Little John's trying again. And again. Aaaand again.

I'll post a picture of the table when it's done, and Hank the Tank's reaction - he's a very happy kid, which offsets his sister's on-again-off-again meltdowns nicely.

I did my stretching last night while watching Downton Abbey. Ain't no party like a Crowley party!! (I'm in Season 3, so no spoilers, please!). Felt good, but my quads are a little achy. I'm kind of scared of tonight's workout. I haven't rowed in a couple/few weeks, and HIIT will prove to be quite painful. At least it's something fairly fast-paced so it should be done before I can think about how much it sucks!

Missing my afternoon binges from the holidays, too. I ended up having my planned dinner at 4pm and a salad for actual dinner. I suppose the good news of that is that I was honest about it and didn't feel driven to having a bigger dinner, and I wasn't too hungry afterwards.
 
Oh season 3! I can't believe they went with superpowers and zombies although it does make the season 4 staff mutiny more interesting. Seriously though I did watch it as it was released in the UK so season 4 is done, but I stopped watching before it ended. I need to finish the season before 5 airs, but as it's a slower show with longer episodes I'm usually too sleepy for Downton in the evenings when we watch something. I feel a weekend binge watch coming.

My appetite is still adapting too. The adjustment is the hardest part. Good job taking it easy with dinner!
 
Does anyone in this world NOT like Downton Abbey? Haha. Pretty much everyone I know watches and likes it. I got my mom and sister in law into it. It's a great show it's just amazing how broad a spectrum of people like it.
Getting back on track after a less disciplined time is definitely the hardest part!
 
I did hear they replaced the "actress" who plays Isis for S5.

Mystic, I don't understand the love, it's such a slow-paced show, and to describe it doesn't do it justice "It's a bunch of British aristocrats who wear tuxedos to lunch and the house staff is always scheming something."

Anyway, the lifting portion went well, it was nice to just wail it out and be done, I'll be bumping up the weights, though. The rowing, well, not so good. I was lazy about the setup of the session and did half what I was supposed to do. Additionally annoying is that the machine doesn't allow for 10-second intervals, so I'll change the HIIT to 20s high, 40s medium. I also was a bull out of the gate and definitely saw a drop in my speed.

Food-wise, the withdrawals from junk food isn't going great. It's not horrible, but I came home to freshly baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Sigh... Little John's weakness right there. I was good for everything else, but wow did I hit those puppies. Today's doing pretty good, and I won't have a lot of hang-about time when I get home - into the freezing garage to sand the table (it's supposed to be below zero tonight and very windy, garage has a little bit of heat, but I'll be putting some hand-warmers in my shoes!!).
 
I hate getting myself back on track after the holidays, so I completely feel your pain. Once you get used to more food and a lot of sugar again, it's sucks to have to rebreak that habit. You can do it though!
 
Last couple days went pretty well, I thought. The holiday weight continues to shrink off, though I'm still jonesing for the junk. Going out to lunch today with the intention of focusing on salads and other healthy options.

I'm having a hard time getting into the row groove again - which doesn't make sense since it's only been a 2 or 3 week hiatus, but my ankle is grumpy with me (my right foot naturally points out 45 degrees unless I stretch constantly, so it gets sore on the rowing machine where it's locked straightforward). Not using it as an excuse to quit, but I'm stopping mid-row to tweak and adjust.

Foodwise, other than the aforementioned occasional junkfood attack, I'm back in the swing pretty good. Smart(er) choices and smaller portions, more water, etc.

The table got the first coat of paint last night, with the second (and final) coat going on tonight, and the big reveal tomorrow morning, 2 1/2 weeks after Christmas. Then I can clean up my garage!
 
Table's done! Done done done! Kids loved it, it's the center focus of most play activities now, so I'm happy for that.

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It seems like I'm fighting my depression now, though. I try not to rely on that feeling, but it really wants to drag me down and drives me to eat poorly and feel unmotivated. All weekend was very busy doing family stuff, between the table and the removal of Christmas from the house and installing a huge pink rug in my daughter's room. I felt very exhausted the whole time, and didn't feel driven to exercise - instead, eating junk food. Same with yesterday, I was supposed to stretch, instead I ate some secret Wendy's and still had dinner.

Kind of pissed at myself for that, not a rage, just disappointed. I think today might go better? I'm going to try to make it go better. I have to make it go better - I'm 41 years old, it's not going to get easier when I get older. My wife's father had a heart attack when he was 46, I can't imagine leaving my family in that kind of a mess.

Sorry for the rant, but I don't have a psychologist, so there you go.

Today I'll be making better food choices than yesterday. Certainly not going to stop at Wendy's on the way home! And I'll stretch during lunch to get prepped for tonight's workout. Sigh....
 
That table is legit! It looks very professional, job well done, LJ.

Sorry to hear you aren't in good spirits :-( You're caught in a circle now that's going to keep you down. Rant away, and make sure you're taking time for yourself because you both need and deserve it.
 
The table looks great! Sorry to hear you are feeling depressed. Kill it with exercise. Like get in there and work your ass off! You can do it. It will help. Hang in there LJ!
 
The table came out awesome! I can see why it took a long time to do... Lovely kids, too, and you were saying you never tried to make anything pretty before ;)

Hope the dark clouds lift soon, do you have time to go out during daylight? It´s the only thing that really helps (for me) in winter.
 
That table looks great & your kids look like little sweeties. Sorry to hear you're feeling down Little John. I often feel down after Christmas/New Year when life gets back to "normal". Hope you pick up soon.
 
Thanks folks, I always forget how good of a cure it is to be honest about the blues. I feel like the ship just pulled a 180-degree turn in the last 24 hours. Feeling good last night and in really good spirits this morning. I can always talk to my wife, but she's got a few things happening now (sick and TOM), last thing she needs is her husband in The Cure mode.

Maria, I should get outside during lunch, but the weather's fairly rough right now, plus I work next to an airport so the wind is pretty rough.

Thanks for the praise on the table, too, I'm happy it came out the way it did, I'm even considering creating the plans for it, just for S&Gs, to see if I can sell them on Etsy or something. I have no idea how that works, but I spent a good chunk of time developing the shopping list so I wouldn't have too much waste, and I think that in itself is worth having.

Yesterday's food routine went mostly OK, I came in at "even" for calorie-counting. I couldn't resist the kettle chips with lunch, and got the usual post-lunch sweets that I need to start cutting out again. It's also time for me to look into the challenges, and at least restart the CHaTAM Challenge for myself and any other brave souls.

Exercise went better last night than last Tuesday, but I did the math wrong again and only HIIT rowed for 5 minutes instead of 10. I'm trying to track progress of my paces, so I'm setting up the machine to track the 20 second paces ("high") and 40 second paces ("medium"). It's not challenging to do it, but it's sort of a PITA since it's all menu driven. Once I do it once, though, I have the option to repeat a workout, but I still need to plug it in correctly that one time!
 
That is without a doubt the first time I have seen a guy write 'TOM'. I think it's a real testiment to your character that you're sympathetic to her for that.

I can vouch for your weather not being good for outdoor activities. My friend and I went for a walk at lunch yesterday and it was a real pain to bundle up so much in the middle of the day.

It's weird how our moods can shift so much sooooo quickly, but at least they can turn both ways.
 
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That is without a doubt the first time I have seen a guy write 'TOM'. I think it's a real testiment to your character that you're sympathetic to her for that.
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To be honest, the first time I saw "TOM", it was a woman on the forum here talking about TOM visiting. I assumed it was just some a-hole brother-in-law or a stalker the way she was talking about it. I mentioned in a post something along the lines of "can't you just avoid him?" and got a PM from a fellow (male) member clearing it up for me.

The short version - a lot of men are dumb, but they mean well.
 
That table looks great!
When you are feeling down and fatigued it is so easy to over eat and eat bad things. Though sometimes I get to the point of being so tired and exhausted that I can't fathom even getting up off the couch to go get food, so that can be helpful haha. Hope the feeling passes over soon.
 
Thanks Mystic - unfortunately when you have kids, you really can't cash in on sleeping all the time. They don't care that it's difficult for you to want to do anything, they just want your constant attention.

Anyway, the feeling's gone for now, I need to start identifying the triggers earlier so I can have a good old-fashioned vent earlier rather than later.
 
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