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Today’s Workout: *Incoherent Grumbling*

I was doing so well this week, then POOF! Last night horrible gas pains woke me up around 2am and tortured me until around 5 when I got back to sleep. When I am this overtired, I don’t get on the treadmill. That takes a certain amount of focus and coordination to make sure I don’t bust my ass. I’ve been through enough this year. Desk peddler was today.

I paired some of the prepped chicken with a Tokyo Mini Noodle, green beans, onion, and garlic. I like the mini noodles because I get the fun of ramen noodles for only about 100 calories. I’m still enjoying my sandwich habit using some prosciutto, tomato, and parmesan with some basil spread. It’s so nice, I really didn’t need the chips.

I would like to say “Oh, I’m going to bed super early to make up for last night” but nah. I have to edit one of my drafts so I can print a fresh copy. Whenever I’m stuck when I’m moving forward in a story, I re-read the whole thing to shake something loose. Sometimes that works, sometimes I hit the end and get pissed there isn’t more, then begrudgingly admit that in order for there to be more, I have to write it. Being a creative is weird…

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Today’s Workout: Back to Wirk

Since I have to spend every spare minute of my day on some kind of income producing activity, I’m back to using my Wirk Desk Bike. That is not a sponsored link, nor is that was I paid for it years ago. I can easily edit while I’m peddling, then jump in the shower before I throw down some food and get back to it. And speaking of food:

Don’t worry, the lettuce is safe. And I’m still on a rice and beans kick. It’s easy to make a big batch of it then reheat it at work in my electric lunch box. I’m still aiming for tons of protein to fill me up and use up all those garlic scapes I bought (they are so fucking good). I am trying to be frugal, healthy, and fast. Good thing my kid is putting up with this, too. Although, he eats MUCH more than I do. Teenagers…

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Today’s Workout: Damn camera…

My knees are still not up to snuff but there’s no way I’m gonna just sit idle. Not only did I do this, I took a half an hour walk to get lunch (my kid ate what I was saving to bring with me) and hit the supermarket to get some decent deals. That walk once again showed me that a damn curb is enough to humble my joints at the moment. 

Since I had to go out and get lunch, I decided on a lemon tuna bagel. Don’t give me too much shit for getting a salt bagel; they were out of everything bagels. My camera did that lovely thing of showing me the photo I took of dinner and deciding not to share it but, I had rice and some Italian sausages (there was a buy one get one free deal on those). I made plenty extra along with some pre-seasoned turkey for lunch tomorrow. I seem to be into reheating leftovers these days and that’s fine! I can always go back to the fresh steamed stuff later on in the week.

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Today’s Workout: Do it early

I’ve been trying to get these sessions done early so I can spend the rest of the day on work. I’ve been making some great progress on my writing and keeping up with my reviews and I wanna keep up that momentum. My views are up and I’m hoping to publish more this year under both my pen names and make actual money.

I got some sumo oranges and I have actually been remembering to take them for breakfast in the morning. I don’t care if it looks cluttered to keep a box of oranges by the front door, I can’t miss them and always grab on to shove in my lunch box. Lunch has shifted over to bok choy again for a bit since it was on sale and dinner was… Certainly a thing I ate… That I chewed and swallowed… Okay, it was gross. I threw out half of it. Probably for the best since the whole container is over 500 calories. I wasn’t all that hungry anyway so, I’ll just take the loss on that one.

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Today’s Workout: Long Day

I almost didn’t bother today. I had to take the kid to the doctor for an 8 am appointment then go do work after. I was tired, without coffee, and had to talk myself out of just coasting through the day. It’s a desk peddler. It’s not like I have to travel anywhere to do it or I’m unable to do something else while peddling. I just buckled down and did it.

I used up the last of the green beans for lunch and since this was pretty filling, I just had popcorn for dinner. That seems to be my hump day dinner since I’m so wiped out. I will absolutely have green beans in my veggie rotation. It cooks reasonably fast and works well with all the usual spices and such that I use. Maybe I’ll give it a shot at growing some to save money. We’ll see.

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Today’s Workout: Easing into it

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Ahhhhh yes, I’m back on my bullshit. My knee is feeling better and I’m itching to be active again. I’m starting off easy with my desk peddler because the last thing I need in my life right now is to injure myself… Again. I look forward to running but I don’t wanna end up taking myself out. I do plan on foot surgery this year so, I’d like to lose as much weight as possible to prepare for when I literally won’t be able to walk very well for a few weeks.

I’m back to my Itaki at work. I did get myself their ramen pot for Yule and I can’t wait to try it out. I’d love to do some soup and steamed vegetables in that one day but in the meantime. I’m sticking to what I know. I like to try out new devices at home before I bring them to work just in case it’s not suitable for whatever reason or another.

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Today’s Workout: More Multitasking

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While I despise the summer, I am not enjoying how early it gets dark. It’s just no fun. I’m doing the bike for now since I can write while I’m on it. I am way behind in my daily word goals and need to get something done.

As menopause hasn’t relieved me of this burden just yet, I’m all up in my PMS and it’s when my appetite goes from “I am starving and must eat everything.” to “I would rather jump off the roof than put another morsel in my mouth.” Since I’d batch made chili, I’ve been bringing that for lunch but after my workout, I didn’t wanna eat anything. There was no way I was going to only have a bowl of chili for the entire day, I made some popcorn as a snack. It was a lot of salt for the day which is not helping with bloat but, I’ll deal with that as it comes. Cravings gonna craving.

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Today’s Workou: Your turn, Sweatcoin

With NYCC this week, I am not running. I don’t run on convention weeks because I will spend multiple days in a row on my feet and I don’t wanna chance messing up said feet before I go. So, regular walking and stationary bike it is.

Now, I have whined a lot about how Google Fit makes my steps vanish but I rarely talk about the other apps I use. Up on the chopping block today is Sweatcoin and their “boost” feature.

It was from my last run. I managed to snag it before it calculated what my bonus will be. Usually, I average 3k steps for a 30-minute run but as you can see, there’s my step count, right?

Aaaaand, here’s my bonus. As you can see, there are slightly less than 2600 steps. I can understand adjusting for people who just shake their phones to get steps but come on. That’s just rediculous.

I’m still into the Kind bars for breakfast. I’m not gonna keep taking pics of them. That’s boring. For lunch, I brought my leftover steak, potatoes, and baked veggies and for dinner, I had a craving for tuna and pasta. I like it with olive oil and lemon juice like a salad. I’m off the Saxenda right now because I am NOT chancing the side effects kicking in while I’m in the middle of a convention center or on the train. Noooooo way. I did eat a little more than while on the medication but still around the 1200 mark. Not too terrible. I think it was a good day.

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Today’s Workout: I’m taking it

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Yeah, I know. I was gonna run every day, blah blah. I wasn’t feeling it today so there. That’s it. No excuses or anything, I just got home and I’d had enough. Sometimes, its just such a WEDNESDAY that the need to decompress takes priority so I took the evening off.

These bakerly Chocolate Croissants are only 180 calories a pop and they are SO good. I wanted to get the actual name of them in here. I think I’m gonna have to make sure they’re always around. It’s just enough that I’m not starving when lunch time rolls around. I had the steamed bok choy and chicken again for lunch and dinner was some leftover pasta that I forgot to take a picture of. I go back and forth in caring about my macros and it was a carb heavy day but do macros even matter? I hear some people don’t care and for others it’s their entire life. My biggest deal is total calories for the day and getting enough vitamins so my nails don’t start coming off again.

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Today’s Workout: Watch Troubles

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I did workout Monday but sometimes, my watch just doesn’t wanna cooperate and it recorded the stationary bike as a run? I mean… Okay. I burned calories either way. My thigh muscles are burning and I don’t plan on giving them a break.

Since I’ve been doing batch cooking, I’ve been using the fancier Itaki to reheat the food. It ALMOST saved the salmon I overcooked. Steaming it to reheat it did bring back some moisture. That was Monday’s lunch and Tuesday was the usual beef and bok choy. It’d been awhile since I’d had a salad and it gave me the excuse to eat some avocado again (before my kid can eat it all) I don’t have any weight updates because I’m hip deep in PMS and I’m retaining a bunch of water. It’s not gonna be accurate. Tomorrow, I have my follow up appointment to talk about my blood test results and that should be interesting. I’ve clearly been working hard and I hope the doctor notices my progress.

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