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Hey all.    Been a real whirlwind challenge.    Saturday night we had 10 people over somehow all in the living room. Drinking / music / horror films.    2am and people still going, i drank alcohol free beer until 1.30am - then moved onto tea HAHA   Funny and strange to be sober, with a cup of tea, whilst everyone else is doing tequila shots!!!! 😯   Everton won on Sunday for the first time in forever. And we hung out with our friend all afternoon/evening. Took Bronze who had a blast with their dog.              I went to the docs, they think i have tendonitis. So need to get ibuprofen gel.  me and Roxy are going to try to eat less meat. I have got some veggie chicken to try tonight. I hope i like it. Its the main thing i never liked (i prefer veggie mince and i like veggie sausages etc but never found chicken that i like)    It is a new one so fngers crossed.    Love you all xx

Hormones and eventually a razor has solved this problem for me .

W4D7:  one DPZ in the morning.  I fasted until the evening, then I ate a light dinner.  That seemed to jumpstart the hunger sharks again, and my subsequent evening snacking ran the day's total almost up to target.  1706 kcal for the only green day of the week.   Week 4 Check-in:  214.6 lbs on the scale, which is a little higher than I anticipated.  Looks like this is going to be my first challenge since respawning that ends higher than it started.  That was bound to happen eventually.   W5D1:  one regular DrP and a bunch of DPZs.  Eating was way high.  Morning was consumed with church duties, which was nice, then I did some shopping on the way home.  I spent the afternoon and early evening in the kitchen doing meal preps (week's lunches and Sunday family dinner), then the rest of the day was just chilling with games and YouTube.   W5D2:  woke up cruddy again and took another sick day.  I stuck to one DPZ in the late morning, but I didn't bother to rein in my calories and I didn't do anything for Move either.  Spent the whole day on the couch surfing YouTube and eating all the remaining gluten-free foods and snacks I bought/made over the weekend.  I was finally able to get a good night's sleep without any cold medicine last night, and I woke up this morning feeling much better.  Let's hope that translates to a good streak for the remainder of this week.

Hunger didn't stay quelled for long, and the illness (or its effects) is being stubborn.  I keep thinking I've kicked it, but then a coughing fit will jack up my sleep.  Hope to be rid of it soon.   I wish I could think of a couple easy wins to shoot for, but at the moment I'm kind of stuck.  I got my performance appraisal at work last week which was excellent.  I did manage to fix a toilet at home on Friday, so that was nice.  My guitar playing at church on Sunday was pretty not bad.  Fitness-wise I made a tasty meatloaf with mashed potatoes for this week's lunch prep.  I'll take those.

Blue raspberry!! That's not my favorite, but I do like that it turns my tongue blue.    Did you have these pops as a kid too?   And thanks! I'm really excited. Like it feels like old school summer vacation!  

Grape and blue raspberry!    I hope you really enjoy the break and feel restored in the fall.  

DANGIT!! How? How did so much happen in the last few weeks that I thought the challenge was closed and Reflection Week was nearly over?   Okay, Universe, I hear you!!!!   Anyway, steady is the course for the next ten days as we do the rest of the work that is in front of us. ❤️ 

and this is not to be sniffed at! I've got so much better at declining food I don't need and freezing things for later but Past Me was the worst for it...

Monday BJJ Training went well. We continued with back attacks. Straight jacket to the overhook, hip in to roll your opponent to their belly, dismount to the strangle/overhook side. Walk your body over their should then turn your belly up to strangle.    I had a great roll with Stan, it was well over ten minutes and we were both gassed at the end. We started from standing and both times we were standing he tried to pul guard and I caught it and just stepped around. We had a variety of sweeps and passes but we both attempted to work our bottom kimura game which mean we both got to practice defending that as well. It made me got much deeper into it, having an opponent who was actively working the same mechanics. At one point I abandon the kimura and went for a baseball bat choke and it got close. I could feel that panicked fight come on. However he moved the correct way and it loosened up.  The biggest thing he kept trying to work was his three attempts at back stepping my halfguard for the leg lock. The first time I shoulder clamped him and took top. The second time I scooted under and he turned to face me so we ended up neutral. The third time I just could not make my body react fast enough and he got to the leg lock and that was the end of the round.    Monday night was Arkham Horror with a friend. It was a single worst game I think we've ever played. We had mediocre builds, bad tactics and a dose of bad luck and by about 4 turns in it was obvious that we weren't going to win. Two more turns later and Jeff was out so we called it. Ah well. We'll try again in a couple weeks   Tuesday This morning was my practice run on the new schedule. I got up at the usual time. i didn't really need a pregym shower but given that I'll need one for BJJ next week, I took one. Headed over to the rec. It was busier than I expected Leg Extension 60: 19, 18, 17, 16, 15,  Leg Curl 60: 19,18, 17, 16, 15 Sumo Squat 210: 10, 10, 9 Cable Curl 35: 17, 13, 11 Cable Tricep Extension 40: 22, 17, 13     I came home and had my oatmeal that I prepped in advance and have just been enjoyiung some downtime. Time to get to work those, eight straight hours.  

Ugh, hope this stabilises enough for you to get what you want done 🤞