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Last night I got Kneehab done, lifted weights, and stayed on target for calories, so it was a pretty good day. I've developed an unfortunate eating habit, wherein I'm getting 1/3 of my daily calories from ice cream and mixed nuts. I should probably stop doing that. Or at least cut it way back.

I went out of town for the weekend, so that threw everything off. I should be able to get it tonight; I will report later. I'm calling a Mulligan. Tracking has been really problematic, for all for all of my goals. I'm going to try to stay in touch here, and do the best I can to stay consistent with things, but I'm not worrying about percentages until next challenge starts up. There's just too much going on right now, and I need to devise a better system if I'm going to not only consistently do the things, but also consistently report on them.

I have not, but I will look into it. Last night went off the rails, but I'm committed to getting it done tonight.

Absolutely.

I think just an off week. A lot of atypical things happened. This week should be better. So much update to update. I've honestly lost track of where I am. My lifting schedule has drastically changed. Instead of getting up early to lift in the morning, now I will be lifting in the evening, Mon Wed Fri, with my beautiful wife. This is a good thing, but I will need to reconsider what lifts specifically I'm doing when, as I will be going from 4-5 sessions per week to 3. I think that's all I have right now. I'll try to actually catch things up tomorrow or something.

Thursday lifting - no - I need to address the trend here. I've had good momentum this summer and I do not want it to slip now. 1/4 Calories - yes - doing well this week. 4/7 Kneehab - no - I don't know what to do about this. 0/5 So, this week is not going so well. 😞

Wednesday Lifting - no - last night was a mess 1/4 Calories - yes - cool cool 3/7 Kneehab - no - last night was a mess 0/5 The rest of this is just rambling, feel free to skip. I have Bipolar II. Not new info for some of you, but there you are. I'm reading a book about Bipolar Disorder, and it's very interesting. They're starting to think of it as a spectrum instead of just a couple of fixed classifications, which makes sense for something like a mood disorder, which we've known forever affects different people very differently. But the DSM is what it is, for better or for worse. Over the years since I was diagnosed, about 10 years ago, I honestly don't think about it very much. The meds they put me on back then have worked really well for me all this time, and overall I'm really stable. I'm very lucky; a lot of people have tons of struggles with finding the right combination of meds and therapies and such. For me it's like having bad eyesight - it's part of who I am but as long as I wear glasses I'm good. So for a long time I haven't really learned much about it. So this book is really interesting, and I'm learning a lot. It's answering questions I never thought to ask, and connecting dots I didn't think were related. I've gotten into a couple of Reddit subs as well, which I never really messed around with before. It's kind of an odd thing, but it's all I could find that scratches the itch of wanting a little bit of community, or even just commiseration, around these things. Probably there's more stuff out there, and I'll keep looking. It's strange, because I want to be able to talk with other people about my experiences, but everyone's experiences with bipolar are so different - and most of them are more severe than mine. It feels hard to connect with people about it. And, you know, I'm also deeply introverted and awkward anyway, so there's that. I think I'm done rambling now.

Tuesday Lifting - no - we'll call it a rest day. I'll still get 4 this week. 1/4 Calories - yes - much better decisions were made 2/7 Kneehab - no - looks like the bed-time idea is not working out. There are too many variables. I'll have to think of something else to tie it to. Possibly I might bring the foam roller and yoga mat to work and do it here. It only take10-15 min, and I could easily do it on a break. 0/5

Nice deck! Keep up the good work!

Hmm. That's not a bad idea.

Keep up the good work! I hope the elbow is better soon.

Monday: Lifting - yes - bench press day 1/4 Calories - no - poor decision making 1/7 Kneehab - no - I got focused on going to bed and forgot about it. 0/5 Ugh.

Weekend Update! Friday Lifting - yes - I got back on the bench. I've decided to use 215 as my volume weight, sets across with rep/set increases. Friday I got 3 sets of 6 reps, and cut short because something came up. But that's 8 sets for the week and I'm totally good with it. 3/4 Calories - yes - I was actually a little under; Friday was seriously weird food-wise. More below 4/7 Kneehab - no - I was off of my routines, and didn't get this in 2/5 Friday we had another Jet Camp at my school, where we have a class of 5th graders come for a field trip for a few hours. They get to play with airplanes, make a little sheetmetal plane with pop rivets, we run an engine outside, and fly little drones around the engine shop. It's a blast, but it's a ton of work and totally exhausting. It also threw me off of food routine. Then Friday night I spent all night, into late hours, finishing a project in my kitchen. I build some slide-out drawers for our lower kitchen cabinets. It's awesome now that it's done, but that also was a lot of work, and I didn't get kneehab done, because honestly I just forgot about it. Saturday Lifting - yes - I did not deadlift. More below. But I did get three good sets of quad extensions. I'm so glad I bought that bench. 4/4 Calories - hahahano 4/7 Kneehab - Yes 3/5 I think at the end of August I went a little overboard, and I still haven't fully recovered from that strain. So I'm taking it very easy. It's so difficult with deadlifts to find the line between working hard enough to keep making progress, but not too hard so that it takes three weeks to recover from a workout. I have not got the balance of this worked out yet. Any advice would be appreciated. Okay, so the totals for the challenge so far are: Lifting - 6/8 - 75% Calories - 8/14 - 57% Kneehab - 4/10 - 40% Trend Weight - 221.5 lbs. It's not a part of the challenge, but I thought it would be worth mentioning here anyway. It's still moving down at more or less the rate I want, although better adherence will help that - obviously. I'm going to have to pick it up if I want to make any goals for this challenge. The last week was really hard in a lot of non-fitness related areas, which is not an excuse, it's just an explanation. Those things matter and they have an impact. But I'm feeling very positive and motivated this week, so I know that I will do well, and the numbers will all come up. New Week: Sunday lift - no - Sunday is usually a rest day 0/4 Cals - yes - I did really well with this 1/7 Knee - no - Sunday is also a rest from this 0/5 So there we are. Let Week 2 begin.

I have a friend who does a big flock of meat birds every few years, and I've been thinking about talking to him about alternatives to the Cornish Cross. I'm glad you're having success with the Color Yields. How does the cost of chicks compare to the Cornish? You can do it! Oh wait, that was Saturday. How did it go?

We should all spend more time with our horses.