Journal done, exercise done. Been a good day.

corinasue1143 wrote: »

Fireside, is your loss usually the morning after a day off from exercising? You are working your body hard and retaining some water to help heal muscles.

I believe the pattern is along the lines of, I work my butt off for a week.. Lose bugger all and get all stroppy about it. Then I have a totally half-a$$ed week. Loose 6.4lb and get a pile of enthusiasm that I pour into the next week in the gym etc.. and so on.. So yes, the pattern fits the profile for sure.

Wednesday check in. Busy day, allowed myself to get too busy to eat or workout. Then I ate 1400cal of utterly scrumptious butter chicken from my favorite Indian restaurant. Take that blood sugars.... Kapow!!! Diary is done, calories under. No daily challenge.

I'm proud to report that I didn't have any Halloween chocolate yesterday!

This new plan I'm on is kicking my butt. It's not that hard, really, and hey, I was able to take a workout class without worsening my knee injury (which is pretty much 90% better by now, just like I'd thought - it doesn't even really hurt at this point, for the most part, just feels kinda funny), but I have to eat so frequently that it's hard to keep up, and I have a VERY hard time drinking all the water I'm supposed to drink. The point of all this is to keep me too full to go for junk food - it works, but it's hard. Which makes it pretty enjoyable.

I'm trying to change my sleep schedule so I can get up earlier, though, and...that's having some side effects. I fell out of bed when I tried to get up this morning...whoops. Decided to take the day off school because...that does not qualify as being okay to drive two hours to get home from this campus.

There's nothing all that interesting going on with me right now though. I'm mostly just waiting for the weekend after this one, because that's when I've got two races coming up. Should be a lot of fun.

Diary and exercise completed 10,388 with 80 squats 64 oz of water

Diary done for yesterday. No exercise besides normal daily routines.

Running a bit late with my Thursday check in.. But it's super handy living in the future because it's still Thursday for you folks

Diary done with calories under, had a bit of fun in the kitchen and cooked up my favorite all purpose savory beef mince dish. And made some rosemary croccantini crackers for snacks (Danger-Snack Alert) Exercise done.

Glad you're back on track dragon.

Diary done, calories good, 60 minutes yoga, good day!

Exercise and diary finished
14,448 steps
Cardio-1.5 miles
Weights-triceps, back, legs
Sit-ups-crunches, sit-ups, clam shells
All totaling 125 reps

On the road today, toured a college for my son. They went over everything but what they had to offer in the way of education. Everything was about ‘making the student comfortable’ at all times. It’s a different world than the one I grew up in for sure.

I think I’m going to try IF again with a low-ish carb approach. I just can’t seem to shift any actual fat. I can lower the scale a bit, then it goes back up a bit, then down a bit - but the spare tire remains totally untouched and looking no worse for the wear. I felt awful on low carb last time, but I think I had too much protein and needed a little fruit, veggies and more fat.

Had a flare up with my IBD this week, so weigh in will be skewed anyway from inflammation. I really felt like giving up this week. I’m pretty tired of logging, “I don’t feel well - or feeling sick” - I think I just bring everyone down with such negativity. I keep trying new things but it difficult sometimes to have the energy. I was very dissapointed Friday because I was supposed to be out at the fort (National Park) volunteering and woke up and couldn’t hardly walk and was quite terrified I couldn’t get to the restroom in time because I was in so much pain. I had promised them I would be there, made a commitment, had my uniform ready, and to say ‘oh I don’t feel well’ — sounds like an excuse and copout, like I don’t care and don’t take commitments seriously. I had promised myself that this time no matter what I wouldn’t miss it, no matter how bad I felt, but I couldn’t walk and had difficulty just making it to the medicines I take for a flare up. I had to admit I’m getting worse not better - but over all, yeah I guess that’s just how it is.

I am going to try to be there tomorrow, to make up the time. I used to run the trails and patrol them but now have a walking stick and have reconciled not being able to do that just now, but I can walk (gosh I hope so anyway). It could be worse though, gotta keep the chin up.

Diary done, couldn't find any exercise classes on Saturday and Sunday, walked into gym thinking surely I'd find something to do.
Lots of good looking guys lifting weights, so I found an exercise bike where I had a perfect view and enjoyed my bike ride!