My Plan for the Week (2/9)

Hello there, sassy Sunday people.  I will update last week's plan and tell you, it was rough.  Not a single strength session in sight, water suffered, sleep was pure crap, a funeral to attend and emotional turmoil at the Mr's job that seems to have no end in sight.  

Despite those things, ways in which I would tell myself I failed in the past, I find the small victories.  We still got in a workout every day and never considered skipping even if it wasn't the ones we hoped we'd do.  We didn't give in to the 'eff it' monster and get dinner out even though a few nights cooking was the last thing I wanted to do.  After doing some diligent planning, my calories averaged out to where the TDEE calculator said I needed to be after factoring in last weekend's high cal day, for what that's worth.  I got in some of the lymph work I wanted to including one or two vagus nerve sessions.

Here were our workouts.

Sun- Walk (5300 steps)

Mon- bike/ walk (11,700k)

Tues- bike/ walk (12,500k)

Wed- bike/ walk (11,500k)

Thurs- walk/ bike (10k)

Fri- bike/ walk (11k)

I had to back off of the barefoot thing.  It was crippling me because obviously I go full steam into everything and after seeing it can take 1-2 years to properly transition.  I can still use them for strength training and formal workouts downstairs.   I will need to make foot strength and digging out these damn calves my priority.  Then I can work on transitioning.  

Woof.

This week, I didn't buy any Healthy Choice for lunches, which usually comprises 3 lunches per week.  So I took some of our favorites to see how I could make a similar version.  The turkey lasagna bowl, I precooked some ground turkey breast and spread that between 6 bowls, with 1.5 oz chickpea pasta and 1/4 cup Silver Palate low sodium marinara and a bit of leftover zucchini.  That should bump up our protein by a few grams and reduce our sodium by about 350mg which is a big win.  I bought some flour tortillas with the intent of making burritos to replace the Evol ones we dropped but I still need to figure out the portions on that one.  While the Mr was installing flooring, I got the rice together to assemble them yesterday.  I have the dry mix together for pumpkin muffins so I need to make those and then figure out where the heck they're going because the freezer is full.  I bought a big thing of chicken for the crockpot again and I know turkey meatloaf has to come into play too but that might be next week.  I made strata to get rid of the frozen half loaf of Dave's Raisin bread I had in the fridge. 

I would like to get the strength back on track since we have the bathroom flooring wrapped up. (MAJOR PROPS to the Mr, he did that all on his own.  I helped with uninstalling and reinstalling the shitter, does that count?)  

I want to continue the lymph/vagus nerve work as well.

I know I need to do better on the water so I might need to get the watch alarm involved.  I already did better Friday on my own but I can't count on that to carry through into this week.  I couldn't do as good yesterday because we didn't have a working toilet.  

Oh yeah, our 🎄 is still up.  Yep.  Absolute record for us and I think I'm ready to gain some space back.  We'll see it all again in 9 months and the Mr brought up the ornament bin for me so I'll get to work on that.

Any heath goals for the week for you?

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