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Let me show you how much it sucked.<\/em><\/p>\n And we’ll get to that, but now that today marks 30 days since doing THIS THING<\/a>, it’s time to take baby steps away from being a slothy mc slotherpants.\u00a0 It’s Monday, so it’s time for some goals up in here.\u00a0 However, just like it’s a bad idea to go directly from tallying how many pieces of bread and butter you ate as an appetizer before your appetizer before your second appetizer at dinner (answer: a lot) to eating chicken and quinoa, we’ll be taking some time to get there from here.<\/p>\n Oddly enough (or not so oddly with the three days at the gym and then three days of between 2-4 hours chasing fish with cameras in the water), I seem to have stabilized around the same weight I was at before I left.\u00a0 I think I’ve *finally* figured out how to not gain the 5-7 lbs typical on a cruise.\u00a0 That doesn’t mean I’ve got all the answers to life because I’m still looking at about ~35 lbs I’d like to be rid of, but at least I haven’t doubled that in a week somehow.\u00a0\u00a0 Baby steps.<\/p>\n So, this week looks like kind of a slow start because these were a lot of things I was doing before.\u00a0 At least kind of.\u00a0 But for now, going back from *margaritas the size of my head* to *things that feel like normal healthy life* is plenty enough.\u00a0 This is the week of baby steps.<\/p>\n You thought I was kidding right there. #senorfrogsdrinkingteam<\/em><\/p>\n Movement goals:<\/p>\n Unfuck my poor back.<\/strong>\u00a0 On day #2 of the cruise my back started hurting and you wouldn’t have guessed it, but a bunch of whisky on the rocks as painkiller and traipsing around in heels all night did not help things.\u00a0 Day 3-6 it was out of alignment and SUPER cranky when I was not horizontal (swimming or laying) or actively stretching it.\u00a0 I have a chiropractor appointment today, but since it’s been out for a while, I expect it will not be immediately better and there will be some muscle carnage.\u00a0 The focus of this week is to stretch and roll for 10-15 mins per day, and do anything else she wants me to do to make it happy.<\/p>\n Status quo.<\/strong>\u00a0 In this light, I’m going to lay off the weights and running and anything serious for ONE more week.\u00a0 I plan to ride bikes on Wednesday and maybe once more this weekend and swim as much as I can and MAYBE do some bodyweight stuff or yoga or something fun like playing in the lake later in the week if I feel better.\u00a0 Or none of this if I don’t feel up to it.<\/p>\n 10k+ steps per day.\u00a0<\/strong> Normally on cruises this is no problem at all but for some reason, we walked much less than normal (perhaps the back thing, perhaps our room was more conveniently located, perhaps I took my watch off sometimes when I wanted to look fancy so it didn’t count all my steps).\u00a0 I definitely need to make sure this doesn’t fall off because this is a big part in weight loss when I’m not training as much.\u00a0 Steps matter!<\/p>\n Fun fact –\u00a0 it counts as training if you wear your IM shirt to the pool even if you don’t actually swim laps.<\/em><\/p>\n Consumption Goals:<\/p>\n On the record.<\/strong> I’ve finished my Ironman.\u00a0 I’ve had some downtime where I enjoyed myself a bit.\u00a0 Now, it’s time to get serious about trying to get down to *race weight*.\u00a0 To this end, tracking food each meal when I eat it (not 2 days later) and daily logging on the scale starts TODAY.\u00a0 This week, we’ll start with the goal to eat approximately 500-750 calories less than fitbit says I have burned.\u00a0 If I do better than that, great.<\/p>\n Water water water.\u00a0<\/strong> At least 4×24 oz bottles before I leave work for the day.\u00a0 I’m really bad about this if I don’t pay attention and I think on the cruise I lapsed on this pretty hard.\u00a0 When beer and bottled water cost the same in Mexico….you know what I’m going to choose, right?<\/p>\n Detox… but just a little.<\/strong> Booze must fit into both the parameter above (calorie deficit goals) and below (sleep goals).\u00a0 Let’s not go crazy with any further restrictions.\u00a0 It IS Memorial Day weekend. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Beer 4$.\u00a0 Water 4$.\u00a0 I choose beer.<\/em><\/p>\n Life Goals:<\/p>\n All the shut eye.\u00a0<\/strong> I’m going to say 8+ hours of sleep a night is something I’ll put out there as a priority this week.\u00a0 I’m feeling a bit run down after playing hard on vacation and my own bed felt SO AMAZING last night.\u00a0 So, this week, I make sure I get lots of sleep.<\/p>\n Non-fiction reading.\u00a0<\/strong> While I’m relaxing in bed, I’ve got a few books I’d like to work on getting through (the big yellow Maffetone endurance training book, finally cracking something regarding online marketing and PR, etc).\u00a0 For the next month, I probably need to hold off on reading more “marines in space” books even if they are actual physical paper books and not on my kindle.<\/p>\n The office.<\/strong>\u00a0 I’m not saying we need to finish it, but so many other things hinge on getting this one space cleaned out that I want us to spend no less than *THREE* hours on it this weekend.\u00a0 I would love to be able to move the table that’s been sprawled over the side of the guest bed for a year into there.<\/p>\n The kind of non-fiction reading I *don’t* want to do.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 We’re a joke everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n And while I have so many other things on my list (financial planner! doctor! hiking! comedy club! creating a business plan! book outline!), these are the things I’m willing to tackle this week.\u00a0 Laying out ALL THE THINGS like #projectspring<\/a> last year seems overwhelming and exhausting right now.\u00a0 I’ll focus a little smaller and revisit the plan again in 7 days.<\/p>\n So I ask… what’s YOUR plan for the next 7 days?<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/May22-3.jpg\")
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