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Today’s Workout: Chilly!

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It’s interesting that they’re doing the personality in a computer thing again but I don’t mind it. I love this app too much to complain about any kind of repeated tropes when we’re 10 season’s in at this point. I’m honestly glad just to be using it again because it felt good to keep moving.

As for my food, all I had was a salad today. And I struggled to finish it. Looks like using the anti-gas pills to mitigate the symptoms of being on the full dose of Saxenda really works well. I literally felt sick trying to finish a reasonably sized portion that I used to eat all the time. I really need to half all my portions so I can space out my meals properly during the day. If I eat breakfast at all it’s something really light,  tend to go heavy for lunch, then another light meal for dinner if I eat it at all. It’s frustrating unless I batch cook when it comes to making meals for someone other than myself. I have to make sure there’s something prepped for my teenager to eat (unless their father orders them takeout behind my back which ends up in my food rotting in the fridge and ending up in the trash). I’ll work it out, portion control isn’t that hard while I’m on these meds.

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Today’s Workout: Struggle

I gotta say, it was hard to get up and go for a run before work. I’m at the start of a TON of overtime at work. I spend my Saturday and after work today prepping a bunch of food so I can save on cooking time during the week (so expect repeats of food).

However, I did feel good during and after the run, as I expected. This is week 2 of C25K and I’ll be doing more resistance/weight training the rest of the week. Hopefully, I’ll be out of the 200 club this month!

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Today’s Workout: This works!

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I usually take weekends off from workouts but getting up to run on Saturday and Sunday is totally worthwhile. Especially on Saturdays since if I’m not working that day, I spend that day doing laundry so, I can wash the sweaty clothes right away. I’m still on the fence about if it’s worth taking two showers but I guess it’s not necessary if I’m not going anywhere and I can save on the water bill.

While I am working out on the weekends, I did not stick to my diet. I will be completely honest about that. Lately I’ve been craving snacks; especially late in the evening. I need to get disciplined about not eating anything after dinner is done no matter how much I just feel like munching on something. It’s not worth it in the long run and it’s affecting my progress.

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Today’s Workout: Catching Up

I have a bunch of comics I still need to get through and review so I read some while I used the desk peddler. You may have noticed there are batches of reviews going up and that’s why. I’ve been going through all these books and clearing them out.

Instead of chicken breasts, I sliced up some chicken thighs off the bone and used that for my Itaki today. My bloodwork shows I’m low in calcium so, broccoli is supposed to help with that. The chicken thighs had the skin on, which was interesting. I can’t recall when I’ve had steamed chicken with the skin on and it wasn’t terrible. I still prefer a nice crispy skin. I absolutely made my salad too big for dinner but I was worried about the cabbage going bad so I used as much as I could. Same goes for the tomatoes. I like using the cabbage but I kinda miss the lettuce, not gonna lie. It was too much food on the Saxenda but still delicious. Oh, and I’ve kept up with having fruit for breakfast, grabbing an apple before I ran out of the house.

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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: Ultrahuman HIIT Beginner Day 1

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Today I figured I have this stuff on my phone, I might as well us them to build up my strength. I like that there’s no equipment and I can do these quickly.

It was a rush but I managed to get my lunch prepped before work. That dinner salad needed to use up a bunch of cherry tomatoes before they went bad. I’ve been having an apple for breakfast and all that together was filling at the end of the day. I also did a little kettlebell on the side, despite just saying I like the workouts with no equipment. And I had a higher than average step count. Not a bad day at all. Tomorrow I’m gonna push a little harder.

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Today’s Workout: More time

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I’m staying longer on the desk peddler thinking that perhaps it would shake something loose and the scale would start moving again. I’ve been thinking about doing more cardio once I get home but I do need some time for more body weight workouts and weight training; which I have mostly remembered to do every day. It may not be in an app but I do at least 50 crunches and 50 squats to get those muscles working.

I haven’t gotten back in the habit of waking up for a run on my late nights (I’m getting there, I just need to stop staying up late to write/edit) but I did sit and have lunch before I went to work. I made myself a salad after prepping my dinner for the itaki lunch box. I had one of those bars for breakfast so, the day wasn’t bad!

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Today’s Workout: All a mess

I had another webinar for some upcoming titles (please pity my TBR pile…) so it just made sense to use that time to be on the desk peddler. The heart points get a little off because I reach forward and use the computer to make note of books I want but calorie burn is calorie burn.

I wasn’t able to prep my lunch like usual so I went for a tuna sandwich on a bagel; meaning I had a nice walk on my lunch break. For dinner, I’m working on the last of that baked chicken. Both meals were a hot mess (the young lady who put the bagel together didn’t quite get it right) but a meal doesn’t have to look good to taste good. And I had plenty of protein for the day, did my squats, and a bit of ab work. I keep forgetting to use the apps I have for those. I need to make sure I use them.

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Today’s Workout: I got lazy.

Although I have been working out – either by taking walks or my desk peddler – I did get lazy about posting. I had a major case of the dunwannas whenever it came down to working on the blog. But, I’m back and I’m gonna try to make sure I post.

Today was the desk peddler for 40 minutes or so and since I kept saying ‘oh, I’m gonna do more weights’ and forgetting about it, I moved my kettlebell into my office at home so it’s right in my face and I can do some reps while I prep my outline for Camp NaNoWriMo.

For lunch I made myself a salad and I’m probably going to do the same tomorrow but I need to add a protein to this. I was starving by the time I got home. I did have leftover baked chicken wings for dinner but I fucked up the picture. My steps were a bit low for the day but I think it was a success. I feel like I’m being fairly consistent (if not being consistent with my posting).

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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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