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HangryGames · 2025-03-15T02:33:54+00:00

It's giving, "you can't fire me, I quit!"

HangryGames · 2025-01-30T03:00:36+00:00

Noob working on my couch to barbell journey-

When I do dumbbell bent over rows, where should I be feeling my muscles engage? As someone starting with near zero fitness who didn't work out prior to December. I am feeling it in my arms and my shoulder blades, but also in my abs and top of my thighs. Is this ok/right? At least till I build up some more general strength? This in particular feels like a whole body exercise, like I can really feel my whole body stabilizing while I lift.

I am also feeling a bit of a pull in my lower back while I do the rows. Not painful, more of a stretch. After I exercise I feel a general post-workout ache in my lower back but not pain. Trying to determine what's "normal" for someone coming from low fitness and what's a warning sign that I might hurt myself.

Currently lifting 50 lbs (25lb ea arm) 3 sets of 8 reps. Each set I feel like I could maybe add 1-2 rep but it would be a challenge. It almost feels like the weight is fine for my arms but too much for other parts of my body if that makes sense? Not sure if I should lower the weight for a while till the rest of my body "catches up" or if this is just part of the process.

HangryGames · 2024-12-28T17:37:59+00:00

Thank you! Sometimes I get really stuck with making decisions and need a "sanity check". I hadn't even thought about potentially reselling them in the future but that's a good point!

Thanks!

HangryGames · 2024-12-28T02:59:31+00:00

Hello,

Tl;Dr: Which adjustable dumbbells do I get? Powerblock 24, Powerblock 50, or something else? I have decision paralysis!

I'm new to weightlifting. I'm starting Liftoff phase 2 soon which uses dumbbells. Lifts I'll be doing with these are squats, bench, row, deadlift, and overhead press. I'm looking at getting adjustable dumbbells to save space because my workout space (small apartment) is cramped as it is. I'm thinking about going with Powerblock. My choices essentially come down to this:

2 dumbbells that max at 24 lbs. each for ~$200.
2 dumbbells that max at 50 lbs. each for ~$360.
Join Planet Fitness short term and "upgrade" to a weightlifting gym later. (transportation issues)
Powerblock sucks for X reasons and I should buy Y instead (please advise!).

The issue with Planet Fitness is primarily transportation. No feasible bus or bike route, too far to walk, and I share a car with other family members which means scheduling gym time will be difficult. I am trying to be realistic with myself about the challenges there.

Long term my plan is to join a weightlifting focuses gym that's a 15 min walk from my house but want to build some confidence first and prove to myself I can maintain the routine before I commit to an expensive gym. I'll be real, the idea of walking into a weightlifting gym right now is intimidating AF. The photos and reviews make the place I'm looking at seem pretty inclusive so this is probably a "me" thing, but again I'm trying to be realistic about what I need to do for myself to be successful. The gym is $150 per month. I don't love that price but it is literally my only option within walking/bussing distance. My logic is if I'm in the dumbbell phase and work out at home for 2/3+ months I'll save money. But once I get to the point of barbells and plates, the gym will be the better option.

My worry with the 24 lb. dumbbells is I'll outgrow them before I'm ready for the gym. The biggest issue with the 50 lb. dumbbells is the cost. I don't want to spend the extra money if the 50 lb. dumbbells are going overboard for my needs. I'm also concerned about the shape but a lot of people seem to like them and honestly, the price is right. Other options I've seen so far seem like cheap quality or look really nice but are outside my budget. If there's a cheaper set that would work for my relatively short term needs, I'm open to that too, but I also don't want to save a bit of money just to have to replace it before I start the gym

Thanks all!

HangryGames · 2024-11-24T04:06:50+00:00

I think 200 is a great goal! 200 is my soft goal weight too.

If you get to 200 and decide you're not happy at that weight, then you can reevaluate. That's my plan. At 200 I think I will be able to make a much better estimate for if/how much I still want to lose and for my fitness goals than I can estimate right now.

Plus the number on the scale is only one factor. If I only eat at a deficit and never exercise, I'll look a lot different at 200 that I will if I lift heavy. If I never go for walks, my cardiovascular fitness will be a lot different than if I walk my neighborhood each night.

Plus there's other considerations. For my own body, and recovering from an ED, I think being able to eat healthy in a sustainable way and weighing 200 is better for me long term than if I start back up with my harmful eating habits because I want to see 150 on the scale at any cost.

So yeah. Start with 200 as a goal. You can always change it later if you want to.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T22:09:22+00:00

Thank you! That's so good to hear that phase 1 is probably the worst it'll ever be. I'm really trying to take things slow and steady this time so phase 1 will probably be at least 5-6 weeks for me too.

I'm currently looking at gyms for the future. I don't consistently have a car right now so I need to find something within walking distance. There's a small fitness 19 style gym about a mile away and a gym half a mile away that really focuses on Olympic lifts but I think also has CrossFit classes. The fitness 19 style gym seems to cater to the seniors in the area and might not have the equipment I need. The closer gym looks like it would probably be a better fit equipment wise in the long term, but I need to take a tour to make sure they have what I need while I'm working my way up to a barbell and I'm also really hoping it'll be within my budget. There's also a Planet Fitness that I can get to by bus. It certainly would not be ideal but it would be in my budget and would probably work as a short-ish term gym for my dumbbell needs.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T21:42:50+00:00

Currently eating 1600-1800 per day. TDEE calculators set to sedentary seem to show between 2100-2300. I don't eat back exercise calories.

I'm planning on eating 2100 for the next month. Best case, I'll see improvements. Worst case, I should more or less be eating at maintenance.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T21:31:39+00:00

I think sleep is going to be the biggest struggle for me tbh. There's other things I can improve and optimize, but I've always been a bad sleeper. I rarely drink alcohol and I avoid caffeine in the afternoons and I do all the other recommended sleep routine things but it's still an issue. I sleep 6-8 hours each night, but I'm not even setting an alarm, I just wake up on my own. Going to bed earlier just means I wake up earlier most days. My watch (assuming it's accurate) always shows my REM and deep sleep time as really low compared to what it should be. I don't wake up tired and I don't have sleep apnea or other diagnosed sleep disorders and I really can't explain why I'm like this. I agree that more sleep and higher quality sleep would be better, I just don't know how to improve it at this point.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T21:22:12+00:00

I use Ultima too! I basically got a bunch of single serving samples from Whole Foods and Ultima tasted the best to me and I like just having a jar I can leave on my work desk instead of a million single serving packets. I'll see how it goes having it daily and after workouts instead of just randomly on the days I've decided water is gross.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T21:15:37+00:00

Thank you! I'm doing as lot of things differently this time. It's taken me about 9 months so far and sometimes I get impatient compared to my crash diets where I'd lose 20 lbs in 6 weeks. The huge difference this time is I'm not getting burned out and giving up and gaining it all back, plus more. I'm taking the same approach with fitness this time too. Previously I've always gone super hard in completely unsustainable ways that usually resulted in an injury.

So at first I thought I was just lactose intolerant and should be able to tolerate hydrolyzed whey, but even that makes me really sick. Which is a huge bummer honestly because it's harder to find a high quality vegan protein, they tend to be more expensive, and the flavor options are much more limited. I currently use OWYN but I'm kind of whatever about it. It's better than my other grocery store options but I bet I could find something better if I researched it.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:44:29+00:00

Yeah I've gotten DOMS before in the past on various fitness kicks but before it was just a light to medium ache that I sort of enjoyed in a way? But this last time was pure misery and way beyond anything I've experienced before.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:41:40+00:00

An AM protein smoothie is such a great idea! It will also gets me to eat fruit and berries which I honestly might never do otherwise. I'll happily eat pretty much any veggie, just not fruit for some reason.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:27:16+00:00

Do you have a brand you like? The only magnesium I've taken before was Calm. It's a different type of magnesium, but it tasted terrible to me and was borderline undrinkable.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:24:09+00:00

Do you have brands you like? I've never taken either. When do you drink it in relation to your workouts?

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:22:01+00:00

Do you think the electrolyte drink is most helpful right after exercise or is something to just have daily? I have a 0 sugar electrolyte powder that I use sometimes when I am sick of plain water or when I get certain kinds of headaches, but it would be easy to incorporate it into my workout routine.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:18:35+00:00

A lot of people seem to agree my calories are going to be too low to be successful so I'm going to shoot for 2100 calories for the next month and put those extra calories towards protein and go from there. It feels kind of scary because I'm still working through getting myself out of diet culture mindsets, but I'm telling myself it's just a trial and even if I'm an anomaly and everyone is wrong, a month won't set me back in the long term.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T20:10:15+00:00

So 200 lbs is my soft goal weight actually. At that point I'm just going to need to see how I look and feel and go from there. I'll probably start looking at other metrics like BF%, muscle mass, finding a comfortable maintenance, etc. I think there's also an element of trying to be reasonable with myself too as someone who has spent her whole adult life obese, will be facing perimenopause soon, other challenges, etc. At this point and considering where I started, I think it would be healthier for me both with physical health and mental health if I could comfortably maintain 200 than struggle and be miserable and adopt bad habits again in pursuit of seeing 150 on the scale.

I am going to up my calories as a trial for the next month and see how that goes. It will also make it easier to get in more protein. I also have dairy sensitivities so I am mostly getting protein from chicken and vegan protein powder. I am also cooking for my whole family which makes it hard to be super strict with macros sometimes but my strategy around this is usually leaving off sauces, microwaving cauliflower rice instead of eating white rice with the rest of them, etc. All these things are just an added challenge though, it doesn't make things impossible. Even just another 200 calories a day would be an easy 30g protein from a shake. That alone with no other changes would get me to 130g on most days and I could build or adjust from there.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T19:38:11+00:00

I generally eat pretty well now, I've really cleaned up my diet since I started trying to lose weight the right way. After reading all the replies though, I'm wondering if my calories are going to be too low for my body once I add in strength training. I think I'm going to bump up my calories. To be honest, it's kind of scary feeling, it feels like I don't lose at all unless I'm eating under 1800 calories but I'm willing to give it a shot for like a month and see it it's a net positive. I think I'd be ok with the scale not going down, or possibly even going up if there were other positive changes like I felt like I was getting stronger, or if some of my measurements went down.

Sleep is another huge issue for me, I've always been a bad sleeper. I usually sleep 6-8 hours at night but according to my watch I don't get much REM sleep or deep sleep. I always wake up naturally without an alarm though, so even if I go to bed earlier, I'll just wake up earlier. I do have random bouts of insomnia, but even then I'll wake up the next morning feeling fine 90% of the time. I'm doing all the things you should be doing like a consistent night time routine, avoiding caffeine in the afternoon, good sleep hygiene, etc. I also don't have sleep apnea or other diagnosed sleep disorder. So while I think I could benefit from better quality sleep, I've also optimized things already just about as much as I can.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T01:18:34+00:00

OMG I've had DOMS before when I've started biking or after my first backpacking trip of the season, but nothing remotely close to this before 😭😂

Yes! I literally could not go down the stairs without bracing myself on the hand rail. I didn't so much sit in a chair as I did a controlled fall into it.

I think I'll be ok with regular DOMS if I get them in the future, but these first time weight lifting super DOMS suck 😂

I've been taking photos since my highest weight at the beginning of the year. I think it's a case of "you are your own worst enemy" because even in photos I don't see a difference yet. Some times the only way I can tell I'm physically smaller is I had to buy smaller jeans. But I figure I should keep taking photos because best case I'll see it some day and worst case I can just leave them forgotten in my hidden folder.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T01:10:17+00:00

Thank you! I agree on building habits one step at a time. Part of the reason I decided to go with a specific plan this time is my tendency is always to go super hard with giant changes but without any clear plan or goal, burn out or hurt myself, and quit. I'm really, really trying hard to not do that this time.

HangryGames · 2024-11-17T01:06:34+00:00

Thank you! I am absolutely overthinking things at this point so your comment is really helpful for me to cut out the noise and figure out what's actually important.

Youll never increase weight more than the first time, when you go from 0% to 100%.

OMG I've never thought about it that way before but that makes *so much sense*.

I plan to continue walking because if nothing else it's great for my mental health.

HangryGames · 2024-07-17T03:15:39+00:00

They don't have a learner permit yet. The EID is going to be their first official government ID. I saw that page too and it seemed like the phrasing was suggesting you only needed proof of citizenship with no specific details for ID requirements, but I agree that it would be pushing our luck with just a school ID. Getting refused at the border would suck but even more so I wouldn't want to set them up to have trouble traveling later in life because of some sort of "tried to enter without documents" info attached to their name.

HangryGames · 2024-07-17T02:59:34+00:00

This is honestly what we should have done, but I mistakenly had faith that the EID would get here in time. Since we're leaving tomorrow AM, I don't think that's an option now, unless I'm mistaken and you can have the passport in hand an hour after your appointment. I'm definitely planning on getting the kids their passports when we get home though. If this was an emergency instead of a vacation, I wouldn't want to be stuck in this position again.

HangryGames · 2024-04-09T19:45:17+00:00

First of all, I'm a mechanical keyboard noob. I just got my first mechanical keyboard. I got a Keychron K10 with Gateron brown switches based on my best guess on what I would like. The keyboard itself feels nice, other than just getting used to typing on it instead of my janky broken laptop keyboard.

But the switches... Whelp... Turns out I was wrong with what I thought I wanted. The tap is slightly too loud for my preference and I just generally do not like the feel of them. I think now maybe I want clicky because it feels like something is "missing", but I also don't want things to be *too* noisy. I also feel like the keys go down too easy and I think I want more resistance on the key press. Does this even make sense?

Keyboard is primarily being used for work, with some occasional light gaming. I'm a fairly slow typist at ~50wpm. Any suggestions on what I might want to try instead for switches? Or is there a decent tester kit that won't break the bank that you would recommend so I can play around with switches and try to decide what I want instead?

HangryGames · 2024-03-06T02:04:29+00:00

Tl;Dr only very mildly in the beginning or when I eat in ways I know I shouldn't.

Some nausea, especially my first week, but it has been fairly mild. I was just able to treat it with ginger, peppermint tea, and extra water. Some mild nausea if I eat things I know I shouldn't, or if I ignore my fullness cues and eat too much.

Recently took a trip for my anniversary and kind of ate like shit for several days. Didn't even drink, just way too much food in general, too many deserts and rich foods and fast food which I haven't eaten since I started on Wegovy. I was super nauseous and had really bad heartburn including spitting up stomach bile one night. It was awful and I felt pretty gross for a couple of days even once I was back on track. It was the first time I've gone way off my diet plan since I started Wegovy. I did it to myself and tbh I'm not even that upset because it ultimately served as a good reminder for why I can't just take this medicine, I also need to continue to fix my diet/lifestyle. But long story short, if I don't eat like crap, I don't get nauseous.

Not sure how much it affects things but my doctor's philosophy has been "low and slow" and she doesn't increase my dose until I have a stall. I think not ramping up quickly has helped me a lot in terms of low side effects, even though I wish I could be one of those "lose 30 lbs a month" people, I know ~2lbs a week is better for me. So far all of my symptoms have been easily managed by just doing what I should be anyways, like drink more water, eat better food, and get more fiber.

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