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Today’s Workout: Imma just do the thing

I decided to do the 20 minute run workout on Thursday since that’ll be my last run for the week and the weekend will be body weight workouts and walking. I do hope to make it so every run is just a warm up, run, cool down, without the intervals but the intervals may be good for training? I dunno. This is the kind of thing that when I look it up, there are benefits and downsides to both methods. I guess as long as I’m moving, it doesn’t matter?

Whelp, Kind bars were on sale again and making an appearance in my rotation. As I was making dinner last night, I packed some of it for lunch today and for dinner, I threw some rice and chicken in the rice cooker while I was on the treadmill and by the time I was all finished, I added some veggies and chili crisp for some lazy chicken and rice. Putting everything together in the evening did result in me eating later than I’d like. I try to be done by 8pm and have nothing but water or tea after that (maybe some CBD seltzer to help me sleep). I don’t like going to bed with that full feeling. But, there’s not much to be done about it unless I start batch cooking again.

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Today’s Workout: Confidence

Despite the fact I’ve done it before, I still balk at a full 20 minute run. I still haven’t finished the latest week of C25k because of that even though I know I can do it. I just need to DO it and stop questioning myself. Not today, though. I’m still sleepy but wanted to get running again. Also, I really hope this app survives because I would LOVE a part two to this Atlantis mission series.

As I’d predicted, making fries as a weeknight dinner results in me eating it later than I’d hoped. I got a bag of panko breaded cod in my last Butcher Box order and the fries soaked while I was running. I let them dry while I was in the shower and after I was all lotioned and potioned; I fried them up. They weren’t as crispy as I would have hoped but that’s probably because they didn’t have time to dry enough before frying. Not a big deal! It was still a satisfying meal.

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Today’s Workout: You’re lucky you’re cute

I had every intention of running after work but best laid plans and all that… I was completely derailed by this adorable asshole.

She decided at 3am that she HAD to leave my room and would not stop meowing until I let her out. The last thing either of us wanted was for her to piss or shit on the floor so, I dragged my ass up, let her out, and never really got back to sleep. If I’m tired enough during the day that a prolonged blink feels like a nap, I don’t trust myself to run on a treadmill. I didn’t think the desk peddler would be enough and opted for a 40-minute walk. And yeah, I was not steady on my feet at all. I made the right call.

For breakfast, I had Vanilla Cardamom Cold Brew Coffee with almond milk in the best cup ever. Lunch was beef and broccoli in my Itaki and dinner was turkey, avocado and onion on a low-carb spinach and herb wrap. I threw in some pretty tomatoes and a mini cucumber. I think it would have tasted better if I’d picked the onions. It wasn’t bad, I just think it would have been a little more interesting.

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Today’s Workout: Faster

On the days I don’t do C25K, I’ve just been doing two minutes of running, two minutes of walking combo and slowly increasing my speed. It’s been getting easier to hold the higher speed (it’s only 4mph so it’s not that impressive) and I’m hoping to keep easing it up so it’s an actual running speed and not just a meandering powerwalk.

I had some of the pasta for lunch and my usual Itaki for dinner. I feel like this was a LOT of carbs but it was still comfortable to eat and easy to prepare. I also used less soy sauce to save on the salt. I’m still not on the full dose of the Saxenda and I’m thinking of pushing back to that. I’ve noticed I feel hungry more often lately.

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Today’s Workout: Atlantis!

I love me some Atlantis stories. And I like how my role as a character changes mission to mission. Sometimes they do a riff on the number 5 and sometimes they just give me a new job like in this one; which is a hunter of sorts. It’s a classic with a silly professor and the guy who hired ‘me’ is shady as fuck and we’re after some magical macguffin. I’m enjoying it!

I used up the rest of the dumplings and rice for lunch and – since the fridge clean out is still in progress – I added broccoli from the freezer. I used more of it with dinner which was lemon pasta with spring garlic and parmesan. I made enough to pack for lunch tomorrow and dinner for the kid (if he eats it). I used an olive oil, butter, and pasta water mix for the sauce with that lemon olive oil from Trader Joe’s. That stuff is so great for cooking. I may need to find a cheap way for me to make it myself.

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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: Switch up

Another side story marked complete! I think for tomorrow I’m gonna give one of those bodyweight workout missions a try. Sometimes it’s nice to have a workout where I don’t have to put on a bunch of gear. What I have been noticing lately is that my knees will feel fine on the treadmill but when I walk downstairs to get dinner after, that’s when they decide to hurt. It’s really fucking annoying to feel amazing and strong after a run then feel decrepit and old moving around my own home.

I decided to change things up (and have less salt) by having lemon chicken instead of soy sauce. I even used the Trader Joe’s Lemon olive oil instead of regular olive oil and I really enjoy the extra flavor. Dinner was the leftover hand-cut fries and steak I’d made Saturday. Making fries at home is definitely a weekend type of activity because this time I’d let them soak for HOURS and they turned much better than only soaking for the minimum amount of time. Or I’d have to prep them to soak before I go to work. It’s probably for the best that they take so much time since I probably shouldn’t be eating fries too often anyway.

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Today’s Workout: Taking advantage of laundry day

It’s probably not a good idea to admit how many workouts I’ve done that were spurred on by dirty clothes. Back when I only had one decent sports bra, I would literally put the damn thing on first thing on the morning to make sure I felt gross enough to do a workout to justify a shower because I let that filthy thing touch my skin. This isn’t the case these days but still, if I’m gonna have a morning to kill, I might as well mess up a sports bra with the promise that it would be clean by the end of the day. The method to my laundry madness is I do my bedding first since making the bed sucks. Hey, I’ll take any type of motivation. I’d used that back in lockdown; I’d put on my workout clothes first thing, then make sure I’d had a reason to put them on. Using my aversion to being filthy to workout is a little hack I’ve discovered. I dunno if I’d recommend it to anyone else.

I will freely admit that part of my motivation to run in the morning was that once I was done, I’d pop by my favorite bagel place for that and an iced coffee, only to find that they were closed. Look, my very Pagan Witch self forgets what non-Pagan holidays are happening sometimes, but I hid my very inconsequential problem by having a salad after my run. I did chores for the rest of the day and had the very lame victory of an empty hamper by bedtime. I had some steak and a potato laying around. I made myself some hand cut fries that were damn good! It’s pretty easy to have fries soaking and drying to fry properly when you’re doing a bunch of other cleaning around it. I even double fried them! Gosh, I’m so fancy. Or I’m seeing what cost-cutting measures I can take as the world burns down around me….

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Today’s Workout, And Yesterday’s

I should probably post the workouts day of, but I don’t always have time. I also figured it’d be doing people a favor to not put the image with the spider as the featured one. As I was fishing around the app to see what to do next, I noticed some of these side missions are body weight workouts, not running missions. I can’t believe I didn’t notice that before! I should be doing those on the weekends or something.

My food has kinda been all over the place? Maybe? I dunno. I’m enjoying it. In the Itaki, I tried out using a chopper like this one for the garlic and ginger to save time and mix it with the meat instead of the vegetables. It was okay. I do like that it takes less time to prep but sometimes it’s fun for me to have that random big ole chunk of garlic in a bite. The flavor is more even this new way, though. And there are days where I just don’t want to do a ton of chopping. Cooking is fun for me but it can also be tedious. 

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Today and Another Day’s Workouts

Yeah, I procrastinated the fuck outta that initial workout post and just ended up forgetting all about it. Then I took the weekend off and picked things back up today. They were both really good runs where I felt that I could possibly keep going but I’m sticking to the plan.

These were the meals I’ve been having. I’m still working on cleaning out the old fridge which is why things like those random pork belly bites and hot pot are still happening. It’s gonna take a few more rounds of hot pot to eat all that meat… But, I’m slowly working my way through it all, cleaning stuff out, and also enjoying some high-protein meals. And this set of side missions in Zombies Run is are so silly and fun. Just the most random stuff is happening and it’s so overdramatic. I was never a theater kid but these are total theatre kid vibes. I end up laughing during my workouts.

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