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ODIN! Well a new challenge is here. All I can say about 2018 so far is the Whole30 is great and I now have a large volume of information of what I should not do. In light of all of this I am going to put down some challenged that are 100% doable and 100% need to be done. In the past month, I have lost 10lbs, 4.5 kg. I have seen 3 inches melt off my waist and I felt pretty good. I also felt tired all the time, my sleep was a mess and I have now fallen into some old habits that got me in a bad way to begin with. I have recognized these things and I am here to stop them. GOALS! I am going to do a mini-discipline challenge: I am going to wake up every morning at 0430. I will weigh in each morning and do a waist measurement. I will develop a spreadsheet for this and insert the numbers daily. I am going to do some exercise each morning when I wake up. I have a set of things I am doing now, roman chair, TRX squats and other similar exercises but will also open this up to doing walks. I will Eat Whole 30 99%. What I mean by this is I am going to relax some of the do not eat. I have determined that small amounts of bread, and dairy are not detrimental to my health. Therefore if I order a Caesar Salad and it has croutons and parmesan cheese on it, I can still eat it. I will not eat garlic bread or sandwiches. I am going to Eat portions. This means I will portion out my food, and that is it. no extra, no second serving. No I'm still a little hungry and I will have a handful of nuts. The only exception to this is if I do not eat all of a meal, I can save it and finish it later. I am going to emphasize batch cooking. I have seen that it is easier for me to maintain a balance on portions when I batch cook. If I have food ready to go I am less likely to prepare more than I need. It also makes it easy to have food ready to take to events like Thursday night gaming night. Update NF and MFP everyday. I have a 155 day streak on MFP right now, I need to keep that going. I have been terrible of late keeping up on NF and even posting on my own thread. I need to start controlling my life more. I have had a bit of Ranger Brain and have been very social IRL. This has had other consequences as well. I need to limit my IRL social outings to make them more meaningful as well as allow for keeping up with what I need to do to stay healthy. Go to bed by 2030 on work night, unless it is a scheduled event. Examples would be Thursday game night, Dance classes or planned theater event. My Social life IRL has been a serious problem with this. I am either out with people, or texting with them until late at night. I need to stop it. If they cannot understand why I am AFK after 2030, then maybe I should eliminate them from my life. Figure out what my actual lifestyle is sedentary, moderate or active. I am still not seeing the weight loss I would expect from my activity levels and what I am eating. Right now I am averaging 1600 calories a day and I am not seeing any real loss. I am going to put pictures of all new meals on NF. Since I am cooking batches, it may only be a few a week, but I want a visual record of what I am making. That's it. I believe I can accomplish all of these in this challenge. I hope to hear from you and that I can get this done.