I mentioned that, but the squats are the worst when it comes to taxing, because they require so much upper body strength as well. I often struggle way more with holding the barbell in place, even when I balance it out and press it on to my body, than with the actual leg work. It's getting easier but it for sure is a full body exercise. It feels way better to do squats as well as DL now. Also the chin up, currently doing them with band assist, as you mentioned, it's a lot of the connection between mind/muscle, it's way less that act of sheer power and UGHHHH and pulling with all might, but more focusing on the muscles I need to flex for the movement and up I go. Since the ceiling is so low here, we often joke about going with the head through the ceiling accidentally. Really have to do this when doing pull and chin ups: Yeah, could be. It's due to social anxiety and worrying a lot about what others think, so it's easy to imply they think bad. It's similar with how everybody knows the gym will be flooded in January by newcomers with New Year's resolutions. I had a socially awkward friend who wanted to prevent this so badly (someone thinking this about him) he made a point of signing up for gym in October already. I do feel a bit ridiculous being out on the street in spring, especially as out of shape as I currently am, so I need to counter those thoughts for them not to prevent me from going outside and doing the things. True, could have been on the treadmill all winter, but for sure don't look or run like it Do the runners blossom in spring where you live? What blossoms here like crazy in spring are 2 kind of bikers

Tracker Feb 28th - March 6th 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣ ☀️✅☀️✅☀️ ✅ Lifting ☀️☀️✅☀️☀️☀️✅ Green Smoothie 🐒✅✅✅✅✅🐒 Track Calories 🐒🐒✅✅✅✅🐒 Have 200 calories deficit 🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒 Work on personal project 1 hour or more 🐒✅✅✅🐒🐒🐒 Work on bootcamp 1 hour or more ✅ = Did it ☀️= Rest/Break 🐒 = Monkey brain won Weekly goals Paint wall ✅ Install those "robot arms" for monitors ✅ Buy birthday present for dad ✅ Go to post office to refund Elden Ring 🐒 Ghost will release a new album soon and it's so WEIRD but I love it

Wow. And I thought we moved a lot. From 2009 to today I moved 4 times, 2 of them solo and it already seems like a lot. I absolutely get wanting a house, I'd also want one because I crave the feeling of arriving somewhere that feels like home, where you know you came to stay, and can plan for decades and not only 0,5 - 2 years and can't really change anything because you know you will move anyway. Especially at a certain age it's normal wanting to settle, isn't it? Also the command hooks - LOL. I hang a calendar today and decided for the power strips because I did not want to put holes in the wall. The gravel garden, lol. Is it like I imagine? There's a page dedicated to gardens as those (Gärten des Grauens), some are hilarious. It's something wealthy people here often do, their houses often have weird pillars and gardens like: My dad used to joke to pour cement over the garden and paint it green because he was fed up with mowing the lawn Thanks for the crochet channel, subscribed to it. Bought some cross stich patterns I want to finish first, afterwards might try crocheting. Hope you can relax now a bit and enjoy the daydreams about what hopefully soon is to come ❤️ I get not wanting to jinx it though. Keeping fingers crossed all goes well.

I never thought the idea of going for a run would ever have me like instant dopamine. there is nothing better than running in rhythm to music and breathing in and out while in some kind of trance. too bad i can't get the same high on the air bike. said to my bf today that I was always quite embarassed to be one of those people who go out in early spring to run and all, because it is assumed everybody does it to look good naked in summer, and how stupid it is to think that way, because what is more natural than wanting to go out when it is sunny and becoming spring, just for the sake of it? just for the sake of moving outside, especially after a long, dark winter. without having some stupid bikini body in mind.

WOW Congrats on the mortgage offer and submitting your thesis!! 🎉 Can only imagine the relief. What do you crochet? Recently thought about getting into it when seeing this: 😍 Love your garden btw, especially the dinosaur. Seeing how everything green goes into your garden reminds me of a joke video about putting everything green into green smoothies, like kale, spinach, peas, dollar notes, green paint, frogs, emeralds, poison.. How is it with the house? Are you already thinking about how to furnish and decorate and everything? I imagine it to be so exciting!

Tracker Feb 28th - March 6th 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣ ☀️✅☀️◻️☀️◻️☀️ Lifting ☀️☀️✅☀️◻️☀️☀️ Green Smoothie 🐒✅✅✅◻️◻️◻️ Track Calories 🐒🐒✅✅◻️◻️◻️ Have 200 calories deficit 🐒🐒🐒◻️◻️◻️◻️ Work on personal project 1 hour or more 🐒✅✅✅◻️◻️◻️ Work on bootcamp 1 hour or more ✅ = Did it ☀️= Rest/Break 🐒 = Monkey brain won Weekly goals Paint wall Install those "robot arms" for monitors Buy birthday present for dad ✅ Go to post office to refund Elden Ring Yesterday was the day I couldn't manage to do Overhead Press with 29kg 5 times. Only managed 3x4. So I have to deload. Will go back to 26 kg and work my way back up and see if I can break my AMRAP records. Then I pretended I want to paint the wall and realized I am lacking materials to actually do so, so we headed to the DIY market yesterday. I'm sleeping lots these days and feel I really need it. Also have a bout of zero backpain currently (despite DL on Tuesday), the bed was so comfortable last night. Still working on nutrition - I googled a lot and there is something I can't understand. @Alanna I'd love to read your opinion on it, or maybe you know someone who knows a lot here? I looked up recomposition and here's the thing: When I calculate my TDEE for my current weight and height and 33% estimated body fat, I get a need of 1,833 calories a day (for sedentary). When I calculate it again and only change the weight to 71 kg and the body fat to 22%, I get 1,879 a day (for sedentary. And with 25% body fat, it would be 1824, so not a huge difference) I tried several calculators and the gist is that the calories I need, depending on daily activity, are around 1800 - 2000, no matter the weight/body fat. How can it be the same? Does that mean I could just eat maintenance and recompose my body with that? How would that work? Let's assume I'm sedentary and only lift every other day, and eat exactly the amount of calories I burn during the lifting. So I have no intentional deficit by burning calories through activity or eating less. BUT the lifting would build muscle mass (not a lot though and not very quickly). For that, it needs energy. Which would create the deficit that would burn, very slowly, the fat? Guess here I would quickly run into the problem that I could not build enough muscle mass to keep up the deficit needed to burn all the fat. I still have trouble wrapping my head around the fact the TDEE is almost the same for those different weights and body fat percentages.

Yeah, I am aware of that. Even when you look at some foods it's clear they can't have the same calorie density everywhere. Another factor are food scales, I know they are not super accurate either. My argument for being rather accurate was that even though I know there are discrepancies already, at least I can do my part and not add any more of those. On the other hand, I have to find something that works, and counting is very off-putting for me, so I rather half-ass it a bit and estimate here and there but still do it, than not do anything at all because it sucks. More slacking than planned, but not only slacking. Today we went for a run, was great. I also lost a tiny tad of weight. It's pretty sunny here and I enjoy my time off, even though politics worry me.