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I slept like a baby and woke up at 9AM well-rested. Had a breakfast of rice, a mini can of tuna, and a fried egg, and prepped layered oats in the fridge for later. I'll have another cup of coffee now and mix my post-workout porridge and head to the gym. Assistance person will come over at 4PM, we'll put the table together. I need to remember to buy more steel-cut oats.
Floater
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Gym was OK. I upped my bench press weights to 27,5kg during my last set and it felt far from overwhelming, so it looks like I'll be hitting 30kg way sooner than Christmas. Then again, it's smarter to be careful to avoid injury or getting psyched out. Other than the bench press, I felt tense and couldn't hit my PRs but then again, that is to be expected especially as I went on a hike on my only rest day of the week, whoops.
Meal #2 was locker room porridge. Meal #3 is a banana and red lentil stew with heavy cream, parsley and pollock. Once I've eaten I'll prep my next batch of lentil soup, this time with sauteed carrots and sauerkraut, and pack tomorrow's bento breakfast. I bought carrots, oats, peanut butter and cherry tomatoes on my way back from the gym.
Meal #2 was locker room porridge. Meal #3 is a banana and red lentil stew with heavy cream, parsley and pollock. Once I've eaten I'll prep my next batch of lentil soup, this time with sauteed carrots and sauerkraut, and pack tomorrow's bento breakfast. I bought carrots, oats, peanut butter and cherry tomatoes on my way back from the gym.
alligatorob
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Not bad, does that include the weight of the bar?
I do bench presses but have to be careful, many years ago at the age of about 15 I got into some weight lifting with friends. Nothing organized or scientific about it, just tried to see who could lift the most. I tried way too much weight on the bench press and injured my shoulder, it still hurts sometimes.
Your food sounds good, do you have a daily calorie goal or something like one?
How often do you get to the gym?
Floater
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Yes.
Yeah, I always err on the side of caution when lifting because joint injuries don't necessarily ever heal well. Bench press is also, for whatever reason, the most difficult excercise for me when it comes to gaining strength or muscle mass. 3x10 in the leg press with the maximum weights is a cake walk for me, so that's why I'm extremely miffed that I'm such a Mickey Mouse when it comes to bench press.
Thanks, and no. My goal is to eat 5-6 nutritionally balanced meals a day, and that's it.
I go to the gym three times per week and go aqua jogging three times a week (it doubles as cardio and resistance training, and my weekly minimum is 6 weeks of aqua jogging). I have one rest day per week.
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Floater
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Yay the table is all set! I'll take pictures as soon as I figure out how to re-arrange my plants.
As always when I buy something new, I will probably be battling buyer's regret for the next few days until I get accustomed to the change lol. It's nice though to have more room for doing stuff - my old table was too small for pretty much anything except for having coffee with a friend. This one is big enough for working on the computer or drawing. Due to the metal frame it also has an airy feel to it: less cozy than the old one but smarter looking. (The table's surface is the only thing I'm not 100% into, as it's cheap composite wood with a plastic finish, but if I get super fed up with it, I'm sure I could get a new one custom made for relatively cheap.) The old table and chairs are on the balcony now, and frankly they are a much better fit there. They are old and cheap and pretty dingy-looking if I'm honest. The new chairs look absolutely amazing and my living room/sleeping area looks much bigger now.
Meal #4 is layered oats with fruit. Haven't put together tomorrow's breakfast yet. I think I'll take a walk and decompress a bit. I know I sound like a doofus but I, like many autistics, tend to feel very particular about my environment and am sensitive to any changes in it, so it's going to take a while for me to get accustomed to this change in my "den".
As always when I buy something new, I will probably be battling buyer's regret for the next few days until I get accustomed to the change lol. It's nice though to have more room for doing stuff - my old table was too small for pretty much anything except for having coffee with a friend. This one is big enough for working on the computer or drawing. Due to the metal frame it also has an airy feel to it: less cozy than the old one but smarter looking. (The table's surface is the only thing I'm not 100% into, as it's cheap composite wood with a plastic finish, but if I get super fed up with it, I'm sure I could get a new one custom made for relatively cheap.) The old table and chairs are on the balcony now, and frankly they are a much better fit there. They are old and cheap and pretty dingy-looking if I'm honest. The new chairs look absolutely amazing and my living room/sleeping area looks much bigger now.
Meal #4 is layered oats with fruit. Haven't put together tomorrow's breakfast yet. I think I'll take a walk and decompress a bit. I know I sound like a doofus but I, like many autistics, tend to feel very particular about my environment and am sensitive to any changes in it, so it's going to take a while for me to get accustomed to this change in my "den".
Upper body strength is, on average, a big gender divide issue and another thing hormonal transitioning would probably help with. I could imagine it being more of an annoyance because of that.
As someone who holes up in their apartment way too much and has trouble allowing even nice and welcome visitors in... I don't blame you.
Floater
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You intuited correctly. I know I'm being irrational because I'm visibly muscular and already strong for someone AFAB, not an athlete of course but I've been hitting the gym hard for a while and it shows. And then I look at cis guys going at it next to me and my heart drops to my knees lol. There's a silver lining though: many trans guys say that they seem to get leg gains easier than cis guys even after transitioning, I don't know if it has any physiological basis or if it's because some cis guys seem to prioritize upper body workouts and neglect leg days.
I never went for that walk, and rearranged my plants and stuff instead to make the new table feel less imposing. I decided to move Nera's empty tray and her bowls from their old place to the living area and place plants in the cups. Now it's a beautiful memento of her, and I don't need to worry about spilling water on the floor when I tend to my plant babies. My place looks so roomy now that it almost gives me vertigo!
I love Radiohead to the moon and back, and right now I truly feel everything is in it's right place (and as usual, the inner restlessness still won't completely go away, which is why I love this song so much).
I should get to making meal #5: chicken, rice, and salad.
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Floater
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Meal #5: 100g of cottage cheese, 150g of chicken, salad mix, cherry tomatoes, rice.
Tomorrow´s bento breakfast: rye bread with Serrano ham and salad, salad mix, cherry tomatoes, peas + sunflower seeds, 100g of cottage cheese. Kcal-wise probably not enough to fuel a long aqua jogging session but we'll see how tomorrow unfolds. I'll start doing the corrections request to Sex Nurse's statement tomorrow.
Tomorrow´s bento breakfast: rye bread with Serrano ham and salad, salad mix, cherry tomatoes, peas + sunflower seeds, 100g of cottage cheese. Kcal-wise probably not enough to fuel a long aqua jogging session but we'll see how tomorrow unfolds. I'll start doing the corrections request to Sex Nurse's statement tomorrow.
That's lovely. Pics please!
Floater
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Remind me tomorrow! It's getting too dark and my phone cam is a potato
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Hmmm. I showered and brushed my teeth already, but I think I might need to eat something. Gotta run the dishwasher first though, I'm out of clean everything.
EDIT: I have such a bad anxiety attack going on. Climate change, getting old while poor and sick, war, everything . Probably made worse by hunger so I'll take some bread out to thaw.
EDIT2: two rye bread sandwiches with liver pate and parsley.
EDIT3: yeah hunger was the culprit. Feeling tired and a little less anxious.
EDIT: I have such a bad anxiety attack going on. Climate change, getting old while poor and sick, war, everything
. Probably made worse by hunger so I'll take some bread out to thaw.EDIT2: two rye bread sandwiches with liver pate and parsley.
EDIT3: yeah hunger was the culprit. Feeling tired and a little less anxious.
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Floater
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The answer is always PLANTS for me
Just a sec, let me get on my PC so I can upload the pics
Floater
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Casa Floater virtual house tour! I think that the pink hanging pot will move to my other room and I'll hang it from the window, but for now it can stay where it is.
Coffee and breakfast time!
Coffee and breakfast time!
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Me too. Plants are slow pets to me, I am genuinely attached to each one!Thank youI love, love, love my plants
I love that I can hang hooks from the new table and hang my backpack and other stuff on the hooks. I NEED to have things in their right places, I hate mess and "visual noise". And the chairs are soooo comfy, I love them. I think they elevate the Ikea look of the table a bit. And of course the table goes well together with my metal bedframe!