Sometimes i think i must have a chemical imbalance. i felt down today like i haven't felt down in a while-e-o. Got sent in to work up a 400 pounder today, and she tells me she's been having some menstrual-like bleeding the last couple o' days. And she's 18 years or so post-menopausal. Did some hard core praying that this was not going to lead to a pelvic exam, 'cuz i was not the man for the job. Praise the Holy One, she'd had a similar incident several months prior, and had already been dx'd with fibroids. And since she's practically inoperable, there was nothing for it but to tell her to have a good morning. Then we were done by nine. i don't know how the dude scores the paycheck he does working 2 to 4 hrs/day, but i took it as a sign that i should go work out.
First of all, climbing immediately before the chest workout turned out to be a way worse idea than it seemed up front. Second of all, i'm glad i did anyway, 'cuz it ended up all right. Ran into some skinny d00d that wanted a belay partner. Funny, cuz for once i really just wanted to boulder and study. But i roped up. He'd been trying a boulder problem that i've been working on, and seemed to be making a little progress, so i guessed he was about my strength. It was sorta encouraging to find that he was not. Ran up a 5.10 (that wasn't really) for a warmup, then got on my 5.12 proj. It was nice to work on toprope, 'cuz i could hang and figure the beta. On the auto belays, you lower every time you fall. i didn't finish it, but i'm two moves away, and i'm pretty sure i can string it together if i get in fresh and light. He couldn't get through the starting sequence, so i chalk one more up for the Clydesdales. i really should not have climbed today, but it wasn't too bad.
Then there was the bench workout. Shoulders were unexpectedly tired from climbing. But i got all three sets of 3 on bench: 180, 195, and 205. Definitely fought for that very last rep, but it went. Actually got 4 sets of 10 on dips (sans extra weight) which is an improvement. And on the "4 sets of pushups to failure" i managed a set of 10, then a set of 8 before i called it. That's also an improvement.
i guess yesterday was technically the last day of the diet for me. But i'm gunna try to stick with it fairly closely. i like feeling like i'm making some tangible progress towards fitness. And i know if i didn't feel like i was on an upward trend, i'd take up heavy drinking and dipping right this minute. Got a mean hankering to abuse me. Maybe i'll go for a run. Or maybe i'll just punch me in the face. Both burn calories, eh.
Additionally, i just found out that my FP rotation that was here in between trips to CO has been moved to Gallup, so that i have three aways in a row...18 straight weeks. You ever just feel like killing a douchebag just cuz you can't think of any good reason they might have to go on consuming oxygen? Prayers please. i'm confident that God is in control of all this. That's the only possible way things could go that perfectly, remarkably, exactly off plan. There's just gotta be a reason.
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I have no intentions of changing my current diet up much. I've been throwing in a little cheese, but have pretty much stuck with it and will continue on. I don't miss bread or pasta at all so I see no reason to force it back in. Cereal would be nice, but its always been more of a convenience thing for me. Still gonna be the booze and beer that is my weakness, I'm afraid. Good job dodging that pelvic. Huuup!
Right on. i'm with you exactly. i really think cereal and breads, etc, have been my downfall. Even beer. That's barley. i almost bought some today, and i went with wine and whiskey instead. i really tend to not hit those as hard. But i can put down a thousand calories in beer without thinking 'bout it. So i'm gunna try to make beer kinda a luxury thing like pizza. (And the whiskey too, for that matter.) i really have felt like a million bucks laying off the liquor and crap. i'm'a try to hang onto it.
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