Cory's Quest for a Healthier Life

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Just a quick update today. I've been exhausted all day today, which means my lifting took longer. Generally I can get through my routine in about an hour, but it took closer to an hour and a half. Then traffic was bad on the way home and I had to make an extra stop. Consequently, I got home about an hour later than I intended. I know it's an excuse, but I did not feel like I could face cooking dinner at that point so I got some tacos. This put me higher than I intended on my calories because earlier in the day someone had also given me a doughnut. I'm still at a deficit, but it feels a little demoralizing in conjunction with being so tired.

Breakfast - breakfast burrito - 380 calories
Lunch - ham and beans with grapes - 464 calories
Dinner - tacos with tortilla chips - 961 calories
Snack - doughnut and cashew milk - 280 calories
Total - 2085 calories

My lifting was as follows:
Deadlifts:
115 lbs for 5
130 lbs for 5
150 lbs for 5

Overhead Press:
60 lbs for 5
65 lbs for 5
75 lbs for 5

Plus assistance work.
 
Keeping a deficit - even if it´s a slight one - on a hard day, when you´re tired and it´s late... that´s HARD and I applaud you for it. That´s the kind of mindset that will get you to your goal. I hope by the time you wake up you´ll see that and be remoralized :)
 
Alrighty guys, I'm back AGAIN. I'm not sure why it never sticks that I do so much better when I post here regularly. :p

Me coming back isn't so much a new year's resolution. It's more of me realizing that I literally haven't lost weight since I last posted here 8 months ago. On the contrary, I've gained back 20 lbs. I'm still 30 lbs down from my highest weight, but seeing what my weight is now was kind of a shock. I DO NOT want to let this go until I'm back up to 280. I've actually been pretty consistent with exercise in all that time, but my eating has been kind of out of control.

So, just a quick run down of what's changed for me in the last 8 months:
-closed on a house yesterday and will shortly begin moving
-brother and his long time girlfriend have moved close to me and I now have family closer than 4 hours away (super happy about this one!!!!!)
-immortal farmer grandpa has been hospitalized (maybe not so immortal?)
-I'm transitioning into a new position at work
-my favorite zumba instructor from the place that closed in 2016 started teaching a class at a new place after taking a year hiatus

Man, it's been kind of a busy 8 months. A lot of stressful things have happened, even if they are ultimately positive. Have to tell you, I'm really excited to move into my new house. The commute to work will be a little longer than currently, but it's farther out of town and I might have opportunities to start hiking and riding horses again. Anyone who has followed me for a while will know how much I've missed that over the last couple years since I moved away from home to a larger city for work.

I'll probably check in later to give an update on what I've eaten today and what exercise I've done. I'm really glad to be back and am looking forward to catching up with some old friends and possibly meeting some new folks.
 
Welcome back, Cory! Congratulations on the house and your brother moving closer and well-wishes for your grandfather.
 
Oh, welcome back Cory! Congrats on the new house out of town. I know how much you love horseriding. You'll get yourself organised into doing that in no time. All the best with your grandad hon. It's lovely having you back xoxo
 
Thanks for the welcome back guys!

Man, today has been stressful. I went to the house today to get the pipes insulated because they're bare right now and it's supposed to get COLD tonight. Not the most fun job in the world. I basically wound up rolling around in fiberglass for an hour so I am very itchy tonight. At least I can sleep feeling like this huge investment I just made probably won't have burst pipes in the morning. Then I called my landlord to let her know I had purchased the house and would be moving at the end of February, which is when my lease was originally scheduled to end. The conversation did not go AT ALL how I had expected. They were surprised that I wasn't going to renew even though the whole reason I decided to buy in the first place was because they told me they were selling the place after my lease was up. I thought I would have to be out either way, but apparently some time in the last few months it seems like their plans might have changed? I don't know. I've also started sorting and packing a few things even though I have like 7 weeks before I need to be out. I just hate to leave it sitting undone. I'm hoping the next few days will be more fitness and diet related, but I kind of wanted to talk about this today because it really raised my anxiety level and I tend to want to binge eat when that happens. I have resisted, so I feel pretty good in that regard!

I wound up eating leftover food from various restaurants today. I estimate I probably had around 2,000 calories, but I have no way to be sure. No exercise today, but I don't feel too bad about that.
 
-Cory- said:
They were surprised that I wasn't going to renew even though the whole reason I decided to buy in the first place was because they told me they were selling the place after my lease was up. I thought I would have to be out either way, but apparently some time in the last few months it seems like their plans might have changed?
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Isn´t it fun when people change plans without telling you and assume you know anyway?
-Cory- said:
No exercise today, but I don't feel too bad about that.
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Rolling around in fiberglass for an hour sounds like exercise to me :)
 
Stan: Thanks! It's good to be back.
Cate: It's probably the thing I struggle with the most.
Lama: Didn't feel like exercise. It mostly just felt itchy! :p

Today was a good day. I skipped the gym again, but I go SO MUCH done around the house today. Over the last few days, I've been doing a lot of self evaluation about why I haven't really lost weight in 6+ months and determined that while I've been paying lip service by logging food and going to the gym consistently, there are some ways I've been setting myself up for failure. A lot of it has to do with how my habits impact my anxiety (which I've mentioned can make me very prone to making bad choices with food). I realized that when I was losing weight consistently, I was pretty religious about decluttering my house once a week. Don't get me wrong, I keep it clean all the time but I've gotten in the bad habit of leaving stuff out everywhere. Sitting in that kind of environment stresses me out. Consequently, I spent all of today getting my house in order. I won't say I got everything done, but it is so much better.

I realized a couple other things during this self critique as well. I have gotten SO BAD about staying up until 3 or 4 am, getting up at 7 or 8, and then wondering why I feel like shit. It's a mystery, right? This is another thing that has impacted my anxiety. Getting a solid 7 hours of sleep really helps me manage it. I was consistently getting that much when I was losing weight. Add to this that I have radically increased my caffeine intake to compensate for the lack of sleep and it kind of makes sense to me why my calorie tracker shows so many days in the red and why my anxiety has been OUT OF CONTROL the last few months. So.....in addition to reinstating my decluttering rule, I also now have a midnight bedtime and will be trying to reduce my caffeine consumption.

Food today was good:
Breakfast: Boston brown bread with butter - 271 calories
Lunch: Loaded baked potato with a side of broccoli - 624 calories
Dinner: Fettuccini alfredo with roasted vegetables - 715
Snack: Peach tea popsicle - 50 calories
Total: 1660 calories

Edit: Forgot to post that I weighed today and came out to 248. Must be water because I haven't been eating bad enough to have gained 3 lbs since last week. Also, day 1 of no soda!
 
Decluttering is incredibly important to me too Cory. It seems to help reduce my stress too. I don't have any caffeine after midday & learned to love peppermint & spearmint tea. I have a honey & hot lemon drink at night all year 'round. That 3lbs will be water weight hon.
 
Caffeine later in the day dials up my anxiety too. Probably the elevated heart rate that gets misinterpreted by my brain or something. I like your self-assessment and I´m sure the number on the scale will start going in the right direction again from now on.
 
-Cory- said:
I have gotten SO BAD about staying up until 3 or 4 am, getting up at 7 or 8, and then wondering why I feel like shit. It's a mystery, right?
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Somebody call Columbo, we've got a mystery that needs solving here :rofl: jokes aside I think we've all done silly things like this, we just expect to be able to carry on for some reason. Sounds like you're getting your head around the issues :)
 
Cate: I definitely have a stockpile of herbal teas. They've just been sadly ignored the last few months.
Lama: I think it's really important to be honest with yourself if you actually want to succeed at this. A lot of people who fail do so because they aren't being honest in one way or another.
Stan: I go through phases. It's like the first half of the year I'm being a really responsible and good adult, and then the last half of the year tanks. Probably because I get too comfortable and overconfident. :p

I'm a little bit of a grump today. I was so excited to go to my hip-hop class, but wound up not going. I'm sick with a cold. I maybe would have tried to go ahead and go anyways, but we also had bad weather today and the studio cancelled the glass. Between travel, sickness, and closing on the house I haven't been able to be consistent with the gym in two or three weeks. I REALLY want to go. Maybe tomorrow I'll be feeling better and the roads will be clear. Sick of being so sedentary.

Breakfast: Greek yogurt with half a scoop of protein powder and a coffee with milk - 310 calories
Lunch: egg salad sandwich, carrot sticks, pickle chips, red delicious apple - 638 calories
Dinner: beer braised pork loin with cabbage and a baked potato - 686 calories
Total: 1634 calories

Did good with lessening my caffeine intake. I had one coffee and one black tea. I had gotten to the point where it was like one coffee, four teas, and a soda. Speaking of, day 2 of no soda!
 
Good job of no soda! And wow, your lifts are really impressive. I can't even imagine 60 lbs OH press. Maybe by next year I'll be close! :D
 
Well done on the soda! I have to reduce my soda consumption again as well but I don´t like it one bit :(
 
Just going to do a quick update today because I'm not feeling so great. Will catch up on other's diaries tomorrow. Anxiety is high tonight. I went poking around my new house today and found out that a couple of the floor joists have been sistered to fix some rot at the ends. I remember my inspector mentioning that there had been some damage that had been previously repaired, but he didn't get into the details. I'm really fixated on whether or not it was repaired correctly. In all likelihood, it was and I shouldn't worry about it. It has so clearly been fixed and from what I could tell, they did a good job. But we all know that the human brain doesn't work like that and mine in particular is having a hard time letting this go. Not stress eating has been a challenge tonight, but I've managed.

No exercise today because I'm still sick, but I did get my 10,000 steps in at least.

Breakfast: Boston brown bread and butter - 296 calories
Lunch: tuna salad sandwich, carrots, pickle, apple - 641 calories
Dinner: chili - 534 calories
Snack: popsicle - 50 calories
Total: 1521 calories
 
I´m sorry anxiety has been high. Great job not stress eating, though! Best get to the bottom of those repairs asap so you can relax again.
 
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