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Quarantine and isolation! Even an introvert like me can get stir crazy when the only people I get to see are my parents and occasionally the Amazon delivery guy. Here's how I plan to entertain myself, effective immediately PLP Challenge (but different). Starting point: 15 Bulgarian split squats per leg, 10 knee push-ups, 15 inverted rows, 10 dead bugs, 60 seconds side planks Thermo studying. 1 hour every day. No excuses. I need to do well in this class. Bible reading and prayer. I'm stuck at home, I've got the time for it. Working afternoons. I'm lucky my college is allowing me to work from home online. Making dinner (and make enough to have leftovers for lunch). We're still on paleo ish as much as we can be, as long as the local produce stand is still open and has vegetables and eggs. Meat is a bit harder to come by. We'll make it happen. Clean something. Tracking sheet I also have some incidentals that need taking care of. File the damn taxes. Read The Silmarillion. Funness.

This challenge is about planning and crossing off items on my to-do list. Challenge To-Do List Get off the damn phone! Build the Wall. It'll be a glorious wall with no monkey shit on it at all. Everyone will want a wall just like mine. The monkeys, they'll pay for the whole thing. Those voices in my head that day this'll never work, they're just afraid, they're ruled by fear, so they spread fake news. We don't want fake news, that's what the monkeys want, that's what the monkeys bring. Now the monkeys, they're good monkeys, very hard working, I love the monkeys and they love me. But we don't need the fake news they all bring, so we're building the wall. Grow my Forest. Read a book for leisure Read another book for leisure! Adulting Tithe File taxes Launder all the things (we have a flea infestation 😫) Finish the closet and actually get rid of some things. Get thicc Gym (Thicc Thursdays) and home bodyweight routine 3x /wk. Biking (weather and mother dependent) Catch up on Bible reading plan FUTURE. FUUUUUTUUURREEEE!!!! Ace thermodynamics Meeting with advisor for biomedical engineering program Build CV and submit to advisor in preparation for applying to BS-to-MSBME program. Find and attach syllabi for advanced math classes. Meet with program coordinator and potential graduate advisor

I don't think my metabolism is some unique snowflake that doesn't adhere to timey-wimey sciency stuff but that said...it sure feels like something is outta whack. For the last eight weeks, I have been eating (and tracking) between 1500-1700 calories (closer to 1700 on heavier workout days) consistently. I'm working out regularly, mixing it up between cardio, flexibility and strength. It's been three weeks since I lost a pound and I keep wobbling up and down the same two pounds on the scale. Here's the kicker - according to calculators (like Scooby's workshop, but I have checked it other places) my BMR is 1865 and my TDEE to maintain is 2566. I'm not eating 2566 and yet I am maintaining. What gives? I still have plenty of fat to lose but there is definitely muscle under it all as well so could that be skewing the calculator? I'm going for a water displacement test next week to get my fat percentage accurately measured, so perhaps that can help. Anybody else had the experience of eating below maintenance but not seeing results? Even if my calorie tracking wasn't 100% perfect, it isn't off by 800-1000 calories a day.