Progress Check In
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Respect to the people who can go longer than 30 minutes rowing, running, etc. Cardio bores the shit out of me unless I'm riding a bicycle at a decent clip. Need to move somewhere that isn't wet 9 months out of the year.
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It's not exactly enjoyable. The people I know who go for multiple hours on the rower are usually watching a movie or something at the same time.
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I typically don’t do a rower for more than 30 mins or 60 mins on a Peleton.
But yeah all exercise besides skiing and mt biking is pretty fucking boring.
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I hear ya. I've been rowing 40-minute sessions in the past couple of weeks and am thinking about getting a TV for my exercise room. Looking to increase my time to 45 minutes soon, so a TV might be necessary at that point.
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Here’s my progress thus far in 2025:
I’m still fat. Some might say morbidly obese but I prefer describing myself as big boned.
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Eating Update:
Doing a whole 30 to reset my eating habits. No sugar, no alcohol, no grains, no dairy and a few other things. Basically just meat, veggies, fruit and nuts. I've also cut my caffeine intake from about 800mg/day (SO MUCH COFFEE) to between 100-150mg/day in black tea.
Down 7 pounds (mostly water weight, but I'll take it!), appetite has significantly decreased. Feeling energetic and not slothful and lazy. Not going to lie, the first 5 days sucked. Sugar cravings, caffeine headaches, general fogginess and drowsiness. Starting to feel much better now.
Pushups Update: Goal is 10,000 pushups in 2025. Just over 2k completed. A little bit behind schedule, but I expect as I get stronger I'll be able to increase my daily quantity and catch up. -
Last day of the first quarter - as good a time as any for checking in.
Me: Yella called me fat so I had to drop some lbs. It actually happened, not sure if drinking slightly less (averaging 2.4 drinks per day since mid Jan which is down from before surely) or working out slightly more, or just compounding effects of everything. But I weighed in this weekend under 194. Been a long while since I was that low.
Cleared 550K on the rower through the first 3 months (345 miles), scores are good, increased the weight on leg weight exercises, ran and walked a bit more too. Had to make some insulin adjustments (in a good way, I was going low too often) which threw off management for a while. Blood draw I had came back with excellent numbers.
Everything is awesome! Until something went in my left knee doing left lifts on Friday. Had surgery on this knee when I was a teen and so I have been laid up since. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Had to cancel 2 rounds of golf in nice weather. GRRRRR. Seeing an ortho tomorrow. It feels better after tons of RICE but it still feels off and weak. Wearing a brace to protect it. NOT HAPPY. I did one legged rowing this morning to try to not lose all my cardio and it is not the same.
Plus have some travel over the next 6 weeks (including Europe and Oregon) so hopefully I won't lose everything. Having mobility restrictions while traveling, I don't even want to consider that
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T's and P's boss.
My C2 volume has been down since the Holiday challenge, but was still happy with my sea level results.
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Speaking of fat shaming, I have a new theory re: vacation eating.
When I was in Tahiti I average 6 to 10 drinks per day (very typical for Yella tropical vacation where I can whack down more pool cocktails and beers than any guy here) and I pigged out at breakfast eating all the bacon, eggs, French toast, pastries, etc. Exercised hard on 4 of 8 vacation days on erg, weights and treadmill hill climbs.
I didn't gain a single pound. I might have even lost 1 in the process.
But there was no snacking (I graze a lot at home) and only eating 3 times a day. So even with all the beer I might have been staying in relative caloric balance by fasting (excluding beer) between meals.
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Sticking with the 4 - 4.5% teenager beers also helps.
