Adjustments to Make...

So quickish update that kind of pairs with goal setting for next year.

Got the results from my last round of blood work and my thyroid levels are normal again. This new dose seems to be the right one. So now that my thyroid is under control it's time to decide what I want to do (or try to do) about the weight that came with the imbalance.

I was already looking for some sort of new workout program for the year. I normally just make my own. Work out what lifts to do for what muscles, line them out during the week, add some cardio days and BOOM! done. But I was hoping to find something that was already planned out for me. Just a good balance of things without wondering if I've actually got a good balance.

I've also been trying to decide if I get a gym membership again. We've got a little home gym area set up and there is a good variety of things I can do, but there are some things I just can't do at home. Leg presses are the biggest thing I miss. I used to be super consistent about going to the gym. Even when Brent was traveling I made the drive over. But I haven't been in a gym since March of 2020. Recreating that habit would be tricky.

So anyway, while I was contemplating all of these things I was looking at books with workout plans and there was one that caught my eye. It's a year long program. Progression points all year. It's designed for women, which normally kind of sets me off, muscles are muscles, but it's designed for women who want to increase their lifts and get muscles, so I thought it didn't sound bad. Then noticed it was actually a companion book to a whole system. There was a sample option for Kindle for the original book. Cool.

Last night I read the first half of the sample and was thinking, okay, maybe. The whole book would have some goal setting, some stating your why really clearly spaces, some macronutrient talk, a little bit on supplements (his belief being you don't really need them if you are eating right but he'd talk about them too) and then workout plans. Okay, not terrible at all I will probably get the book and the workbook and set up and then this morning I read the second half of the sample where he actually got into his workout philosophy and a lot of it was outdated.

Which happens in the fitness world a lot. The book is about 10 years old and there is a lot that has changed in ideas around fitness and nutrition in a decade. But still, I can probably work around the things I don't agree with. So then he talks about how he really wants to make sure you are supported and gives his email address. Now remember how in the opening section he said he didn't believe you really needed supplements? Well his email address was (his name)@supplementsguy.com What? You are clearly going to sell me supplements. It's right there in your custom email address. What the fuck, dude?

And then there were a few more things about will power and how you just have to try harder and I was like, okay maybe not and the final thing was...He recommended following Jordan Peterson.

I'm out.

Ugh.

So I'm still on the hunt for a new program to follow, will probably end up being me putting something together. I'm still on the fence about how much I want to work at dropping the weight I gained when my thyroid gave up. Part of me really wants to drop it, I would like to get my wardrobe back, and part of me is worried that it will take so much effort to get to that size again that there is no way I'd want to keep doing it to stay there. That's the bitch about weight gain after a certain age. It's just not going anywhere. Not easily and not for long if you don't keep REALLY working at it.

Is it worth it to me to work that hard?

I just don't know the answer to that right now. I've got 9 days to think about it, really more than that, if I start a new workout/nutrition cycle it will be on the 6th, who wants to start something on a Wednesday? That's just crazy talk...

Not as crazy as telling me to follow Jordan Peterson but right up there...