thesedateone

Okay, so gastric flu messed up that week. Let's try that again, with some feeling this time!

Yea man, I feel that mid thirties vibe. It's all just a little bit harder than it was 5 years ago, things don't heal as fast and stuff that used to be easy kicks your behind unexpectedly. Respawning myself this week, and after 3 months on the couch, after 6 months on the couch, after 6 months on the couch; I'm taking it real easy this time. Good luck! May the Force be with you!

First week has gone really well, stuck to my exercise, recorded food and checked the forums multiple times. If I make it to Sunday afternoon without messing up my schedule I will reward myself with a new battle log and try my hand at a bit of a narrative based quest. I am not a fan of weekends. I find it much easier to keep my diet on track on work days because I stay busy. Saturdays are boring and become protracted battles of willpower to not eat all the things... Maybe I just stick to making the same lunch I do for work and plan to eat it at 12 the same as work days. And then burn some time cooking a nice dinner. As long as I can stay focused on not eating outside of meal times at all things will be fine.

Glad you found that wagon, it can be a right sneaky so and so. Sounds like it has been a rough year so far; super well done for finding a way to make it work for you. Tempting us all with cookies, sheesh :-)

Thanks for the support guys. Think I'll try to be a bit more active on the forums this time around as well. Never been much for online communities (too much of a hermit) but going it completely on my own has never worked well in the past either. Yea, you are right. I totally wimped out. :-(

Starting over. I joined the Academy, started my battle log, logged food well for a week and then Boom! Game Over. Can't even find my thread now. Here is what I think went wrong: Work got super hectic and depressing, so I started looking for a new job and then I started burning hours interviewing and preparing for interviews. Winter in Auckland is not super awesome for walking, so I decided to spend 10 minutes on a stationary cycle instead. Which was a terrible plan, the garage is dank and cold and I don't actually like cycling that much. I tried to take exercise super slow, so did nothing except the stationary bike. I was trying to move my sleep cycle backwards by several hours all at once (leave home at 6:30 am instead of 9:30 am) So this time I'll do it a little differently: I have been in my new job for a month now and it is epic! Sleep is already sorted, I go to sleep at 10:30 and get up at 6:20 most days already. I have a goal for the bike now: cycling to work. I moved it up onto the deck so I can watch the sunrise while doing my morning bike and I want to stretch it out as prep for the 17 km cycle to work. Auckland is a bit hilly, so I can't just jump in without prep. I love playing with kettle bells, so I'm going to do a light workout with that 3 times a week to keep my enthusiasm up For food I was trying to do intermittent fasting (no food between 8 PM and noon the next day) and keep to about a level 3 diet (from the Academy). That was actually pretty easy to maintain, so I'll just stick with that for now.

Food log, June 18 - 24 Goals: drink no calories, limit to 2 cups of coffee before lunch no food before noon keep a log drink lots of water

Food log, June 10 - 17 (Yea, there is an extra day there, but ending on a Thursday night is just awkward) Goals: drink no calories no food before noon keep a log drink lots of water June 10 black coffee: 3 water: 1.8 litres 12:30 salad + mixed meat from turkish place 19:00 home cooked fish and chips 20:00 canned fruit and custard (about a cup full) June 11 black coffee: 4 water: 2.5 litres 12:00 scramble eggs, saussage and steamed frozen veggies + a little bit of baked beans 16:15 saussage and a handfull of mixed nuts 18:00 apricot, chicken noodle dish June 12 black coffee: 4 water: 2.5 litres 11:30 bacon, scrambled eggs, fried mushrooms and spinach 19:00 chicken and salad wrapped in a tortia, second helping just salad + olives June 13 black coffee: 2 water: 2.4 litres 12:30 steamed mixed veg, 2 boiled eggs, sausage, 2 spoons of mayo 17:45 2 sausages, mixed frozen veg, cauliflower mash 18:45 home made cookie (GF, almond meal, kakao nibs, etc. not good, but could be worse) June 14 black coffee: 4 water: 2.9 litres 16:00 2 slices of cheese, 3 slices of salami 18:00 2 helpings of shepherds pie (potato mash) 21:30 home made cookie June 15 black coffee: 2 water: 1.7 litres 12:30 steamed mixed veg, 2 boiled eggs, sausage, 2 spoons of mayo 20:00 3 pieces of texas chicken spicey, some cole slaw and chips 22:00 half a (small) block of 70% coco chocolate June 16 black coffee: 3 water: 2.2 litres 12:20 steamed mixed veg, 2 boiled eggs, sausage, 2 spoons of mayo 17:00 some more of that dark chocolate 19:30 chicken, oyster sauce stir fry June 17 black coffee: 4 water: 1.9 litres red wine: 1 12:30 vietnamese chicken rice noodle soup 19:30 slice of cheese, slice of luncheon and some butter 20:00 home made cookie 20:30 steak and some coleslaw 21:30 small bowl, frozen cranberries

I have been with the Academy for a week, and it is time to start posting progress somewhere. I have been doing the whole "start, make progress, overdo things and get injured, sit on a couch until worse than before" thing for nearly 10 years now. So this time I'll do it the NF way, slow, steady, permanent. Not really sure how to organise this, since I plan to log whatever needs logging for my current quests here. Guess I'll make it up as I go. For now: I do my food log by taking photos on my phone, and I plan to transcribe to here once a week. We'll see what happens with exercise logs Current Quests Keep a food log for 30 days Drink 3 litres of water for 5 of 7 days Walk for 5 minutes on 7 consecutive days