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I drank 3,75L yesterday and I weighed in at 130 kg just now so I think my muscles are slurping back the fluids now that I'm exercising regularly again. The back stuff was useful and necessary and doable but it was really more of a warm up than a workout. I wore a blouse I hadn't worn in over 6 months and it fit so nicely,…

@karilbrandt my go to easy to cook foods are sweet potato fries from the oven and a cabbage and potato stew. And you have time to do other stuff while it cooks. Veggie soup or a wok are very simple and fast too. Taugé, pepper, leek, mushrooms, all very easy and quick to prepare, with little prep.

So the scale showed 129kg this morning, 3kg more than 2 days ago. This falls within my normal fluctuation but any worry I might have also evaporated once I measured myself because the part where the bra band goes measured 100cm! That's 2cm down from the previous lowest. The other measurements are on the low end of the…

I'm really happy with my performance today! I'm not typically a morning person, especially with exercise, but it's the only thing my schedule allowed today. I had to scale the workout because of my back and ankle (what a combination of injuries) so I did a 20 min amrap of: 4 hang squat cleans at 25kg, I went to parallel…

My back is still not 100% so I took it easy again. A 10 min emom of a hang power snatch and overhead squat. The first 5 min at 62%, the last 5 at 69%. I focused on form more than strength. Then building up to a heavy double backsquat. Last week I managed 5 at 49%, this week I did 2 at 68%. I stopped there because it seemed…

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I'm watching KinnPorsche and the wait between episodes has been difficult. I prefer to bingewatch shows but I expected to dislike it so I watched the first ep early. While I skip about a quarter of each episode, it's not awful and Kim is intriguing. But the most recent episode, 12, has twists and turns that make no sense.…

A 10 minute emom of 5-10 ring rows on uneven minutes and 10 db presses per arm on even minutes. I'm very happy with my ring rows, I improved a lot at them so I have hope that pull ups are a real possibility within the next year or so. I kept the db presses light at 5kg because of my back. Then I did: 50 air squats 10…

So I weighed in after my workout today (I leave my brain at the door when I walk in so it didn't cross my mind to weigh myself before exercising but oh well) and it showed either 125,5kg or 126kg but the lines all kinda blur together and I wasn't wearing my glasses but it was clearly very close to the 125kg and that…

My body looks fantastic in pictures taken head on but I look awful in pics taken at an angle, any angle, imo. I look slimmer in windows than in the mirror. Sometimes I look slimmer in the mirror than in pictures, sometimes it's the other way around. It doesn't help that my mind-body connection is awful and I've never had…

I had 3,5 hours of sleep and have been up since 5.40am. It's now nearly 8pm. Some of the people from the gym had a weightlifting competition on the other side of the country and a bunch of us went to support them. I planned for this horribly and had no proper food to bring with me. So I had 2 grapes, a single cherry and 2…

I intended to train yesterday but we went fishing for plastic on a boat in Amsterdam, which was great fun but sad that it was necessary. We got a full trash bag full and two glass bottles. It involved some pushing off the walls when the steering was slightly off and I learnt not to be scared on a boat and how to balance…

@pamperedlinny have a great relaxing evening and enjoy the pizza! @CupcakeCrusoe omg all the pics look great! And your pole class seems like great fun

My body is still changing even though I'm mostly just resting. My triceps (I think that's what they are) have never felt bigger! It's so surreal how there they are. It does not feel like my upper arm anymore. There's this big chunk of muscle and then soft fat kinda below it. I can't even describe this. Also I had a…

I can see my quads in certain positions!!! This muscle is unusually strong in me but there's also a thick layer of fat covering it but when I move my leg in certain positions the fat on the sides of it disappears and I see the outline of my quads. This is so exciting! And I'm taking it as a sign that I'm succeeding at not…

I did the same easy back routine I did last friday except I only got in a minute and a half on the bike because they were all in use most of the time and I got bored. Birddogs feel the best for my back right now but deadbug varieties help too. I do have some walking to do today. Tomorrow's a rest day.

The scale at the gym showed 128kg. Even though I ate at a surplus most of the week, I couldn't have gained more than half a kg. I went over my sedentary maintenance by 500-600 cals on average and while I had 2 days of bed rest, I wasn't inactive the rest of the week. I also started exercising again yesterday and my quads…

I did a very gentle oly class with plenty of warm up and light (for me) weights. I did a 12 minute emom of 2 power snatches at 15, 17,5 and 20kg for 4 rounds each, then 4 sets of a snatch balance and overhead squat, building up from empty bar (15kg) to 22,5kg. My back feels mostly okay.

I prefer no comments at all on my body or weight loss but I can accept them from my mum and sister and from people I've known for at least 6 months who are themselves fat or used to be fat. Everyone else is a hard no, it makes me feel awful. And it can't be "you look good" either. It can only be "hey, you look…

I decided to kinda do the regular workout. It was supposed to be 7x2 minutes of 15/12 cal row + max back squats at 60%, then 1 min rest. Since I hurt my back, I decided to see what felt okay. I did 9-12 cal bike and backsquats at 48%, ranging between 4 and 9 backsquats per set. Not bad imo

I'm happy when it's pants because usually that means they fit better and if they fit worse it's somehow still okay but when it's a top that gets too big I get angry 😂

I wore an old blouse today and the fit is so weird now. It looks like it was made for women with large chests but it's huge around my arms, shoulders and waist too. (Edit for clarity: I'm not one of these large-chested women, it just looks weird on me.) It's only tight around my belly but even then it's much looser than it…

I recently figured out that I carried 4kg (about 10 lbs) of water weight from exercising a lot and the stress of a deficit, even though it was fairly moderate (0,5kg/1.1lb a week). My period comes with about 1,5kg/3.3lbs of water weight. Maddening

This is basically my argument too but I'd describe it as 95% luck, 5% choices. Social status, health, intelligence, looks, personality, education, born into poverty, where you live, authority figure you can rely on: all of that is down to luck. Sure, your choices have some influence but it's often about noticing an…

The merciless ones by Namina Forna. Book 1 was great, this sequel less so. Very frustrating read.

There was an arts and music festival a couple towns over. It was great fun but we only got in 6-7K steps. Overall not bad for a rest day

For the 4th year in a row we had a tropical night in June in the Netherlands. Usually that only happens in July and August, and even then not most nights. So my period came a day late and I wanted to see the impact of it on the scale. I'm up 1,5kg/3.3lbs in 24 hours. That's so much. Now I know and won't worry about it.

Assault bikes can be brutal. We got the Rogue Echo at our gym and everyone hates that thing. It's great

I'm in the Netherlands and while it's a tiny country, the temperature differences can be surprising. My mum lives in the southeast and I'm visiting her. We're at the pool and it's great. I live on the west coast and it's at least 6 degrees cooler there, possibly more, and it's gonna storm there tonight. But I went to the…

I finally got a taste of what you've been describing. Yesterday it was a relatively pleasant 29C and today it's 35C! It's only a few days, it's supposed to rain tomorrow at like 24 degrees and storm tonight in some parts of the country but these two days are intense. We never had hot summers so no one has AC and most…