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Sorry I completely missed the part about the YMCA membership. I thought you were exercising at home. Any opportunity to work with a trainer? At a minimum, they can get you on the right schedule. If you're new to weights, I like the idea of 3x cardio and 2x weights.
We have done this before. A couple good weeks of hard effort and high expectations and then you backslide. I am not mad, I'm not disappointed, but I am concerned.
Welcome back from the long weekend everyone. I saw some people say they stayed on track, others may have indulged in the last weekend of summer, and others just mentioned that they like impossibly hard yoga.
With the pandemic, a house remodel, and all the stress in 2020, it's a huge accomplishment to break even let alone lose an average of 4 lbs a month, start yoga and set personal bests on walking.
A little. Intermittent fasting works really well for some people, and there is some science behind it. But the main thing is that it restricts calories, because all successful diets ultimately control calories in vs. calories out in some way, whether you are fasting or doing low carb or eating vegetarian or whatever.
Yeah, I still use MFP to track calories. I've always been most successful just doing CICO, like you noted. Eat less calories than you burn and lose weight.
I did this one this morning. It was pretty good; I enjoyed the standing splits-into-squat thing near the end. We hadn't had standing splits in a while, so that was fun. Also, she doesn't know how to pronounce "corset," but she did stop to observe Benji's slobber on the floor, so those balanced out.
Eating a little much and having a couple of glasses of wine on Labor Day weekend means very little in the big picture as long as it is not repeated any time soon. What you do for the next month after that day is what separates getting into shape, treading water, and getting fit. It’s too easy to go back to the poor eating and drinking after you do it once.
I just did the hard one. And by "did", I mean did most of, but completely skipped 3 things, and i was drenched in sweat before I even got to them. This was the hardest yet. The three I skipped included two poses I simply can't do, and at least one I'm not even sure what to do. Good ####### luck.
can't wait to do this! sadly, gotta let my foot heal up some more.bostonfred said:
If you're already at 30 you're doing awesome. I just did my strength test after week 4 and i crashed on number 35. It says I'm supposed to go from the hardest week 4 to the easiest week 5. Not happening. I might have to redo a week though.
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I think you need to do something like ‘if I drink I have to send @bostonfred $500 bucks’. And then when mrs. @Otis says let’s have a drink you can’t because of your internet bet. It’s dumb, but back when we were going for ‘how many meters can we row’ it was easy to tell the wife ‘sorry gotta go beat Otis from the internet, be back upstairs in an hour’.
Oh the thought had crossed my mind, when Mrs. O is handing me a drink, to be like “AZcards37 from the Internet is gonna be pretty pissed at me for this.”
This isn't that hard. There's a simple answer. You didn't drink because the dog #### itself. You didn't drink because your wife poured you a glass of champagne. You didn't drink because work was hard. You didn't drink on Labor day because it was a holiday. You always have a story when you drink, or when you skip exercise, or when you go off the rails on your diet, but it's the wrong story.
I mean we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of wine. I think the champagne she found is the last of it. We have a couple fridges full of beer but don’t usually touch that. I have a pretty stocked liquor cabinet with probably 6 or 8 bottles of scotch, which would probably be my next go to. Also have vodka and gin and all sorts of other stuff in there.
It seems like you're a new man but you're occasionally sidetracked by your wife. If she's not inclined to drink liquor or beer, I bet you'll do fine. In the grand scheme of things, you had 1 glass of champagne (after a ####ty day) and ate great. That's better than like probably 80% of people out there. But you did commit to something and you've now slipped 2 times in less than a week. I don't think it will become a trend because it seems like you're legitimately changing. Just be careful.
Having a bad day after 15 or 20 good days happens. You can’t string bad days together though. Ever. That is the habit that must be broken. I love hearing the stories because we all go through it, Dogs crap. Stuff breaks. Wives. Well. Wives. But the stories don’t have to end with booze.
Here's the truth.
