Urgan Shows Up, Does the Thing

[Cataleya]

I'm not looking forward to going back to work. I mean, I am, but I'm not. Hopefully it's a smoother process for you with everyone there.

[Jord]

I also had no groceries for first day back at work and all I had for breakfast was a giant thing of vanilla greek yogurt and some granola. Plz come over laterz and cook for me. 

[Urgan]

12/29/2017 - 12/31/2017

...yup. Yup.

Food

Calories: 2439/ 2397, 1999, 2423

Protein: 114 / 127, 90, 136

Fiber: 20 / 7, 22, 19

Well, it could have been worse, I suppose. 

 

Sleep

Curfew: 7/12

I'm not sure I math'd the days right, but anyway. I did well on getting to bed during work weeks and not so well otherwise.

 

Aikido

Bokken time: 4/6

 

 

Um...well. I guess it wasn't an utter disaster given the holidays happened. I did my training on Saturday and Sunday so I could say I got in the last sessions of the year and made them count. I watched the ball drop from the comfort of my parents' house, because have you seen the weather lately?? Copious amounts of peppermint, chocolate, and coffee were consumed in various combinations. 

 

Back to the grind, boys and girls.

 

On 1/1/2018 at 8:20 AM, Cataleya said:

I'm not looking forward to going back to work. I mean, I am, but I'm not. Hopefully it's a smoother process for you with everyone there.

 

...ish? So far I still do not want to move. We shall see.

 

1 hour ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

I also had no groceries for first day back at work and all I had for breakfast was a giant thing of vanilla greek yogurt and some granola. Plz come over laterz and cook for me. 

 

My mom saved the day and sent us home with leftovers. GOD BLESS LEFTOVERS.

[ixaera]

9 minutes ago, Urgan said:

Copious amounts of peppermint, chocolate, and coffee were consumed in various combinations. 

 

YUM

(except the coffee, sorry)

 

9 minutes ago, Urgan said:

Back to the grind, boys and girls.

 

[Urgan]

2 minutes ago, ixaera said:

 

That feel tho. I am hoping we discover fire soon so I can take this coat off. As it stands now, my outerwear is still on lol.

[Urgan]

Added in my training log on the report above, but here it is again:

 

Saturday's session was something else, but I made it. 185lb deads were not as terrible as I had imagined--close, but quite lol. 

 

Sunday I ended the year on an upswing with triple digit benching action. Never done multiple singles at that weight before, so that was a barrier broken.

[shaar]

4 hours ago, Urgan said:

 

That feel tho. I am hoping we discover fire soon so I can take this coat off. As it stands now, my outerwear is still on lol.

 

I got to the gym and stood in the locker room for a good 5 minutes this morning before I took my coat off.... WHAT IN TARNATION

[Kishi]

Seriously, until this latest program I've set out on, I never understood the power of singles. But now I do. Now I do...

[Urgan]

59 minutes ago, Kishi said:

Seriously, until this latest program I've set out on, I never understood the power of singles. But now I do. Now I do...

 

1RM lifting is a skill in its own right. Once you're out of novice territory, it pays to get comfy being really, REALLY unsure whether you're gonna get stapled/pinned/jarred/other unfun things.

[Sam Ashen]

5 minutes ago, Urgan said:

 

1RM lifting is a skill in its own right. Once you're out of novice territory, it pays to get comfy being really, REALLY unsure whether you're gonna get stapled/pinned/jarred/other unfun things.

 

I would say 10RM lifting is also a skill in its own right!

[Urgan]

5 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I would say 10RM lifting is also a skill in its own right!

 

Yeah, if you're into that sort of thing lol. 

[Urgan]

January 2018 Goals

That time is now

 

Well I got back on the Slo-Mag and am officially 87% less crippled as a direct result. The Survival series continues, because holy crapbaskets EOY is here and it is not disappearing until the stroke of midnight 1/31. All the bills ever both one-time and not-so-one-time are coming due. It's cold as Hell stuffed into a walk-in freezer. My birthday is tomorrow and it doesn't matter in the normal social surroundings outside of my own roof because of the timing. I need to decide if I am serious about belt testing in February. HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS.

 

 

Food

December's macros average out to:

Calories: 2327 

Protein: 114

Fiber: 30

 

 

Energy has been a lot more stable as a result. I still am having headaches, though, outside of the normal blah dee blah hormonal issues. I often get headaches around 1- 1:30-ish and in the later afternoon. Driving home in the dark is just gawd-awful, y'all. 

 

My two top culprits are: water consumption and meal timing.

I love to eat my lunches around 1:30 - 2 because I'm one of these OCD people who once they are on task have trouble getting off task. Boys and girls, lunch is at 12:30 now. Same macros because I think they work for me and if anything my weight is down a bit. That is going on the watch list. 

 

My water container has been 20oz (a styrofoam cup), and I get up to refill that sucker once and I do not on average drink all of that refill. Aside from gym time water bottle usage and dinner, this is the bulk of my quality water time. I got a 22oz water bottle for Christmas--unasked-for, mind you--and it's replacing the styrofoam. I think I will try 2 fills of this bottle per day, which does not include water from other sources, and see what that buys me. This is mainly a workday issue, on weekends I am surgically attached to a water receptacle.

 

Lunch-time: 0/18

Water: 0/18

Calories: 0

Protein: 0

Fiber: 0

 

Sleep

EOY is a thing. Do the thing. Get ready for bed at 10:30PM, out bed at 5:05AM on lifting days and 6:30AM on non-lifting days. Waived on weekends.

 

Curfew: 0/19

 

Aikido

Aikido needs to become a priority if I plan to belt test in February. The first week the dojo is closed, but after that I will need to seriously commit to preparing for it. Or, you know, not. This might be the worst time ever to do a test. Not sure.

 

Shadow Aikido: 0/8

 

Weekly Debriefs:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

[ixaera]

24 minutes ago, Urgan said:

My birthday is tomorrow and it doesn't matter in the normal social surroundings outside of my own roof because of the timing.

 

I have a friend whose bday is TODAY and funny story, ages ago we were having a lot to drink and she was talking about the curse of the post-holiday birthday and how no one ever wants to do anything on that day and why couldn't she have a summer birthday, etc

 

Tipsy as all heck, I put her birthday in my phone as 7/3, I guess to pretend she had a summer birthday with her, and since we weren't sober, neither of us remembered this until 7/3, when I texted her HAPPY BIRTHDAY totally believing it was her real birthday (trolled myself !)

 

Of course then I put her real birthday on my calendar so I also texted her today, at which point she announced that today is her second favorite birthday

 

ANYWAY

 

 

Happy early birthday!

[Sam Ashen]

39 minutes ago, Urgan said:

My birthday is tomorrow

 

I was supposed to remember this.  35 years ago, I was flawless with this stuff!

 

Happy birthday!

[Urgan]

13 minutes ago, ixaera said:

 

I have a friend whose bday is TODAY and funny story, ages ago we were having a lot to drink and she was talking about the curse of the post-holiday birthday and how no one ever wants to do anything on that day and why couldn't she have a summer birthday, etc

 

Tipsy as all heck, I put her birthday in my phone as 7/3, I guess to pretend she had a summer birthday with her, and since we weren't sober, neither of us remembered this until 7/3, when I texted her HAPPY BIRTHDAY totally believing it was her real birthday (trolled myself !)

 

Of course then I put her real birthday on my calendar so I also texted her today, at which point she announced that today is her second favorite birthday

 

ANYWAY

 

 

Happy early birthday!

 

1 minute ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I was supposed to remember this.  35 years ago, I was flawless with this stuff!

 

Happy birthday!

 

Thanks, guys. I too knew a guy who had his birthday on the 3rd and he hated it because it was the day we typically went back to school from the Christmas break. So yeah.

[ixaera]

8 minutes ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I was supposed to remember this.  35 years ago, I was flawless with this stuff!

 

Happy birthday!

 

You have replaced all the birthday brain stuff with arithmetic reflex stuff

[Cataleya]

Happy early birthday! Make it a good one by doing everything you usually do, which is kick ass.

[Sam Ashen]

6 hours ago, ixaera said:

 

You have replaced all the birthday brain stuff with arithmetic reflex stuff

 

This is impossible for me to prove!  I never played or heard of that stupid zetamec arithmetic game when I was 10.  I have no idea if I was sharper with basic arithmetic as a 10 year old kid.

 

I believe I know a few more tricks today and most certainly I could type better on 10-key!

[Jord]

16 hours ago, Urgan said:

I need to decide if I am serious about belt testing in February. HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS.

 

 

Do you want to do it? 

 

16 hours ago, Urgan said:

 

 

Energy has been a lot more stable as a result. I still am having headaches, though, outside of the normal blah dee blah hormonal issues. I often get headaches around 1- 1:30-ish and in the later afternoon. Driving home in the dark is just gawd-awful, y'all. 

 

My two top culprits are: water consumption and meal timing.

I love to eat my lunches around 1:30 - 2 because I'm one of these OCD people who once they are on task have trouble getting off task. Boys and girls, lunch is at 12:30 now. Same macros because I think they work for me and if anything my weight is down a bit. That is going on the watch list. 

 

You got this! I can see how eating before the headache happens could have potentially fabulous results. 

 

 

aaaaaand

 

[Urgan]

1/1/2018 - 1/3/2018

Merry New Year, EOY

 

Food

Lunch-time: 1/18

Water: 1/18 - 2.5 bottles YEAH

Calories: 2379 / 2197, 2451, 2486

Protein: 127 / 125, 140, 115

Fiber: 26 / 18, 28, 31

 

Sleep

Curfew: 1/19

 

Aikido

Shadow Aikido: 0/8

 

Squat

45       5

125     5

145     3

160     1

176     1

 

Deadlift

145     5

165     3

185     1

195     1

166     3x3

 

Well here we are again, January. Started it off with sub-freezing temperatures and a rather mediocre gym session--I mean, I put in the work, but it felt just terribad given the weights involved. It's so cold I have to take special measures to try to get my nose clear long enough to get to sleep. Can't wait for the cold snotty rain forecast next week. At least last night I got to sleep rather quickly. 

 

The food and curfew rules began on the 3rd, and I nailed those. 2.5 bottles of water and lunchtime as mandated. Macros were pretty doggone good. I did not have nearly the head pain on average, but my workload was also lighter. My eyes didn't do that nighttime tired blur until most of the way home--normally it starts up at least halfway there (the commute home takes an hour, FYI). So something went right. 

 

Speaking of how things are going, outside our department is a cluster farkle. Those guys are not ready and it is going to be a mad, mad scramble for them to get it done in time and I doubt a good time will be had by anyone, shortly. Fortunately we are a bubble of sanity in a world that is pandemonium (and I am trying to stay in that bubble, please dear God do not pop the bubble). Of course, we rely on the people who are backed up with other EOY work to do our stuff, too. To speak nothing of other promises that need to be kept and well, doesn't look good ATM. Also, what is a programming freeze? It's the MOST. WONDERFUL. TIME. OF THE YEAR.

[Urgan]

4 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

Do you want to do it? 

 

I do, it's just a matter of focusing and spending my time like I do. Small detail.

 

4 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

You got this! I can see how eating before the headache happens could have potentially fabulous results. 

 

One would think. I sadly do not engage in that pastime often enough.

 

4 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

aaaaaand

 

 

Thanks. My idea of party hard is go home and crawl under a blanket lol. It is too cold to live out here BRR.

[shaar]

5 minutes ago, Urgan said:

It's the MOST. WONDERFUL. TIME. OF THE YEAR.

 

EOY can dig a hole and go sit in it and die.  Srsly.

 

My boss decided - 3 days before 2018 - that we were going to switch the entire business to a new accounting firm for 2018.  [insert record scratch noise] MOST.  WONDERFUL.  ...... TIME???

 

WE ARE HASHTAG BLESSED

 

Speaking of work (and not hashtag stressed) I have to keep one of those big Nalgene water bottles on my desk at all times of else hydration is LOL nope.  It's hard to remember amidst the chaos that's for sure.  Sigh.

 

Also here's my favorite birthday meme:

 

[ixaera]

2 minutes ago, Urgan said:

Fortunately we are a bubble of sanity in a world that is pandemonium (and I am trying to stay in that bubble, please dear God do not pop the bubble)

 

[Urgan]

3 minutes ago, shaar said:

EOY can dig a hole and go sit in it and die.  Srsly.

 

My boss decided - 3 days before 2018 - that we were going to switch the entire business to a new accounting firm for 2018.  [insert record scratch noise] MOST.  WONDERFUL.  ...... TIME???

 

You too? It must be something in the management's water, but ours love to change horses midstream every year 'round about this time. And not make the new processes/procedures clear. Or alternatively tell no one anything you can take to the bank about what this new normal is gonna look like. You know, options.

 

6 minutes ago, shaar said:

Speaking of work (and not hashtag stressed) I have to keep one of those big Nalgene water bottles on my desk at all times of else hydration is LOL nope.  It's hard to remember amidst the chaos that's for sure.  Sigh.

 

Yeah, I have a Lifefactory brand 22oz bottle now and I am hoping it will be sufficient motivation to bear out this whole water thing. Especially in the thick of winter when ice water is sinus death and I really am not wild about room temp waters.

 

2 minutes ago, ixaera said:

 

 

Actual footage of me in the twice-weekly standups. You get the feeling somebody would love to give you a case of mission creep if they but had the opportunity? 

[Urgan]

Forgot to update MFP before doing the macro stats a bit ago, so here they are, 1/3 cheese greater:

 

Calories: 2379 / 2197, 2451, 2486

Protein: 127 / 125, 140, 115

Fiber: 26 / 18, 28, 31