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Things have still been going well. Tracking food, still moving, making progress on several projects. Biggest difficulty is not wearing PJs to work from home.  

Doesn't seem viable at my office. I'd get startled whenever someone I didn't hear is suddenly standing next to me...       Although that already happens when I'm listening to music that's too loud... 😁   Good to hear I'm not alone in this. 😇

Maybe try starting smaller. I am basically trying to reduce sweet stuff in my diet, like sweet cereals, jam, cake, sweets, chocolate, sugared yogurts. That kind of thing.  having a savory breakfast has really helped. Like scrambled eggs, omelette or  fruit and greek yogurt.  i havent cut out sugar completely, ive just picked fewer sweet snacks, try to be aware of what I'm choosing when out. Trying to pick fruit, nuts or a healthy snack instead of sugar. .  do i manage to stick to it every week 😆 nope. Have i found i want to eat less sugar now. 100%. (Which is a big thing for me. Very sweet tooth)   If you don't have the mental space to count cals, cutting down on sugar and highly processed foods is a good option. Basically what my brother is doing at the moment (and it is working for him). 

Sorry for the TMI, but ^these^ actually gave me a blister on my bum two weeks ago... 😬   That'll teach me to do stuff like this with my jeans on. It was the middle belt loop, I tell ya! 😅

Good suggestion. I will google. Always looking for new things.   Tell me about it. I have yet to get all the way through any beginners yoga vid, regardless of length. 15mins is max for me, the instant they start doing downward dog it kills me.    There are probubly other options too. I have seen chair tai chi, but sadly i have found sourcing normal thai chi vids is a complete pain let alone specialist ones.    The free version of lose it was good. I found it Nice and low fuss. Worked a thousand times better than my fitbit app. 

I am feeling better today than I was yesterday. I was overly tired and exhausted and basically went after writing my post. I am very aware I need to make changes so I will ponder on more on that.* Feet still suck and it was super painful to get up at 3am and walk to the bathroom. But it hasn't been that bad since so I am grateful. It's not great but its just painful instead of incredibly painful   Its the little things.    Today and tomorrow my plan is to rest my feet and work on my tamagotchi app. I went back to bed after dropping Mr.R off and got some much needed extra sleep. When I woke up, I went and paid my mechanic bill because I was afraid I would forgot because I stole my car back last night (with their permission). Later today, I will go pick up Mr.R; it sounds like they are coming back early but I have no clue when.    *I am really playing with the idea of trying no added sugar but I have some doubts... mainly I have a little voice in the back of my head saying that's a big change and you can't even count calories.. how can you try removing added sugar from your diet when it is literally everywhere. The other little voice is saying how its going to be hard because of the foods we like to eat and it's not just me who lives here. Mr.R also needs to lose a lot of weight but I don't know if he would be down for no added sugar. I think it would be more do-able once I get into a routine of home cooking and sticking to whole foods but everything has sneaky added sugar so it would still be hard. 

I feel I have been like this since April 2022 maybe. I think it is worth a shot to try a different app. At this point in my journey I do need the gentle reminders to keep myself in check.    She is! Roomy mainly takes care of her during the day so I can focus on coding stuff or if I go to my parents to clean. Then I mostly take care of her at night it seems. And I do the middle of the night bathroom trips. Those at least are getting better. I think since Wednesday last week she's consistently only needing to go out once during the night and sometimes she's good until 5:30.    I hadn't thought to look for chair yoga or pilates. Thats a great suggestion. I will look for videos to add. I had a few "beginner movement" yoga videos but I run into issues when you need to do poses that put a lot of weight on your wrists.    Hey 1/3 is still really good and it's only a matter of time until you can conquer 2/3 and then 3/3. Have you tried yoga ball crunches? Those were the most effective for me out of the gate. An old personal trainer got me to do them and at first I was like pfft easy.... too easy... how can these be effective. But effective they were.    Lol my midsection feels sore just looking at this. Does that count?

"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   ditto with the job situation. Hope it makes your routine more set and helps you.    Agreed. new puppy is alot of energy. It is so cute though.  chair exercises sound like a good things to try. I think you can do yoga or Pilates or something similar in a chair too.    the daily dare is great, but 2/3 of the posted excercises are a non starter for me at the moment.  i have enough trouble doing the vanilla flavour of situps at the moment without adding extra arm stuff in 😆