Grumble investigates a Murder on the Gastroport Limited

[Grumble]

 

 

There's been a murder on the tracks! My weight loss has been cut down in a brutal attack of parties and sugar cravings.

 

 

So the obvious answer is to stop eating... Right?

 

 

Ok. Ok. bad idea. Maybe I could talk to the steward for some assistance?

 

 

Shit no. That bowtie just screams evil.

 

Alright, I guess I have to do this myself.

 

Fine.

 

Using Spell Slots

 

I have a finite number of calories I should be consuming in a day. 2312 to be exact. (I did like 8 TDEE calculators and that was the mean of all of them)

I'm pretty good at tracking, but not so good at tracking on time. I end up doing a lot of it at the end of the day. And while I have a pretty solid grasp on what most things will cost me, I still get sidetracked and miss some stuff or don't add everything in, especially with recipes, and my calorie totals end up being a lie. So my goal for this is to track my calories as they happen instead of grouped together and suddenly I'm 1500 calories over. I am including parties. So everything I eat will be tracked and once I am at cap I'm done whether I want to eat or not.

 

    Scuttle Buddy: @Taddea Zhaan has kindly offered to bug me and let me bug her to remind to track as appropriate, so I will be noting every time I get bugged after I have missed tracking as expected.

 

Getting Rid of Old Silverware

 

Continuing my Year of Clean, Mrs G and I have come to the conclusion that we don't schedule well. I'm kind of an impulsive cleaner, and I don't deal well with scheduling cleaning. She is the same way, but she can clean longer while I just clean bigger. What's been happening so far has been working, at least for me, and I am going to continue that path until something breaks. 

 

Bringing the Murderer to Justice

 

Things I am not good at. Following through. In an interesting note, doing a full year of these challenges has really helped me with that particular aspect of my life. But it's still got a ways to go. I do it with work, school, home projects, even video games and tv shows. These next 4 weeks I will be writing down things I need to do in my commonplace book and leaving reminders in my calendar to follow up on them. 

 

 

[Emerald_Dragonfly]

4 hours ago, Grumble said:

...and my calorie totals end up being a lie. So my goal for this is to track my calories as they happen instead of grouped together and suddenly I'm 1500 calories over. I am including parties. So everything I eat will be tracked and once I am at cap I'm done whether I want to eat or not.

 

4 hours ago, Grumble said:

My problem:

 

 

Things I am not good at. Following through. In an interesting note, doing a full year of these challenges has really helped me with that particular aspect of my life. But it's still got a ways to go. I do it with work, school, home projects, even video games and tv shows. These next 4 weeks I will be writing down things I need to do in my commonplace book and leaving reminders in my calendar to follow up on them.

I like the follow through goal - it's a good, strong overall goal. 

[RedStone]

So do you actually have old silverware to get rid of??

 

27 minutes ago, Emerald_Dragonfly said:

I like the follow through goal - it's a good, strong overall goal. 

 

So second. I dig the long term changes this process creates. Huzzah, the system works!

 

[Jord]

11 hours ago, RedStone said:

So do you actually have old silverware to get rid of??

 

 

you will get to that part of the TAZ plot

 

16 hours ago, Grumble said:

Using Spell Slots

 

I have a finite number of calories I should be consuming in a day. 2312 to be exact. (I did like 8 TDEE calculators and that was the mean of all of them)

 

oh good, so it's not just me then who does these over and over again even though it provides no additional information

 

16 hours ago, Grumble said:

I'm pretty good at tracking, but not so good at tracking on time. I end up doing a lot of it at the end of the day. And while I have a pretty solid grasp on what most things will cost me, I still get sidetracked and miss some stuff or don't add everything in, especially with recipes, and my calorie totals end up being a lie.

 

 

seriously this. most days when I go over cals it's usually because I waited to track until I had eaten #toomanyfoods. You can bug me, we can bug each other, about tracking accurately.

 

[RedStone]

1 minute ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

you will get to that part of the TAZ plot

 

LOL I was wondering kinda hard about this. I actually even asked Mr Red if it was a common turn of phrase...

[Grumble]

14 hours ago, Emerald_Dragonfly said:

 

I like the follow through goal - it's a good, strong overall goal. 

 

13 hours ago, RedStone said:

So second. I dig the long term changes this process creates. Huzzah, the system works!

 

 

It is a good goal. And the process works. I've just got a lifetime of bad habits to fix and a year hasn't even scratched the surface.

 

13 hours ago, RedStone said:

So do you actually have old silverware to get rid of??

2 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

you will get to that part of the TAZ plot

 

2 hours ago, RedStone said:

 

LOL I was wondering kinda hard about this. I actually even asked Mr Red if it was a common turn of phrase...

 

This whole thing is magical

 

2 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

oh good, so it's not just me then who does these over and over again even though it provides no additional information

I did them specifically to get a middle ground.

 

2 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

seriously this. most days when I go over cals it's usually because I waited to track until I had eaten #toomanyfoods. You can bug me, we can bug each other, about tracking accurately.

 

I tracked like I was supposed to last night, and even with those epic nachos, I still came in under total cals. So the process works. And I'm totally down with the shared beetling. Er, bugging.

 

Updating my challenge.

[Jord]

16 minutes ago, Grumble said:

I tracked like I was supposed to last night, and even with those epic nachos, I still came in under total cals. So the process works. And I'm totally down with the shared beetling. Er, bugging.

 

Updating my challenge.

 

as an avid fan of nature documentaries, i'm totally about us beetling each other

 

[Grumble]

2 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

as an avid fan of nature documentaries, i'm totally about us beetling each other

 

 

And based off of that, you are officially my Scuttle Buddy for the challenge.

[Mike Wazowski]

Here for the cutting commiseration, but all TAZ references will still fly right over my head.

[Grumble]

4 minutes ago, MikeWazowski said:

Here for the cutting commiseration, but all TAZ references will still fly right over my head.

 

By the end of this year you'll at least have at least a basic understanding of the whole thing, if not getting all the inside jokes.

[Grumble]

Some zero week practice.

 

2/5: Total cals: 1869

Macros: Carb: 180, Fat: 103, Protein: 74

Percentages: 37, 48, 15. 

 

I need a pie chart or something. This just isn't cutting it for me anymore.

[Khuja, Dwarf Tank]

Some zero week practice.
 
2/5: Total cals: 1869
Macros: Carb: 180, Fat: 103, Protein: 74
Percentages: 37, 48, 15. 
 
I need a pie chart or something. This just isn't cutting it for me anymore.

Yay for pie charts and graphs of all kinds!!

[Scaly Freak]

3 hours ago, Grumble said:

Some zero week practice.

 

2/5: Total cals: 1869

Macros: Carb: 180, Fat: 103, Protein: 74

Percentages: 37, 48, 15. 

 

I need a pie chart or something. This just isn't cutting it for me anymore.

 

If it's not cutting anymore, shouldn't you be looking at what kinds of changed you need to make to your diet instead?

 

Pie doesn't seem like good fat-loss food... too much sugar.

[Grumble]

22 minutes ago, scalyfreak said:

 

If it's not cutting anymore, shouldn't you be looking at what kinds of changed you need to make to your diet instead?

 

Pie doesn't seem like good fat-loss food... too much sugar.

 

Everything about this is magic and you are my favorite person on the forums right now.

#Sorrynotsorry, #somuchpun

[CourtnieMarie]

3 hours ago, Grumble said:

Some zero week practice.

 

2/5: Total cals: 1869

Macros: Carb: 180, Fat: 103, Protein: 74

Percentages: 37, 48, 15. 

 

I need a pie chart or something. This just isn't cutting it for me anymore.

 

i made dis https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cp8BHFKUeEdltGMmAUPXOxeSyn09Eju-ztzhbhckYgA/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Grumble]

2 minutes ago, CourtnieMarie said:

 

i made dis

And you're my hero. Excel or google sheets?

[CourtnieMarie]

3 minutes ago, Grumble said:

And you're my hero. Excel or google sheets?

Google sheets! click the link I added and save yourself a copy, the pie chart will change based on the percentages you enter

[Grumble]

4 minutes ago, CourtnieMarie said:

Google sheets! click the link I added and save yourself a copy, the pie chart will change based on the percentages you enter

I missed that. I was too enamored with the pie chart. I'll look when i get home as the google suite is blocked at work.

[Khuja, Dwarf Tank]

 

LOL I was wondering kinda hard about this. I actually even asked Mr Red if it was a common turn of phrase...

Thanks for asking for me! =)

 

[CourtnieMarie]

13 minutes ago, Grumble said:

I missed that. I was too enamored with the pie chart. I'll look when i get home as the google suite is blocked at work.

oh booo! you can do it with regular excel too just as easy. i thought it'd be helpful to share the sheet so that you can edit at your leisuuuure

[Grumble]

1 minute ago, CourtnieMarie said:

oh booo! you can do it with regular excel too just as easy. i thought it'd be helpful to share the sheet so that you can edit at your leisuuuure

 

Oh, I can do it on my phone. Duh.

[Gemma]

8 hours ago, MikeWazowski said:

Here for the cutting commiseration, but all TAZ references will still fly right over my head.

Also me. (Full disclosure: I listened to the first episode of the podcast and liked it, but I'm not currently willing to give up my prime audiobook time to podcasts. I'm half a season behind on WTNV. Must binge soon.) 
 

7 hours ago, Grumble said:

 

By the end of this year you'll at least have at least a basic understanding of the whole thing, if not getting all the inside jokes.

 

Well, given that I've already been *completely* suckered in to full immersion in The Order of the Stick and Runaways (shoutouts/sideyes/confetti, as appropriate, to @Laghail and @CourtnieMarie) I can't but imagine that I will wind up devoting brain cells to this as well. So many amazing nerdworlds, so little time!

[Jord]

15 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

 

i made dis https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cp8BHFKUeEdltGMmAUPXOxeSyn09Eju-ztzhbhckYgA/edit?usp=sharing

 

 

15 hours ago, Grumble said:

And you're my hero. Excel or google sheets?

 

15 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

Google sheets! click the link I added and save yourself a copy, the pie chart will change based on the percentages you enter

 

15 hours ago, Grumble said:

I missed that. I was too enamored with the pie chart. I'll look when i get home as the google suite is blocked at work.

 

calling all @RedStone 's

[Jord]

Also, why u no just use the pie charts built into MFP?

[CourtnieMarie]

1 hour ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

Also, why u no just use the pie charts built into MFP?

i also thought of this - does he not mfp? it kind of hard to find on the phone app version and i actually don't even know where it is on the desktop version!