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Today’s Workout: Clean Out.

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I am making some great progress on cleaning off my desk at work.

We don’t need to talk about my desk at home…

While I was doing the bike, I read a bunch of the books and manga I’ve been meaning to get to. I still have more do to but it’s nice to have some space to actually DO work. I still need to clear more away and get my next book published but I’m proud of the progress I’ve made so far.

When I get home. I’ll do my squats and try and get some sleep. I’ve been so stressed out; I don’t quite get to REM sleep. I’m just glad I have enough coffee to get me through the day.

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Today’s Workout: Feeling Better!

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Even though I am not properly caffeinated, today feels like things will finally be looking up and I’ll stop being stressed out about work nonsense and go back to being stressed out about not selling enough books. That’s a stress I can handle.

Today I pushed the speed up when I wasn’t going through some work journals so this is a workout I know I’ll feel for the rest of the day. I will be doing my upper body stuff before bed and I have noticed a change. I’m able to do more reps. Now, these are body weight exercises that I just do reps until I lose my form. After that is some stretching. I may not bulk up like I hope to in the future, but this will wake up my muscles and get me to a place where I can start real weight training.

Now, I’m off for more writing.

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Today’s Workout: I’m tired…

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I didn’t feel like I was with it today. I had a bunch of things I’d wanted to do, not able to do because I was missing a thing, only to find the thing hours later, then having to rush through these tasks. I think it’s because I haven’t been having my usual giant coffee in the morning to start the day off sharp. I’ve been prepping my lunch and running out the door. I think the quick change from a 90 degree day to a 70 degree day threw me off (also being off on Monday, I keep forgetting what day it is).

Either way, I have one more cardio day and some squats to do. I better get to sleep early so I can make coffee in the morning.

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Today’s Workout: Almost missed them…

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I had downloaded a bunch of ARCs and somehow I completely forgot I had them. They were about to expire today so, I read those while I did my peddler today. I managed to read them just in time but I have more to get to in the next week. I’ll post them after I get back from my first mammogram tomorrow.

Getting old is the pits. All these frikkin scans and shit. I know it’s to keep myself healthy but my need to interact with as few people as possible on my days off is clashing with the much needed human meat bag maintenance every person needs to do. It’s like that Tiktok meme of taking a walk for your stupid mental health. I’ll do it but I’ll be grumpy about it.

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Today’s Workout: Numbers Update

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I spoke to my doctor about my blood test results, where my bad cholesterol was up, B12 was low, and the liver levels were off. My doctor wasn’t too concerned since usually my numbers are so good and just said to work on lowering my cholesterol and the rest would probably sort itself out. She did give me a B12 shot and recommend a stomach scan just to make sure everything is all good.

So, I’ll be doing more workouts and weight work while I eat more salads and fish. I honestly have been eating mostly chicken and beef and haven’t had a nice slab of salmon in a long time. I used to eat that at least once a week. I have my appointment in a few months for another test and I’m hoping I’ll be 10-20 pounds lighter and have impressive numbers again!

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Today’s Workout: Filling in the Blanks

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There are so many reviews I have to type up and books I need to read that I sat back and worked on both while I was pedaling today. And this time, I felt my heart rate go up and I was breathing faster so nothing like my previous workouts for this week. I was WORKING. My muscles are burning!

I went extra hard since I had noodles with my lunch today and that’s a lot of extra calories (and salt). I know it’s not the healthiest way to see things; balancing out a non-healthy food with a workout but in terms of sheer calories in versus calories out, this is better.

Later I’ll still be doing my squats and maybe some weights. Absolutely going to have a light dinner after work since I had the ramen. With the Saxenda, there just isn’t room for much after such a big lunch. And I plan to treat myself to an end of the week beer because something about the last 5 days has been exhausting and I deserve a treat.

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Today’s Workouts: Multitasking Fail

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You can tell from the heart points that I never really got my heart rate up to where I was actually burning any fat. I was talking to people, checking orders, emails, messages, all sorts of stuff for work while I was trying to pedal so, I wasn’t going as hard as I could consistently. It’s better than sitting but not by much.

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I did make a trip to the farmer’s market on my lunch break so I could hit up the little Italian stand for broccoli rabe ravioli and small batch marinara to have for dinner tonight. I spent more than I wanted to (because they also had small blocks of parmesan cheese and I needed some for Caesar salads) but I haven’t been to this market since before COVID and I want to support it.

I didn’t take any pictures of it before I snarfed it down. You’ll just have to imagine it.

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Today’s Workout: I forgot to do weights…

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I thought I was going to do so good today, do the peddler at work then remember to get the kettlebell but I got home and completely forgot. I made some writing progress (updated on Patreon) so when I got home, I went right on to the next story. All of a sudden, it’s ten at night and I’d lost track of time. I didn’t even have a cup of tea before bed or do my squats; I just went to bed. Later on in the week, I’m gonna have to have a long weight day to make up for this.

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Today’s Workout: It feels like a Monday…

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I was off the entire day. Either I didn’t get enough sleep or the coffee didn’t do it’s job; I have no idea. It was a total chore to get this workout done and my day topped off with the key I wear around my neck flipping up into my face, around my glasses, and right onto my frikkin eyeball.

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It didn’t hurt but still left this red dot. After it happened, I just stood there for a second and thought:

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I’m just gonna go to bed early and hope tomorrow is better. But not likely looking at my schedule.

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Today’s Workout: ARC Reading

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I was going to spend this workout doing a bunch of blog posts but I ended up checking my ARC graphic novels and I had a handful that were all set to expire today. I put the desk peddler in a comfy spot and read them all and wrote up reviews. If I’m gonna binge read some manga, I might as well burn some calories while I do it.

It’s easier to read while on a stationary bike than write. I can just let my legs go while I enjoy the books and time passes so fast! I didn’t even notice I’d hit 40 minutes until I randomly checked my watch.

Even though the peddler has a little screen, I’ve never used it to calculate distance for these workouts. I’m so used to just grabbing the thing and starting a workout before I can talk myself out of it. I’m curious to see what those numbers would be.

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