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Post by M@ on Sept 5, 2020 11:35:19 GMT
Weight: 300.7 lbs
No trace of gout this morning, but the scale weight is annoying. We had salty burgers and fries from Burger 21 last night, so I'm not shocked at the increase. We're at the point where we don't want to buy any groceries because we'll be gone for two weeks, so it'll be another day of takeout before we can get the beach house loaded with groceries.
I've actually got some packing done and have a bunch to do today. That's going to be my workout. Getting the cargo box out of the garage and mounted on the car is practically a strongman event anyway. My last step before leaving is always to shower and change clothes because I get wrecked loading the car. Sara's taking the kids in her car and is going to pick up her mother for the trip. I follow with all the stuff.
The Bay Bridge looks A-OK at the moment and it looks like it'll be a nice day for traveling. We spend all year looking forward to this day and it's here. Woohoo!
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Post by seltzer on Sept 5, 2020 16:05:21 GMT
Sodium does a number on me also.
Have a great trip!
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Post by macdiver on Sept 5, 2020 23:35:59 GMT
Have a great vacation.
If you see someone running through town barefoot, yell hello, it is probably me. We are here until tuesday and will be back down thursday night.
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Post by M@ on Sept 25, 2020 19:45:55 GMT
We did! If you see someone running through town barefoot, yell hello, it is probably me. I did keep an eye out for anybody running but didn't see anyone who looked like you. Sorry the COVID thing was in effect this year. I'd like to meet you in person the next time we're down and the pandemic is under control. Weight: 298.5 lbsMy weight is actually up from where it was (297.0) when we returned from the beach on Saturday. I'm assuming it's due to the feast I had on my birthday Tuesday evening. I'm surprised that I didn't gain a ton of weight while I was on vacation; surprised and pleased. I've been settling back in to the home routine. It feels good to be back. The vacation is always a wonderful time, but by the second Friday, everyone is pretty much ready to be back in their own space. I played three rounds of golf in Delaware and one at Raspberry Falls in VA on Wednesday. I played well and had a blast all four times. Sara and I went out to dinner for our anniversary, for breakfast the second Saturday we were in Rehoboth, and at a nice restaurant nearby on Tuesday. We used the outdoor seating at all three locations. It was really odd being in a house full of people. There was a lot of coming and going. Lots individuals taking trips to the golf course, outlets, avenue, restaurants, etc. and then coming back to the common living area. It creeped me out immediately. I don't think any of us got sick. Alex started vomiting the second Monday we were there and had a light fever for three days. I think it was bacterial, but I'm still a bit nervous. It's been over ten days now, though and nobody else has shown any symptoms. I did UBP yesterday and am sore in the chest and back. I absolutely crushed my leg workout today and felt stronger than the last time I did it more than four weeks ago. I'm pretty sure the rest did me good.
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Post by M@ on Sept 26, 2020 17:25:08 GMT
Weight: 296.2 lbsIt seems like I only lost a little bit of strength in the big compound exercises, but it's really noticeable with the isolation work. Shoulders, calfs, and arms (upper and lower) were all gassed pretty quickly in today's workout. I'm continuing to shed water weight and I'm back to tracking my daily caloric intake in LoseIt. The last of the birthday cake is gone, which should help lower the daily calories too.
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Post by M@ on Sept 27, 2020 17:03:32 GMT
Weight: 295.1 lbsMy entire body is really fucking sore. That's about it. New profile photo from the beach. I'm really heavy, but every time I've been fat before, I've been skinny fat. Skinny shoulders and legs with a big belly. I seem to have added some significant muscle mass. I look like just a goddamned big guy from all the photos from the trip. The site has started serving me ads from DHGate, which seems to be your source for both lingerie and fake guitars. The acoustic guitar in the photo is supposed to be a Taylor Koa wood custom. Retail for that guitar is about $9500. DHGate is selling it for $488. Even the photos look like a fake knockoff piece of crap. I doubt it's worth $100.
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Post by M@ on Sept 28, 2020 21:01:58 GMT
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Post by M@ on Sept 29, 2020 16:53:01 GMT
Weight: 295.9 lbs
I got to the range ahead of the rain and hit through a large bucket of balls for my day's activity. I'm still sore from weight training, but it's abating.
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Post by Graham on Sept 29, 2020 18:55:24 GMT
Damn, you put in a link in and I've lost half an hour too.
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Post by Graham on Sept 29, 2020 19:00:56 GMT
The site has started serving me ads from DHGate, which seems to be your source for both lingerie and fake guitars. The acoustic guitar in the photo is supposed to be a Taylor Koa wood custom. Retail for that guitar is about $9500. DHGate is selling it for $488. Even the photos look like a fake knockoff piece of crap. I doubt it's worth $100. View AttachmentWell, at least there's the lingerie! I tend to view this site on my desktop computer with the Chrome Browser and get served very few ads. Get more, again on Chrome, on my mobile.
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Post by M@ on Oct 1, 2020 18:55:14 GMT
Damn, you put in a link in and I've lost half an hour too. It's a time waster, but it's a feel-good time waster. Well, at least there's the lingerie! Yeah, I kind of buried the lead there. I'd be lying if I said I followed the link because of the guitars. Weight: 299.1 lbsI had an appointment to get two fillings done at Noon, so I knocked out all of my workout stuff early and tried to get two meals in before I went numb. That accomplished, I just had the worst dentist experience of my adult life. They had to numb me four times. By the third, I was shaking and sweat was pouring from the palms of my hands. It's not that the pain was so intense, it was the strain and anxiety that the Novocain wasn't going to be enough each time after the first. The dentist finally said, "Give me the hammer." to her assistant and absolutely voided the offending teeth. From that point forward, I fell asleep in the chair a couple of times while they were working. I just can't shake the feeling that these were borderline cavities at best and that they did the work because they're hurting for revenue. I just fired my old dentist (who I consider responsible for two unnecessary crowns and more than $5K of out of pocket expenses) and started going to this one because she was listed as one of the regions top dentist. The lady who did the work today was not that dentist and the receipt is for a completely different name than the one printed on the door. I don't know if this doctor sold her business or what. I'm stressed and angry. At least I got the workout in ahead of time.
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Post by Graham on Oct 1, 2020 19:26:34 GMT
That accomplished, I just had the worst dentist experience of my adult life. They had to numb me four times. By the third, I was shaking and sweat was pouring from the palms of my hands. It's not that the pain was so intense, it was the strain and anxiety that the Novocain wasn't going to be enough each time after the first. There must be some people who need those extra shots to numb them. I always seem to need a few extra shots to numb me. It seems to work slowly for me although in the end I'm so numb that I usually feel somewhat nauseous. When you're not numb enough and you get that sharp/cold feeling when they start drilling. That's no good.
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Post by M@ on Oct 2, 2020 18:44:14 GMT
When you're not numb enough and you get that sharp/cold feeling when they start drilling. That's no good. Until about two years ago, I didn't realize that you weren't supposed to feel anything at all. I thought a dull pain was OK and I'd just brace against it. When my dentist realized I wasn't all the way numb, she was mortified. Going completely numb made a world of difference and my pain threshold for dental work is completely gone now. Weight: 297.7 lbsJust had a great leg workout after a morning full of pointless, frustrating meetings. One of my coworkers - who has been the project manager on the IT Service Catalog project for more than a year - was astonished when I showed her some examples of a working IT Service Catalog. She tried to save face by saying that her project was specific to ServiceNow, so I showed her ServiceNow's IT Service Catalog offering. It was, of course, the first time she'd seen it. Later, another coworker called a meeting, arrived late, then basically tried to foist her work off onto the rest of us on the call. My other colleagues were much more diplomatic about telling her to pound sand than I was. I don't know why my frustration level with them is so high. It's not like I'm stressed out about anything at work: It's the end of the fiscal year and my only major priorities are the long-term project I've been working on and end-of-year training. My in-laws are getting rid of a bunch of furniture as they downsize from a 3500 sqft house to an 1100 sqft condo. We're inheriting their massive leather sofa and some other big items, which I'll be going to their house to help move tomorrow morning. I think I'm going to count that as my exercise for the day since we're also going to be taking a bunch of stuff over to my brother & sister in-law's.
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Post by M@ on Oct 5, 2020 15:13:48 GMT
Weight: 294.7 lbsMoving furniture on Saturday turned out to be more than five hours of heavy, steady work. I was completely gassed by the end of it, but kept going and sorted out everything that we had brought home. I slept like the dead that night. Yesterday was more low-key and I tried to accomplish some more household chores but didn't get much done. Upper-body workout was fine, but tiring. One problem that I ran into on Saturday was endurance. I would have to rest for a minute or two after moving each large piece of furniture just to get my wind back. Part of it came from having to wear a thick cloth mask, but most of it is a failure of my cardiovascular endurance. I think I'm in pretty good shape for a 300 lb, 46 year old guy, but my endurance is in the toilet. I've decided to cut back weight training to only three days a week and do more challenging cardio work (i.e. not just going to the driving range) for the other four. I'm essentially going to cherry-pick the best bang-for-my-buck exercises from the six day program and do the same muscle groups (upper | lower & abs | arms/calves), but only once per week as opposed to the PHUL approach. The cardio should help fat loss, too. I've been having some trouble with my CPAP machine where it would ramp up the pressure in the middle of the night. It's normally set for 10, but would go up to 15-17 in the middle of the night. That pressure level could probably inflate a moderately-sized bouncy house and there's no way to keep the mask on my face. I would wake up suffocating with the mask blowing itself off of my mouth and nose. After some troubleshooting, I replaced the main and secondary filters and haven't had the problem since. The main filter was really, really clogged. I don't think I've ever replaced it since getting the machine. As I can get two main filters and six secondary filters for $11 on Amazon, I won't run into that problem again. I was really, really frustrated yesterday. Parenting sucks up so much time. The only way I was able to accomplish anything at all on Saturday was because Sara did 100% of the work with the kids. She tried to help a couple of times, but Lily was in a mood where she would immediately start bawling if Sara got out of her direct line of sight. My house is a disorganized mess, my yard/lawn is worse, there are a thousand things that need to be done around here and I cannot even get the time to do one of them, nor can I afford to pay anyone else to do them. I took the kids to my folks' yesterday for three hours of babysitting. In that time I managed to go over some budget stuff with Sara and almost empty a small three-drawer rolling Steelcase file that I wanted to move upstairs. I wound up having to spend the little remaining free time I had re-assembling the file before going back to my parents' to pick up the kids. I need to learn how to not care about that stuff because it seems almost impossible to actually accomplish it while parenting.
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Post by seltzer on Oct 7, 2020 20:53:06 GMT
I wish I had some sage advice for you, but I don't other than to write that, yes, parenting takes a huge amount of time and often tasks that would ordinarily be done need to be subordinated and done with a different timeline. Don't drive yourself nuts, things will get done, just not at the pace you're accustomed to. And one day your home won't be filled with lots of primary colored objects, which I'm confident it is now.
What type of cardio are you thinking of doing?
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