Cory's Quest for a Healthier Life

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@Trusylver: It was a good choice. Things were still a little tender today, although not as bad as yesterday.
@Lama: I really wanted to go. I've got my exercise schedule so tightly that it's really hard to make up a lifting session if I miss one. :[
@LJ: It's better than it was yesterday. I think it'll be ok by the time I'm suppose to lift on Sunday.
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Today was kind of up and down. Work started out ok and I was feeling positive, then at 4:30 this lady came in and asked me to offer engineering support in a meeting with the customer for a product that I know nothing about. The meeting is at 8 am, so I don't really even have time to learn the history of the product and what issue the customer is having that we needed this meeting. All the people who would have known were gone for the day. I think tomorrow morning is going to suck. Jazz class was fun though. It's really challenging in a way that zumba hasn't been in a long time. Not physically so much, but mentally. I don't know how to do jazz in the same way that I'm familiar with zumba, so I really have to focus and learn. Buttttt......then I came home and cooked my eggs for dinner and wasn't paying attention to them so I cooked them too firm for my liking. Oh well. At least my knee is feeling a little better than yesterday. Man.....the last three days of my diary have been kind of blah. I'm hoping that changes. I don't want to be the forum downer!

Breakfast - grapefruit - 80 calories
Lunch - fish tacos and curly fries - 670 calories
Dinner - eggs, bacon, and mixed roasted vegetables - 474 calories
Snack - grapes - 144 calories
Total - 1368 calories

Today was an abnormally low day. I wasn't hungry at breakfast because of how big my dinner was last night and so I'm short from my usual goal by a couple hundred calories. No big deal every once in a while. I hate to say it, but tomorrow might be Indian buffet again. I don't know why, but I've been craving it lately. They do this eggplant curry thing that is just awesome.
 
-Cory- said:
this lady came in and asked me to offer engineering support in a meeting with the customer for a product that I know nothing about.
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Professional advice: "I'm not sure, but I can investigate and get back to you."
 
@LJ: It wound up not being an issue. They didn't really question the report that the absent engineer sent them. I was stressing over nothing.
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Today was good. Knee feel 95% better and I'm confident I can lift on Sunday. Went and did zumba tonight with one of the instructors from my old place. She's so good and I miss dancing with her regularly. Unfortunately, this was just a pop up thing so it's not like she's back to teaching on a set schedule. But I'm thankful she did the pop up even at all, even if she decides not to do another one. She's actually been teaching zumba for about 10 years and I think she's ready to move on to new things, which I can completely understand. It's been a wonderful start to my weekend, if nothing else. :]

Lunch - Indian buffet - ??? calories

I did the Indian buffet for lunch today. I generally log it in myfitnesspal as 2000 calories, which is probably a little of an overestimation, but at least that way I feel like I've generally accounted for the worst possible scenario there. No breakfast, dinner, or snacks today. Right now I'm trying to plan out my food for next week so I can go to the grocery store tomorrow. I live alone and if I want to be successful in eating right and not wasting a bunch of food, I have to be very deliberate in what I buy. Otherwise I wind up with 5 boxes of strawberries, 15 green peppers, and a cantaloupe that all go bad before I can eat them.

ALSO I'VE OFFICIALLY PASSED THE 50 LB MARK!!!!
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:party: CONGRATULATIONS :party:
You seem to be doing really well all around, even if you think those days sounded blah :)
 
Thanks guys!
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Today has been very productive. I went to zumba this morning, went grocery shopping after, and then spent pretty much the rest of the day doing chores. It's quarter to nine and this might be the first time I've sat down for more than 20 minutes all day. Got my fridge cleaned out though. Wiped down the shelves and everything.

Breakfast - bacon and kale frittata with pineapple - 439 calories
Lunch - pulled pork BBQ, marinated slaw, and grapes - 709 calories
Dinner - chicken stroganof and roasted mixed vegetables - 796 calories
Total - 1944 calories

It was unintentionally a higher calorie day today. I had intented to eat closer to 1700, but was trying to get rid of leftovers today. They were all higher calorie leftovers and I didn't realize how much I had eaten until I logged it after dinner. I should still be at a deficit just because I did so much today though, so no harm done. Usually I log things as I eat so it doesn't sneak up on me like this, but I just forgot about it.

EDIT: I also really wanted to go for a walk today. It looked great outside, but the windchill was about 20 degrees. I took five steps out the door and then turned around and went back inside.
 
Well done getting your living space in order! It feels so nice to come back to a clean, tidy space and not have this black cloud hanging over you, saying: you really ought to do some chores whenever you sit down. Or maybe that´s just me and you always have your stuff in order, in which case I admire and envy you :)
 
You're doing so well Cory - you should be so proud. Love how motivated you are right now. 50lbs down is EPIC.
 
@Lama: I definitely do not always have my place in order. I do the best I can, but between work and the gym pretty much all of my cleaning and straightening has to happen on the weekends. And I have two cats. Two cats can contribute a surprising amount of mess in a short amount of time.
@Sunflower: I'll be honest, I'm trying to ride this motivation train as long as it'll go. It'll help make up for when things aren't as easy.
@Quercus: I'm really happy. Seems like it's taken both forever and no time at all to get here.
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Pretty good day today. Got up and went to yoga. I really need to practice balance poses because I SUCK at them. I mean, it's only my 4th class, but still. Then I went to the gym and lifted. Hit a new PR today on both squats and bench. Got 125 lbs for 5 with squats and 85 for 5 with bench. I should be able to hit a plate on squats during my next cycle, which is a mini goal I've set for myself. This gym is a pretty intense environment to be in. I might have mentioned before that I'm the only girl. It can be really intimidating (but also motivational) to be around all these guys who are lifting 600 lbs semi regularly. I also made a friend. There's a guy there who's been powerlifting/doing strongman for the last 20 or 30 years, so he knows a lot. He helped me with my bench form today and we had a pretty good convo about old time strongman guys from back in the 80's. The rest of my day after that was pretty anticlimactic. Something about the yoga/lifting combo just makes me useless for the rest of the day. I did zero chores and wound up passing out on the couch for a little while.

Breakfast - overnight oats and blackberries - 452 calories
Lunch - chicken tortilla soup and pineapple - 653 calories
Dinner - Spanish shrimp stew - 530 calories
Snack - carrot sticks - 40 calories
Total - 1675 calories

Sometimes when I eat into the 1600's or 1700's it seems too high, but I generally get ravenous if I go below that. It's a really hard balance to hit to feel like I'm eating little enough to lose good weight and yet still supply all the fuel I need for my activities. 1500 is around what myfitnesspal recommends for me for 1.5 lbs/week of weight loss assuming I'm sedentary and do no exercise. So I guess 1600-1800 is fine once you take the exercise into account. I just get nervous about eating exercise calories back since those trackers waaaaayyyyy overestimate what you actually burn most of the time.
 
Yay for new records and making friends. Also for allowing your body to rest when it needs to. I think it´s a good thing that you try to eat more; those trackers may overestimate your calories but yoga+lifting definitely gets you over 300 kcal. And it´s good to be kind to your body.
 
Quick update tonight because I'm tired and want to go to bed. Did zumba and hip hop tonight. Both were fun.

Breakfast - blackberries and greek yogurt - 282 calories
Lunch - BBQ, slaw, and grapes - 832 calories
Dinner - chicken soup - 400 calories
Snack - mixed nuts - 270 calories
Total - 1782 calories

Ok, time to sleep.
 
Ok, I wanted to take a moment to flesh out my day yesterday. Just didn’t have the energy or willpower to do it last night. I had a really powerful moment yesterday afternoon. Most of you already know that I struggle with anxiety and that one of my first urges to cope with that is to eat. Well, I got thinking about the probable excess skin I’ll have at the end of this and that always makes me batshit insane and really brings on some anxiety. I was sitting there trying to convince myself that I needed to go and get a big Five Guy’s burger and a thing of fries. See, even when I know that my anxiety causes cravings like that, it doesn’t always occur to me in the moment that that’s what is going on. I was really confused, sitting at work like, “Where did this come from? This is a really intense craving for something I haven’t thought about in months.” And then I stopped and realized how anxious I was and just made myself sit with it and ride it out. I did not get the burger. At my heaviest weight, I binge ate to manage my anxiety without even thinking about it and it’s something I continue to struggle with. Being able to pull myself back and make a different choice was hugely positive for me yesterday and I really wanted to take some time to articulate it today, even though I was way too tired to do it last night.
 
Wow, that's awesome! You may not be able to resist every time, but this is clearly a sign that you are becoming stronger! Well done!
 
Good work Cory and thank you for sharing. Here´s to getting to know ourselves better!
 
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