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My boss explained the straw thing to me yesterday. So many rules... I've been doing green tea with my breakfast every morning for a while now, it's just easier to make one cup of tea than coffee every morning. I made my first pot of the half caf and half decaf this morning at the office. It taste's a little weak, but otherwise, it's good! My new goal is to be like PH with her wisdom teeth. I feel like I need to make post surgery chicken strips a goal now. Ha, that's understandable. It's 90% chance of rain here all weekend, so I'm pretty sure I won't be going to any minor league baseball games, I should be safe from that temptaion. So what you're saying is, if I want some more vicodin...

Bean! Welcome back! Good luck with the challenge!

Thanks for the recipe, I can work with that, I'll probably swap out honey for the agave, just so I don't have another sweetener in my pantry that never gets used. Alton Brown has an avocado ice cream that I really want to try, but whenever I bring it up people act like I just punted a puppy or something. Last night, I was fairly miserable when I got home from work. I had a bad headache and was just exhausted. I ended up just camping on the couch for a bit, played some dark souls and watched SHIELD. There was no form of extra movement, the weather is pretty crappy this week, and I didn't really have a plan of what to do for days where I can't work/walk outside. I may add in some PLP type work to give me extra work throughout the week.

Yeesh, that sucks when people back out like that. There always seems to be one person/couple in a group that will consistently do it too. I think looking forward to having fun is the best thing you can do now! P.S. that workout sounds awesome! Good job with it!

I hand't really thought about protein shakes, good call! I have told my wife that I'm going to just throw my regular meals in the blender and turn them all into smoothies. Nohting like that chicken, brocolli, and navy bean smoothie. I'm sure she's going to have lots of stories to tell. I'm already trying to get into the mindset from college when I would be way too drunk, and realize that I needed to hold it together until I could get to the house. I just looked at a buzzfeed article for things to eat after wisdom teeth, it had a chocolate avocado pudding and a peanut butter protein smoothie that sound pretty great. Too bad all of the links were screwed up. Let's be honest though, I'm going to be eating a lot of ice cream and we all know it.

Hello, I saw some posts of yours over in the "Baton Rouge, LA" meetup thread, and I saw that you were local (I live in Clinton). So I figured I'd come introduce myself and help cheer you on. I got married last May and went through a lot of the stuff you're talking about, the ice cream every night, eating junk on the regular. Since you're already taking steps away from that, you're on the right track. Good luck with it! Also, now that I'm here, I'm stealing your dressing from yesterday's lunch, that looks delicious, and I just bought some fresh ginger that I need to figure out what to do with.

I had never thought about mixing cafs and decafs until y'all mentioned it. That's probably going to happen soon. 4/13/15 Workout Squats: 45X8 45X8 75X5 75X5 75X5 75X5 75X5 OHP: 45X8 45X8 60X5 60X5 60X5 60X5 60X5 DL: 85X5 Foam Roll: For a bit. I tried something different with last night's workout, I had been lifting as soon as I'd get in, but last night I cooked, ate, and watched a litle tv. I didn't go workout until 7:30ish, and I liked that I wasn't rushed. I may keep that up for a little while. Oh another thing, I'm supposed to be getting my wisdom teeth out Friday, I had kind of forgotten about it. I'm not sure what that's going to do to my workout schedule. I'm also not very sure what I'm going to be able to eat. I should probably look into this a little bit.

Glad to hear everything came out ok, hopefully the repairs won't be too much. I was going to ask if you had thought about changing over to a gas range, but you covered that one!

I've thought about decaf, but never taken the jump. I might make the office buy some and see how I feel.

Welcome to the warriors man! I run into some of the same problems on 5/3/1 it's not always enough volume to help me out. I read this from Chad Wesley Smith once. I found this on a facebook post from him, but I'm pretty sure he wrote an article on it later, if I find it I'll link it to you.

I had some impromptu husafel stone work last week that left me with some similarly located bruises.

HG!!!

Thank you, sir! Thanks! I've got some long term plans for upgrading my shop and having a larger area for gym stuff, I might swap out to a real rack at that point, depending on how well the yoke does. I've noticed it's got a little side to side wiggle, but front to back it's perfectly stable. Once I start using heavy weights on it, I'll know more about it's capabilities. Thank you! Day 1: Tonight's workout will be Squats/OHP/DL, pushups, and mobility. I don't have a bench yet, so BP's aren't an option at this point, but I'm doing floor presses and extra pushups to make up for that. My official starting weight for this challenge is 297.7 Another non-official goal right now is to cut back on coffee, I'm trying to bring my caffeine consumption back to regular human levels, and man am I noticiing it this morning. my fingers and brain aren't working on the same level right now and typos are flying all over the place. I'm seriously considering making a pot just to try and right the ship this morning.

I haven't watched Korra, but I was a big fan of the original Avatar. The goals look great, I'll be following! Woohoo! PR pulls! Congrats!

The only Sanderson books I've read so far are Steelheart and The Way of Kings. The latter I got for free on my ipad, and not realizing that it was a 1200 page book that was the first of ten planned in the series, it hooked me though, so I'm probably going to be devoting a lot of my time to that series in the future. And from everything I've heard about his other stuff, I will probably be diving into those at some point too.

Thanks! I agree, because I don't have to deal with other people. Because they're just the worst. Bear gifs are always welcome here. I did not build my own rack, I bought a Rogue Yoke. It comes with two hooks so it can be used as a rack, and it will also work as a power sled. This is my current setup. I've got a pair of farmer's walk handles in the corner. The only other thing I'd really like to do right now is set up a rack on the side to store my plates. The yoke comes with two bars for it, but I haven't found a good spot to attach them that the plates aren't in the way. Hola! Thanks! Welcome friend! I believe that, a couple of the back country campsites I've been to had bear boxes that I had to look at for a second to figure out how to open. There's gonna be a good bit of that around here.

Solid challenge! Good luck! p.s. I second WR on more Meg pics.

Jump on it Rooks, you got this!

Your setup is great. Is your rack just bolted to the platform, or is it through into the concrete?

Oh man, I missed the Sanderson discussion. I haven't read Mistborn, but I'm down with everything of his that I have read. I like your idea of having a list of to-do's and the dates to have them done by. I may have to steal that plan from you. I'm in for this challenge, good luck!

I dropped out my last challenge (January) because I got caught up buying a house. Now we're in a new house, and things have settled back down. I bought a rack for my garage, and now I'm back to lifting. If any of this seems short, it's because the internet ate the previous thread I started, so now I'm full of rage. Anyway here are the goals. Goal 1: Get back in the groove. My workout notebook shows my last official lifting session to be around the end of August last year. Between moving, changing gyms, and moving my workout time, I couldn't maintain a steady schedule. Now I have my own rig in the garage and I can do what I want with the equipment I want. I've been doing the SL 5X5 for the past two weeks. I'm starting with this for a few reasons. 1) It's quick and easy, so it helps me build a routine. 2) It's helping me regain my lost mobility. 3) Weight plates are expensive and it will keep me from having to buy more weights just yet. My workout plan for this go round will be... MWF - lift. T,Th - some form of "Cardio" Sat - Conditioning work. Sun - Be lazy. Goal 2: More "Cardio" I'm treating this as anything that keeps me moving for an extended period of time. Yard work will mostly fill this I think. Goal 3: Keep it "clean" I'm borowing from some of the slow carb rules these days. I eat good six days a week, and do whatever on Saturdays. Goal 4: Projects everywhere! I've got quite a few projects brewing in the back of my head. The big one I want to finish is taking care of a spot that is washing in my back yard where a ditch runs through. I'll give weekly updates on my projects.

Nice workout! And congrats on the new gym! I'm always terrible about keeping up with how many sets I've done. At least once a workout I have to stop and think "Was that my third set or fourth???" Also...

Hi! I'm lurking... Good luck! p.s. These Elton John gifs are fun!

Something I've learned on some job sites I've been on is that asbestos is in pretty much everything from before it was banned. Linoleum and drywall (including mud and tape), are both big contenders as well as the ceiling. But when dealing with lead paint, unless your state has some extra regulations vs what EPA uses, then painting over it is all you have to do for it to be considered sealed. I can't remember if you need a special type of sealing paint or not, but I don't think so. Doing it that way wouldn't help you when it comes time to resell, but it would keep it safe to live in until you had some of the other projects out of the way.