NightWatcher13

I'm in love with that tiger painting! The two cat paintings sound cool too, and look like they have a solid start with the lineart.

I would try not to be too self conscious about it; he's probably had a few other folks with a similar issue crop up, and may not have to manipulate anything too close for comfort at all if it's hip related. And he might just have some stretches he can recommend without him doing anything to it. (Mine's had to basically reassemble me a couple of times at this point) That does tend to affect mood a bit 😕 I've had days go from ok to wanting to bawl my eyes out over nothing and usually those 2 are the culprits. Also, I hear you on the coffee calories - why does coffee need so much creamer to taste good?!?! Hopefully the rest helped with the DOMS, have you gotten to soak in a bath much with it?

I usually use NIV for mine Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. This, but also it reminds us that we'll never have it all figured out either - it's a journey, not a destination, and we're all a work in progress. I like that it encourages us to continue pressing onward, rather than looking at what we have achieved and saying "Ya know what, I've done enough." - which is an easy mindset to fall into

At least the orders were from folks you know in person! Online customer service is a massive pain in the butt, and unfortunately internet strangers can be absolutely rude even when things go well with a sale. Hopefully the underboob cream helps; I had a rash under mine last time I went to my gyno and he recommended an anti-fungal cream for mine that cleared up whatever the issue was (which... will probably be back in the summer, because boobs are annoying)

The other thing I'd pay attention to while you're limiting yourself to 1400/day is how your body feels - if you're starting to feel super fatigued and not doing so great, that's when you definitely want to re-evaluate where you're at.

Definitely doesn't sound bad at all, and you got a lot of activity front loaded into the early part of the week it sounds like. Meditation is definitely not easy to keep up with, especially when you're not used to it.

Week 1 : end of week checkin SQ1 - Doing yoga before work : 3/4 Trainee got rescheduled to Thursday after missing Tuesday, so I got up early that day as well... and no trainee. But I also didn't wind up getting my yoga in that morning. Overall, yoga is becoming more of a normal thing, as is waking up more regularly (getting up early aside) which I think is mostly due to the more regular exercise. SQ2 - Food prep on days off : 1/2 I got food prepped for 2 of my working days, but the other 2 not so much - mostly an issue of having the containers I use to take them in clean or not. I wound up taking in much junkier food Tuesday, and Friday didn't take anything for lunch (did have a smoothie for breakfast at least) - but luckily Friday wound up being a pizza day for hitting 90 safe days for the plant, which aside from free food, yay for no injuries for 3 months SQ3 - Getting cardio in VR :2/2 I actually got 3 days in on the VR this week, which was really nice with all the crappy weather going on here. I did wear myself O U T between Thursday & Friday though (mostly at work & with getting up 1-2 hrs early twice this week) - I got off Friday, was perky for the first 3-4 hours of my online Star Wars game, then sometime between 11 and midnight my brain just started shutting down, and once we hung up the game I basically passed out until 11 am Saturday morning. No footage of the cat unfortunately since she exists IRL, but Kitana decided to "help" me with my VR stuff earlier today 🤣 Some food stuff from the last week: Lunch on my day off (smoothie, tea, and carrots/naan with hummus); spaghetti squash & meatballs, I did the squash whole in the instant pot which was WAY easier than trying to cut it while raw; smoothie pre-mixing - chocolate meal replacer(i've used chocolate/vanilla almond milk alternatively), peanut butter, frozen berries, fresh banana, about a cup of spinach and some crushed flaxseed. Also, yoga cat tax:

Aww, thanks 🙂 The food was honestly really good & simple, though I need to start upping the protein content (without upping everything else as well too much). That bujo is from Archer & Olive, I've only found a few blackout ones but I love how much the bright ink shows up on them. I cheat a bit with the Bujo setup - I have a stencil I use for the sleep tracker that makes setting that up pretty quick, and a few other decorative stencils for funzies My cats are a master class of "in the way" lol, we must have some sort of magnets in the yoga mats we're not aware of 😆 Oooh, those sound like really good leftovers! Yeah, the snow (especially the ridiculous amount of cold coming with it) is just getting old right now. I wound up getting 40 move minutes just from clearing off my car 🙄

Trainee called off, so I got to do my yoga and chill a bit after waking up early. I'm not looking forward to having to clean off the car to go in though

Quick update for the first half of week 1: I got lunch prepped for today last night, but didn't get it prepped for tomorrow due to not having another clean container (yaaaay dishes). Aaaand I may not be able to do yoga before work tomorrow, depending on whether I have to go in early to train or not - I'll be getting in touch with the supervisor tomorrow morning to find out if I need to be there before 7am or not (I'm normally not in until 8:30, and not even usually up by 7, so yuck) Otherwise, stuff's going ok *hides from the mountain of snow falling outside* I made a roast tonight, and do have some stuff prepped to go with me tomorrow for lunch. I got yoga in this morning, and did some VR after work to get some more exercise to help me sleep better tonight hopefully (I left early, between the snow and needing to potentially be there at 6:45)

Week 0 - End of week check in (tonight's food prep technically falls on next week, because my see-saw schedule is W E I R D) SQ1 - Doing yoga before work : 3/4 I did yoga before work 3 days this week. (Obligatory helpful cat tax) SQ2 - Food prep on days off : 2/2 This was basically what I prepped for lunches: SQ3 - Getting cardio in VR :2/2 Got this in Thursday and today. Including clearing Greatest Show on expert for the first time And I'm doing longer BoxVR classes on average than I had been, more like 15-20 min rather than 10-15 min. Overall, I'm pretty happy with this week

He requires ALL the hugs!!! (Sloths are too adorable) I still need to read farther than the first comic! But I'm absolutely in love with the story and characters, and have loved Lying Cat since I first saw the grumpy face online. Looking forward to any horse/pokemon/mass effect art... whether separate or all of the above, though I for one vote for Garrus riding a rapidash

Oooh, I like the achievement goal setup! Also, that bujo page is perfect Oooh, I want in on bible verse hangout

(reposting since I accidentally hid the last one ) Yay date night! Hopefully you had fun I had the sore glute thing with some of my yoga practice actually; new movement / usage seems to just make the muscles go "ew, no - why would you make me do this?!" I'm glad the Advil helped

Oh my gosh I love the orca doodle! And yay progress!

Week 0 M-Th check in: So far so good; meal prep for T/W got done Monday night, I still need to prep F/Sa meals tonight but have the lettuce chopped and eggs boiled to make the salads I've been taking in tonight. I got yoga in Tuesday, but not yesterday before work - I was chatting with my little sister who's visiting this week before she went to work, and didn't leave enough time to do yoga without pushing me later at work than I wanted to be with her here. VR cardio today was a mix of Beat Saber (since SOMEONE mentioned FitBeat 😆)and BoxVR - I did some Swordsman in there as well, but had a hard time getting my heart rate up with that one. So only 1 point down so far this week. Since I know there's a few other bujo folks in here, this is what my tracking page & month view for this month look like: Lunch today : Chicken thigh with diced sweet potato (both with a bunch of herbs - lemon pepper, sage and fresh cracked pepper on the chicken; ginger, fresh cracked pepper, and salt for the potato) And of course, the assistants offering corrections to my yoga warmup this morning before VR stuff:

Heyas! Missed chatting about VR game stuff and general life stuff ...You know what I had to do today now, right? EVERYONE STEP TO THE LEFT Yay! I added you back The VR games are definitely pretty awesome for getting movement in while staying at home. Thanks Glad to be back Thanks! Welcome back and good luck on your challenge as well. I know for me with how crazy the last year + was, I was way past due for an update here Hopefully I can make it stick this time ^^; I'm a little tired of having to reboot the system, hopefully the new patch fixed some of the new bugs from the last couple of years Thanks! Good to be back

I hear that! And you got this.

Awesome looking challenge, and we're basically twins on the weight and weight goal for end of the year! (Am also at 250/just under, and aiming for under 200 lbs by the end of the year) You must be the Schwarzenegger to my Devito

I feel this in my soul!!!

I hear that; mine's been a lifesaver more than once! I'm glad the CT came back normal and you're feeling better. Hormones be mean though

1 pint please!

Following with the Baby Yoda theme

Holy crap, was this really only September? It feels longer ago. I missed you folks New challenge / respawn is up

Acute systems failure due to known glitches with the 202.0 program. Please reboot your system and apply the 202.1 patch. (More details on 202.0 crash here) So far, the 202.1 patch & update is working much better on my end - I'm halfway through a 30 days of yoga series (which is probably the longest I've continued a workout series in years), am back on a 4*10hr shift schedule which is making food prep much easier for me to handle, and I got myself a Fitbit which is a very bossy little helper that also helps keep me on track. So now that last month didn't (entirely) suck, time to hop back in here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Main Quest: Reclaiming my health I'm moving from aiming for my time, which got entirely away from me last year due to gestures broadly, but that's mostly because I actually have gotten back to a 2 days on/one day off schedule, which should help. SQ1 - Doing yoga before work (4/week) I'm really lucky with my work in that if I go in a bit later than I want to get there, I don't get in trouble - only downside is that if I go in later, I work later to make sure I get in my hours. So last month, I decided that I didn't care if it made me "late" for work, I was working out before I went in with some yoga. Which I haven't done perfectly, due to some muscle soreness from not being used to doing things like downward dog, but on the days I have I've noticed a lot of improvements in my brain, and even on days when I haven't I'm noticing differences in things like my posture. SQ2 - Food prep on days off (2/wk) Prepping a lunch to go with me to work for the following 2 days basically so that I don't have to worry about that the days I'm working, since the last thing I feel like doing after 10-12 hr shifts is typically prepping food for the next day. SQ3 - Getting cardio in VR (2/wk) Because @Starpuck has created a monster, and also because right now Ohio is... awful. Legit, I am NOT going outside into -10 F or colder windchills right now. Plus the stuff on VR is a little easier on my joints than hitting pavement right now, eventually I want to play the rest of the way through Zombies, Run! - but that might wait until a) winter lets up a little bit, and b) I get a bit of weight off and feel a bit better in my knees especially. Which, right now I have P L EN T Y of options on VR between Beat Saber, Swordsman, BoxVR and Vader: Immortal dojo playing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hopefully this will give me a decent launching off point to start getting healthy again; I'm sitting at about 250 lbs right now and my joints and breathing H A T E me right now. Btw, for anyone who feels like it - I made an Insta for food & workout accountability, since it's easier for me to update on mobile than here is (Tapatalk does not like my phone... no idea why, but it won't let me do things) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCxj7PpgHe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link I'll be starting with this as Week 0, and damn it's good to be back.