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I just want to say that I really appreciate this thread, and @herringboxes your stories in particular. My #1 goal this year is to get to, and enter maintenance at my goal weight. I have a number in mind, but I am willing to settle above that if I feel I have reached the level of "trim" I feel I should have due to…

Re: Doggo - if you're looking for a running partner, I'd recommend looking at adopting one around 2-3 years old. They are VERY limited on how much running like that they can do the first couple years. Lots of puppers out there who love to run! Definitely good to have a yard though - my sister lives in an apartment with her…

I struggle with "the nibbles" big time, and it is often the downfall of my progress...generally I "feel" like I'm hungry, but nibbling on junk, as it is designed, leads to eating more junk as none of it REALLY gives your body what it needs (and it's literally designed to be addicting). My first battle is to not have it…

I don't have time to "meal prep" which takes hours - not something I have time to dedicate to right now between my day job, my business, my house, and my pets (particularly my working lines puppy who is very high energy and starting training in an intense sport). For me, I keep some meal-service meals in the freezer. Here…

As someone who has done 75 Hard several times, and am currently in the midst of Phase 3 of a Live Hard year - at least in my experience, if I'm going into things having fallen off the proverbial wagon (like I did between phases this fall/early winter), it takes some time for my body to adjust, then around the 3 week (ish)…

Thanks - yes, we got this, one day at a time! Puppy will keep me on my toes - my pet sitter even commented today that of all of her dogs, he is the highest energy by a lot LOL. I think we found a Schutzhund club to start training with, which will help us focus that busy little brain a bit more than the casual work I've…

Hi all - can't lie, I completely fell off the bandwagon the past couple months. Puppy was keeping me on my toes, and I've had a lot of other big things that were rather sudden (like I'm in underwriting on a house right now :# ), and then my day job started to change their policies to start a slow-burn RTO (which I'm not…

I'm still around LOL - but little puppy man is keeping me on my toes and making sure I don't have that much down time! He's starting to settle into a routine a little bit, and potty and crate is going better, just in time for teething to really take off as the teen months rapidly approach (oy vey). Most of my activity…

Just got done with a 4 day visit with family (got there later on Thursday, got home late last night). Puppy's first trip since it was a reasonably safe place to take him at his age (hasn't finished all his puppy vaccinations yet). He did pretty well for it being his first trip, but both dogs are crashed out today lol, and…

Had a good weekend - horse show Friday (schooling and set up) and showing on Saturday. Took the horse I'm doing the 1/4 lease on, it was only his second show ever (and he only did 1 jumper class at his first show) - overall I think we did pretty good! We won (very small class) our speed jumper round, and placed in one of…

This is when we went to look at them, he's already grown a fair bit since then LOL. This is his daddy, who he looks like IMO:

So pretty sure I brought home a 10 week old, high drive velociraptor LOL. Haven't had much time to do anything other than what I absolutely need to do and take care of puppy. At least it results in staying fairly active making sure his little puppy butt isn't getting into too much trouble, constant potty breaks, play,…

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Day 9, Phase 1. The cold showers SUCK. Minute 1: sucks, but kinda feels good. Min 2: Not too bad! Min 3: okay, this is starting to just plain old suck. Min 4-5: I hate everything about my life right now. Scale back to where I left off a few weeks ago, 149.4 today. Transitioned to an intermediate lifting plan, 4x week;…

Ugh, scale is not being friendly to me this week - of course back to the workouts, and wasn't sure what diet I wanted to stick with since I'm switching up my lifting to a more intermediate training program, but would also like to cut this fat down a bit more (yes, I got impatient with the recomp since just a few days of…

Day 1, Phase 1 for me today. Was supposed to be a horsey riding day, but they just had adjustments done, and while I could go lunge him, lunging would only be about an hour and way less of a workout for me, and with it being a 2 hour round trip drive, will probably grab le floof dog and go hiking instead (if the drive was…

@k8richly I just have a FitBit Inspire, nothing too fancy but I like the app and small size of the device. I still wear a regular watch though...I'm hard on watches though so have been resistive to buying an expensive device that would do it all.

I like Live Fit's joggers and some of 1st Phorm's sports bras, and sweatshirts from both. I haven't found a tank/tee provider that I love though. I don't like wearing leggings though, which is what is mostly put out there for women (grrr), so the joggers are where it's at for me. Under Armour has some stuff I like too, but…

Well, I definitely think there can be benefits. I've recently signed up for/applied to two different groups/services that come to a fair bit more. One is a business collective (similar to a mastermind group) that will fall under my business costs at $400/month, and also signed up for a coaching and app with a trainer in…

Pic from Monday - lots of thoughts about things, but overall, in the end, it was in the right direction good...

Had an overall pretty nice long (3 day) weekend at the track - as usual I'm half in my head about stuff and not thrilled with what I didn't manage to accomplish, but I did accomplish some things, and some of those were very important steps, like getting my new suspension dialed in so the bike would actually do what I want,…

Had a nice little scale drop this morning. More of a one-off than anything, but I'll take it!

The other issue may be your tracking....are you including everything you consume and weighing it raw/pre-cooked? Entering every drink, lick, morsel, taste? It is not uncommon for someone to track *most* things, or their main meals, but then miss a day when they are traveling or forget to enter that snack/dessert/treat from…

Are you extremely petite? If so, you're probably not eating anywhere near enough. I cannot speak to diabetic diets, only generalized rules, but you sound reasonably active, you're not particularly light, so less than 1200 calories a day is extremely low. Adding in perhaps a higher quality protein shake another time during…

Been pretty crazy around here but staying on top of everything, not feeling too nuts yet! Glad I stepped up the self discipline when I did though!! Weight is hovering, lift gains are slowing. I think this and next week on my newbie plan, then I think I will switch up to a more intermediate lifting plan (got "Stronger by…

Cardio increases your calorie burn, and therefore, you can either have more to eat, or a larger deficit, or find a happy middle ground in there. Building muscle helps up your metabolism. If you're shooting for a recomposition (slowly building muscle bulk while still losing some fat), you're not going to see much scale…

44, F, 5' 7" GW: 128-135(ish - TBD) SW 01-2023: 157.6 - 3/29/23: 151.2 4/3/23: 149.0 4/10/23: 150.6 Mostly hanging out in this range, the 149's seemingly out of reach at the moment other than a random day...but that's the process lol, just waiting on the next "woosh." Weekend was okay - Friday was okay. While I enjoyed…

I'm all for supplements with a purpose, but there are a lot of people who try to use supplements to make up for poor diet/health choices. Where I really get aggravated though is when pharmaceuticals are thrown at a problem that could EASILY be solved with some lifestyle changes, but doctors just keep throwing pills at…

Yes, I already have my CAPM, but needed a little more experience to qualify for the PMP, got that now, so getting ready for that one, very different test for sure.

I had a blood pressure scare about 18 months ago - here's a thread sharing my story. Increasing my workouts while in a recomp with very slow weight loss has continued to slowly drop it even more... Sodium is actually a very small part of the equation....not that it doesn't have an effect, but unless you also had bloodwork…