Well, look at this. You’re almost halfway through the challenge! Hopefully your habits have improved and you’re starting to see improvements in your fitness, however you’re measuring that. For those scoffers ne’erdowells friendly Glibs who have been GlibFit skeptics, now is the perfect time to hop on the bandwagon! All the glory with 40% less work!
We’ve finished up all the Girl Scout cookies in our house, so that temptation is gone.
Now is the time when eating fruits and vegetables pays off.
As for me, this week has been a maintain week. I’ve had some good days and some bad days, but the weight hasn’t gone anywhere. I probably didn’t hit my low carb goal, and was 1 day short on my physical activity goal. Next week is gonna suck worse because I get new job responsibilities starting Monday.
Pro-tip: when you type “sesame street exercise gif” into DuckDuckGo with the search filter off (because that’s how you find the funny ones), you get about 80% Q-bait like this:
As a feltosexual, you fleshy humans are horrifyingly disgusting to me, but for some reason you arouse one another with your bouncing and jiggling.
Oh great, another post about sala……*looks at the bottom of the article*….wow……what were we talking about?
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Inanimate objects with faces freak me the fuck out.
what do you do when the cashier tries to hand you change?
I meet very few “vegetable cashiers” actually, and I usually try and engage them during the checkout process, but I guess when I meet a true vegetable, I tend to zone out too. It must be like watching a cut scene from Metropolis.
I may be wrong, but I think he means the faces on the money
OOOh. Those are representations of people on the money. Not as awful.
It’s those fucking wall clocks of the sun with an evil, leering phizzogs trying to look benign and harmless. Or the Teletubbies sun.
I don’t get why everything made to entertain children is so horrifying to look upon with adult eyes.
YOU LEAVE STEPHANIE ALONE!
She’s an amaranth-attired autocrat.
Peripherally relevant, I’m not into Superhero-type comics, but I like this one.
Note how scary the bottom panel looks.
It’s like that twilight zone episode, but with vegetables!!
After having to forgo lifting for a week or two to let an injury heal, should I resume at a lower weight than when I stopped?
I would, then build up to it.
Consider fewer reps too.
Depends on the injury?
Yeah. The first time I went all out on lifting weights, I was sore as hell for a week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXO-YSBWAAAEM4z.jpg:large
Beyond fucking parody at this point. Russia fever dreams are inevitably lead to war and these dingbats don’t even know anything about what’s going on in the world. The stupid can always be lead to endorse war
I am not making progress on my weight goal, but I have worked out in some form six days a week for the last two weeks, and at least 4 times a week for four weeks. Every time I try to cut carbs down below about 100g/day I get seriously fucking grumpy. And not just from the alcohol withdrawal. How long does that last? Please don’t say “forever”.
Sounds like you need to adapt to the new blood chemistry. A few weeks if you don’t cheat.
Do a minute or 3 of intense cardio (anything that gets your heart rate up to 90% of 220 beats minus your age) then switch to something that’s 70% your max heart rate for 20 to 30 minutes.
Weight is just a number. Your goal should be to reduce fat and increase strength and endurance.
Brett – 100 g/day of carbs is right bout the worst number you could stick to. Most people go into ketosis at 20 to 50 carbs a day. When they do that, their brain (and the rest of their body) uses ketonse for energy. You aren’t getting low enough, so you remain on glucose for energy, and you are starving yourself of that. Please consider going to 20g a day for 7 days (ketosis takes 3 days to get started and 7 days to really get into ketosis, for most people), or please eat many more carbs than that.
Sigh… I would be doing better if I didn’t have yet another work trip already planned. New job is flying me out to Memphis for a week to meet my new bosses and such. I’m more annoyed that there are no direct flights between Cleveland and Memphis.
You could do Tabata exercises (20 seconds of extreme intensity exercise, 10 seconds of rest, repeated for 8 cycles). I usually do these with squats, flutter kicks, or shadowboxing.
The key is to reach maximum speed and intensity for those exercises (while remembering good form, of course). Don’t hold back; just go all out, balls-to-the-wall intense. It only takes four minutes, but a Tabata circuit will kick your ass and give you a great workout if done properly.
EDIT: The reason I mention this is because you could easily do them in your hotel room before you shower and head off to your meetings. No equipment required (although if you hold a heavy object while squatting, it makes it much more intense.)
That sounds like an excellent way to injure yourself.
At least this trip I’m on my own, so hopefully I won’t be dragged out to dinner every night. If that’s the case, I can at least get some time in at the hotel gym. I’ll also have the extra hour in the morning to hit the bike as well (this is why Eastern time is superior).
Down 3.4 lbs. since last week, for 29% of GlibFit goal and 20%of overall goal. I’m pretty sure my big spike up last week was mostly water.
I already beat my first goal…but have now plateaued….damn it!
About to head to the gym for the fourth time this week. Feeling noticeably stronger, and Mrs Gordilocks says I look skinnier, even though the scale says no. I’m assuming that muscle weight is replacing fat weight.
I continue to struggle with giving up beer, even though the rest of my diet is pretty healthy and very vegetable/nut/oil heavy and low in carbs.
Nice! My wife is a better judge of how much I’ve changed than I am.
Also, it must be said, going to the gym this often is producing so much real life eye candy that Q is going to have to increase the quality level of his daily posting to continue holding my attention.
Seriously, the gym is a gold mine of hot girls in yoga pants and otherwise tight outfits, if you ignore everyone else.
/totally not creeping
I’m still trying to find a Starting Strength type coach near me to get me started, somehow.
On the upside, they have an internet based coaching program. On the downside, it’s internet-based and it’s not cheap.
Eye candy. I usually run early in the morning and am back home by just after dawn. The last couple weekends, I’ve been going to the beach jogging path around noon. Lots of hotties in yoga pants, tights. Very nice. Also, beach volleyball camps.
I’ll be in my bunk.
As Gordy said, reason enough to go to the gym.
http://archive.is/qHd1U
4,6,7,13,18,21,22,28
They can spot my bench presses anytime.
Abs, abs, abs. Definitely would.
There is only so much health in the world! You’re all stealing health from someone else just so you can be healthy!
Muscle inequality is the defining challenge of our time.
today I larfed
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Sedgwick lived his entire life in New England. He married Mary Katrine Rice of New Haven, CT on December 29, 1881. They had no children.
Sedgwick was a supporter of many causes that furthered the betterment of the public and he volunteered his time for numerous charitable institutions including his position of curator of the Lowell Institute beginning in 1897.[14] However, he opposed women’s suffrage and anything that smacked of equality of the sexes. In a long article in the New York Times, Sedgwick stated his views plainly. He believed that women’s suffrage and feminism “…would mean a degeneration and degradation of human fibre which would turn back the hands of time a thousand years.”
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The name of that article: Feminist Revolutionary Principle is Biological Bosh
[Muttley laugh]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thompson_Sedgwick
from his infamous article
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It is a fact that in the human embryo in its very earliest stages no sex characteristics are discoverable. But after a period still early in a normal development, sex begins to become manifest, and thenceforward differentiation is continuous on the birth, and from this to puberty, and death from old age. In this, however, as in all of nature’s vast operations, there are mistakes made–departures from the normal, developments where the sex characteristics are not as sharply defined as they should be. Hence we have masculine women and feminine men.
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It is not surprising that it seems to be these very masculine women, these mistakes of nature, aided and abetted by their counterparts, the feminine men, who are largely responsible for the feminist movement. Nor is it surprising that ‘they recognize’ as W. L. George puts it, ‘no masculine or feminine “spheres,” and that they propose to identify absolutely the conditions of the sexes.
But what is surprising, or at least unfortunate, is that these ‘half women’ should achieve a certain leadership over many normal women, women who have all the instinctive, ineradicable feelings of wifehood and motherhood; that these ‘half-women’ should be guides in what, if it is carried to its logical termination, will be the greatest revolution the human race has yet seen.
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In saying this, I am not giving even theoretical assent to the hideous dream that W. L. George has of that future day when the feminist programme is to be finally achieved. In his forecast, he pictures, as The Times graphically expressed it editorially, ‘the total destruction of wifehood and the home, of the transformation of man, created in the image of his Maker, to the domestic status of the new tomcat, of the dominance in a new society of the unmarried mother’–in short, universal polygamy. A generation ago this sort of doctrine was anathematized as ‘free love.’ Today it is being popularized as ‘feminism.’ But the leopard has not changed his spots. “If the feminists are allowed free sway, there will be a total destruction of wifehood and the home, a total destruction of all the tender relations and associations that home involves, but there will never be a relegation of man to a subservient position, there never will be a society in which women will rule men. Granting that they have no other superior quality, men possess the dominating brute strength, and in the last analysis government rests on force. Argument on this point is superfluous; in what-ever age of the world’s history, to whatever form of society we look, there is abundant evidence of this”
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But W. L. George says that the feminists ‘have no use for knightliness and chivalry.’ Let the so-called ‘advanced’ but really retrogressive women carry on their crusade for a generation or two more; let men meet women as competitors for ‘economic independence’ and in the hard fight of wringing a living from the world; let men meet women in the fierce struggle of political life; let the screeching rowdyism of the militant suffragettes go on and grow worse; but above all, let the feminists programme of greater sex liberty for women, with its demolition of wifehood and the home, be carried through; then will women indeed find that the knightliness and chivalry of gentlemen have vanished, and in their stead will arise a rough male power that will place women where it chooses. With all sense of chivalry, of tenderness, of veneration gone, and nothing but fleshly desire left, the status to which that masculine strength may relegate woman will be a subjection in fact, and not merely in theory. There is no dodging this hard, cold fact: man possesses always the brute strength: strip him of his chivalry, his tenderness, and his respect for womanhood, and you leave naked, unfettered, and unashamed his more brutal appetites toward woman
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I would hazard a guess that fitter than a fiddle, as an expression, is a nod to the tightness of a tuned fiddle, or the amount work that a well used fiddle gets.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/40250.html
It’s a very old idiom. ‘Fitness’ back a couple of centuries ago was a statement of suitability and appropriateness, more than physical state. FWIR, the idiom’s survival is more an issue of the alliteration than of having some specific meaning.
I felt like shit this week, but still got to the gym 4 times. I’m below 50 g carbs and feeling it, but I am definitely leaning out. Not drinking sucks, but it sure helps.
Good job hitting the gym even when you didn’t want to!
GentleGlibs and Lady Glibs (why am I addressing imaginary people), this week I reached one of my two health goals – I had a bariactic center tell me “No, you don’t need surgery.” That was pretty great. The habits that I’ve undertaken are those that successful self-manage weight loss requires – journalist, being numerate, having a support network, etc.
Since December 1, I have lost 70 lbs. 1800 cal a day, 20 carbs a day. 135 protein a day. (cheat days once a month allow high carbs, not high cals).
My blood pressure is “well controlled”, with a rolling average of 180/84 or so. I have an appointment with my PCP to reduce my BP meds.
I am half way through starting strength, and will begin lifting in a week.
I feel like a million bucks today, I don’t mind saying.
Leap, that makes my day! You’re a beast.
I think you’ll dig lifting. It feels good to get strong. Form over everything and you will be able to progress for long time.
Congrats and good luck!
Congratulations – I love it when a plan comes together!
Awesome! That’s amazing progress.
That’s great. It’s amazing what you can do with discipline and persistence.
I am an unofficial participant, or fellow traveler as you like.
After Sunday, I will have completed four weeks of 20g or less of carbs, as little sugar as possible – all I drink is water – and after two weeks I incorporated a kettlebell routine. I’m not stepping on a scale until April 1st (appropriately?), and I will consider it a success if I am under 310 by then. Seriously, I was stuffing my face with anything that wasn’t bolted down for the better part of the past year and I estimate I probably got up to around 330-340 at my worst.
I can tell you that I’m feeling much better. Clothes already fit better – long way to go still – I’m sleeping better, it’s great so far. I will pipe up with occasional updates up until the end of 20 weeks.
Now, I don’t know if this is recommended, but I am giving myself one free day a week. I’m not snacking all day or anything, but at mealtimes I eat whatever I want, including Dr. Pepper. I don’t want to give up junk food entirely, but I figure one day a week only at mealtimes shouldn’t set me back too much. Plus, I love having that day to look forward to – fires up my motivation to continue.
I think the cheat day works for a lot of people. If you are hitting your goals, go for it. Otherwise, lose it. You may find that as you get in better shape, you won’t want to cheat as often.
Overall, great news!
I think the cheat day is the same principle as Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball – my understanding is that the math is in your favor if you pay off your bigger debts first, but people stay energized and motivated by paying off the smallest ones first.
That’s great!
If you are doing weight training, the scale is no longer the best way to measure your progress. The mirror and clothing or a set of body measurements with tailors tape is better.
If you are having trouble with cheat days, consider cheat meals. You’ll probably consume fewer calories and, at least for me, they work just as well.
Good week! Stretched 4 days and did longer walks with dog. My foot is still recovering so we did lots of hills. That way, I could walk slowly enough to avoid irritating my foot and still get my heart rate up. Just came back from a walk with the dog and the last hill was easier than Monday. Progress!
My bar and first plates should be delivered by tuesday. Decided to go with the Rogue Ohio Power bar. Won’t have a bench or rack for some time. I thought I could do push ups instead of bench presses and clean the bar off the floor for squats and such while the weight is light.
I may have to force myself to start eating more. Maintaining just below 170 lbs and I’m about 6’2″.
If you find yourself limited in your squat weight by how much you can power clean from the floor, consider doing Zercher squats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpy4ADmlo1E
Interesting, but I’m mostly looking to work on form (for the back squat; et al) and ease into working out 3 x a weak. Basically forming the habit before I start adding weight.
This wasn’t a good week beyond sticking to my limits on drinking. It was doughnut day at the office, and since it is a new month, I can have a doughnut, which I did. I have not been good about going to the gym this week. I think I might be getting sick. We’ll see if it is the storm fucking up my sinuses or if I am actually getting sick. I did not weight myself today so I don’t know if I’ve made any weight loss progress.
This is running “pre-season” (a week of very moderate work to loosen the rust and stretch the legs) : three training 5Ks at 15K pace (8:00/mile). Next week we get down to business…