I aggree that protein help, but i also noticed that intermittent fasting helps a lot, since i am doing OMAD, i am almost not hungry while I was always. It is maybe a bit extreme, but it works. And also the more glucid i eat the more ungry i am....
 
Thank you for the ideas to consider, @PetiteSheWolf and @graoumia. Maybe I do need additional protein, the problem is the cost at this point. Also, I really enjoyed intermittent fasting in the past, but my current schedule does not work well with it and unless I go back to a job like quality, it will continue to not be ideal.

The Workout
100 March Steps
Better Abs Day 10, three sets of twenty Knee Crunches with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 10. Hooray*, more tendon work.










*I may or may not be sarcastic about this. Your call.
 
Later than usual workout because I left the store late after paint night. I was caught up in a couple of conversations unexpectedly. Thankfully, short workouts with Power Up. Unfortunately, painful ones. Who let me take on Power Up so soon? Oh, yeah...

The Workout
110 March Steps
Better Abs Day 11, three sets of thirteen Raised Leg Circles with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 11
 
How long until people figure out that I am surviving in my current position through what feels to me like luck and happenstance? Yep, impostor syndrome is a thing and I am intimately aware of how it works as a result of first-hand experience.

The Workout
120 March Steps
Better Abs Day 12, three sets of twenty-two Knee Crunches with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 12. Have I mentioned how I feel about Side Bridges? Oh, right, I definitely* did last time they came up. Ouch.
















*Well, probably did, anyway.
 
Fastest transfer day ever. Everything that arrived today from the warehouse was counted, posted, and reported. Small miracles, or some such.

The Workout
140 March Steps
Better Abs Day 14, three sets of twenty-four Knee Crunches with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 14. The sixty second Push-Up Hold really wrecked my ability to follow up with more Push-Ups. I did, however, manage a few in that last thirty seconds.
 
Left work early due to a terrible headache. We had a precipitous drop and with it the barometric pressure probably also changed significantly. Pressure changes often cause me headaches, so...

The Workout
160 March Steps
Better Abs Day 16, three sets of twenty-six Knee Crunches with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 16
 
Thank you @graoumia and @Mamatigerj for the support and everyone else who wished it through emoji or quiet words or thoughts while reading. In other news, I don't know when I'll be home tomorrow evening, so it was a two workout day today. Yay.

The Workout, Part 1
170 March Steps
Better Abs Day 17, three sets of sixteen Raised Leg Circles with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 17

The Workout, Part 2
180 March Steps
Better Abs Day 18, three sets of twenty-eight Knee Crunches with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 18. Just two more workouts with Side Bridges. Gross.
 
Yesterday did not go as planned. I was home very early compared to my expectation, but I chose not to work out. Today was a late day at work, but I had a game designer promoting and demonstrating their game this evening at the store. Good game. Great time talking. Go out, find Body Be Gone, it's a fun little game about hiding bodies. It may. unfortunately, be a bit too local to me.

The Workout
190 March Steps
Better Abs Day 19, three sets of seventeen Raised Leg Circles with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 19
 
Going to call the month a refeed month and start readjusting my diet as the last of the bad stuff falls out of my kitchen early next month. I still don't know what's driving my hunger or how to sate it, but I suppose what matters is reigning it in by whatever means is required. In other news, I'm considering some kind of weights. Maybe dumbbells, maybe a kettlebell... I don't know yet. I have to determine a mass at which I want to work out that won't be too hard early but will expand easily, whether through reps, sets, or duration, without feeling too light. Things I need to decide before I put money out. Any thoughts?

The Workout
230 March Steps
Better Abs Day 23, three sets of nineteen Raised Leg Circles with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 23
 
graoumia said:
Could this help? https://darebee.com/fitness/how-to-choose-dumbbells.html
Sorry sometimes i don't catch everything
Click to expand...
I realized after I posted that the article above probably existed and went searching myself. I do appreciate you linking it, though. I hope someone else comes along wondering about dumbbells and finds the link being available helpful. And, to be fair, I will probably end up using it a time or two, as well.

In other news, I'm still struggling with... everything. Don't let the apparently collected exterior fool you.

The Workout
250 March Steps
Better Abs Day 25, three sets of twenty Raised Leg Circles with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 25
 
A day away from work has helped, but that doesn't mean it's all good. I'm left wondering how I have become less confident in all aspects of myself as I've aged and what it could possibly take to fix myself. I don't have much faith that there is any fixing me, just pretending to be. "Fake it 'til you make it" has never been something that worked for me, but "fake it and most people won't know the difference" has.

The Workout
270 March Steps
Better Abs Day 27, three sets of twenty-one Raised Leg Circles with 30 seconds rest
Power Up Day 27
 
Congrats
:worried:
 
Energy crash after supper tonight. I don't know how I managed to put together a workout, let alone something more than the bare minimum. It should not have been so hard to get to level 2 on Tempered Steel. Whatever.

The Workout
10 Prone Reverse Flys
Lower Body Blast Day 2, three sets of 10 Calf Raises followed by 10 count Calf Raise Hold with no rest
Tempered Steel at level 2
 
Circling back around to the dumbbells thought from a bit ago. If I do acquire a set*, I think what I will end up doing is swapping out my current Thursday combat workouts with dumbbell workouts and repurpose Sunday as combat in general, rather than focusing on the Pits workout, which is basically just an unstructured combat workout.

The Workout
15 Prone Reverse Flys
Lower Body Blast Day 3, three sets of 16 Split Lunges with 30 seconds rest
Ten minutes in the Pits










*Probably around Christmas. July was a pretty expensive month for me.
 
The store visit went well. Received some useful feedback about merchandising and such that will be incorporated as soon as possible.

The Workout
35 Prone Reverse Flys
Lower Body Blast Day 7, three sets of 18 Split Lunges with 30 seconds rest
Alpha Protocol at level 2
 
My ankle is still weird, but I managed a full workout tonight. Thank you for all the well wishes both spoken, @Mamatigerj, and unspoken.

The Workout
50 Prone Reverse Flys
Lower Body Blast Day 10, three sets of 10 Calf Raises followed by 10 count Calf Raise Hold with no rest
Ten minutes in the Pits, with bastons. Switched to muton* about halfway through.










*Single stick fighting that includes unarmed strikes. A combat form in Filipino martial arts**.
**Also known as arnis or escrima.
 
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