My Plan for the Week (1/26)

Well, howdy do.  Let me take a look at last week's plan and see if I did anything close to success.  Please hold.

(Your hold music)

Ah yes.  Okay, so I was happy I did the meatloaf and chili last week.  We're likely having the meatloaf today for dinner with some mashed potatoes on a slice of Texas toast bread like The Cheesecake Factory used to before they took it away years ago.  RIP Mile High Meatloaf.  I don't feel the need this weekend to do those kind of make ahead meals, I don't think.  We've got another batch of big ass chicken to get rolling in the crockpot.  I need to cut some up though and do them in the skillet because I'm getting tired of the texture of shredded chicken.  I made the food again Saturday.  I spent way more time in the kitchen than I wanted to because I didn't plan ahead.  The Mr was kind enough to paint the attic trim while I worked over yet another batch of caramelized onions.  This time I did them proper and added 4 boiled dates and 1 serving of real bacon bits for a Bacon Date Jam which is legit the best thing you will ever put on a burger.  I used the remaining 85/15 organic ground beef that's been in my fridge for probably 2 years.  Added some Dinosaur BBQ seasoning to it and attempted to make smash burgers but I can never get them thin enough.  I also made some jalapeno cream cheese spread as the condiment to mimic our favorite, the Pungi Burger from Slabtown in Traverse City.  I had so no salt fries I baked up and judging by the eyes rolling back in the head, sinking in his chair and happy cursing, I believe the Mr approved.  We both agreed we were craving chocolate cake.  Problem is, every single grocery store around here has crappy chocolate cake since everything has gone off site and they are drier than the desert.  We decided to try one of those frozen famous dude cakes since it could be fit into our calories and buy a cheap bit of fudge frosting if I didn't like the milk chocolate frosting.  Well, after thawing, one swipe of the frosting and a wee grab of the cake to taste and it told us it was all pure shite.  Into the trash it went, without hesitation.  I was more upset the Mr's time was wasted getting it, dealing with a woman ahead of him in line with 41 items when it clearly said 12 and $11.50.  The can of frosting went down in the pantry to be forgotten about or until I apparently have to bake our own cake.  So he grabbed us cupcakes from the local bakery and while they're not as chocolately as my time of the month demanded, they lightly scratched the itch.  I will likely make more cauliflower rice bowls for a few lunches this week.

Exercise.  That was on point.  Most days I'd do the floor bike in the morning to go toward those NEAT calories and then formal exercise in the afternoon/evening.

You know what wasn't on point?  Me overstretching my calf muscles doing the 'right' thing for them by doing heel drops off the stairs to elongate the muscle.  I have seriously tight calf muscles I have to work on this year and I literally did that twice in a day on Wednesday and by Thursday I was in serious pain.  Add on that we did what are considered beginner workouts like WATP with 2 lb weights and Grow with Jo which did kicks, knee lifts as well the next day and I was a sore hobbling mess.  Those bodyweight exercises I said I needed to do?  Well, I did 3 sets of stair pushups and the next day I could barely brush my hair.  I won't lie, that was humbling on every level.  I wanted to cry.  So if you think lifting my arms overhead to paint was going to happen, sadly I couldn't do it or stand on the ladder.  The Mr came through like a champ to get the ceiling stuff done in the bathroom.  I'm a lucky girl.

Water was, not surprisingly, my weak point again.  I think I only managed to remember the watch trick 1 1/2 days last week.  

Sun 102 oz

Mon 141 oz

Tues 110 oz 

Wed  74 oz

Thurs  101 oz

Fri  129 oz

Monday was the only day I reached my goal.  I'm hoping to do better this week.  I already hit it yesterday so let's go for today too.

This week will hopefully be my body getting used to us doing more muscle involved workouts like last week even though we didn't realize that's what we were doing.  I'll need to keep doing the heel drops but maybe for not as long at first.  Maybe 30 seconds at a time instead of a full minute.  I did walk one of the days in my Lems barefoot shoes and my shins were quite pissy to me Friday because of it.  I had to get The Stick involved as well as the heating pad.  Again, I'm not sure strength training is a great idea when we need to hang wallpaper overhead so I may need to go with the bodyweight stuff again (but like more than just stair pushups.  Throw in some squats and running lunges so I can both work and stretch too.  Clearly my calves are going to fight me every step of the way but they're going to have to fall in line.

As far as weighing in, I'm doing that once a month right now.  I am way too influenced mentally by the numbers on the scale and all of the things I can be proud of will swirl if it doesn't give me the result I seek.  The Mr has been steadily losing weight up to this point so that's good.  I think this is the longest we've gone without a restaurant high cal day in years.  The ground beef I've used for burgers the past two weeks were ones I had to get rid of because with the cholesterol 85/15 is going to have to be cut back to 90/10 if we want beef burgers.  We also like Beyond Burgers and turkey burgers so it won't always be red meat.   I've still got chili in the freezer so we'll see if we want that next weekend or if something strikes our fancy.  I said I might look on copycat restaurant recipe sites and see if I can get ideas on how to healthy them up.

If you have any thoughts toward your health goals for the week, feel free to share!

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