Just a drive by posting in an amazingly hectic week for me. Am recovering faster than anyone had anticipated. The chiro says I have a strong constitution. Tonight (time allowing) I do workout number 2 of the week. The first one felt a bit weird but I came through it just fine! I also came home from work that evening to find that my neighbor left a box of fresh veges from her garden in my kitchen. (the dirt was still on them) She convinced me to steam a beet and try it and OMG it was delicious. Sort of like a sweet potato but without the calories. I ate until my gut nearly busted through my pants. I adore fresh fruits and vegetables. (Am eating a peach right now in fact)
That same night the dogs (I am watching David's pit again) caught them a freak'n skunk so I got very little sleep as I washed and re-washed the idiots and my porch. The schnauzer was pretty sheepish looking the whole while, and the pit looked all proud of herself.
Had a completely stressful day as I prepped for a pretty high level presentation to one of the members of the Big Guy's staff. My partner and I had our asses handed to us last time but this time we nailed it. I was appreciating my job very much afterwards and how much fun it is to be challenged so much. After this day I had a wonderful evening out with a dear friend eating sushi and going to a body awareness class. His treat for me. LOL! It was actually cool. After the class we hung around smoking cigars and talking until 1:30AM.
Today was another stupidly busy day and tonight I have another date. This one will involve a little stress relief. LOL!
I will catch up with everybody this weekend!
Booked my flight for LA. I'll be there on Thr night the 27th and don't leave until 5:00PM on Sunday. I have to spend time at UCLA in the guitar department but other than that can flex my schedule around. Let me know if there are takers for a dinner, workout, whatever.... anything but Karaoke.
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Today was another stupidly busy day and tonight I have another date. This one will involve a little stress relief. LOL!
I will catch up with everybody this weekend!
Booked my flight for LA. I'll be there on Thr night the 27th and don't leave until 5:00PM on Sunday. I have to spend time at UCLA in the guitar department but other than that can flex my schedule around. Let me know if there are takers for a dinner, workout, whatever.... anything but Karaoke.
Have fun on your date... and I do remember, ya don't do the karaoke, hehehe. I love that stuff, especially getting a group of my friends together, tossing back drinks and singing karaoke for a few hours. My husband is even nuttier about it than me. When he was stationed in South Korea a few years ago, the only Hangul characters he managed to learn were for "bathroom," and "karaoke bar."
It sounds like you're doing well though, and that's a good thing.
Thanks Anne.
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Have fun on your date... and I do remember, ya don't do the karaoke, hehehe. I love that stuff, especially getting a group of my friends together, tossing back drinks and singing karaoke for a few hours. My husband is even nuttier about it than me. When he was stationed in South Korea a few years ago, the only Hangul characters he managed to learn were for "bathroom," and "karaoke bar."
Heh... Yeah, just could never wrap my head around the whole singing in public thing. Funny too 'cause when I took voice lessons for a guitar class assignment about 3 years ago. The teacher said I have a 2+ octave range and could easily sing professionally if I wanted to go that route. I am not one of those super natural talents though so without practicing I really can't sing so well and prefer not to do it.
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Thanks for the update.. much appreciated.
Hadn't imagined you smoked a cigar occasionally.. am totally thinking of A-team now
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This thread is totally useless without pics......of you smoking a cigar and weilding your axe!
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I'm guessing that cigar smoke isn't going anywhere near her axe but that's just me.
HA HA HA... I actually don't smoke cigars but I do hang out at the cigar bar with a bunch of my guy friends. I love the place. It is so filled with guys and guy talk. Sort of like a private guy club and they let me in. I usually can only hang for an hour or less though as the smoke eventually wears on me.
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Hey Karla! I'll be around the weekend of the 28th. Anything you'd like to do?
Ok girlie. We'll talk as the time nears. I am firming up my plans now with the guitar teacher I am going to see. We'll just do lunch and workout or something light like that.
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Getting better and better each day. Did first squats yesterday and seem to have no issues with them. Of course I am doing very light weights (up to the 45lb bar) Interesting thing still about my hips alignment now versus before. I am naturally short in my rt leg when I go to the chiro but last two times have been short in my left leg. The result of this is that I can cross my left over my right leg with comfort and my squats are more secure. I can feel different muscles working in both sides so am going to have to baby that up to the power weights. Still this is very exciting.
Am slowing increasing the weights in all of my lifts too. So far am not really freaked out about any loss of strength. I actually do not feel as if I have lost very much in fact. I can do 30lb db with almost no effort so am thinking that the 50's are not gonna be too hard to get back to.
Am still in deficit and dropping like a mad woman. LOL! Seriously I am down 4lbs or so since last month. Alan says some of this is glycogen loss from stopping my workouts so suddenly. Funny thing is that I am not even remotely hungry and still the weight seems to drop off pretty quickly. I feel a tiny bit guilty about this given the trouble most people seem to have but can't help it.... We are what we are I guess.... I will soon hit a place where it gets really hard since we are so close to the final 10 (for real) as it pertains to getting to the lowest bf% amount possible.
This morning on the farm was absolutely amazing. I took a tiny bit of a walk on my property and sample various fruits from nature. Peaches, nectarines, plums, blackberries are all in season now. I wandered into my garden and gathered some tomatoes and peppers. This is one of my most favorite times of the year for eating. I have been eating the freshest garden vegetables and fruits for weeks on end now. I stood on top of the hill and looked down onto my acreage and gave thanks for all blessings that I have today including my health and current body image (am loving the way my recomp is going this time). In the warmth of the morning sunshine with the cool dew at my feet, I felt beautiful and at peace inside and out.
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I stood on top of the hill and looked down onto my acreage and gave thanks for all blessings that I have today including my health and current body image (am loving the way my recomp is going this time). In the warmth of the morning sunshine with the cool dew at my feet, I felt beautiful and at peace inside and out.
Those moments are precious aren't they? Just that time when you can be at peace with the world, and feel like life is going well.
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I stood on top of the hill and looked down onto my acreage and gave thanks for all blessings that I have today including my health and current body image (am loving the way my recomp is going this time). In the warmth of the morning sunshine with the cool dew at my feet, I felt beautiful and at peace inside and out.
I wish Paul was there to take a picture of you. I bet you looked beautiful.
PSA: Keep being body-aware. Be mindful that you are still healing.
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This morning on the farm was absolutely amazing. I took a tiny bit of a walk on my property and sample various fruits from nature. Peaches, nectarines, plums, blackberries are all in season now. I wandered into my garden and gathered some tomatoes and peppers. This is one of my most favorite times of the year for eating. I have been eating the freshest garden vegetables and fruits for weeks on end now. I stood on top of the hill and looked down onto my acreage and gave thanks for all blessings that I have today including my health and current body image (am loving the way my recomp is going this time). In the warmth of the morning sunshine with the cool dew at my feet, I felt beautiful and at peace inside and out.
Sounds like a great morning. We're also overloaded on fruits and veggies at the moment (although we're buying the fruit), but it's because everything is so good.
Thanks all... it was a glorious morning. And just so you don't think that it is all "roses" in the "City of Roses" (AKA Portland) I feel fat today and pissed off that I cannot go to the gym and go balls-to-the-wall workouts like I used to do. Grrrrrrrrrr....
On the very bright side of things, I finally am able to do my 1 hour lunchtime walks again with comfort. I did 50 bw squats today (3x10 and later 2x10) Ass to Grass. I did an upper workout and have 100% of my strength back in my bis and tris. Still waiting on shoulders. I tried to do some crunches but hip kept poping and cracking so I stopped.
And finally I think I have identified the mysterious thing called Grade 1 pain. I recognized it as the very thing I had felt for months leading up to my hamstring crash years ago. It isn't pain but rather an annoyance like a fly crawling across the back of my hamstring. So instead of taking the walk I was going to take with Sherman on Sunday I laid again on ice and took an Alieve. And voila, the next day no pain and today can do squats and walk. So if that is what pain is then I can feel it and this means I can rehab myself with success!
Still I feel fat today and like I am not moving anywhere. I wanna get on with this program already!
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HUGE progress all around. Am back to my old workouts now at 50% of the weight and a bit higher reps. Still it is my old routine. Went back to 24 Hour Fitness and was greeted by some of my old buddies who all had to hear about my farm work adventures. They were all empathetic and all told me to take it easy. The even said they would keep an eye out for me. I am nursing the two remaining injuries. My SI joint sprain seems to be 100% better and I am able to do ab and low back things now (hyperextensions, crunches). Ham string is still bad and so is rhomboid tear. Still these are things I can work with and around. Joints are cracking a bit still on some movements but the Physical Therapist says it is not likely my joints where ever cracking from overtaining so much as for my muscles being tight and out of whack. (the chiro says the same thing) The cure for this is stretching, stretching and more of that stretching shit. (Did Julie say yoga?) LOL! So not 100% but doing the right things right this time. So far I am being ultra careful and Alan is keeping a good eye on me too. (He helped me devise the workout plan for recovery. I was going for it a bit harder until he interjected.) I am highly motivated to keep things in check. Tonight I worked out in the park with David but did not get into a competition with him at all. I took it sooooo easy. He said he was impressed with my judgement. Overall I am pretty satisfied with everything. If I get out of this without reinjury then I know I have moved from "dumbass" mode.
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I stood on top of the hill and looked down onto my acreage and gave thanks for all blessings that I have today including my health and current body image (am loving the way my recomp is going this time). In the warmth of the morning sunshine with the cool dew at my feet, I felt beautiful and at peace inside and out.
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I feel fat today and pissed off that I cannot go to the gym and go balls-to-the-wall workouts like I used to do. Grrrrrrrrrr....
Still I feel fat today and like I am not moving anywhere. I wanna get on with this program already!
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Tonight I worked out in the park with David but did not get into a competition with him at all. I took it sooooo easy. He said he was impressed with my judgement. Overall I am pretty satisfied with everything. If I get out of this without reinjury then I know I have moved from "dumbass" mode.
It was the baby elephant's first b-day today. I bought a new camera just for the occasion.... Then I got elephant ears.... And still hit my macros for the day. (Okay, not the sort ya eat) LOL!
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All I can say is your body recomp is going very oddly.
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Heh... Yeah, just could never wrap my head around the whole singing in public thing. Funny too 'cause when I took voice lessons for a guitar class assignment about 3 years ago. The teacher said I have a 2+ octave range and could easily sing professionally if I wanted to go that route. I am not one of those super natural talents though so without practicing I really can't sing so well and prefer not to do it.
HA HA HA... I actually don't smoke cigars but I do hang out at the cigar bar with a bunch of my guy friends. I love the place. It is so filled with guys and guy talk. Sort of like a private guy club and they let me in. I usually can only hang for an hour or less though as the smoke eventually wears on me.
I was singing Late Night Romance Low Rent Rendevous in my office today with the door open. That is pretty public singing though it is not pretty singing.
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