What is the next step towards your goal?

I think my next step is to shift my workout schedule from a few workouts inconsistently spaced throughout the week to a consistent 6 days of activity/exercise of any amount.

@jugar hope you have a productive appointment and figure out what is going on with your back and shoulder!

@ashleycarole86 Congrats on the ring resizing! That is a fun milestone for you guys!

@ashleycarole86 I'm glad his shifts have finally started so we can make our last routine adjustments for a while. Definitely going to take some getting used to though!

I do want to find some dishes I can cook fresh that are good for one person - either because they aren't expensive to cook in small batches, or because they reheat well. I've never tried freezing stir fry, for example, but I find myself craving more of that kind of food at the moment. As the weather improves I'll eat more salads; I can marinate and freeze chicken to have with them. Any recommendations, either for recipes, or freezing tips?

Trained this morning despite feeling half dead as I hadn't slept well. It was a good one, because we did a bit of work on the overhead squat. This is a lift I find quite difficult as it requires a lot of thoracic mobility, and having a desk based job I can lack that. We were only using the 12.5kg bar but the focus was on technique rather than weight. I do enjoy a technique session, which is something C doesn't do as much of I guess because I have the technique already for a lot of what we do. I had better feed that back

Hi everyone! It’s been a whirlwind here. Boxes are still in most rooms, but fewer and we’re working our way through them. Totally missed my weigh in. Thanks for the excused weigh in.

Just read thru most of the pages.
Good to catch up. Now, I’m sleepy now. More tomorrow.

@ashleycarole I know it’s late for these but we can add them for the month.

Well, MFP is telling me I don’t have permission to post again. Boo.

@Kali225 you got it. Hope the final days of the job go as smoothly as possible. Get lots of rest and look forward to having you back in fighting form soon.. great loss this week

Hang in there @conleywoods and @micki48 you are both so close to a rest!

I had such a hungry day yesterday, I couldn't stop eating. Combination of being under the weather and an early start methinks, then chuck in a bit of emotional eating and it was a recipe for disaster! I'm not trying for perfection on intake today, but I am going to make sure everything is tracked. My main takeaway from yesterday is that I met my water target and stayed off the chocolate, so that's definitely a win. I enjoyed a walk with one of my running friends and her dog, then spent the evening cross stitching on the sofa with one of the cats snuggled up, so a nice restful one.

It's our anniversary today (4 years married, though we've been together 17!) and we're getting McDonalds for lunch as we only have lunch together where we're both free and I don't have time to go out-out. In the future I think we'll do our 'specials' on different days, or instead of wanting it to be the evening meal, doing steak for lunch or whatever, but this occasion came around too soon in our adjustment period for me to have really thought about it.

@jugar I will definitely give single-person stir fry a go. I do find they tend to reheat OK (from the fridge!) so I could make enough for two and have it multiple days, but mainly I need to pick up a few new recipes, or buy pre-made sauce which isn't always the healthiest. Something I'm aiming to do this week is extract the recipes from a load of cook books I want to get rid of, so hopefully there'll be inspiration in those. I also want to understand more about meal/ingredient prep, as opposed to batch cooking, which would be useful for stir fry. If I prepare all my ingredients for the week on a Sunday, are they still fresh by Thursday, for example.

Username ashleycarole86
Thursday weigh-in (weighing in one day early today)

PW 168.4
CW 169.8

Will be back to Thursday weigh-in next week