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As someone who frequently does her workouts in shorter chunks throughout the day, I do not like this. Time to get back to the longer walks, I guess.

"Into this man’s blameless life would come Thomas Nightingale like a carelessly thrown brick in the glassware section of Lillywhites." I mean, I'm sold based on that.

Anything you accidentally do once or twice is unlikely to be dangerous. (Apply advice within reason. Certain food items, as the late Terry Pratchett observed, are obviously edible, but only the once.) The caveat to Jarric's advice I'd give is that it may not apply if you've been chronically dieting or at calorie restriction. Chronic undereating is thought to not go well. I suspect it may have been a component of the really unfortunate results I saw, where my body chose to drop my BMR rather than my weight. Sometimes a brief reset at maintenance is suggested. Basically, calculating the numbers is easy - pick a number between your TDEE and BMR that means somewhere under a 7000 calorie deficit for the week. Applying them in real life can be more fiddly, because bodies don't always listen to calculators in the expected way, in both good and bad ways.

My library system doesn't have it as a book! Maybe just a matter of time, they have most of the others. I may have to relisten, though, despite the reader making me want to painful things with a spoon. (The next novella is coming out this September, by the way. Title not announced, but subject announced.)

The best.

The last time I did this experiment at six calorie levels for six months, I had a spread of over a thousand calories (net, total adjusted to account for exercise) where I maintained my weight at every tier of deficit. But at the lower tiers, my joints ached all the time and it took me three days to recover from the short hikes I was doing every day without effort at the higher tiers. My metabolism shifted down to stop doing physical repairs instead of dropping weight. (I had to stop the lowest tier early, I was just too unwell to go the whole month.) And it turned out I still maintained at 400 calories above what I thought my maintenance was. So it can get complicated.

Hellebores are also an interesting thought...

It's used for moderating content, usually. Like removing spam or something that needs an admin discussion, or holding back something not ready to go live yet. It makes no sense to me why non-admins have a hide button when they have no unhide button and can't access the post once they hide it, but there you go. If you hide anything accidentally, a guild leader or someone can unhide it for you.

I'm doing stuff. Mostly. But not tracking. Fuck tracking.

Unacceptable. Both for that movie and because the world needed one movie with Rutger Hauer as the romantic lead. Roy Batty sadly doesn't count. I too have requested Ladyhawke from the library. There will be a rewatch.

That particular album is a religious experience at the proper volume, it's true.

It's week one. Time for a new project. 11:03 NO MY BRAIN ISN'T WORKING 11:05 Five minutes. Five minutes a day on the two big projects. 11:09 Okay. I guess. 11:13 Wait. I'm not done with last week's. 11:14 Yeah. Keep doing those. 11:15 Oh nooooooo 11:18 11:19

Woo-hoo! That was easier than convincing @Mistr to let Molly into her life.

Can I tempt you with a "showing up is half the battle" challenge this go around?

I have been reminded to plant fennel in the garden. I love fennel.

I turned to find a stocky black woman in a strapless red dress, cut low enough to show off broad, muscled shoulders, and cut high enough to reveal legs that could do an Olympic time hundred meters without taking off the high heels. Her hair was shaved down to a fuzz, and she had a wide mouth, flat nose, and her mother's eyes. I was caught in a wash of clattering machines, hot oil, and wet dog. The cold didn't seem to be bothering her at all. Madame Tang bowed, properly. As well she might, given that she was in the presence of a goddess -- that of the river Fleet. Training Performance Report Officer: Sara Kingdom Date: 27/03/24 Department: Special Assessment Unit Physical Formae Daily Crura impello Arma scindere Scindere practice set Bonuses Boxing practice Dance Visit genii locorum Support Electrolytes Hydration Meds Vitamins Electrolytes. Meds. Vitamins. Score: 1 Mental Formae Tool Reversal of desire Cue Avoiding a task, restless, distracted Score: Recovery 2 hours practice, start before noon. 6-8 hours sleep. In bed by midnight Sleep points. (And my deficit is 12 hours.) Well done. Score: 1 Silentium Mentis Mindfulness Metta Cast a magical circle or ground energy Score: Home Front Reintegration Yoga nidra Podcast Yoga (regular) Yoga nidra. Score: 1 Record Keeping Make a daily plan Journal practice Make a weekly and monthly plan Score: Spring Cleaning Make a daily plan Project work Make a weekly project plan Did a cleaning task. Made a daily plan. Score: 2 Space reserved for office use Date rec'd: Initialed by: Form ID: Zulu Foxtrot 18.C.68-v2-Jun-1977 (ZF.18.C.68/1977.06) (Supercedes form 64B from Nov 1932) For internal use only. Sensitive records. Not to leave the Folly.

Showing up is the win. That's the keystone habit, as the cool kids say. Some challenges, that's what the challenge is.

Cut to avoid too much clutter here, and also medical discussion involving weird symptoms. So in general, I'm inclined to believe the doctors with the more aggressive diagnosis. They're more likely to be using current science. It's probably the compromise I'd use on your place.

A more Christmassy version of lemon pepper. One for the spring, one for the winter.

The Germans secured that one, I'm afraid. (The French have a claim on the earliest prototype about a century earlier, but it was steam-powered, not a car in the modern sense.)