It’s been a hot minute. The short version of where things are is that we’re kind of hitting the reset button. Here’s whats happening.
Back in January, I was informed of an ownership transfer of the house I was living in. Prior to that, I saw some behavior occurring across the street from me that gave me fairly significant pause for the future. When ownership of my house transferred, it transferred to the same owner of the properties across from me that were giving me said pause. With that and considering I had an informal agreement with my landlord, I felt I needed to get ahead of a bad situation before it occurred. What ended up happening is not what I had planned on spending any time or money this year at all – I bought a house and I moved. The bomb about the ownership change happened not long after my last post. One complication is that I own several project cars and at the time, only one of the vehicles I owned actually ran. The rest were in some state of disrepair and with the winter in full swing, not much was going to get done about that right away. Because of that, finding another place to rent with enough space to store my project cars while I work on them was nearly impossible in the areas I was looking. I decided that I had the resources available to make a purchase and found something that would meet the needs of my current living situation, along with my project cars, without having to thin the herd. Between the time I found a place and the time I took possession, I started the process of going through my crap and getting rid of stuff, along with starting to pack. Along with that, I attempted to make plans so I could hit the ground running once I took possession.
I finally took possession in early February and was able to start moving my stuff, and start on some much needed repairs/improvements to the new house. Long story short, the move and repairs/improvements, along with moving all of the cars (including my buddy’s two cars that we’re also working on – 10 cars in total), was completed last weekend.
I lasted about a month with food prep, trying to fit it in with everything else going on. I quit going to the gym because I was pretty active with moving and packing and throwing shit away. I was burning calories like crazy. However, my diet went off the rails about a month ago. The lesson there is that food prep should always be a priority and if you’re on the go, prep food that you know you can eat while you’re driving. Wraps are a great tool for this, because you can literally stuff anything in a low carb tortilla shell and be off to the races.
Even though my diet fell off a bit, the good news is that I didnt really gain any weight. But I didnt lose anything either. All of that said, as things were starting to wind down, Ive been working to get back on routine. This week’s kind of the first full week Ive done any kind of prep and am going through some of the food I had in the house to get rid of stuff before resetting back to some older routines that I used last year that worked out really well.
The move also took a lot out of me and Im absolutely exhausted. So Ive been giving myself a little bit of grace and letting myself not get stressed out about diving right back into everything. The good thing is taht I have the entire weekend with no obligations other than putting shit away after the move. Im going to take the opportunity to get ahead of some meal prep, hopefully get caught up on some sleep, and get some plans in place to be more consistent in both my eating and my exercise.
My goals are pretty simple for the moment. Get back to routine. 3-4x a week at the gym, walk on days Im not at the gym, eating clean again. I have no intention of food logging for the moment – but once Im ready to start actively focusing on the weight loss again, I will absolutely do that to keep the calories in check. Im also not getting on the scale as much right now as Im at a weight that Im relatively ok with for the time being while I reset some things.
I’ve been contemplating starting to do pushups on the regular again, just to improve on those. My shoulder has improved a bit in spite of the move, so I want to take advantage of that. My current plan for the week is to keep up on the 30min walks at least daily. and then add in 3 sets of pushups and 3 sets of squats at least daily. I noticed I have some tightness in my left hip that I need to work out. I think both of these will start to get me toward lifting a barbell again – which I think may happen probably by the fall.
The takeaway here is that if you fall off the rails – get back up and reset and start again. Take the time to figure out where you fell off and why. Understand what happened and figure out what to learn from it. Talk to your people if needbe. I love figuring this shit out because then it helps me be better for the future, for the NOW. For me, I feel like I know what I need to do, what works for me.
Time to chase some consistency.