Huzzah! It’s only Thursday and I’ve met my goal of three weight lifting sessions, and I did the one today during a telecon. I also went up in weight on almost everything, though it was more laziness than anything else: I went up 10lbs on benchpresses, which is the second exercise I do. Since I use the same weight for the next exercise, underhanded rows, I left those plates on and went up 10lbs on that. Overhead presses are next, but I was already at +15 lbs on each side of the bar (75 lbs total), so I left those 5lbs on again and so went up 10lbs to 145lbs total on the deadlifts (I hate deadlifts, so I am purposely not doing my max). To avoid changing weights again, I did calf raises next and kept those weights, so went up 10lbs there to 145lbs which is a new personal best for calf raises. And, I then took off the 35lb plates and out of laziness left the 5lbs on with the 10lb and so went up by 10lbs today to 75lbs on my biceps curls.
So, yeah, new highs for the year (but not compared to last year) out of laziness … but, whatever works, ammIrite?
I spent some time re-planning the forecast in my master tracking sheet today because it looks like I’m finally sticking with things again, and I took my body measurements. My bodyfat percentage is down week-over-week, more than expected, though of course still higher than last year’s low. But that’s self-sabotage talk, so let’s just stick with it being at a low for the calendar year, back under 27.0%, which until 2020, I hadn’t been since 2017. I also saw a new weight low today for the year, so that was nice. If I keep this pace up, I could be down to my original cut goal of 170 lbs (down 55 lbs from my peak) by around October, the bf’s half-birthday, and when I might be going on a vacation to Iceland or Ireland or Scotland with my dad.
I tell ya’, seeing progress certainly does help with the motivation.
Meanwhile, food today was pretty good. I cut out the Cheerios® because I was a bit above 100% on carbs again and I don’t want to be. Fat and carbs are so low, despite the fruit, dumplings, and nuts, because of the two meals: The salad had 9 gms fat 16 gms carbs, while the orange chicken only 7 gms fat and 11 gms carbs. Both are screamingly high on protein, so I even cut out the protein shake and was at 101% of my protein goal.
I’m also T–1week from needing to go grocery shopping and starting a new cycle of meals. I’m planned out through Wednesday next week, so that’s when I’ll probably go grocery shopping next, meaning I should plan now for the doughnut I’ll probably give in and get. I’ll plan for about 5 weeks’ worth of meals/food (see link for how I do that), as I’ve been doing for practically 10 months now, and plan the grocery list around that. However, we decided that with the bf going out to swim more (exercise!!), we’re planning on allowing for 1–2 intermediate shopping trips beside the big one at the beginning of this ≈5-week cycle. That means if, for instance, I want a cucumber in week 3, I’m not using a moldy one from week 1. Still, I try to minimize that for two reasons: (1) I don’t need to really do that because I have enough meals in the rotation that don’t require highly perishable items, and (2) still trying to minimize travel and interaction due to COVID-19 issues.
So, other than getting little work-work done today, it was a pretty good day for fitness! Oh, and I’m still beating the bf on Day 6 of our Apple Watch Challenge.
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