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I found using an app really helped me. Takes much of the legwork out of the calore counting. Im using lose it right now and its working really well for me as an app. Usually i burn out on calorie counting really quickly, but its made a big difference in lowering the usual monotony level. Might be worth a go.    Reducing how much sugar i was eating is really helping too.  sicking with stuff is hard when you feel tired. 100% been there. I like the monthly reset ethos thing on here though. It helps when you have a bad month and need another whack at something, no pressure, no feeling bad.  I started out trying to do one full work out a week and failed pretty fast (CFS is a bitch) so im having a go with doing small isolated sets, like in the daily challenge thread (only easier ones, becuase some of the ones they post look so intimidating. I am not made for butterfly sit ups 😆). So one day i will do just 20 jug rows (or whatever my body decides is the cut of point) and that will be it for the day. Maybe something like that would work well for you too?   

Multiple posts coming up! 😁     Thursday: The usual long walk in the evening didn't happen, because I had other priorities. Not going into more detail about that. 😇   I did do two DailyDare exercises, though, for the first time in quite a while. Although I thought it would be the start of actually doing daily mini-workouts again, that didn't happen. I did the two exercises on Thursday, and then nothing again until yesterday. Hopefully, this restart will be more successful... 😅     Friday: Worked from home. Went for a walk during my lunch break, and for an extended walk during TimovieDaughter's football practice in the evening. Mrs. Movieman went to see a football match with TimovieSon, so I had the entire evening alone with TimovieDaughter.   Saturday: Early football match for both TimovieSon and TimovieDaughter. Since they got into bed late on Friday, that meant they were tired for most of the day. Did some shopping in the afternoon. The kids both have a 3-day school trip coming up in a few weeks, and they needed some supplies. Brother-in-law visited in the afternoon/evening, so that meant we (and by "we", I mean brother-in-law, TimovieSon and me) played a lot of darts, that there were appetisers and takeaway dinner.   Sunday: Got to sleep in for a bit. Should've spent part of the afternoon clearing the rest of the sidewalk of weeds, but between late breakfast, cleaning the litter boxes, vacuuming the house and making lunch, there wasn't a whole lot of time left before we went to my mother-in-law's. So I just watched the cycling on TV instead (Liège-Bastogne-Liège). The most important part of the weeds-job has been done anyway. The rest can wait.   World Championship Snooker started as well, so that potentially means there is going to be a lot of sleep deficit the coming weeks. Although I'm managing to get in bed relatively early for my doing lately. But that's because I'm tired. I have a cold I can't seem to get rid of - so I constantly have a runny nose, which means I can't breathe properly when asleep, so I sleep with my mouth open, which leads to a dry throat in the morning and thus a developing cough. It's one big vicious cycle. And I get nudged awake more at night, because open mouth = snoring. 😅 I'm not sick, but I'm not 100% either. 🙄

Yeah, I used to do a toned-down version of this as well. Usually just "How was your day?" "Fine." "Anything in particular?" "The usual." The idea being: I just got home, leave me alone for 20 minutes to wind down. I don't want to talk now, and if I do, then I'll start the conversation myself.   Although I still kinda do that. The reverse as well: if I'm not interested, I'll tune out, and chances are that it's going to be highly visible that I'm not paying attention.    I blame it on my autism spectrum disorder, though. 😇         On another note: yikes, I've been neglecting my own thread! 😱 It's not like I haven't been present, I've posted in the Weight loss PVP, and in the DailyDare threads. I just never got around to actually posting in this thread...   Maybe I need to make more posts, but shorter ones? That way I get to post what I want to talk about, without it being one big time-consuming write-up that eventually gets postponed??? 🤔

Hasn't happened yet! It's for this Saturday.

It was. I still need more sleep, but I feel a lot less stressed.     We call it "alone-time". We've unintentionally developed a rule through the years that if one of us asks for alone-time, they immediately get it, no questions asked.  And to be able to go off and have that solitude and know that it won't be taken as a negative, or misunderstood, is something I am grateful for. Any introvert who needs this in their life, deserves to have it.  

Sending you a Care Bear Stare!!  

The imposter syndrome is strong right now. I think it's mostly work related, but it seems to be draining the energy I could have used to drive to the gym the last two days. Yuck.

2024 - Year of Progression Word of the Year: Consistency  Sleep: 10 Hrs Water: 1/4   Meals:  7:30am - Coffee 11:30am - Coffee, yogurt parfait 3:30pm - Coffee, sandwich 6:00pm - Diet Soda, chicken, pasta, veggies, cookies 8:30pm - Protein Cookie   Fitness: Rest Day   Language: 0 Portuguese Lesson 0 Spanish Lesson 0 Japanese Lesson   Reading: 0 min   Meditation: 5 Min   Notes: What a day, roughest one in a while. Mrs. ReturnOfTheDad found a lump last week. We got it checked out today with a mammogram and ultrasound. Doctor thinks it’s cancer. Have a biopsy scheduled tomorrow to find out more. Should have the results by next week. Just going to try and be there for her as much as I can and stay in the moment. The future is too much to think about right now.

It's definitely an option. I just need to commit to actually doing it then sticking with it. Which is where I seem to be extra struggling. I have a YouTube playlist of exactly that. 

Should last through the weekend, I think.  It's due to get hot again next week though.  How was lunch?