191 this morning. Had my once per decade physical on Monday. BP was high. Waiting on blood work to come back. I expect that it will say something about decades of neglect.

Can I pretend that I've gained 3lbs of muscle over the past week?

I give you one lb of gained muscle, even if that's a bit generous. In the beginning it comes easily. Think I peaked in a month with the upper body, now the lower body gets its treatment.

Nice you took yourself to the physical. Just try to make the best of the information, not too much, not too little.

80.2kg. Phew! Looks there's more like half a kilogram than a whole to drop. Yesterday I had 1100cal my "regular" way, then a lot of vegetables, and for a local reason - chocolate. The latter could have been say 700 cal, still a total under 2000 cal, and getting variance on my side too.

Water weight from the carbs, I expect.

Went to the gym last night. Added some rowing in addition to the weight lifting stuff.

Blood work came back and it was better than I deserve. LDL a bit high, HDL a bit low and one of the liver thingamajigs was a bit high. Basically, nothing noteworthy.

80.0kg. Need to learn something from this episode. The punishing isn't beneficial in the long run. As it's easier and more comfortable to eat a bit more than less with a short notcie think I will target a bit under 80.0kg, more like 79.5-79.7kg. Then a 78.x shouldn't happen that often, and already some decimals above 80 would lead to reducing a bit, more controlled and calm than this time. The 81.x readings could then more or less become history, and I would be kind of "safe" regarding weight.

December:
5-81.1kg
6-81.3
7-80.2
8-80.0
Average: 80.65

For getting some more information think I finally will start counting averages. That's not a perfect measure either but a small step forward anyway. Why not putting in those few more seconds?

The goal could be a notch below 80.0kg

Don't know if I'm imagining, but isn't my left shoulder a bit better? And this is only the first week, gives hope the one month rest will deliver. Wonder how to start over again then with the arms? My legs will be in incredible shape by then, would guess.

79.7kg. The "crisis" is over for this time. With some luck I'm close to the 80.0 in reality. My mini-project may have resulted in a few hundred grams down for real, but the majority is of course water. Ate quite much bread-cheese-sausage when it rose, it had to stop anyway, must have been on a + calorie path, got the warning. Probably + salt too.

Will try to develop more the system with vegetables as snacks. It may cost something, but so be it.

190 lbs. 38.5" waist.

Went to the gym last night. My right shoulder is messed up (nothing new), but made some progress on trap bar deadlifts.

We may be a bit too old for real strength training. But there must be some optimum somewhere. Frankly think it needs intelligence to find it. Body sensing intelligence, if there is such a thing.

Yes, today I'm definitely feeling the left shoulder is better, after about 10 days of rest. So there must have been something with my upper body regime. Came to think about what I've been doing maybe has been both for the good and bad. When starting again trying to single out the good. One-two kilogram dumbbells may be it to start with. May not rest the upper body more than an additional week, if getting more or less totally painless. But no rush, starting to like the lower-middle body training.

Went to the gym again today. Fortunately, a small woman who was doing a similar workout as me arrived shortly after me, so I didn't have to put any of the weights away since she could use them for her warm up sets. I kind of wish that were a joke.

My shoulder is permanently screwed up (always hanging halfway out of the socket due to previous dislocations), but I was able to do some light bench presses using a multi-grip bar. I'll try dumbbell bench presses next time since that will allow me to move in a more comfortable range, I think. I need bigger pecs so my friends stop making fun of my moobs.

It is good to hear that your shoulder is feeling better.

Worth watching:

December:
9-79.7kg
10-79.9
11-79.8
12-80.1*
13-80.5
Average: 80.0

*Non-standardized, forgot, compensated with clothing.

Roy Orbison, ftw

Wow, forgot to measure my weight before the breakfast smoothies again. So this will be the first day, since I don't know when, I'm not weighing myself. This has to tell a story: I must be a bit bored and fed up with all of this.

So here's the new plan: will weigh myself from now on three times a week, in the first place Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Then just eating a bit less or more depending on the trends.

That is how it begins.

Worked out again this evening.

I'm in the stage of diminished returns. Between day 10 and 14 not much difference in the shoulder. Probably will need the couple of weeks more for spotting real difference, after all.

Patience man, patience. Nice to think this is as good as it will be.

Not especially bad anyway...not limiting life significantly. You just tune down your expectations.

79.8kg, not lost it yet. So if forgetting weighing sometimes, just compensate by remembering the next day. Almost any three times a week should keep variance in check.

Read my lips!

Went to the gym yesterday again. Also started taking creatine, so not particularly worried about weighing myself. Getting stronger is a more fun goal. I'm doing dumbbell stiff leg deadlifts, goblet squats, dumbbell inclined bench press (these don't bother my shoulder too much) and pulldowns.

Also, climbed Lone Mountain. It is, for me at least, a fairly difficult hike.

WTF, moving my left shoulder and almost not feeling a thing. My training program must have been seriously ****ed up. Wonder what I've been doing wrong, or everything. Think me oldie must figure out that by myself.

What part hurts? What movements hurt?

A bit of everything, no diagnosis but strain I guess. And it doesn't even hurt very significantly anymore, so answering becomes increasingly difficult . Guess "not feeling a thing" is good. Almost had begun to forget what that is...

Anyhow, will continue the rest and watch if everything goes away. Then I may add one move at a time and follow what happens. If there's some pain at New Year I will add some upper body anyway, as long as it doesn't get worse.

Exercise can be bad. I'm not the Rebel of Eden for nothing

Anyhow lower-middle body is holding out well so far, not like I'm running out of training objects...and have trained my fingers all the time, must show a video at some point, spinning around the wooden gym stick.

No (or even little) pain is good. Went to the gym today. Skipped the bench presses because I'm old and frail.