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Monday, April 26, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: N/A Out to Lunch: Chicken breast, broccoli and sweet potatoes. Fruit Snacks: Bacon, string cheese, assorted nuts, dark chocolate candies. Dinner Time: Ribeye steak and asparagus. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: More than 72 ounces. Awesome hour: Completed. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Week 4 Recap Quest 1: Drink more water: F Quest 2: Walk my dogs: D Quest 3: Cook more, eat out less: F Quest 4: Awesome Hour: F Life Quests: Finished "The Professor and the Madman" and also finished "Flamer." Week 4 Total: F I've been quietly updating my battle log the past two weeks. Progress slipped quite a lot. I failed to get my meal prep done this past week, so that really threw me off. And Booklet had a pretty nasty bug bite on her paw that I've been treating. I decided to not take the dogs on walks until she heals. And I've been having some mental/emotional struggles, letting silly things to get to me. But I'm not going to let it derail me completely. One major success this past week: I finished two books! I read "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. " It's about how the OED came together and follows the primary editor as well as one of the biggest contributors, who did work for the dictionary from an asylum that he had been committed to because he shot and killed a man. Very interesting! I later learned that Mel Gibson made a movie adaptation and it was pretty controversial, but it strayed from the true elements quite a lot. The book is worth a read, the movie not so much worth a watch. The book was quite wordy (as you can imagine a book about the dictionary might be) so I chose a graphic novel for a quick read immediately after. "Flamer" is a fictional story about a boy at summer sleepaway camp struggling with acceptance of himself and his sexuality. I cried super hard while reading it and found it incredibly relatable. I highly recommend it! Now I'm reading a book that I started previously but sort of forgot about: "The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I'm not feeling it a whole lot, but I'm going to stick with it. Today I completed my meal prep, so that's a good start for the week. I've been thinking a lot about my mindset lately. I started a mentality podcast recently (The Mindset Mentor with Rob Dial). I'm not particularly fond of the host, but I do find the messages/themes to be thought provoking. I'd prefer to find a different podcast with similar messaging. I don't know, we'll see, maybe I'll stick with it. But when I was doing therapy a few years ago, my therapist talked about cognitive behavioral therapy, and I've been thinking about restarting it. I think the first time around I wasn't really ready to put in the work and effort into changing how I think. But I believe I'm more open and willing to put in the work now. And that's what the podcast focuses on, how to change the way you think about yourself. For example, he had an episode recently about how people dislike themselves and criticize their selves so harshly. He mentioned some experiment where women were tasked with writing down the things they didn't like about themselves. And then they had the women try to read those things to their younger sisters, and of course they didn't want to say those things because you don't say shitty things to ones you love. So the realization is meant to be that we should stop tearing ourselves down so much and be kinder to ourselves. I really need to learn how to do that for myself. And I fear that I'm taking out that harshness on some of the people I work with, so that's definitely no bueno.

Week 3 Recap Quest 1: Drink more water: C- Quest 2: Walk my dogs: F Quest 3: Cook more, eat out less: D+ Quest 4: Awesome Hour: D Life Quests: Made a lot of progress on my current book. Week 3 Total: D

Sunday, April 24, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: 4 eggs over medium, 3 slices of bacon, 4 cups of coffee. Out to Lunch: Half rack of honey BBQ ribs with side salad with ranch. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: Remaining half rack of ribs with broccoli and green beans. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: Completed. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Saturday, April 23, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: Denny's: Scrambled eggs, 4 slices of bacon, hashbrowns, and double berry and banana pancakes with syrup. Out to Lunch: Half rack of honey BBQ ribs with side salad with ranch. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: Remaining half rack of ribs with broccoli and green beans. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Friday, April 22, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: Brookside candies and posole. Out to Lunch: Birria tacos with rice and beans. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: More Brookside candies? Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Thursday, April 21, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: N/A Out to Lunch: Steak and chicken fajitas with tortillas, beans and rice. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: Applebees: Three cheese chicken penne with a side salad with ranch. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: N/A Out to Lunch: Chicken avocado salad. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: McDonald's: 10 piece nuggets, Big Mac and large fries w/Diet Coke. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: A quarter pound of Sweet & Hot jerky. Out to Lunch: 2 burritos with shredded beef, Spanish rice and green chile. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: 4 slices of leftover pizza. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Monday, April 19, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: A quarter pound of Sweet & Hot jerky. Out to Lunch: 2 burritos with shredded beef, Spanish rice and green chile. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: 4 slices of leftover pizza. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Sunday, April 18, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: N/A Out to Lunch: Garden salad with vinaigrette, 2 slices of pizza with pepperoni and green chile. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: Mango habanero wings with blue cheese and 2 more slices of pizza. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Saturday, April 17, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: 3 eggs over medium, 3 slices of bacon, 1 slice of toast with honey. Out to Lunch: Half of a birria pizzadilla Fruit Snacks: Chips with salsa, quacamole and dip, plus naan. Dinner Time: The remaining birria pizzadilla. Hold My Liquor: 4 shots of honey whiskey with a peach cocktail mix. Drink More Water: Probably less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Friday, April 16, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: Bowl of posole. Out to Lunch: Birria tacos with rice and beans from La Carreta. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: A quarter pound of Sweet & Hot jerky plus half a bag of dark chocolate pomegranate candies. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: 64 ounces or more. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Thursday, April 15, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: 3 over medium eggs, 3 slices of bacon, one slice of toast with raspberry jam and pepper jack cheese. Out to Lunch: Chicken breast, broccoli and sweet potatoes. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: Applebee's: Tuscan garden chicken salad. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Food & Liquor: Breakfast Enthusiast: Chicken breast, broccoli and sweet potatoes. Out to Lunch: Garcia's Sunset Grill: Steak fajitas with guacamole, sour cream, rice and beans. Fruit Snacks: N/A Dinner Time: 10 Maria's cookies, 3 cheese sticks. Hold My Liquor: N/A Drink More Water: Less than 64 ounces. Awesome hour: N/A. The New Workout Plan: The Warm Up N/A The Body Rock N/A A Long Walk N/A The Cool N/A