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It is really awesome that you're finding the idea helpful. That's one of the things I love about this place; seeing what other people are doing and how you might be able to apply it.

Plan for today Put lotion on feet✔️ Work✔️ Drink bottle of plain water✔️ Clean water chamber ✔️ Clean pedestal fans✔️ Shower✔️ Brush and floss✔️ In bed by 10✔️   Plan for today Listen to praise music Put lotion on feet Work Drink bottle of plain water Shower Tidy around chair Tidy around night stand Start meal planning Brush and floss In bed by 10

Lift. 2x week. It didn't work last time, let's try it again, eh? Monday & Saturday mornings. It doesn't even have to be the program, FFS. Just move something heavy-ish up and down a few times. Walk. 2x week. Before work, when possible to avoid the heat. Alcohol. None on weeknights. Snacks. Think about when/why. This is often due to boredom. Fix the boredom with something other than food.   -----   Yesterday was not a lifting day. I did briefly noodle on what a routine would look like if I added a third day of lifting. And then promptly let it sit, since I don't want to distract myself by thinking about next challenge before this one is even finished. I did get a walk yesterday after my morning meetings, before it got tooooooo warm out. No alcohol. Snacks were a bit out of control. Sharks are here and I have some other fun hormone things going on, so my urge to eat is somewhat all-consuming. I will attempt to be more thoughtful about this today.     Yesterday I did not do the dishes, dye my hair, or sew. I did have a phone chat with my doctor so am feeling like there is some kind of direction there. She was thoughtful, listened well, answered my questions, and gave me what felt like a very individualized plan of attack moving forward. As I've only ever had 'routine' appointments with her in the past, I was happy with her approach when there is an actual issue.

Easier said than done! How do I feel like a worthwhile human being if I'm not suffering and struggling? 🙄

I have questions.

Thank you for the list idea.  I've been having a rough time and keeping myself focused is difficult.  But I copied your list making idea and its been working well for a few days.

Wow! It sounds super busy,  and I am glad you are finding some positives in all the busy.  Great job too on the PR!

I'm curious if you have any insights on the difference. It's not something I've put any time into thinking or learning about. I know BJJ was an outgrowth of, I guess, JJJ but I assume some things were emphasized and de-emphasized in translation. 

Well this battle log certainly hasn't been daily. I'll have to work on that I've been a little busy with life. I had a visit from my parents last weekend with just blows up my whole week as I then spend my week trying to catch back up to my usual prep work from the weekend.    I have failed so far to get Notion running how I would like. That's primarily because I've had 0 spare bandwidth for it. For the moment I settled for an index card. It's currently got 6 items on it with one of them crossed off. It doesn't do most of what I want from my fantasy version of a to-do list but it's good enough to make sure a handful of things don't fall off my radar. So I'll limp along on that for a while.  I'll update when I have more.   A couple loose updates: I finally got a date for the gym schedule change. April 29th we're starting the 6:30 class. The plan was (foreshadowing) that I would back up the instructor for that class. If he was sick or life happened, I'd unlock the gym and sub for him. He backed out the day before the new schedule was announced. Knowing him, it almost feels inevitable. This put the gym owner in a tizzy as he had already had a bunch of students commit to the class time so he didn't want to cancel. He's not a mornings guy and does not want to be at the gym that early so he's not going to do it.  So The Professor approached me. I told him I don't specifically want to teach at this time but I'm willing to teach. So, I'm being added to the instructor pool. He promises he's going to rotate other instructors through and I'll only have to cover here and there. He and I are both hopeful that some other instructor will fall in love with that time slot but I think we both feel like, it may fall to me long term, eventually.  Regardless, whole new schedule starts in a week and a half-ish. It will look something like this: 5:30 Wake up (same time as current) 5:30 - 6:30 Shower, dress, get to the gym (BJJ on Tuesday and Thursday, rec on MWF) 6:30 - 7:30 Train 7:30 - 8:00 Bonus Training (I'm planning to keep the gym open and stay on the mats for a half an hour after class ends) 8:00 - 9:00 get home, shower, make a quick breakfast (I may also take a Skratch supplement to the gym so I can delay my first prepared meal) 9:00 - 10:00 work: meetings (current schedule) 10:00 - 12:00 work 12:00 - 1:00 make lunch, try to get a walk in or some bonus movement 1:00 - 3:30 work 3:30 - 4:00 snack 4:00 - 5:00 work 5:00 - 6:00 guitar & french (same as current schedule) 6:00 - 8:00 dinner prep, dinner, hang out with Laura (times are really fuzzy at this point but just kind of laying out a template 8:00 - 9:00 light house chores 9:00 - 10:00 Bed, read, unwind 10:00 if I made it this far without falling asleep, lights out   So, I'm basically taking my training block at the end of the day and pushing it to first thing. They also moved Marathon Roll later and to Mondays, which I'm not a fan of, at all. I will try to do a few but I'm open to the idea that I may have to drop this from my schedule.  I will plan on still attending Friday's midday class. This will shorted my Friday work day a bit but people can get over it. It's my chance to get in some no-gi and get in a weekly battle with Stan.    Jumping topics I was concerned this week when my body weight seemed to be holding slightly higher than I want, I was weighing in at 196. I decided to remove some calories and push it back down. It almost immediately dropped below 195, to 193 this morning. So I think it was just water weight from my parents visiting. I'm going out for dinner with a friend tonight so I'm going to leave them alone but if I slide into Monday without a weigh in about 195, I'll go back up. to 2300.    Obviously other stuff has gone on since my last update but nothing I'm going to worry about at the moment. I'll work on my consistency with logging but this is all for now. 

I am sorry Sal.  Sending a big hug and love this morning.  I hope you can find some peace.  Maybe a quick walk with Bronze…or even just pets and some play time?  Dogs are really good at helping us combat stress/anxiety.