CM and the Veritable Smorgasbords

[CourtnieMarie]

 

Apple picking, ren fairs, cabin trips, oh my! Apparently we did a FAIR job at planning a smorgasbord of autumnal events this season. There will be lots of sticky foods in my future.

 

 

Challenge goals:

Complete the Self Fall Fitness Challenge: get in 5 workouts per week

go on a 5 min walk once per week; plan out a day by Tuesday based on weather

track restaurant food; I feel better when I eat out less than 3x per week. Plan out weekend food and grocery list before Friday night.

track yoga; I feel better when I get at least 50mins/week

 

this is my template for meal planning:

 

Meal	Sat	Sun		Meal prep recipes
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

 

 

let's do this!

 

[Jord]

2 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

Complete the Self Fall Fitness Challenge: get in 5 workouts per week 

 

FUN! It's definitely nice to have something planned for you that varies and is easy to follow and look forward to. I can totes see this being good for you.

[RedStone]

Oh man! What a fun fall! How do you guys plan these things? Do you sit down with a calendar one night and just be like, yo, this is going down! We always say, oh I want to do this thing blah blah blah but the season comes and goes, it's so sad!!! Teach me your ways master...

 

4 hours ago, Jord said:

I can totes see this being good for you.

 

So second! Reminds me of your workouts in a way, looks like fun!! 

 

[CourtnieMarie]

16 hours ago, Jord said:

 

FUN! It's definitely nice to have something planned for you that varies and is easy to follow and look forward to. I can totes see this being good for you.

 

11 hours ago, RedStone said:

 

So second! Reminds me of your workouts in a way, looks like fun!! 

 

 

yes i'm loving the easy to follow stuff recently! i sub in for stuff my shoulder or knee doesn't like me doing  

 

also i almost did a charlie brown great pumpkin theme haha!

 

11 hours ago, RedStone said:

Oh man! What a fun fall! How do you guys plan these things? Do you sit down with a calendar one night and just be like, yo, this is going down! We always say, oh I want to do this thing blah blah blah but the season comes and goes, it's so sad!!! Teach me your ways master...

 

this year it was pretty much coincidence!

1. a small group of friends usually camp at Acadia Nat'l Park on Indigenous People's Day weekend but bc of the packed and expensive summer for so many of us, we decided somewhere closer and cheaper - campfire space was a must on our airbnb search
2. we saw SO's brother and sis-in-law at their baby shower in august and they've recently got a new house in (around?) Albany so we knew we needed to go see them. planning out from that time meant end of september which equated to let's go apple picking!
3. just a weekend or two ago SO's mom asked if we wanted to go to the ren faire this year and we haven't been in a few years and she happened to want to go on a saturday we were free!
4. oktoberfest, which was last weekend should also be included on here and ever since going for the 1st time a couple yrs ago we have to each year now lol

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Monday

 

1/2 mile run

100 bw squats

60 mtn climbers

40 bw squats

40 DB step ups

4 squat jumps (these hurt my knee so switched it up)

60 high knees

 

after work I started a spaghetti squash dish, folded laundry, finished dinner then ate it. unfortunately folding laundry meant I didn’t release the pressure soon enough and the squash was overcooked.

 

workouts: 1/5

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 0

 

also planned out the rest of week 0!

 

the week 0 plan.

9/10: BW workout; fold laundry

9/11: ab workout; yoga (15m)

9/12: DB workout; yoga (15m)

9/13: DB workout; walk; yoga (10m)

9/14: Self Day 1; potential work outing?

9/15: grocery shopping; start TY cards; cousin’s pinning ceremony

9/16: meal prep; yoga (10m)

[JustCallMeAmber]

I do sometimes regret living in a place that doesn't do autumn. Living vicariously following. (Ok, really, it's both..)

[Grumble]

16 hours ago, RedStone said:

Oh man! What a fun fall! How do you guys plan these things? Do you sit down with a calendar one night and just be like, yo, this is going down! We always say, oh I want to do this thing blah blah blah but the season comes and goes, it's so sad!!! Teach me your ways master...

 

I can't speak for CM, but our planning is usually, "Hey, lets do this. Ok. When? Well, we have this weekend free..." and so on until we realize were scheduled out past thanksgiving.

[CourtnieMarie]

33 minutes ago, Grumble said:

 

I can't speak for CM, but our planning is usually, "Hey, lets do this. Ok. When? Well, we have this weekend free..." and so on until we realize were scheduled out past thanksgiving.

yes. yes this.

[Gemma]

Sticky foods are the best foods! 

 

Also a bit envious of your planning skillz. Hubs and I do events using the RedStone method. We have lots of conversations along the general structure of "oh, the elderberry festival was last weekend. We meant to go to that ..."  

[Blocky]

46 minutes ago, Gemma said:

Also a bit envious of your planning skillz. Hubs and I do events using the RedStone method. We have lots of conversations along the general structure of "oh, the elderberry festival was last weekend. We meant to go to that ..."

 

Mrs Blocky and I take it a step further... "Hey look! There's an exciting thing coming up that we are definitely NOT going to attend... let's watch netflix..."

[Jord]

18 hours ago, Grumble said:

 

I can't speak for CM, but our planning is usually, "Hey, lets do this. Ok. When? Well, we have this weekend free..." and so on until we realize were scheduled out past thanksgiving.

 

Same bro. Next free weekend is November and there's only 1. December is already being scheduled into.

[CourtnieMarie]

16 hours ago, Gemma said:

Sticky foods are the best foods! 

 

Also a bit envious of your planning skillz. Hubs and I do events using the RedStone method. We have lots of conversations along the general structure of "oh, the elderberry festival was last weekend. We meant to go to that ..."  

 

our shared iCalendar has been monumental for our social/family events. You can access it on a phone app or webpage when on a computer. i lurves it. 

 

14 minutes ago, Jord said:

 

Same bro. Next free weekend is November and there's only 1. December is already being scheduled into.

well done! we luckily still have one october weekend free. i should probably put TY cards or something in there before it's too late for those bad boys.

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Tuesday

 

ABZ

30 toe taps

10 sit ups w/ 10#

30 bicycle crunches

x3

 

dentist after work yesterday. all’s well. I got the remainder of my brown rice that has been sitting in the pantry on the stove cooking and then did 15m of yoga. felt great after that leg heavy workout on Monday. had dinner and prepped meals for work today.

 

also trying to figure out if we were actually invited to SO’s cousin’s celebration this Saturday or if her mom just wants us to come. If we weren’t I don’t want to just show up especially since it’s 2hrs away.

(i just found a handful of gifs from our actual local ren faire )

 

workouts: 2/5

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 15

 

the plan.

9/10: BW workout; fold laundry

9/11: ab workout; yoga

9/12: DB workout; yoga

9/13: DB workout; walk; yoga

9/14: Self Day 1; potential work outing?

9/15: grocery shopping; start TY cards; cousin’s party

9/16: meal prep; yoga

[Jord]

40 minutes ago, CourtnieMarie said:

 

our shared iCalendar has been monumental for our social/family events. You can access it on a phone app or webpage when on a computer. i lurves it. 

 

 

We do that too! And also have a paper one on the fridge so we can stand and flip through it together sometimes when planning stuff. But the joint phone calendar is CLUTCH. see what I did there.

[CourtnieMarie]

53 minutes ago, Jord said:

 

We do that too! And also have a paper one on the fridge so we can stand and flip through it together sometimes when planning stuff. But the joint phone calendar is CLUTCH. see what I did there.

yussssss we have the paper one next to our fridge too!! the phone cal is especially nice when we make drunk plans  

[Grumble]

2 hours ago, Jord said:

 

Same bro. Next free weekend is November and there's only 1. December is already being scheduled into.

 

2 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

well done! we luckily still have one october weekend free. i should probably put TY cards or something in there before it's too late for those bad boys.

 

I just closed out my November calendar this morning. I'm officially booked to the middle of December.

 

Also, Joint calendars are the best. I even share out one of my calendars with my gaming group so we can schedule around my army shit.

[CourtnieMarie]

you know, i WISH my family would tell me their holiday plans this far in advance. we have to usually just wait around and keep those days open 

[JustCallMeAmber]

Is it weird that the 1st thing I thought was that he bears a striking (or unfortunate?) resemblance to Joaquin Phoenix?

[CourtnieMarie]

i actually like joaquin! here's the same guy with a clearer(ish) view of his face

[CourtnieMarie]

 

Week 0 – Wednesday

 

7 curlz (10# DBs)

7 hammer curlz (10# DBs)

7 lat raises (5# DBs)

7 shoulder taps in plank

x7 rounds

 

made dinner and did 15m of yoga. fairly easy day!

 

workouts: 3/5

walk: 0/5

restaurant food: 0

yoga: 30

[Jord]

1 hour ago, CourtnieMarie said:

Week 0 – Wednesday

 

7 curlz (10# DBs)

7 hammer curlz (10# DBs)

7 lat raises (5# DBs)

7 shoulder taps in plank

x7 rounds

 

made dinner and did 15m of yoga. fairly easy day!

 

love simple and easy! my new program is more cardio/hypertrophy and I love how quick it's going. (2 days quick, 1 day longer BB work)

 

although you lost me a little when it said to do it 7 times

[CourtnieMarie]

16 minutes ago, Jord said:

 

love simple and easy! my new program is more cardio/hypertrophy and I love how quick it's going. (2 days quick, 1 day longer BB work)

 

although you lost me a little when it said to do it 7 times

i'm pretty sure it took less than 15 minutes even with 7 rounds! these workouts are great when SO is away and i have a bit extra housework on my plate

[Grumble]

18 minutes ago, CourtnieMarie said:

i'm pretty sure it took less than 15 minutes even with 7 rounds! these workouts are great when SO SPOUSE is away and i have a bit extra housework on my plate

Up the weights even a little bit can almost turn this into a HIIT workout if you keep the rest or nonexistent.. 

 

Also, FIFY

[CourtnieMarie]

12 minutes ago, Grumble said:

Up the weights even a little bit can almost turn this into a HIIT workout if you keep the rest or nonexistent.. 

fo sure! 10# is as high as my at home DBs go and late raises need to stay light for my mf-ing baby shoulder. lemme get that tiny violin gif

 

12 minutes ago, Grumble said:

Also, FIFY

ha! i was wondering what i should change it to. and then i couldn't think of anything so i left it

[CourtnieMarie]

Week 0 – Thursday

 

KB deadlift high pull

10x10x4

 

KB swings

10x20x4

 

weighted toe touches

8x20x4

 

squat jacks

10x4

 

took the pup for a walk after work to check off that goal – longer than 5 mins but I didn’t time it. folded laundry and skipped yoga. I was craving a burger for dinner but all the odds were against me so we ended up with chipotle.

 

workouts: 4/5

walk: 5/5

restaurant food: 1

yoga: 30

 

how’s the plan going, you ask?

9/10: BW workout; fold laundry

9/11: ab workout; yoga

9/12: DB workout; yoga

9/13: DB workout; walk; yoga

9/14: Self Day 1; yoga (10m)

9/15: grocery shopping; start TY cards; cousin’s party

9/16: meal prep; yoga (10m)