{"id":12663,"date":"2022-11-13T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=12663"},"modified":"2022-11-13T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:53:33","slug":"permission-to-be-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/13\/permission-to-be-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Permission to be boring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another week and I have some words! And maybe some cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scuze the Quest shilling, but I will stand by the fact that these taste better than cheez-it to me!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First of all, folks, this is what progress looks like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Would I like it to go faster? Yes. Am I a little sad that so far this progress is just taking off the weight I gained in Europe? Also, yes. However, I love me some inertia. I’m pretty good at CONTINUING habits, so I’ll take my wins at face value and keep moving on… down? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d like to say a hearty thank you to Snap Kitchen and Factor for keeping my cakehole on the straight and narrow. The subscription service adds one additional factor to pressure me (in a good way) – the meals keep coming whether I eat them or not. So far, it’s kept us from going out quite a few times simply because I will NOT let them expire (and I have only frozen ONE). I mean, it’s also just super convenient and the food is actually really good, so it’s not a hardship or anything, but the weekly food delivery is really helping things along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe it’s not the prettiest food but someone else made me pasta with chicken and broccoli for 500 calories and it tastes AMAZING.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My average calories consumed per day last week was 1554, which seems to be about my limit for calorie deficits while keeping my sanity intact. Most of the Snap\/Factor meals are around 500 calories, so two of those + breakfast is about 1200. I try to skip breakfast every once in a while, if I’m not hungry (intermittent fasting?) and only snack when I absolutely must, but there’s been a few days lately where I just couldn’t THINK on 1200 calories and I kinda have to do that to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, to balance the equation, I need to burn a bit more, which means a few things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Putting on muscle (it burns calories!)<\/li>
  2. More low intensity cardio (10k steps per day)<\/li>
  3. Remembering how to run again<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The last one might be more for my sanity, but I do also love the efficiency of a run for the calories\/minute burn. There’s a tipping point where it just makes me hungrier (thus why I’ve gained weight training for every full marathon I’ve ran), but my modest goal to be able to jog a 5k again by the end of the year shouldn’t cause problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Looking back at my last marathon finish, I *may* weigh less right now than I did then. Heck of a lot more in shape then, but still!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    So, last week I had a few goals. I wanted to run twice, bike or elliptical 3 times, do strength 3 times, and get as close to 10k steps per day as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n