May update:
From the beginning of the year, I'm down 16 lbs, 4.5" from the waist, and 2" off the hips. I'm pretty much on the pace for fat loss that I set for myself. I'm a little behind on lean gains. Not really worried about it, I'm focusing more on health and athleticism more than hitting certain numbers or bulking up. I'm pretty sure I'm thinner than I was on my wedding day a decade and half ago.
I've been getting to the gym a lot more last month - I'm going during lunch, which limits time but greatly improves with consistency (4 kids and a lot of after school activities).
I want to be more deliberate about diversifying workouts: zone 2 and zone 3 cardio, plyometrics, and white-fiber focused weight workouts into my schedule. I'm thinking about turning every 3rd workout into a revolving door. Will essentially one day per month actually going to be enough to get anything out of these? I was doing zone 3 once a week in the fall and didn't feel it was doing much.
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Commenting on the protein talk: it don't make a shit. Studies that identify a certain chemistry/mechanism in the body almost always fall flat when follow ups measure the actual final outcomes, or there's like one or two genetic outliers that carry the average. This goes beyond the body: complex systems generally don't produce the overall outcomes intuited from first-order results. If it is working for you, don't fix it.