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I was feeling a bit bummed out at the end of the last challenge because my weight had ticked back up over 330lbs. I decided to take a step back and see how well I was doing so far this year, and I'm feeling much happier with my progress. Date 1-Jan-19 6/24/2019 Change Weight 361.4 330.8 30.6 Neck 19.5 18 1.5 Chest 60.6 54 6.6 Bicep R 17.75 15.5 2.25 Bicep L 18 16.5 1.5 Gut 60.25 55.5 4.75 Pants 49 45 4 Hips 50 48 2 Thigh R 27 27 0 Thigh L 28 27 1 Calf R 19 19 0 Calf L 19 19 0 We are 26 weeks into this year, and I am doing slightly better than a pound a week overall. While part of me is screaming that "I want to change faster, damn it!" the more sober part of my mind is like "Good job, a nice study pace is going to serve you better in the long run" I am largely going to continue with the goals set in my last challenge, but making some important adjustments. Self improvement: Continue with established habits: 1 Point for all 3 Brush and floss before bed Read from Bible every day Take meds Add new habits: 1 point each Improve my space: Clean something every day. Until boxes are done, go through at least one box each day. Play something on the violin (way too prone for not playing for over a week if not scheduled to play publicly.) Bonus Goals Read Base Ringer's Handbook Find a budgeting system that works for me. Nutrition: I'm planning to stick to a keto-ish eating plan for breakfast (bulletproof coffee) and lunch, but am going to put my major focus into accurately tracking everything. My experience has shown me that forcing myself to keep track of even my "bad" eating choices helps me make fewer of them. Even on days where I have decided to eat whatever I want, looking at the nutrition information has helped me decide that I don't actually want something. My biggest struggle is with mindless eating: open a bag of chips and eat until they're gone. I'm also wallowing in ignorance about how much I'm eating for dinner. So for this challenge I am going to MEASURE things BEFORE I eat them. 1 point for accurately logging breakfast 1 point for accurately logging lunch 2 points for accurately logging dinner 1 point for accurately logging snacks / dessert 1 point for limiting to a single, moderate, sweet each day. Bonus Goals Try a Keto / Vegetarian recipe Try a Keto / Vegan recipe Sleep Things are studly getting better, but I'm still not as consistent with things as I would like. I'm going to make a big push this challenge to get up out of bed and touch the ceiling as soon as I wake up at 4, every single day. On days off, after doing that I can go back to sleep if I really want to, but I have to at least do that first, and hopefully that'll be enough to keep me out of bed... 1 point for Xbox off by 6pm, (I've added a reminder alarm) 1 point for all electronics off at 7:30 1 point for electronics stay off until 4:00 2 points for sleep start by 8:15, 1 point for sleep start by 9 1 point for not staying up if I wake up during the night. 2 points for physically up by 4:05, 1 point for 4:15