Liam's Battle Logs

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Ok, I truly feel like crap now.  SWMBO laid into SquirrelKing and I over that $350 piece of crap car we had the chance to buy the other week.  I had looked at it and felt the damn thing was going to be a money pit.  Here's a real f***ing news flash something is not always better than nothing.  If you think someone is better off with your broken ass sh** than not having anything you're actually wrong.  For example, my family does not have a car,  however a car that is going to need constant repairs and maintenance would actually be a greater burden on us financially and time-wise than not having a car at all.  I like to refer to this as the "dollar store can opener effect."  I can buy a can opener for $1 or less at the dollar junk shop, but said can opener is not going to last very long and will have to be replaced very quickly.  I could conversely go to the restaurant/kitchen supply shop and spend $20 on a can opener of a much higher quality level that will last several years at a minimum.

 

That was why I had made the decision I had about the goddamn car.  SquirrelKing agreed with me about it.  SWMBO felt that we didn't consider her feelings or her point of view about the situation.  I understand, that her having to carry six bags of groceries 3/4 of a mile home on payday is a real f***ing burden on her.  F*** I walk 2+ miles to the goddamn bus stop every morning to get to work.  Then again, SWMBO has been starting to have real problems with her anxiety and all the walking through high traffic areas, getting near constantly threatened by drivers who don't want to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, and just being stuck at home isn't helping that at all.  She brought up the car, I got overly defensive and yelled at her and then we ended up fighting all day.  Now, we've got to go meet PostEmoGirl's boyfriend's family for dinner so I've got to be charming and diplomatic when I mentally feel like I'm the most inconsiderate jerk on the planet.  F***ing brain weasels.

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 1 Oct 2016


Sleep:  7 hr 46 min (woke up twice during the night)

Active minutes:  74 minutes

Steps:  6742 - 5.46 Km

Water: 6 glasses
Coffee:  2 mugs
Alcohol:  

 

We were on a diplomatic mission to PostEmoGirl's boyfriend's family.  I ended up playing mixologist to disguise the fact I was trying to avoid drinking myself. 

Breakfast:  Leftover breakfast casserole
Snack:  Hangover brew (emergen-c, Alka-Selzer, 500 mL coconut water w/ pineapple, splash of lemon juice, 1/2 shot dark rum)
Lunch:  skipped
Snack:  skipped
Dinner: steak, baked potato, garlic bread

Meditation: skipped

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 2 Oct 2016

Sleep:  6 hr 43 min @ 95% 6 hr 14 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  112 minutes

Steps:  10204 - 8.29 Km

Water: 6 glasses

Coffee:  2 mugs

Alcohol:  1 Corona

Breakfast:  Leftover chicken broccoli pasta alfredo

Snack:  skipped

Lunch:  Turkey breast and pickles on a kaiser roll

Snack:  slim jim beef & cheese packet, 20oz Iced tea/lemonade blend

Dinner: Ground Beef/pork skillet w/ whole wheat pasta, mixed vegetables, cream or mushroom, & cheese

Meditation: 15 min before bed

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 3 Oct 2016

Sleep:  5 hr 3min @ 96% efficiency - 4 hr 51 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  147 minutes

Steps:  10600 - 8.37 Km

Water:  6 glasses

Coffee:  4 mugs

Alcohol: 1 Corona

Breakfast:  Cliff Builder's Bar

Snack:  Homebrew protein shake #1 "Wake Up Shake"

Lunch:   Leftover chicken broccoli alfredo

Snack: 85 gram carrots

Dinner:  pizza 3 slices, small bowl of ice cream

Meditation: 30 minutes / jedi code mantra (2003 KOTOR version)

Workout: 

Yoga:  15 min Office Yoga + 17 min office yoga

Extras:

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 4 Oct 2016

Sleep:  5 hr 59 min @ 91% efficiency - 5 hr 27 min actual sleep time.

Active minutes:  106 minutes

Steps:  8688 - 6.88 Km

Water:  5 glasses

Coffee:  3 mugs

Alcohol: None

Breakfast: 2 slices of leftover pizza, 1/2 glass of cranberry juice.

Snack:  Neuro "Sonic" energy drink, nutter butter cookies

Lunch:  Leftover chicken broccoli alfredo

Snack:  35 gram pack of baby carrots

Dinner:  chicken and pasta with peas and carrots.

Meditation:  5 minutes w/ jedi code mantra before work.  5 min w/ jedi code mantra at lunch.  30 min before bed.

Workout: 

-- Yoga:  12 minutes of office yoga.

-- Taijiquan: 

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 5 Oct 2016

Sleep:  5 hr 7 min @ 95% efficiency - 4 hr 53 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  155 minutes

Steps:  12914 - 10.11 Km

Water:  6 glasses

Coffee:  4 mugs

Alcohol: 2oz Black Rum

Breakfast:  Skipped

Snack:  Skipped

Lunch:   leftover beef/pork skillet slop (ground beef & pork mix, whole wheat pasta, mixed veggies, vegetable broth, cream of mushroom soup, cheese)

Snack: Skipped

Dinner:  pot roast, boiled red potatoes, and green beans with homemade onion gravy

Meditation: 43 minutes Yin Yoga / meditation.

Yoga:  16 minutes office yoga + 43 minutes of Yin Yoga already mentioned

This is actually a much more normal eating pattern for me, two fairly high calorie meals and nothing else.  The entire point being that you're trying to maximize the amount of calories and nutrients you get from a single meal because you're never quite sure when the next one is coming.  I haven't needed to eat using this strategy for quite some time but my wife and I still tend to cook this way to stretch the grocery budget.  The sitting and snacking at my desk was a recent development after my last raise at work.

I am not a rich man.  At various points in the past I've been a very poor man.  In many ways my wife and I retain many of the habits from the more impoverished parts of our past when things were much more unstable.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Ok, I've been keeping my challenge thread updated but slacking on the battle logs.  I will get this corrected.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 6 Oct 2016

Sleep:  6 hr 36 min @ 91% efficiency - 6 hr 2 min actual sleep time.

Active minutes:  165 minutes (31.5% yoga 52 min, the rest walking)

Steps:  10734 - 8.36Km

Water:  6 glasses

Coffee:  4 mugs

Alcohol: 2 12 oz Tecate

Breakfast: Starbucks doubleshot esspreso can.

Snack:  Milky Way Midnight Dark Bar

Lunch:  panera bread "The Italian" half sandwich, ceasar salad, baguette.

Snack:  Clif Bar

Dinner:  B.A.B. (Big A** Burrito) with carne asada, rice, beans, cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, & guacamole

Meditation:  5 min @ work, 34 min yin yoga meditation before bed.

Workout: 

-- Yoga:  18 min

-- Taijiquan: 

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Log for 7 Oct 2016

Sleep:  6 hr 29 min @ 95% efficiency - 6 hr 11 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  207 minutes

Steps:  15778 - 12.34 Km

Water:  6 glasses

Coffee:  4 mugs

Alcohol: 2 Pumpkin beers 12oz

Breakfast:  Gilberto's breakfast burrito (eggs, cheese, potatoes, chorizo sausage, bacon, ham)

Snack:  Skipped

Lunch:   Fruit tray w/ apples, grapes, & carrots, Clif Bar (regular white chocolate macadamia nut)

Snack: Little Debbie double decker oatmeal cream pie (stress/panic eating)

Dinner:  Cheddar's Salmon & Strawberry salad (field greens, strawberries, walnuts, & strawberry vinaigrette)

Meditation:  44minutes Yin Yoga + 9 minutes Nidra meditation.

Workout:  44 minutes Yin Yoga

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 8 Oct 2016

Sleep:  8 hr 13 min @ 92% 7 hr 34 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  161 minutes

Steps:  14989 - 11.91 Km

Water: 6 glasses

Coffee:  4 mugs + Starbucks doubleshot espresso & cream

Alcohol:  4 Samuel Adams Octoberfest beers, 1 shot 100 proof raw whiskey.

Breakfast:  Mimi's Cafe:  Mushroom, bacon, & brie omelet w/ spinach & potatoes.

Snack:  skipped

Lunch:  skipped

Snack:  23oz Nestea iced tea

Dinner: McDonald's grilled chicken sandwich, medium french fries, Dr. Pepper, side salad

Party: 2 slices caramel apple crumb cake.

Meditation: missed

 

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Weekly Summary 10/2 - 10/8

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Log for 9 Oct 2016

Sleep:  8 hr 17 min (broken) round 1 @ 6 hr 18 mim w/ 92% efficiency 5 hr 48 min actual sleep, round 2 @ 1 hr 59 min w/ 94% efficiency 1 hr 52 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  116 minutes

Steps:  7199 - 5.8 Km

Water: 6 glasses

Coffee:  2 mugs

Alcohol:  3 Henry's hard sodas

Breakfast:  Turkey & pickle sandwich

Snack:  skipped

Lunch:  skipped

Snack:  Annie's organic lemon drop cookie bites.

Dinner: Beef & Vegetable stir fry with brown rice.

Snack:  1 pk brown sugar & cinnamon pop tarts.

Meditation & Workout: 42 minutes Yin Yoga. + 15 min Yin before bed + 22 min nidra meditation.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Well, at least over the weekend I managed to get a somewhat normal amount of sleep. Last night I didn't get that much but that was a willing sacrifice so SWMBO and I could have some time while SquirrelKing was out driving late and the kids were abed to do what husbands and wives do.

Not to give to many details, but there's been a great deal of dysfunction in that area over the past year, but last night went well and certain medication was not need.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Active minutes:  214 minutes (156 walking / 58 yoga)

Steps:  14235 - 11.15 Km

Water:  7 glasses

Coffee:  3 mugs

Alcohol: none

Breakfast:  Clif Builder's Bar

Snack:  Baby Carrots

Lunch:   Spicy Miso Ramen bowl + 1pkg mini donuts

Snack: Skipped

Dinner:  2 burger patties, lemon butter dill pasta with peas and carrots. Pickle sandwich. (dill pickle slices on a buttered kaiser roll)

Meditation:  30 minutes nidra meditation

Workout:  11 min office yoga, morning - 17 min office yoga, lunch break - 30 minutes TV yoga.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

So, since I'm encountering a bit of difficulty in reducing the gut. I was looking at the "Modern Hero Diet" on darebee.com

A variation of the breakfast + snack + meal formula might actually work very well for me. This means I start each day off with a protein shake and possibly a freggie. My midday snack is a protein bar (Clif Builder's Bar or Quest Bar). Dinner is whatever the family is eating. Until the end of the current challenge I will allow myself two additional snacks a day, as long as they are freggies.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 11 Oct 2016

Sleep:  6 hr 50 min @ 96% efficiency - 6 hr 37 min actual sleep time.

Active minutes:  225 minutes

Steps:  13576 - 10.57 Km

Water:  8 glasses

Coffee:  3 mugs

Alcohol: None

Breakfast: EAS Soy Protein shake made w/ water.

Snack:  Snack tray w/ apples, carrots, almonds, & cheese

Lunch:  Clif Bar(reg, chocolate chip), Clif Builder's Bar (Vanilla Almond)

Snack:  fruit tray w/ apples, grapes, & carrots - Little Debbie double decker oatmeal creme pie :-(

Dinner:  chicken and vegetable teriyaki strir fry over brown rice

Meditation:  5 minutes seated posture correction.

Workout:  35 minutes office yoga. + 42 minutes Yin Yoga

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

So far so good today. I've had a protein shake made with water (double serving 16oz water 2 scoops soy protein powder) and 283 grams (10 oz for us Yankees) of fruit.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

The stomach has remained pretty full heading into the lunch hour, so today might go well on the meal plan.

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[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Active minutes:  221 (210 walking / 11 yoga)

Steps:  20190 - 15.68 Km

Water:  glasses
Coffee:  2 mugs
Alcohol: 24oz Miller beer

Breakfast:  Double protein shake made w/ water, mixed fruit
Snack:  Skipped
Lunch:   Clif Builder's Bar, Pro2snax apples, cashews, & cheese bite pkg.
Snack: apple slices, milky way midnight dark bar
Dinner:  Chicken w/ zucchini & yellow squash over butter noodles
Snack:  Brown sugar & cinnamon pop-tarts :-(

Meditation:  missed

Workout:  10 min office yoga, morning

5 x 10 pushups for Doodlie PVP

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 13 Oct 2016


Sleep:  6 hr 29 min @ 91% efficiency - 5 hr 54 min actual sleep time.


Active minutes:  216 minutes (40 min Yin Yoga, 10 min darebee, 165 walking)

Steps:  15814 - 12.36 Km

Water:  8 glasses
Coffee:  2 mugs
Alcohol: 3 Henry's hard sodas

Breakfast: Muscle Milk Smoothie - apple slices, grapes, & cheese bites pkg.
Snack:  skipped
Lunch:  veggie tray, clif builder's bar.
Snack:  veggie snack tray
Dinner:  Italian sausage and vegetables (peas & carrots) over radiatore pasta with homemade parmesan garlic sauce.
Dessert: fig newtons

Meditation:  40 yin yoga

Workout: 
10 minutes:  http://darebee.com/workouts/office-workout.html
40 mins yin yoga

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log 14 Oct 2016

 

Sleep:  6 hr 39 min @ 94% efficiency - 6 hr 15 min actual sleep

Active minutes:  212 minutes (194 min walking, 18 min yoga)

Steps:  18698 - 14.64 Km

Water:  4 glasses
Coffee:  3 mugs
Alcohol: 2 beers

Breakfast:  Double protein shake made w/ water
Snack:  Skipped
Lunch:   Clif Builder's Bar, fruit tray w/ apples, grapes, & carrots
Snack: Skipped
Dinner:  3 slices steak & mushroom pizza, 4 hot wings

Dessert: 1 piece homemade dark chocolate cake

Meditation:  missed

Workout:  16 min office yoga, morning

10 assisted chin-ups, 10 assisted pull-ups - Doodlie pvp

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 15 Oct 2016

Sleep:  7 hr 41 min @ 96% efficiency 7 hr 27 min actual sleep.

Active minutes:  111 minutes

Steps:  10524 - 8.55 Km

Water: 0 glasses
Coffee:  2 mugs
Alcohol:  7 beers, 4 shots of moonshine (80 proof)

Breakfast:  skipped
Snack:  skipped
Lunch:  Clif builder's bar, a few slices of ham
Snack:  acai berry juice
Dinner: whole wheat pasta with meat sauce extra olives and mushrooms added
Snack:  fig newton's

Meditation: missed

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Log for 16 Oct 2016

Sleep:  not sure maybe 8 hours?

Active minutes:  71 minutes

Steps:  3440 - 2.9 Km

Water: 6 glasses
Coffee:  2 mugs
Alcohol:  1.5 beers

Breakfast:  skipped
Snack:  skipped
Lunch:  leftover pasta with italian sausage and vegetables 1/2 serving.
Snack:  sliced apple
Dinner: chicken pseudo-soup (chicken, carrots, broth, noodles)
Snack:  none

Meditation: 42 minutes Yin Yoga + 3 min Tai Chi

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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