#mel lifts

[rosewaterswallowtail]

-lots of rambling, feel free to scroll-

Back to work for two days.

Thank god honestly. 🫠 I have been bored without my person. But I’d rather be home bored in my space than out.

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Today: got my workout in, work until 6, home fold the remaining laundry and vedge. Bed early-ish.

Tomorrow: walk 4 miles in morning, work 10-6, home, order dinner in. Maybe. My appetite is like non-existent right now.

Saturday: weight lift early in AM (this is my heavy weight leg day so I’m gonna need to eat a bit more night before), walk 4 miles after strength training, come home shower and once babe gets home I’m abducting his suitcase and doing all the laundry. Then after his shower and 3-4 hour nap we will sneak out for some sushi for dinner and back to the house to host DND.

I am also fully aware I don’t HAVE to do his laundry. I am just aggressively an acts of service partner. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Cheers, friends. 🌻

It sucks when your person isn’t home for a bit. 😔

[rosewaterswallowtail]

We keep it real over here.

I 100% hated this work out.

I was THIS close to sitting on my couch this morning and letting my bad mental health swallow me whole.

But I did the thing.

I took this picture, and wanted to delete it because I see every single imperfection.

However—

Discipline isn’t about giving it your 100% every single time you show up for yourself.

It’s about showing up for yourself when you don’t want to.

And I really didn’t want to today.

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Cheers friends.

[rosewaterswallowtail]

The air quality outside is dangerous.

Yet, I squeezed in my 45 minute indoor weight lifting session.

Now I will do yoga. And then I’m making breakfast.

I’ve been on a big chilaquiles kick lately so that’s probably what I’ll do. Along with sticking indoors all day because it’s orange outside and smells like smoke from the wild fires in Canada.

Anyways. Cheers friends.

[rosewaterswallowtail]

This heat wave has done a number on my workouts this week.

Got in a weightlifting session. I’ll do yoga in a bit.

Tomorrow I wake up before dawn to walk 4 miles. Only time to do it to be honest.

Im holding my weight. But, I know this is because of the humidity.

I crashed out hard core living in Atlanta because no matter how hard I worked out that weight stayed.

Three years later I’ve done my research and know better now.

Being nice to your body after years of destruction takes time. Just going day by day. Pleasure to move my body or whatever they say.

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Cheers, friends. 🌻

[movingwithmel]

Tattoo in an hour on my hand. It’ll be a disrupted few days recovering from it so I’m giving myself some grace this week with my workouts. Likely just walking after the first day.

I must remember to not stress about it.

[movingwithmel]

How it started vs. how it ended.

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I am trying to change my routine and eat something before I work out now.

I did that and I couldn’t bring myself to continue. My body felt stiff, everything was heavy. So I went home. Frustrated.

Talked it over with S and went back to finish it.

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Rest of the day I will still be moving around but no walk today. Cleaning, laundry, refresh around the house. It still counts as activity. ❤️

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Found myself drowning in the to do list for today. And came home to my partner helping with some of that list. One because we are a team but two, just to help lighten the load.

I couldn’t be any happier. Even with my weigh up (due to the sodium from yesterday’s meal).

Grace. We must remember grace.

[rosewaterswallowtail]

Work today was super fun.

We put all the shelving units across the wall, all the boxes, organized extra boxes, I alphabetized all the files in those filing cabinet.. now I need to make a spreadsheet of all the files. It will take me an hour max.. I’ll do it tomorrow. 🤣

My boss kept telling me to not lift things. But I can’t just watch one man lift a shelving unit and not help? I’m not an animal.

More fun tomorrow. Then we go to dinner. Which I am not allowed to not attend. Haha. I found on their menu a pasta with brown butter, snap peas and sun dried tomatoes? It sounds amazing. That or eggplant parm. 😋

Really thought it’d be an all day thing but oh well. Three hours isn’t so bad.

S is heading home in the Lyft now. Then we go get his car. Said goodbye to Clifford the big red jeep. *sigh*

This move is coming up FAST. a lot to do in these next few days.. but we got it.

We always do. 🌻

[rosewaterswallowtail]

Guess who’s AC is out again?

Mineeeeeee

But I was so fueled by anger this morning in the gym I did Bulgarian split squats with 35 lb dumbbells in each hand..

For two reps each side. I could’ve probably done more if I wanted.

Trying to get it up to 45lbs in each hand as my personal best.

I really hope we get some good news on if we are moving to MI this week.. a win would be nice for us