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Howdy do and welcome to the last Friday of May.  😑  Even though it was a short week, it always seems just a tinge longer than the previous week.  I'm getting antsy because I want to see blooms.  When you're growing from seed, it requires a patience I don't naturally have and trying to keep things from getting to everything before it has a chance to.  Then reading about some God awful hornworm that can just come in and decimate your tomato plants overnight.  It makes me wonder at what point do I put up the insect netting over the bucket veggies.  Other than that, not much else going on this week. Let's hop straight into: Does Walking Build Muscle, Burn Fat, or Both ?  (The part about e-scooters is often a discussion as kids on them and e bikes rocket past us in the park or on a sidewalk going 20 mph.  These kids are going to have ZERO muscle.) Eat This, Not That: 12 Powerful Foods That May Help Lower High Cholesterol After 50   (I need...

My Plan for the Week (2/16)



Good Sunday mornin' to you.  I hope you're doing a little something for yourself this weekend.  

Let's review my hits and misses of last week, shall we?

Workouts 

Sun - walk (6000 steps)
Mon- bike/ walk (11,500 steps)
Tues- bike/walk (15,600 steps)
Wed- (bike/walk 14,600 steps)
Thurs- (bike/walk 16k)
Fri- (bike/walk 15,500 steps)






That was like walking/cycling 5 1/2 miles per day average.  As you can see, a lot of anxiety pedaling happening last week.  Again, no strength training. 😐  Between my hand injury and then needing to have a place to lay our panels flat, the workout area was the only thing available.  Sigh.  I guess that's going to have to be an end of month goal.  I'm not even going to stress over it because it is what it is right now. 

Water started out not great but still over 100 ounces per day between water, coffee and tea.  I caught the pattern early in the week.  Wednesday, I drank my upstairs water bottle before I got out of bed which triggered a whole day of peeing like a race horse.  (Where the hell did that saying come from??  Do race horses pee a lot?  Inquiring minds want to know!)  I know it's good for me, I'm getting in extra steps by running up and down but damn man.  So I guess I have to drink my upstairs bottle before I haul out of bed every morning if I want a chance at 64 oz of pure water which I did from Wednesday-Friday.

Lymph work was fair, maybe 3x so room for improvement for sure but I need to start wearing my compression socks on the daily.

My victories?  My steps continue to average over 10k per day and I have to tell myself doing it is better than not regardless of the end result.  I did some good food prep like making pumpkin muffins for snacks.  I also did 6 high protein burritos that turned out decent so we get one a week for lunches.  We'll have enough to last this week and next.  I think next time I would mix all of the ingredients because the chicken tasted dry to me.  No Evol burrito but it'll do for the burrito itch.  I need to find some sites for high protein recipe ideas.  My brain is too fried to come up with it's own right now.  Might be paint fumes.  I also didn't give in to the stress eating monster when new work and money horrors threw me back into childhood child support trauma hard.  

I feel like it wouldn't be wise to throw any new goals on when I clearly haven't mastered my original ones yet.  Otherwise my brain will say "awesome, look at what else you failed at!"  Ahh, nothing like the bully in your head. 😑  

I'd like to do equally good or better on lymph work.  My brain says "say strength training again" but it will only be a bonus if we're able to fit it in.  I'm not committing to it this week.  I do need to get the turkey meatloaf made and should probably whip up more muffins by tomorrow.  I'll need to let the batter sit overnight though since I'm using einkorn flour because the muffins are dry.  Or I'll need to add some banana or buy plain yogurt to add in.  Actually I have a big azz banana waiting to be chucked so banana it is.

Any health goals you're hoping to hit this week?

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  1. My health goal this week is to cut portions back. The last 2 days went well. I bought no crap from the grocery either. Got a 3 mile walk in on my treadmill.

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