[Tateman]

Hey all, it's been a bit. Seems like something is always coming up when I think of starting up a challenge post. I'm late to this challenge, but I figured I would start something anyway. Better that, then thinking I'll just wait till the next one   The last couple of weeks, I have been trying to get a little more consistent with a few things like sleep. This challenge I might start off smaller and add to it as I progress. We'll see how it goes. I feel like I'll be keeping it pretty casual. 

 

A driving force to me really needing to get myself going. High blood sugar tests. Even on medicine. So I need to get this fixed. Then just in general more family deaths, has made me look back to watching to just be able to live a much better life. Also, things may change some because my wife is getting a knee replacement on the 14th. So bowling and pretty much everything else I do is on pause to help take care of her.  I hope to be able to get some things going around that I can continue during this time too. 

 

So let's get to it.

 

Goal#1 - If I am too tired, I won't do squat

Sleep is so very important. I've been working on it again, but I certainly have had the go to bed at 2am+ too often. I just haven't been getting the best sleep. Losing weight will also help get better sleep. So it will all work together. It's summer, so I don't have to worry about taking the kid to school till sometime in August. I have been enjoying my reading as well, even when I go too late at night haha. My wife also bought a sleep mask for me to help with the light  Though it is a pain to have a sleep mask and cpap mask on.

 

Off to read at 10:30pm

Off to bed at 11:30pm

 

Goal#2 - Movement

For the moment, I want to start off with 15 minutes walk. Hopefully I can still do this while taking care of my wife too. For now, I can start the daily incense in Pokemon Go. It's 15 minutes. Walking around my block takes about 13 minutes or so. That is pretty much what I want as my start. Eventualyl either making more time per walk or adding in a second walk later on. Maybe after a week or so I can also start doing some home workouts in. I know I would be able to have that going while I was helping my wife.  First though, I want to try to get walking going. Plus getting back to walking will help improve my mood too 

 

15 minute walk each day. 

 

Goal#3 - Tracking foods

Part of finding out my blood sugar numbers were really bad, was I looked closer to what I have been eating and drinking. Obviously, I knew getting and eating candy or sweets can be bad. I found I was drinking a powered drink mix thinking it was ok. It had maltitol as a sweetener, and that was spiking my numbers a lot. I was drinking a lot of it too haha. At least I figured that out, and took it out. With the blood sugar numbers, I also considered jumping back to keto. Then thinking maybe more keto with fruit or something. First though, I am going to give a shot at losing weight with tracking calories. Lower calorie higher volume is more what I want. More proteins, more veg and fruit etc. 

 

Track food intake each day in Cronometer

 

That will be enough. There is plenty more I want to add in, but I want to just focus getting more consistent in each of these errors. No grading really. 

 

[Tateman]

I did get early access to a new feature in Pokemon GO. Routes was sent out to some. I tried to make it today, but messed up haha. So maybe tomorrow I will get it to work right. 

 

Today I did get out and walked this morning. Walked out around the block here. Nothing too exciting on the Daily Incense

 

I'm currently reading The Wheel of Time series. On book #6 Lord of Chaos. I'll be doing my best to get to reading at 10:30 tonight. Sometimes just an hour doesn't seem enough though haha. 

[Tateman]

Walk this morning got me a whole lot of nothing for Pokemon haha

 

Tracking food went well. A little bit of guess work, but I think pretty close. Bed time I was late, and read a little late as well. So I was off to bed after midnight. Fitbit says I went to sleep at 12:22am. 88 sleep score and I felt pretty decent this morning. Will try harder to hit the time when I want to sleep. See if I can get that 90+ sleep score haha.

[Tateman]

Walked faster today, and my shin was feeling it, so I slowed down haha. Another day of nothing special on my daily. Had 2 pokemon run even 

 

Yesterday was a day I just kept feeling hungry. So I had more calories, but did track everything. 92 sleep score according to fitbit. I did go to be later again. Just a bit after midnight. got in 8 hours though   So far, so good. I am feeling better about getting up and getting stuff done. Blood sugars are still higher, but better then they were when I was drinking the other stuff. 

[Emma]

Hi Tateman , good to see you.

Keep it up.

Good luck to your wife.

[fleaball]

I just started getting these to add to water. I've tried that flavor and peach lemonade acai. ngl they def taste like herbal tea but it's good for flavoring plain water. 

[Tateman]

6 hours ago, Emma said:

Hi Tateman , good to see you.

Keep it up.

Good luck to your wife.

Thanks! Good to see you too. 

 

4 minutes ago, fleaball said:

I just started getting these to add to water. I've tried that flavor and peach lemonade acai. ngl they def taste like herbal tea but it's good for flavoring plain water. 

I have been using a walmart branded https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Strawberry-Watermelon-Liquid-Drink-Enhancer-3-11-fl-oz/554299192 Never had any issue with these.

 

Every now and then I like to see what else might be out there. I had tried these nerds drink mix https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nerds-Sugar-Free-Variety-Pack-Strawberry-Grape-Cherry-Drink-Mixes-on-the-Go-30-count/982660937 and my wife had found some Sonic Cherry Limeaid drink mix https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sonic-6ct-Cherry-Limeade-Drink-Mix-Singles-To-Go-Sugar-Free-Drink-Mix-6ct-0-54oz-15-4g/297482155

Both are really good, and I didn't even think to check the ingredients. So now I know I can't drink those haha

 

[fleaball]

54 minutes ago, Tateman said:

 

I have been using a walmart branded https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Strawberry-Watermelon-Liquid-Drink-Enhancer-3-11-fl-oz/554299192 Never had any issue with these.

 

Every now and then I like to see what else might be out there. I had tried these nerds drink mix https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nerds-Sugar-Free-Variety-Pack-Strawberry-Grape-Cherry-Drink-Mixes-on-the-Go-30-count/982660937 and my wife had found some Sonic Cherry Limeaid drink mix https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sonic-6ct-Cherry-Limeade-Drink-Mix-Singles-To-Go-Sugar-Free-Drink-Mix-6ct-0-54oz-15-4g/297482155

Both are really good, and I didn't even think to check the ingredients. So now I know I can't drink those haha

 

Ahh those mixes sound good though. I've found that things like that make my teeth feel weird though so I don't use them. Sounds like thats a good thing if they fuck up blood sugar lol. Sucks that you can't have them anymore. 😕

 

 

so what is this routes feature in pogo? Do they tell you to go a certain way where they need to farm location data and promise amazing spawns along the way? Idk why you're calling your daily incense nothing; I see a whole bunch of quality bunnelby in those screenshots.

[Tateman]

16 hours ago, fleaball said:

Ahh those mixes sound good though. I've found that things like that make my teeth feel weird though so I don't use them. Sounds like thats a good thing if they fuck up blood sugar lol. Sucks that you can't have them anymore. 😕

 

 

so what is this routes feature in pogo? Do they tell you to go a certain way where they need to farm location data and promise amazing spawns along the way? Idk why you're calling your daily incense nothing; I see a whole bunch of quality bunnelby in those screenshots.

Routes is a new feature that will be coming from Pokemon Go. Basically you can map your walk from one pokestop to another, then upload it for others to follow. I think there is suppose to be extra rewards, XP, and such for following or completing a route. I haven't seen anything officially announced for all that though. The only thing I was able to do so far was create a loop route, and submit for review. I want to go out a make some others. I haven't seen a way to follow other peoples routes.

 

bunnelby is ok, I don't have the shiny yet. I do have the 100% though

 

[fleaball]

ngl routes sounds rather silly. They're really desperate to get people playing outside huh? 
 

congrats on your hundo!

[Tateman]

Well, last night was an over day again, but I did track! I'll really need to get better at that so I can lose some weight. I also went to bed super super late. My wife and youngest kid with to my Sister-in-law for the weekend. My oldest hates to go since it is out in the middle of nowhere. So I end up staying home. He is more then old enough to stay by himself haha. So wife was up later getting things ready to go since she was getting out super early. I stayed up later and read, since there was stuff all over the bed waiting to get packed. On the flip side, I was able to still sleep in, and got a 91 sleep score.

 

Got up and walked this morning. Pokemon Go acted really weird as I went for my walk. I think it wasn't full swapped to the mobile network. I had hit my daily incense, but nothing was spawning right away. I had to restart to get it going. 

New event going. Mostly all dark and fire types. Nothing amazing, but still managed 21 Pokémon. Only a couple ran. Better cadence for my walk this morning too, but man it was getting hot out there. 

 

I've got bowling tonight, then will test my blood sugar levels when I get home. No excuse to not to get to bed on time. Maybe even I should just go read in bed haha. Normally, I don't because my wife has the TV on, and usually loud. 

[Tateman]

11 minutes ago, fleaball said:

ngl routes sounds rather silly. They're really desperate to get people playing outside huh? 
 

congrats on your hundo!

Yeah, they do. I guess it all depends on the rewards. I could follow a route if it meant chances at a rare spawn or extra XP I suppose. Though I suppose that is suppose to happen with the daily incense too haha. 

[Tateman]

whoopsie  So totally went to bed late Thursday night. The next morning I went to see Transformers with my oldest. I had plenty of chances to go for a walk after, yet I did not. It has warmed up, but even at night I did think of it once, but was just not in the mood. Calories were high too, but I did track everything at least.

 

Last night, I again went to bed late. Not as late as before, but still late. Got up this morning, and it felt like it was super stuffy and hot already. Decided a night/dusk walk woudl be better. 9 at night and it was still close to 80F. At least the sun wasn't beating down on me. I did get the walk in at least. I didn't want to pass on it two days in a row.

 

Pokemon daily incense was ok 

Fire and dark event out, so that was most the spawns. I did catch a shiny Vulpix. not on the incense, but just one out in the wild haha. Calories tracked for today. A bit higher, but not horrible,

[Loveable_Bouncer]

Interesting to see the new feature on Pokemon go. 

 

Were you bale to keep your walks in this week or tracking? 

[Tateman]

This last has been a whole bag of meh. I did track a little, but really had some mental struggles going on. Stopped doing any walking. Still was reading, but have been defaulting back to reading at like midnight or 1, then going to bed after 2am. Went to bed at 4am one night. So really feeling not great mentally, then being tired from lack of sleep means more and more not wanting to do anything. 

 

So pretty much just moving last week to the trash. No need to dwell on what I didn't do, and try working on what I can do this week

 

Last night, I did actually go for a walk. In Pokemon Go, the current even gives me double incense time. So my daily goes from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. Last night, I took advantage. 

Some really exciting spawns last night. First spawn was a Dragonite. I was super shocked. I hadn't seen any Galarian bird on the daily yet, but that changed last night

Of course, it was a one ball and run away. At least I finally saw it haha. 

 

It was colder last night while I was walking, but I made notice of home much I was enjoying the walk. Not just getting some cool Pokémon spawns, but getting out and doing a little "exploring"  Ended up walking for 42 minutes. 1.76 miles. I tracked going up to the apartment lockers to get a package there too haha.  Also did track food, even if I ate more then I should have. I hope this to help lead me into a good week this week. Squirtle community day classic in a few hours. Then I have some raiding in World of Warcraft. About to go get in some shopping now, but when will I get a walk in, no idea. Maybe after raiding haha

 

[Loveable_Bouncer]

May this week be better, and happy to hear you found a perk in the middle of getting that walk started. 

[Tateman]

Things have been ok. Eating too much, check. Going to bed at 2am check haha. I did however track the last few days, even if I was over. 

 

I did get out and get another walk in at least. Nothing super special on the Pokemon Go Incense though

I did walk faster, but starting getting shins pains. Tried to slow down a bit, but I was still kinda feeling the mood to walk. Plus, I was very annoyed at some people out walking, and decided getting in a higher gear to get around them was better to do haha. Of course, people coming the other way feel like they have to take the entire sidewalk instead of going single file to let someone by. One day, maybe I won't step off and let them feel what happens when you run into a big person haha. Naw, I wouldn't be aggressive like that. Just pisses me off when people have no care. 

 

Had a bit of some bad mental juju pop up a bit ago. The whispers are still hanging around in the brain space, but I'm coming here to visit people to help with that a bit. 

 

Last couple of days I have been trying to think of a way to get me really to refocus on my health, and what I want to do. I just keep seeming to do the same thing over and over thinking it will work this time. It's why I might even try to go keto again. Even if restrictive, it's a set of rules I have to follow. Main reason would be to try to get my blood sugars into a good range.  I just know I will want things. Maybe, I can deal with it, and devise a better plan to combine world of eating. It made me think Keto, but with fruit haha. Big problem I have with moderation type eating, or just eating in a calorie limit, is I just can't. There is too much around. I ignore it for awhile, but eventually it gnaws away at me.  I use to call it my shark eating. I tell myself I shouldn't eat whatever, but I can't stop. I haven't had it be that bad in a long time, but I know that binge eating can be there. blah, really rambling haha

 

Friday, my wife is having her knee replacement surgery at 12:30pm. It's a bit of a drive to that hospital. So I get to deal with that, and traffic. Don't know how everything will work out. Maybe they keep her overnight. At any rate, pretty much all of my focus will be there. I'll see if I can get things in order with me at the same time haha

 

[Tateman]

Wife is home from the hospital. It's certainly been a couple of days haha. She is doing mostly well, Having pain issues still. One Oxy ever 4-6 plus one more if she needs, plus some Tylenol every 8 hours. So far, she has been needing the extra oxy. Though it is only the 2nd day after knee replacement, so I expect she shall be in some pain for a bit. Overall though, I fell she is doing better then expected. PT guy came today to have her do some extra work as well. 

 

Heat here has been making me not feel all that well. Don't even think it is that hot, but I just feel like I am not handling it well.  

 

Sister in law heads back home tomorrow morning. Will see how this next week goes   Challenge wise, not much is really happening. It is what it is. haha

[fleaball]

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