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thanks for the information. I have seen sourdough bread. Used to eat that a long time ago. I am stalled weight wise. need to shake things up instead of hoping something will change. I have upped the exercise. moving the wood pile, rowing, walking.
Any plans for Easter? none yet for me.
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We are heading out to Corpus Cristi for a family Easter gathering, should be fun. I booked a hotel with a gym and hope to get a workout in while visiting, and spend a little time on the beach. Food wise it's always a challenge with so much food around, but my family is very understanding and respects my efforts, they lived with me during the time I was vegetarian, so they get it.
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another tick downward on the scale. bout time right? trying to kick stress eating to the curb.
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went for a hike yesterday got my earthday award on the watch.
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Back into my normal routine after the Easter break. While I did eat a few rather unhealthy meals with family, including two slices of strawberry/rhubarb pie with ice cream, I was able to stay within my calorie goals, and get a good workout in to help mitigate some of the damage. I had a great cycling HIIT hill training yesterday and have brought my V02 max up to 41 ml/kg/min, bringing me into the top 15% for my age and gender. Today's weight training felt really good, and I am beginning to see noticeable physical changes. Although I am still not where I was pre COVID, I am making continual progress, and the improvements continue to motivate me to continue with both my nutritional and fitness goals.
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I love goat cheese, never have it too often, it's an amazing treat when it appears in a salad or in a tart.
That's an amazing view walkintofit, base jumping is an interesting idea, would have jumped at the chance when I was younger, not so sure now. Just reflecting on that and whether I'm still the thrill seeker I used to be.
I struggle with fasting, although to be fair I've never managed to get past the first day or so. Some good advice here and you have shared that with me previously walkintofit.
Been a busy week or two, lovely Easter weekend with Ana, didn't do much or go far but lots of quality time. I did clear out the garage though, extra shelving and some tip runs to clear out old crap. Ive created a little workspace at the back with a bench, so I've got somewhere to work on models and try and learn patience for painting tiny parts. Something I've never been able to master.
The decking is almost done, my labouring is complete, we've been waiting for sunny days to finish the painting and so I can put the balustrade back up.
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thats great Interbeing! I have been working on bring up my vo2. mine has been very poor. Walking the canyon trail grade is helping it. I didn't have to stop this time coming up. I may need to do the trail more often. With regular walking I need to pic up the pace.
Way to go Mikey, getting those chores done. Having a workspace is important. U need to post a pic of your models when u get done.
back to work today. Just not feelin it. Got an Idgaf attitude about the place. so many workers missing (illness, vacation etc) very difficult to cover so many people. Pto =prepare the others.. ha that would b interesting
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Fasting is fantastic, inter! I do Prolon FMD for 5-days, you hit autophagy somewhere around D3 or D4. I loooooovvvvveeeee the D5 feeling~! And transition day breakfast on D6 is simply fabulous. My last one was in Jan. I'm due for another round. Overdue, actually … Hey, when did you have covid? Was it recent, or do you mean you don't feel the same as you did pre-pandemic? (If it was recent, hope you fully recover soon <3. I managed to evade the bug for years, but it finally caught me for the first time last fall. Not a fan of the experience :p)
Love the garage and decking project, mikey!
I've seen Ezekiel bread in Trader Joe's, walkin, almost tried it last time, but I went for a European grains and seeds bread instead, which is fabulous. You have such lovely surroundings to walk in - it must be a treat. lulz on the work comment.
I'm emerging from a couple weeks of letting my MFP notifications all pile up. I spent most of my computer time with ChatGPT tutoring me on spreadsheeting, automating my Freggie Tracker, which I love love love. I use it for the 'Unbreakable Vow' which is a 4-wk mini challenge inside the Hogwarts Challenge I participate in. Me and Freggies, we're not natural pals ;-). But when I track them, I do much better. So I want to track them. But it was getting so tedious - entering it here, compiling it there, then sorting to see if I met my UV goal, blah blah blah. I knew it could be automated, so I really wanted to get that done before the new 'term' at Hogwarts started. So excited it works~! I love that I only enter the data one time now, and it sifts and sorts, and auto-populates both my summaries, and my UV tracker table, and it also gives me lists of unique foods consumed per week across four categories - Green Freggies, Other Freggies, Nuts/Seeds/Beans/Legumes, and Fermented Foods. Fermented Foods is the newest addition to my tracker - another category of foods with which I am not natural pals ;-). But so much new info keeps coming out about your gut biome and it's importance to almost every one of your body's systems. Some articles I've read even refer to your gut biome as your second brain! Anyway, catching up on my threads and groups yesterday and today :).
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@mkksemail Although I had COVID in 2021, I was referring to my world prior to the COVID pandemic. When COVID hit, our department began working remotely from home, which changed my routine, and I slowly, but insidiously began to gain weight, eventually peaking at 218 lbs last September. Working out of the house, I started snacking a lot, and because I converted my exercise room into my office, I also, fell out of my strength training routine. I had planned to go the Y, but just had such a difficult time getting to the gym consistently and fell out of habit completely after sustaining an injury. Fast forward 4 years, and I was in the poorest shape I had been in over 25 years. It was my cholesterol levels that sparked my attention, and as I could not take statins. I started working with a Registered Dietitian on my nutrition, and rejoined the Y, and started working with a personal trainer to develop a sustainable fitness plan. That was in September, I have now lost all of the weight I had gained, brought my cholesterol levels back down into the normal range, and I am progressing nicely with my fitness goals, bringing my Biome down to 46 years. It has been a crazy rollercoaster ride, and I am so glad that I have been able to get back on track and I am feeling revived, and refreshed, with great energy levels, and able to fit into all my old clothes as a bonus, lol!
BTW, I do a 14/10 hour intermittent fast daily, and a 36 hour fast on the weekends I am at home, it has, I believe, made a very positive difference in my metabolism and energy levels, and, coupled with exercise, has helped to reduce my visceral fat level down to 9 cm2 from 12.
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Love hearing your story, inter, it's so inspiring! On COVID, I had a feeling you might be referring to pre-2020, but I wasn't entirely certain.
My husband has been toying with the idea of a standing desk (he's been wfh since the pandemic, too). Do you have thoughts about that?
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I had a standing desk when I was working out of an office and loved it. I have thought about buying one for my home office, but just haven't pulled the trigger on it.
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That's funny, he had one when he was working out of the office, but he didn't use it very often. He thought he might use it more at home, so he's been mulling it over.
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the friend got back from his trip, I made a beef stew and homemade bread and I took it to him. I realized he doesn't call or anything. That isn't what I want is me doing for someone and them not doing things for me. call/visit, text, ask out… ya this isn't going to work out.
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Good to find out at the start! This early in, that's def a red flag. Yum on the homemade bread and beef stew, tho!
Enjoy
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Yep, I agree, move on
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ya, seemed good at first cause he mentioned liking going for walks, I thought ok lets, so far no walks together, ya it isn't working at all.
Scale moved down again, so slow but lest its not going upward. 8 lbs to goal. hmmm thats a gallon of milk
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Nice! on the progress towards goal ! I just had a 'for me' landmark achievement. I hit 7/7 days on all four of my tracked categories (Green Freg, Other Freg, Nuts/Seeds/Beans/Legumes, Fermented Foods) for the first time last week!
Me and Freggies are more frenemies than pals, so that's a victory for me :D
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Automating trackers and spreadsheets 🤣 that's a rabhithole for me right there, I've spent most of my later years trying to figure out time management and tracking so I can 'get it just right'. It's a losing battle for me, I enjoy working out the system more than putting it into practice. I did get a lot from GTD though, originally designed for paper systems, it works well and can be adapted to most apps.
Yeah its easy walkintofit to realise a relationship is one sided, try suggesting a walk and or that he does something more akin to what you are looking for, with the effort on their end and see what happens.
I left a friend group of about 25 years, one of my best friends (or so I thought), hadn't made any effort or put themselves out for me for many years, I was always there for them
Wasn't angry, or upset or anything else, left the chat group after a strange exchange and just waited out him getting in touch or reaching out. Never did, I speak to him occasionally but there is 'nothing'. It's a shame but I realised that it was one sided and was making me a bit sad.
Was Talking to my Dad over the weekend as we had some time together, he was always my hero, cool, funny, very energetic and sporty. Talking about how he was amazing at squash and taught me the same, he was always training, running, playing football etc.
He said to me "that's all gone now", he's got a condition which means his legs are going and he is wobbly. It stung me a bit, I'm still a young lad but letting 'life' beat me a bit.
I'm determined to break through the fog again and get some momentum. Get on track to lose some weight and shake my cardio up.
Interesting yesterday as Ana's family is Spanish, so they were without power all day. Surprising how quickly phones ran empty, no TV or Internet, so the old radios came out and families travelled to each other to check in and stay safe.
The world is a much smaller and much more connected place, but its still a thin veil of technology keeping us from the basics.
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My son and dil was supposed to spend some time at my house, they decided to push on to their home, i said i understood. It was later when I got home and drank my emotions. I am over adulting, I want to be a baby goat and just jump around and have fun!!
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Be a baby goat, jump around, and have fun, walkin'! :) Xx
I love the way you write, mikey. So insightful, hoping your Ana's family is all well and safe in Spain. Read the headlines about the outages in Spain and Portugal, Puerto Rico just had a big one a couple weeks ago, too. That's so true about the thin veil of technology separating us from the basics.
haha on the spreadsheets, trackers, planners rabbithole. Ain't that the truth!
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And now it's time for a giggle with a side of healthy aging info :) 😅
What the heck is a fart walk? Why this practice is being hailed as the secret to healthy aging
Julia Musto Mon, April 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM EDT4 min read
It may sound silly, but physicians say farting on the street following a meal can help to improve long-term health.
“Crop dusting” the patio, avenue or boardwalk can improve intestinal function, according to Dr. Tim Tiutan, an internal medicine physician at New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
“Walking after meals does promote intestinal motility,” he explained in an Instagram Reel, “or movement of our intestines to get rid of gas and prevent constipation.”
Tiutan said that walking can help to prevent blood sugar spikes, regulate the hormone insulin better and lower the risk of cancer.
“I totally support fart walks,” he said.
So, why do “fart walks” help?
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@mkksemail Ha! Ha! I fart walk often, I didn't know it was a thing!
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Fartwalking!🤣, that is me after I get off work, fast walking to my car!1
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hiking this trail today for 90 minuts
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at the bottom of the trail, The Snake River
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Another walk in and doing stuff after supper, scale moved another notch downward. keep on movin
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WoooHOOOOO walkin!
low movement week. I took a hard tumble last Monday, scraped my knee, both hands, forehead, and 2 cuts on my nose. oof. No permanent damage, tho.
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oh no mkksemail! u def need recovery time for that! here is to a better week!
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