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Workout Dump: Season One Complete!

Now, you may be saying: “Lenni, you already finished season 1 years ago!” And you are correct! These workouts were finishing all the season one Radio Abel clips. With some 5k trainer thrown in there. After NYCC, I kept up with some very easy walking workouts and I think it actually helped me recover faster! Moving more in general is good and the scale is inching in the right direction again. I’m also doing my crunches and upped the number of wall pushups. Kinda like my writing, bit by bit progress is being made.

I got some boneless chicken thighs on sale and made a whole batch of buttermilk fried chicken for me and my kid to eat during the week. For the first time, I had it over a bed of Napa cabbage and onion with lemon juice, olive oil, and lemon pepper on it. It was actually quite refreshing! I scored more of that amazing focaccia bread from the farmer’s market for sandwiches (yes, that is a book bento box), and I’m eating more types of vegetables. Sometimes, I have the energy to stand there and chop peppers, sometimes it’s lightly sauced steamed in the microwave vegetables. Lately, my calories have been over 1000 a day but I am totally ok with that if I’m active and it’s not junk food. I’m back on the Saxenda on a low dose. I don’t feel overfull and I think my nails are growing back attached. I’m super excited about that.

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Workout Dump: World Traveler and A Break

It’s been a hot minute since I posted about workouts, so here’s a snippet of what I’ve been doing. I finished all the Nellie Bly missions and started the pirate one. The step counter is working better, but it’s not exact. I rely on my watch or my ring to actually get my pace. These pics are pretty close, though. I’ll take it. I’ve been fairly active outside of this, too. Daily crunches and squats, and trying to remember doing some wall pushups. I’m still stuck around 209, but I NEED to give the Saxenda a break. I’m not a medical professional, but since the Saxenda fucks with my depression SO badly at times, I need to be off it for a while. I shouldn’t be waking up in the morning and immediately thinking, “I want to die.” My writing is suffering because aside from that thought, my brain is muffled and useless. Writing is the only way I’ve been able to make any money on the side, and I can’t have this medication making me creatively dead. I may gain some weight back, but I’m fine with that. I can restart it when I feel better. It’s not worth being skinny (which isn’t my goal anyway) if I can’t function! Even after less than a week off it, I already feel more balanced. I have noticed I’m hungrier, but even if I hit 1,000 calories a day, I feel overfull. I’ll keep checking in and talk to my doctors about this.

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Today’s Workout: Back to the Home Front

I was looking through the app again and I saw I hadn’t finished the Home Front workouts. I’m not really a D&D person but it’s still interesting to me that they tied in Sam’s adventure with the workout. I needed a day off from running since I wasn’t feeling up to it and this was a perfect fit. I snuck in some arm work with my kettlebell, too. I still need to run a couple more times this week but I’m glad to get some muscle work in.

When I prep my lunches, I usually do them two at a time and end up eating the same thing. It works out well since I don’t use an entire ramen package; I break the block in half, pack everything up in the fridge, and grab it before I leave in the morning. Dinner was very random. I’m still working on getting rid of stuff in the fridge and I had some corn and pork dumplings hanging around. There’s some basmati rice, spring garlic, and some kimchi. The kimchi wasn’t the best, it was kinda bitter, if it makes any sense. Not tart like something pickled usually is. I’ll stick with chili crisp with the dumplings from now on.

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Today’s Workout: Not Fun

I’ve been taking it easy because I ended up with food poisoning on Sunday night after work. I usually am able to make a take out order last three days so, I didn’t think it was a big deal to heat up my leftover Chinese from Fritday before I went to work on Sunday. By the end of the night, I was vomiting. It got so bad, I couldn’t even hold down stomach meds to stop the vomiting. I ended up staying home from work Monday and clearly not doing any running or biking. I could barely stand up straight from the painful gas buildup. I feel better not and did another body weight workout with Zombies Run. I have to say, this is the first mission that made me actively dislike Sam. He’s always been my favorite and here he’s just the worst.

I was able to hold down my normal type of food and stay around 1,000 calories even without the Saxenda. There was NO WAY I was going to deal with the side effects of that AND food poisoning. No fucking thank you. The pasta was really comforting for dinner after all the stomach issues. I tried this with the lemon-flavored olive oil from Trader Joe’s and it was SO good. It ain’t cheap but it’s good. I will absolutely keep getting it as long as they don’t discontinue it. 

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Today’s Workout: I like this idea

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I like the idea of having body weight exercise days in-between running days. I do need to get back to running since I’m feeling so much better from NYCC (and it will help me disassociate tomorrow) I can resume running whatever days I can. I’m exhausted from all the overtime I’ve been doing as well as adding more to Patreon, and doing needlework… I’ve been pretty damn busy.

I had a the pumpkin biscotti for breakfast, my Itaki for lunch, and because I’m a petty bitch and my child won’t help me by doing dishes, I made myself a bacon grilled cheese that I did photograph but my phone decided I didn’t really need it. Of course, there’s plenty of already cooked food and other things they can eat. I’m not a monster, I’m just really fucking annoyed. I own a dishwasher. It’s not that fricking hard and I’m the type of parent to pay for chores. It’s an easy win that this teenager refuses to take and I end up with so much more work I don’t need. Oh, but I’m sure they’ll be begging me to earn some once Call of Duty drops some nonsense they want me to pay for.

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Today’s Workout: Urgh…

Ah, the most wonderful time of the month where I’m consistently tired and everything hurts for no frikkin reason. I probably won’t be running much more since my hips hurt but I’m still going to try and be as active as possible.

I prepped a nice salad for myself for lunch but dinner was chaotic. My eyes were definitely bigger than my stomach as I only ate half of that pasta and gave the rest to my kid; who inexplicably refused to eat their leftover pizza in favor of taking my food. My mom used to say that food always tastes better from your parent’s plate and I guess that old saying is true.

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Today’s Workout: I still don’t like pushups

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And I’m sure they dislike me as much. Either way, I know I’m gonna feel this tomorrow. I’m not at the point where I can get on the floor and do them but I still feel my muscles working when I to wall pushups. I also decided to throw in 50 squats and 50 crunches after this to work those muscles and make more progress toning up.

For lunch, I packed some of the leftovers from yesterday and learned a lesson: don’t put naan in the microwave. I didn’t want to break a tooth on it afterwards. I still have some lamb left so, you’ll probably see it in another meal soon. For dinner, I had some leftover fries from the weekend and just ate that. I wasn’t super hungry and didn’t wanna push it. Unfortunately, I didn’t take many steps so, I think it was a good idea to keep it light for the day. I’m still stuck around 203-204 but if I keep this up, I’m sure I’ll finally get under 200 soon.

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Today’s Workouts: Pushing it

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I wanted to get in a run at least once this week and keep on the schedule in the Ultrahuman app for this three week challenge. My arms are still sore from the first day (I can’t tell you how much pushups annoy me. They’re almost as bad as burpees) but I committed to this so I’m doing it.

For lunch I had time to prep the Itaki food and I’m still working on all those delicious chicken wings. I put them in the oven to crisp up while I was on the treadmill and by the time I was showered, they were perfect. I probably should have had some veggies with them but I had some editing to do and wanted to get to it before my brain turned off.

As for the Ultrahuman app, apparently I need the app on my watch as well and my watch is not supported yet. I’ll keep checking but I’ll have to rely on GoogleFit for insights for now. I was hoping for more feedback on when I eat and how it affects my workouts but we’ll see.

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Today’s Workout: Gadgets

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I have the Ultrahuman ring and the app comes with workouts I’ve been meaning to try. Unlike waaaaay back when I had the Atlas Shape band and app (I have a thing for gadgets. It’s a weakness.), it doesn’t seem like the app/ring automatically tracks the workouts when I do them. This is day 1 of the 3-week HIIT Challenge. I haven’t done pushups in a long time (full disclosure: I do wall pushups, not floor) and I know I’m gonna feel this in the morning…

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This was my dinner for the day because I forgot to bring it in for lunch and ended up going out to buy food. The gyro place by my job is still pretty affordable and since I don’t get feta or white sauce on it, the calories are a lot less. Those wings are gonna be a regular appearance this week since I made so much of them. I’m gonna try to have a side salad with them or something to balance out having fried food. But I’m not gonna waste them. I went out and bought buttermilk (at fucking full price, not on sale) especially to marinate all these things and spent a long time over a boiling pot of oil to cook them. I’m not gonna let them go to waste.

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Today’s Workout: Might have overdid the bike…

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This workout was day three of the Home Workout app I have on my phone and was unfortunately a lot of lower body work. I way unfortunately because my legs are aching from all the biking yesterday. But, the soreness means I’m working my muscles and making progress.

There’s no pictures of food today because it was nothing new. I just had more of that leftover pasta for lunch and a salad for dinner to balance out all those carbs. My thought is that it would be boring to post the same food every day; unless people are highly suspicious of what type of diet I have. I just tend to eat the same things I enjoy in a rotation, is all.

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