Ouch. My rotator cuff pain has returned. Not sure if I should try to do my workout tomorrow or not.

I wouldn't if I were you, alinnell. Or at least, I would skip any move that requires you to move your shoulder... Especially nothing overhead.

Ice packs are you friends.

Allison I've found the phrase "no pain no gain" has been misinterpreted. I would agree with JayEll and rest for a few days. I have to walk every day and things only get worse and more painful with overuse. if I could rest for a day every time all of my injuries flare up I'm sure I'd have a lot less of them.

Dagmar

I'll see how it goes. The overhead press is for sure out, but I'm sure I can do a few others.

I have to agree with the others, Allison. I have tried to work through shoulder pain before and had unanimously bad results. Find the motions that don't hurt, and stick to those.

DS16 is at camp, and gave me permission to clear out his room while he's gone. I doubt he's going to ask me to do it again. He was overwhelmed by the task and I tried several times to show him how to take little bites out of the elephant. Sadly, he appears to have picked up on my very poor organizational skills when it comes to handling paperwork. I'll have to do better for the both of us!

Was doing quite well on getting back to the portion restriction groove; tonight I had a dessert slip but I am getting better. I really need to stay off the scale, because I seem to interpret any form of decrease as an opportunity to go back to old habits.

I skipped my workout all together this morning for two reasons--1) my shoulder. The pain isn't really bad but knowing what it CAN feel like makes me not want to hurt it further, so I didn't push it. and 2) I slept like crap last night. I slept from 9:30 or 10:00 until midnight when I woke up hot. Went to the bathroom and then for the next four hours tossed and turned and alternated between too hot and just right. I never felt cold despite the AC set to 72. I am pretty sure these are symptoms of night sweats and hot flashes although they're not quite there yet.

DD and SIL are coming today to spend the night and drop off their two cats and dog for us to watch while they're on vacation. They get to be my guinea pigs for dinner tonight as I use my new sous vide immersion cooker on some steaks.

Breakfast~Quest bar
Snack~cherries
Lunch~ready pac bistro southwest salad, Activia light yogurt
Dinner~steak and a big salad

Hi everyone! Kept on plan over the weekend (including one planned indulgence for a 2000 cal day). Weight stable at 151 for now, hopefully 150 by the end of this week. Still no exercise, but hey, at least I'm eating better.

The only bars I eat are Atkins snack bars. I can't seem to manage to stay full during the day eating real food for snacks, so I've been relying on these for a while. They're about 150 cals, and heavy on the things that make me feel full -- fiber and fat, not just protein. The one I have for today is 160 cals, 9g fat, 11g fiber, 9g protein . . . and tastes more or less (okay, it's less) like a chocolate caramel candy bar, which satisfies my sweet tooth. It's the only snack I have during the day, so my meal plan is breakfast, lunch, snack bar, dinner.

We are taking the organic fruit and nut bars I mentioned earlier with us on our trip to Chicago this week. They are a good fallback for air travel that doesn't include any meal options, and also a good idea to have in the room for between meals and "dessert."

My weight went up 3 pounds in the last few days, and then this morning dropped 3 pounds again. Not sure what that had to do with anything! But I'm glad to go on a trip without my weight up.

I'm going to keep on keeping on!

I skipped my workout again this morning. My shoulder feels a lot better, so skipping seems to be doing me good. I'll assess the situation tonight to decide to go back to it tomorrow or not.

Meanwhile, DD showed me the exercises to help the rotator cuff and I'll do those once I deem myself fit for it. She also agreed with me that what may have started it was the way I was doing my bicep curls and she showed me a different way that makes sense (kneel and use your knee/quad for stability).

I slept so well last night! I woke up just before 4 AM--I doubt I woke other than that. Usually when I don't sleep well my food the next day is bad, but yesterday I did well (except forgetting to put the tomatoes on the salad last night).

Food
Breakfast~quest bar
Snack~cherries
Lunch~ready pac bistro Caesar salad
Dinner~huevos rancheros

Hi all,

I've backslid some lately. My goal HAD been to try and maintain until the summer work chaos abated... but twice in the past week I've found myself robotically eating food that I neither taste nor enjoy, well over my calorie limit, once I'm home at night. Exercise has been ok, but not enough to offset the eating (I suspect; haven't faced the scale in a month).

I had to bite the bullet and cancel our Oregon vacation, and that's been another downer this week. My new tech starts today so now I'm 100% surrounded by inexperienced people in my lab. My summer student is already taking most of my day, I don't know how I will also train the new person at the same time. My own work is so far behind at this point, I've just pushed it aside.

Hi guys! I break out for a few days and come back to discussions of cricket flour and mammalian parts in peanut butter. I'm going to not think about that.

So, I got a tattoo on Thursday. Have been recovering a little since then. I did 40 mins of weights and 45 minutes on the elliptical on Thursday pre-tattoo appointment, 45 minutes on the elliptical on Friday and Saturday, then took Sunday off as my planned rest day. Then ended up taking off Monday from exercise as well because of some stomach upset that cropped up in the morning and stuck around all day. Food has been good since Thursday - good food choices, but a little higher calorie than I would like a couple of days.

Back on the roll today. Just finished workout A of my weight program and 45 minutes on the elliptical, eating a little lunch now.

Another day without a workout and I feel bad about that. But my arm feels good so the rest is helping.

Meanwhile DD dropped off her two cats and one dog for us to babysit for two weeks. I did the normal thing and put out another litter box for the cats and what do they do? They all use that one and disregard the other two. So, yeah, have to clean that twice a day. We're getting "furniture" cat boxes delivered today. They're beautiful and will hide the boxes nicely (right now two are in bathtubs and one is just out on the floor). Hopefully all five cats will get used to those soon. One of DD's cats has the annoying problem of squatting just outside the box to pee, so I've had several cleanups of those as well. It's going to be a long two weeks.

Food for the day
B~quest bar
S~apple
L~southwest salad, yogurt
D~one of the Blue Apron meals that is being delivered today

Shannon, what's your new tattoo? (unless it's private, of course)

I pulled it together and stayed below calories yesterday. I think what happens to me is that I get so deep in the weeds in my job that I lose all vision of the future; it's lost in the daily grind of survival. Things like vacations and events coming up are useful to remind me that I WILL get to do something besides work soon, and I'll wish I was in shape when that day comes.

But, I've got nothing in my future. At all. So I think I need to MAKE some future events/goals.

I do recognise this phenomenon. For one reason or another, this has been how it's been here for quite some months now. I saw the problem but had no space whatsoever to do anything about it.

The SO moved in and booked a few days away for my birthday. I thought life might be more straightforward by then. Well, the few days away are next week and no, life isn't much more straightforward but I've decided to go, to have a completely bounded holiday and not to tack it on to anything else at all. I'm trying to get a lot of things done in advance.

JayZeeJay, a future event would be good, IMHO. A goal might be a bit much for my personality but it could suit you.

Forgot to say above that I went to the dentist today and I have to have root canal treatment. The tooth is dead and I have an infection there. This infection has found a way out through the gum so I'm not in any pain. I'm telling myself that this is the reason (a reason?) why I'm feeling so tired and draggy in my face and eyes.

Any comments?