So … it’s interesting being home. As in, in the home in which I grew up, with my parents. It’s interesting because of situational habits: I grew up here, and the context of the house – even though some things have changed (including my room becoming Mom’s Knitting Room) – just affects me. Old habits come up even if I am not thinking of them. Like, going to the refrigerator and munching on something and not realizing what I’m doing until I’m mostly done. Someone should do a psychology paper on it some day.
Weight went down, very slightly, still at a 3-week high, to 216.1 lbs. The goal was – is – to average 214.6 lbs this week. With today’s contribution, it’s now up to 215.0 lbs. I sincerely doubt tomorrow’s weigh-in will be under 215.0 lbs, making this the first week my average is well above where it is supposed to be. I’ll review the “how we got here” in my week-end-wrapup post. But for example, today, I had things planned out, I was going to be at around 1700 calories, and then my mom shared another piece of her birthday cake with everyone after dinner that I hadn’t planned on. Again, she’s the whole reason I’m on this trip, so I was’t going to say “no.”
But right after that, I was out the door to do the 5.1 km circuit again, which took 53 minutes this time. It’s not a bad circuit, really, and I think I’ll stick with it in the future when I come to visit (these days, about 1.5 times per year). The issue today was the 84° temperature and 65% humidity, which is low for the Ohio River valley area this time of year. So, after walking, it was time in the pool; I was about to get out when I had been in for 27 minutes so I just stayed in a few more and got an even 30 minutes.
I didn’t finish that until 10pm. I was going to use the Bowflex again and try one of its recommended circuits, but I am way behind on some work and just needed to get some stuff done, so I’ll do it tomorrow. Earlier in the day.
Last night, I also spent an hour or so trying to re-do my weight (as in, the exercise of lifting weights) tracking. Much like my system for cardio, it wasn’t easily machine-readable and wasn’t easy to see when I was doing what and wasn’t easy to see trends for various exercises. So, like my cardio log, I have created a new version with one row per date, and then a shiznit load of columns for each set, of each exercise, with each piece of equipment. So, a basic squat covers 20 columns, with 10 each for a barbell vs dumbbell squat, 2 columns for sets 1–5 (more could be added) for each version, and then under each set there’s a column for number of reps and for the weight. So now, by simple virtue of quickly scrolling down, I can see when I have done a barbell squat. By simple virtue of highlighting a column, I can get the maximum weight I’ve squatted. And, I can more easily keep track of what kinds of exercises I might do if I switch things up, especially for different circuits for core exercises.
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