Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

[phcitywarrior]

Past three weekends have not been ideal. Still making good progress but hit a few bumps. Today I won’t make it to the gym in the AM but will definitely go after work.

My boys celebration on Saturday night had me wrecked all Sunday and messed up my sleep today.

If I plan my meals and activities M-F, I need to do the same for the weekends.

Will be revising some of plans by the end of this week. I want to ramp things up in March and nip some slack that has appeared in the past week or two. Course correct early and pivot fast.

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

Get sassy because you tried to claim a plate loaded machine that already loaded with a cell phone sitting there

That's The Rage and Anger I want to see effuse from the pores...

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

Past three weekends have not been ideal. Still making good progress but hit a few bumps. Today I won’t make it to the gym in the AM but will definitely go after work.

My boys celebration on Saturday night had me wrecked all Sunday and messed up my sleep today.

If I plan my meals and activities M-F, I need to do the same for the weekends.

Will be revising some of plans by the end of this week. I want to ramp things up in March and nip some slack that has appeared in the past week or two. Course correct early and pivot fast.

Meal prep Sundays? Bevy of healthy fruits, veggies, and others as snacks for the week?

If all else falls apart for me in a week one thing I know I always have to fall back on is my 13-14 lunches and dinners prepoed for the week (6/7 of each) and a fridge of chopped cucumbers, celery, peppers, nuts, and other small things to keep things at bay

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Meal prep Sundays? Bevy of healthy fruits, veggies, and others as snacks for the week?

If all else falls apart for me in a week one thing I know I always have to fall back on is my 13-14 lunches and dinners prepoed for the week (6/7 of each) and a fridge of chopped cucumbers, celery, peppers, nuts, and other small things to keep things at bay

This is how I do it. Prep my meals for the week on Sunday and keep fresh fruit, veggies, nuts and yogurt if I need a snack. Keeps me from eating poorly and saves me a lot of money.

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

This is how I do it. Prep my meals for the week on Sunday and keep fresh fruit, veggies, nuts and yogurt if I need a snack. Keeps me from eating poorly and saves me a lot of money.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Folks always ask me how I am. able to maintain eating healthy. I keep it simple. Doesn't take much to provide some seasoning to your protein sources. I usually do 4 chicken breast, 3-5 whitefish or salmon fillets , 3 beef/steak, 1-2 Fish steak (tuna/salmon/etc). The carb and veggie sources are consistently the same for the week, rice/sweet potato/buckwheat/etc, and then broccoli, kale, asparagus.......Takes about 2-2.5 hrs.

But folks like to toss in the excuses: "I prefer to eat only fresh meals", "I don't have time", "I can't eat the same thing."

Neither do I, but I also place a high value on being prouctive. I'm not a professional chef. my meals are "tasty" and do the job. If I want a high class meal, then i will go to a professional to get that done....

Always comes back to the laziness and sesrching for the silver bullet motifs....


EDIT: love me a plain greek yogurt with choppped fresh fruit usually bluebrries in it. Either that or plain cottage cheese with chopped up fresh nectarine....... The other issue is folks are not able to enjoy "natural flavors" anymore because our tastebuds habe been perverted by all of these processed foods. What should be considered "sweet" and "salt" are now associated with dull because of the extreme amounts of fructose variants amd sodium in most foods....... but I'm preaching to the choir, you know all this. It's the folks out of this thread who we tell this to who are interested for 2 mins amd then hit the face....

 

[phcitywarrior]

Meal prep Sundays? Bevy of healthy fruits, veggies, and others as snacks for the week?

Meal prepping during the week isn’t the issue so to speak. Like I have my salad and chicken breast kits in deck in my office fridge for M-F every week.

It’s just these past couple weekends I haven’t been as tight on the weekends, mainly because of celebrations and social outings (SB weekend, my boy’s 30th, etc) each of those weekend outings also re-introduced alcohol which I was looking to cut out for Q1 so I can accelerate my cut and keep in a sharp state of mind.

But tbh, liq was less my issue. Weed was, both for physical health and mental health. I was consuming far too regularly and felt very lethargic. With weed, I’ve been off it since the start of the new year so that’s good. No cravings to go back.

On a cut, liq can really stall progress (hard to account for calories in mixed drinks, tendency to overeat when tipsy etc).

When I get closer to my steady state weight I may reintroduce in certain occasions. But even still, I’m cutting way back.

If Jan was 8/10, Feb has been a 7.5/10. Need March to be a 9/10

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

Meal prepping during the week isn’t the issue so to speak. Like I have my salad and chicken breast kits in deck in my office fridge for M-F every week.

It’s just these past couple weekends I haven’t been as tight on the weekends, mainly because of celebrations and social outings (SB weekend, my boy’s 30th, etc) each of those weekend outings also re-introduced alcohol which I was looking to cut out for Q1 so I can accelerate my cut and keep in a sharp state of mind.

But tbh, liq was less my issue. Weed was, both for physical health and mental health. I was consuming far too regularly and felt very lethargic. With weed, I’ve been off it since the start of the new year so that’s good. No cravings to go back.

On a cut, liq can really stall progress (hard to account for calories in mixed drinks, tendency to overeat when tipsy etc).

When I get closer to my steady state weight I may reintroduce in certain occasions. But even still, I’m cutting way back.

If Jan was 8/10, Feb has been a 7.5/10. Need March to be a 9/10

I feel where you are coming from. Don't beat yourself up too much. Keep it all relative if the lowest the months have been are 7.5 that means you have been Winning the Days thus Winning the Months....we would all love the ideal of 10/10, but unfortunately we aren't professional athletes who get compensated for this.

Can you outright refuse to drink alcohol or at the minimum get some non-alcoholic version on the side and give off the "i'm drinking too" vibes. It gets touchy cause you are there eatimg healthy, not drinking, and the folks who aren't are always hovering to derail you just so they can feel better about their own inadequacies....

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Meal prepping during the week isn’t the issue so to speak. Like I have my salad and chicken breast kits in deck in my office fridge for M-F every week.

It’s just these past couple weekends I haven’t been as tight on the weekends, mainly because of celebrations and social outings (SB weekend, my boy’s 30th, etc) each of those weekend outings also re-introduced alcohol which I was looking to cut out for Q1 so I can accelerate my cut and keep in a sharp state of mind.

But tbh, liq was less my issue. Weed was, both for physical health and mental health. I was consuming far too regularly and felt very lethargic. With weed, I’ve been off it since the start of the new year so that’s good. No cravings to go back.

On a cut, liq can really stall progress (hard to account for calories in mixed drinks, tendency to overeat when tipsy etc).

When I get closer to my steady state weight I may reintroduce in certain occasions. But even still, I’m cutting way back.

If Jan was 8/10, Feb has been a 7.5/10. Need March to be a 9/10

I would trade places with you if I could. I ended catching the flu (flu shot failed me ) after that storm that came through SoCal a couple of weeks ago and my Feb went from 8/10 to 5/10 (haven't fully recovered yet). Just going to let my body rest and try to maintain as much strength as possible and come back stronger next month.

 

[OmegaK2099]

So going to the gym everyday is ideal for results? I'm busy asf all the time

 

[xXMASHERXx]

So going to the gym everyday is ideal for results? I'm busy asf all the time

Consistency is ideal for results

 

[phcitywarrior]

Can you outright refuse to drink alcohol or at the minimum get some non-alcoholic version on the side and give off the "i'm drinking too" vibes. It gets touchy cause you are there eatimg healthy, not drinking, and the folks who aren't are always hovering to derail you just so they can feel better about their own inadequacies....

For my boy’s celebration it was a wine tasting event so kind of hard to say no, but I deff could have kept things to an absolute minimum (skip the mixed drink HH, etc)

SB watch party I could have said no, too. But didn’t do much there.

But for my company HHs I’ve been doing zero-proof drinks.

I just like that I’m recognizing my failings and pivoting fast. A bad meal doesn’t spiral into a bad day or a bad week. Fall fast but get up faster.

I would trade places with you if I could. I ended catching the flu (flu shot failed me ) after that storm that came through SoCal a couple of weeks ago and my Feb went from 8/10 to 5/10 (haven't fully recovered yet). Just going to let my body rest and try to maintain as much strength as possible and come back stronger next month.

Damn, sorry to hear breh. Being sick is just a killer in terms of progress

So going to the gym everyday is ideal for results? I'm busy asf all the time

I go M-F for building consistency. Generally same time everyday, but also because I feel better at work when I’m active everyday.

 

[Gritsngravy]

Maybe one of yall can answer this

So let’s say your upper thigh is hurting when you walk, like near your hip and everytime you run for an extended amount of time your lower back starts to get sore, crap up

Is that meaning you strained something, not stretching enough, need new shoes?

 

[The ADD]

So going to the gym everyday is ideal for results? I'm busy asf all the time

What is the goal?

But “gym” everyday likely isn’t ideal

 

[OmegaK2099]

What is the goal?

But “gym” everyday likely isn’t ideal

Weight loss

 

[The ADD]

Weight loss

Diet/nutrition is most important