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"How was school today?" - "Fine." "What did you do?" - "A lot." "Anything in particular?" - (blank stare)   Most likely with all of these conversations starting with me shouting their name until they actually hear me over the sound of their headphones.   Like you say: because teenagers. 😁

Monday: Worked from home, went for an extended lunch break walk.   Tuesday: Started working from home, until the technician from our internet provider came along (there was a broken coax cable apparently) to fix the internet issues we've had all week, then went to the office. Lunch break walk and another walk in the evening while Mrs. Movieman took TimovieDaughter to her swim class. Stayed up too late watching snooker.   Wednesday: Worked from home, went for a lunch break walk, and an extended walk in the evening during TimovieDaughter's football practice. Technician came again because that cable wasn't the only problem - the issues had returned by Tuesday evening. We now have an entirely new modem. Wi-Fi 6 compatible instead of Wi-Fi 5. No more issues since then. Did two DailyDare exercises. The ones from Monday and Tuesday. Was going to do the Wednesday one too, but it would've been the third quad exercise in a row and I wasn't up for that. Didn't do it later at night either, because I was too sleepy.   Today: Office, and a lunch break walk. Didn't bike to work for once, but went by car. TimovieSon has a football match in the evening. An away match. He's getting there with a class mate, but I'm going to go watch his game and bring him back home. Can't do that with my bike. It kind of annoyed me that, with all my colleagues complaining about traffic and all the road works everywhere - which is typical for an election year - I still got to the office 15 minutes faster than I would have by bike. It would've made me feel better about always biking to the office if the biking proved to actually be faster - I have a speed bike after all. Alas.     Week so far:   Week 5   M T W T F S S Intermittent fasting               Calorie intake               Calories spent               Calories in/out deficit               Curfew               Sleep               Avg. sleep 6h14 Steps               Avg. steps 16.25K Distance 24.46 km Workouts 0.2 Days with (mini-)workouts 1   This is one of the prettiest logs I've ever had. Check out all the green!!! This week's track record would've been perfect without the Tuesday night snooker sleep deficit. Hopefully, I get to maintain this run of form for the rest of the week!       In other news: holy shit, the line-up for the Alcatraz festival this summer is impressive!  I'm marking all bands with red, orange, yellow, green and dark green during my preparation, to gauge how interested I am in watching them. Dark green basically means "I know and love these guys and come hell or high water, I'm seeing them live!". Last year there were 8 bands like that, this year it's only three (Lord of the Lost, Paradise Lost and Feuerschwanz). But I'm discovering a fuckton of bands that I either didn't know or only knew tangiantly, that I'm now marking green. I'm only 2/3rds of the way in my preparation, but I've already marked *far* more bands green than I did last year. There's also a lot less red and orange. That means that when they release their actual time table, I'll probably have to make some decisions about *which* band I'm going to see if two interesting ones are playing at the same time... 😅 Last year, I only had *one* moment in the entire weekend where I had to make an actual decision. I favoured Brutus over Killswitch Engage then. With all the green I'm marking now, I'll have a lot more decisions to make. And probably a lot less "downtime" where nothing really interesting is playing. I'll have a *very* busy weekend it seems.     A lot of bands (even younger bands) that play "old school" metal or incorporate 80s influences, too. Even a few where I'm going "are these even hard enough for a metal festival?" - but since I'm not as much of a fan of the more extreme "death", "doom", "black" and "speed" metal subgenres, softer bands are far more up my alley.   Including these ones: The Night Flight Orchestra. Never heard of them before. But they sound more like a classic rock band in the vein of Journey and Foreigner than a metal band. Which means I'm *definitely* going to go see them. 😎   The Night Flight Orchestra - Divinyls  

Had the same issue. Had kind of burn myself out on it years ago and my brain refused to go back there

had a quiet ish day. Went out with my brother, tried jack fruit for the first time (which tasted a bit like mushroom to me, but it wasnt too bad). Did some bujo, but mostly chilled. Going for a short walk in a minute if it stops spitting.    made a second pan of tomato mix (didnt burn this one thankfully) which means i can do falafels in pitta with all the sides (there is a jar of pickled chillies on the shelf i keep looking at longingly).      really like how this weekly turned out. Scruffy paper borders turned out nicely.   ooh, sun is out. Best be off before it clouds over again

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Hi Friends!   Today will likely be the day which determines whether I will be traveling next week or not. The meeting is in the morning so plenty of time to plan/prepare. Plus I work tomorrow so I can finish up any last minute travel stuff.   I was absolutely not feeling the gym this morning. I woke up okay, about the same as yesterday, but not horrible like Tuesday. Unlike the rest of this week, I didn't improve once I started working out. I dragged the entire time.  I'm still not feeling it. Just one of those days I suppose and arms are my least favorite to work out which doesn't help.   Good on food still. I've got today planned and I'm within the 10g of each macro goal again, which is what Coach wants for consistency. Hopefully I can follow it. It's nice to have a tentative plan (lunch is already done and dinner is a tentative plan for reference) I can input into the app and then adjust from there. I make most of my adjustments with 2 snacks, one morning and one afternoon. I've really only had afternoon snacks on occasion but I've noticed I'm hungrier right after my workout and then need a morning snack to hold me over until lunch. This works well for my macro balancing and ensuring I'm getting enough food in to support my workouts. Talked with Coach and she gave me some ideas for next week, especially if I have to travel. Frozen protein (I found fully cooked chicken breast, chicken breast slices, and chicken nuggets so they're quick heat and eat), frozen starch (sweet potato fries - mouth is watering thinking of them a quick oven or air fryer option), and frozen veg to steam or boil real quick. It'll be nice to have for days I'm home if I do travel only a couple days next week. It might even be nice if I'm not traveling to simplify things!   I got a tentative outline for the Man on the MBA. I'll help him through that hopefully tonight (assuming I don't have a last minute late evening meeting to finalize things since many people are off tomorrow for their 9/80 - I am not).   All my Mundane Magic was done yesterday!!! I'm hoping much the same today but we shall see.   Budget is still good. I spent $80 but got 3 pairs of leggings to work out in. If I don't do laundry today, I won't have any leggings to work out in tomorrow morning, eek! It's an investment in my health and I've been thinking of adding to my workout wardrobe anyway. Realizing I didn't have anything for tomorrow made my mind up I needed to invest and I know I have the money (to go towards debt, I'll just take from that pool). I found a pair that had various colors/designs and very very high ratings on Amazon. Only $25 a piece. I went ahead and got 3 pair so I have spares (for example if I didn't want to do laundry until after the 10k on Sunday I'd need at least 2 more pair to get through tomorrow and the 10k itself). Otherwise, I'm right on track!

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.   -----   Just to get back to goals I missed Monday's lifting session this week due to previously described madness. Given the bustle of the rest of the week, I don't know that I'll be able to manage Saturday's session either, but we'll see how it shakes out. Definitely gotten plenty of walking in this week, however (including two just yesterday) No alcohol has been had. Snacks have been hit-or-miss. Some mini chocolates still left so those are periodic visitors, but also been managing with baby carrots + dressing, or string cheese, or (in a pinch) a Tbsp of peanut butter straight from the jar.     Thinky Thoughts have returned, though suspecting what I do now about my hormone situation, I feel like I can't trust any emotionally-based opinion point that floats through my head at the moment. I'm trying to sit with them and either analyze them objectively or sort of file them for later examination if they come up again. A journal would probably be helpful here, so I could see if there are patterns to when/why this stuff is coming up.

Same, but for me it was also that the question was so broad and showed that my parents did not have enough information about my day to ask anything more specific. Most days aren't that memorable so (even now) when I get asked how my day is/was, 'fine' is the most likely response. Anything beyond that will involve either a lot of boring detail that makes no sense, or even MORE boring detail as I attempt to provide context. "Fine" is way easier.   If my parents had asked something like "How did your geometry exam go? Any tricky proofs?" or "How was the feedback on that history paper you worked so hard on" or "Is Jamie still mad at Eloise?" it may have elicited a more in-depth answer.   Or maybe not. Because teenagers.

I have a huge mental block when it comes to calorie counting. I did it successfully before then all of sudden my brain said nah no more. But I didn't think to try a different app. I'll look into lose it. Ive seen it recommended more and people seem to like more than MFP.    Funny you mention reducing sugar. I was watching candida detox / no added sugar videos last night. I am very addicted to sugar so it's an idea I'm playing with.    Thanks it's nice to hear because it reminds me it's temporary.    I like it as well. I'm finding the new month used to feel so much more exciting and shiny before but I think that's just because of my life right now.  I'm hoping once I get a job a lot of things fall back into place. But it is still exciting to start a new challenge and get a fresh start .   I think that's a great suggestion but I feel even that might be too much for me mentally right now. I was doing okay getting out and walking more  but with me working at my mom's house, working on coding and the new puppy I'm having more trouble sorting my routine. And my feet are obviously more tired and sore than normal if I'm on them more during the day. Which is why I made a chair exercise playlist with shorter videos. They do seem more achievable at the moment. Cause I can just follow along mindlessly.    I'm going to need to look up what butterfly sit ups are lol I can already tell you there's a strong chance that I'm also not made for them lol.