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"How was school today?" - "Fine." "What did you do?" - "A lot." "Anything in particular?" - (blank stare) Most likely with all of these conversations starting with me shouting their name until they actually hear me over the sound of their headphones. Like you say: because teenagers. 😁

Monday: Worked from home, went for an extended lunch break walk. Tuesday: Started working from home, until the technician from our internet provider came along (there was a broken coax cable apparently) to fix the internet issues we've had all week, then went to the office. Lunch break walk and another walk in the evening while Mrs. Movieman took TimovieDaughter to her swim class. Stayed up too late watching snooker. Wednesday: Worked from home, went for a lunch break walk, and an extended walk in the evening during TimovieDaughter's football practice. Technician came again because that cable wasn't the only problem - the issues had returned by Tuesday evening. We now have an entirely new modem. Wi-Fi 6 compatible instead of Wi-Fi 5. No more issues since then. Did two DailyDare exercises. The ones from Monday and Tuesday. Was going to do the Wednesday one too, but it would've been the third quad exercise in a row and I wasn't up for that. Didn't do it later at night either, because I was too sleepy. Today: Office, and a lunch break walk. Didn't bike to work for once, but went by car. TimovieSon has a football match in the evening. An away match. He's getting there with a class mate, but I'm going to go watch his game and bring him back home. Can't do that with my bike. It kind of annoyed me that, with all my colleagues complaining about traffic and all the road works everywhere - which is typical for an election year - I still got to the office 15 minutes faster than I would have by bike. It would've made me feel better about always biking to the office if the biking proved to actually be faster - I have a speed bike after all. Alas. Week so far: Week 5 M T W T F S S Intermittent fasting Calorie intake Calories spent Calories in/out deficit Curfew Sleep Avg. sleep 6h14 Steps Avg. steps 16.25K Distance 24.46 km Workouts 0.2 Days with (mini-)workouts 1 This is one of the prettiest logs I've ever had. Check out all the green!!! This week's track record would've been perfect without the Tuesday night snooker sleep deficit. Hopefully, I get to maintain this run of form for the rest of the week! In other news: holy shit, the line-up for the Alcatraz festival this summer is impressive! I'm marking all bands with red, orange, yellow, green and dark green during my preparation, to gauge how interested I am in watching them. Dark green basically means "I know and love these guys and come hell or high water, I'm seeing them live!". Last year there were 8 bands like that, this year it's only three (Lord of the Lost, Paradise Lost and Feuerschwanz). But I'm discovering a fuckton of bands that I either didn't know or only knew tangiantly, that I'm now marking green. I'm only 2/3rds of the way in my preparation, but I've already marked *far* more bands green than I did last year. There's also a lot less red and orange. That means that when they release their actual time table, I'll probably have to make some decisions about *which* band I'm going to see if two interesting ones are playing at the same time... 😅 Last year, I only had *one* moment in the entire weekend where I had to make an actual decision. I favoured Brutus over Killswitch Engage then. With all the green I'm marking now, I'll have a lot more decisions to make. And probably a lot less "downtime" where nothing really interesting is playing. I'll have a *very* busy weekend it seems. A lot of bands (even younger bands) that play "old school" metal or incorporate 80s influences, too. Even a few where I'm going "are these even hard enough for a metal festival?" - but since I'm not as much of a fan of the more extreme "death", "doom", "black" and "speed" metal subgenres, softer bands are far more up my alley. Including these ones: The Night Flight Orchestra. Never heard of them before. But they sound more like a classic rock band in the vein of Journey and Foreigner than a metal band. Which means I'm *definitely* going to go see them. 😎 The Night Flight Orchestra - Divinyls

Had the same issue. Had kind of burn myself out on it years ago and my brain refused to go back there

had a quiet ish day. Went out with my brother, tried jack fruit for the first time (which tasted a bit like mushroom to me, but it wasnt too bad). Did some bujo, but mostly chilled. Going for a short walk in a minute if it stops spitting. made a second pan of tomato mix (didnt burn this one thankfully) which means i can do falafels in pitta with all the sides (there is a jar of pickled chillies on the shelf i keep looking at longingly). really like how this weekly turned out. Scruffy paper borders turned out nicely. ooh, sun is out. Best be off before it clouds over again

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Hi Friends! Today will likely be the day which determines whether I will be traveling next week or not. The meeting is in the morning so plenty of time to plan/prepare. Plus I work tomorrow so I can finish up any last minute travel stuff. I was absolutely not feeling the gym this morning. I woke up okay, about the same as yesterday, but not horrible like Tuesday. Unlike the rest of this week, I didn't improve once I started working out. I dragged the entire time. I'm still not feeling it. Just one of those days I suppose and arms are my least favorite to work out which doesn't help. Good on food still. I've got today planned and I'm within the 10g of each macro goal again, which is what Coach wants for consistency. Hopefully I can follow it. It's nice to have a tentative plan (lunch is already done and dinner is a tentative plan for reference) I can input into the app and then adjust from there. I make most of my adjustments with 2 snacks, one morning and one afternoon. I've really only had afternoon snacks on occasion but I've noticed I'm hungrier right after my workout and then need a morning snack to hold me over until lunch. This works well for my macro balancing and ensuring I'm getting enough food in to support my workouts. Talked with Coach and she gave me some ideas for next week, especially if I have to travel. Frozen protein (I found fully cooked chicken breast, chicken breast slices, and chicken nuggets so they're quick heat and eat), frozen starch (sweet potato fries - mouth is watering thinking of them a quick oven or air fryer option), and frozen veg to steam or boil real quick. It'll be nice to have for days I'm home if I do travel only a couple days next week. It might even be nice if I'm not traveling to simplify things! I got a tentative outline for the Man on the MBA. I'll help him through that hopefully tonight (assuming I don't have a last minute late evening meeting to finalize things since many people are off tomorrow for their 9/80 - I am not). All my Mundane Magic was done yesterday!!! I'm hoping much the same today but we shall see. Budget is still good. I spent $80 but got 3 pairs of leggings to work out in. If I don't do laundry today, I won't have any leggings to work out in tomorrow morning, eek! It's an investment in my health and I've been thinking of adding to my workout wardrobe anyway. Realizing I didn't have anything for tomorrow made my mind up I needed to invest and I know I have the money (to go towards debt, I'll just take from that pool). I found a pair that had various colors/designs and very very high ratings on Amazon. Only $25 a piece. I went ahead and got 3 pair so I have spares (for example if I didn't want to do laundry until after the 10k on Sunday I'd need at least 2 more pair to get through tomorrow and the 10k itself). Otherwise, I'm right on track!

Lift. 2x week. It didn't work last time, let's try it again, eh? Monday & Saturday mornings. It doesn't even have to be the program, FFS. Just move something heavy-ish up and down a few times. Walk. 2x week. Before work, when possible to avoid the heat. Alcohol. None on weeknights. Snacks. Think about when/why. This is often due to boredom. Fix the boredom with something other than food. ----- Just to get back to goals I missed Monday's lifting session this week due to previously described madness. Given the bustle of the rest of the week, I don't know that I'll be able to manage Saturday's session either, but we'll see how it shakes out. Definitely gotten plenty of walking in this week, however (including two just yesterday) No alcohol has been had. Snacks have been hit-or-miss. Some mini chocolates still left so those are periodic visitors, but also been managing with baby carrots + dressing, or string cheese, or (in a pinch) a Tbsp of peanut butter straight from the jar. Thinky Thoughts have returned, though suspecting what I do now about my hormone situation, I feel like I can't trust any emotionally-based opinion point that floats through my head at the moment. I'm trying to sit with them and either analyze them objectively or sort of file them for later examination if they come up again. A journal would probably be helpful here, so I could see if there are patterns to when/why this stuff is coming up.

Same, but for me it was also that the question was so broad and showed that my parents did not have enough information about my day to ask anything more specific. Most days aren't that memorable so (even now) when I get asked how my day is/was, 'fine' is the most likely response. Anything beyond that will involve either a lot of boring detail that makes no sense, or even MORE boring detail as I attempt to provide context. "Fine" is way easier. If my parents had asked something like "How did your geometry exam go? Any tricky proofs?" or "How was the feedback on that history paper you worked so hard on" or "Is Jamie still mad at Eloise?" it may have elicited a more in-depth answer. Or maybe not. Because teenagers.

I have a huge mental block when it comes to calorie counting. I did it successfully before then all of sudden my brain said nah no more. But I didn't think to try a different app. I'll look into lose it. Ive seen it recommended more and people seem to like more than MFP. Funny you mention reducing sugar. I was watching candida detox / no added sugar videos last night. I am very addicted to sugar so it's an idea I'm playing with. Thanks it's nice to hear because it reminds me it's temporary. I like it as well. I'm finding the new month used to feel so much more exciting and shiny before but I think that's just because of my life right now. I'm hoping once I get a job a lot of things fall back into place. But it is still exciting to start a new challenge and get a fresh start . I think that's a great suggestion but I feel even that might be too much for me mentally right now. I was doing okay getting out and walking more but with me working at my mom's house, working on coding and the new puppy I'm having more trouble sorting my routine. And my feet are obviously more tired and sore than normal if I'm on them more during the day. Which is why I made a chair exercise playlist with shorter videos. They do seem more achievable at the moment. Cause I can just follow along mindlessly. I'm going to need to look up what butterfly sit ups are lol I can already tell you there's a strong chance that I'm also not made for them lol.

It's Thursday today, but this is from last Friday. Just to lampshade how I neglected this thread... 😇 Weekly weigh-in Weight: 94.15 kg (-0.95) Body fat: 22.7 % (-0.9) The damage from my Easter week off has been undone! Although I have to say that - given how good the week went food-wise - I was actually disappointed that the drop in weight wasn't bigger... I was a bit less diligent with the weight loss during the weekend after the weigh-in, but there wasn't any food shenanigans either, so I'm expecting another drop in weight next week. Well, I say "next week", I mean "tomorrow". 🤣 Recap of last week: Week 4 M T W T F S S Intermittent fasting Calorie intake Calories spent Calories in/out deficit Curfew Sleep Avg. sleep 6h06 Steps Avg. steps 10.50K Distance 27.91 km Workouts 0.3 Days with (mini-)workouts 1 Did well with intermittent fasting and calorie intake during the week, less so during the weekend. Same with walks: plenty of walks and steps during the week, less during the weekend. The sleep deficit remains an issue, and the lack of mini-workouts is a problem too. This week is shaping up to be a massive improvement, though. Not to jump to conclusions yet, but maybe the respawn is sticking this time? Walk to Mordor Distance walked this week: 27.91 km (17.34 miles) Road to Mordor: total 963.7 miles - Lothlórien to Rauros - Feb. 17 - Day 2 since Lothlórien - Drifting on the river. Bare trees continue on both sides. No enemies. The road between Lothlórien and Rauros is going to be less eventful than other parts of the road to Mordor. 😛

5e actually, with some modifications in regards to how magic works. Also, it's only a minor aesthetic tweak but I'm enjoying how it's the era where people are "inventing" most of the established spells in the game, so everything comes with a slightly different name than you're used to and the inventor's name before it. You know, the whole "Tenser's Floating Disc" pattern, so instead of say, "Burning Hands" you get "Jarric's Hands of Flame". We've got session #2 scheduled for tonight, so expect more updates tomorrow! Wednesday 24 April Charisma: I met with some friends after work to watch AEW Dynasty together. Was very invested in the experience, we haven't met to watch a show in quite some time, this was scheduled for Tuesday, then the host was unavailable, it was moved to Thursday (so overlap with my therapy appointment and Netheril game session) and then Wednesday, so it's been a rollercoaster ride. Real glad I did this, we had an absolute blast and I'd almost forgotten how much more enjoyable it is to watch wrestling with friends instead of alone. Cooking: Made my usual wrap to take to work. Dinner was takeout, obviously.

That shirt is fantastic!! YAY!! I’m so happy for you!

I found using an app really helped me. Takes much of the legwork out of the calore counting. Im using lose it right now and its working really well for me as an app. Usually i burn out on calorie counting really quickly, but its made a big difference in lowering the usual monotony level. Might be worth a go. Reducing how much sugar i was eating is really helping too. sicking with stuff is hard when you feel tired. 100% been there. I like the monthly reset ethos thing on here though. It helps when you have a bad month and need another whack at something, no pressure, no feeling bad. I started out trying to do one full work out a week and failed pretty fast (CFS is a bitch) so im having a go with doing small isolated sets, like in the daily challenge thread (only easier ones, becuase some of the ones they post look so intimidating. I am not made for butterfly sit ups 😆). So one day i will do just 20 jug rows (or whatever my body decides is the cut of point) and that will be it for the day. Maybe something like that would work well for you too?

Multiple posts coming up! 😁 Thursday: The usual long walk in the evening didn't happen, because I had other priorities. Not going into more detail about that. 😇 I did do two DailyDare exercises, though, for the first time in quite a while. Although I thought it would be the start of actually doing daily mini-workouts again, that didn't happen. I did the two exercises on Thursday, and then nothing again until yesterday. Hopefully, this restart will be more successful... 😅 Friday: Worked from home. Went for a walk during my lunch break, and for an extended walk during TimovieDaughter's football practice in the evening. Mrs. Movieman went to see a football match with TimovieSon, so I had the entire evening alone with TimovieDaughter. Saturday: Early football match for both TimovieSon and TimovieDaughter. Since they got into bed late on Friday, that meant they were tired for most of the day. Did some shopping in the afternoon. The kids both have a 3-day school trip coming up in a few weeks, and they needed some supplies. Brother-in-law visited in the afternoon/evening, so that meant we (and by "we", I mean brother-in-law, TimovieSon and me) played a lot of darts, and that there were appetisers and takeaway dinner. Sunday: Got to sleep in for a bit. Should've spent part of the afternoon clearing the rest of the sidewalk of weeds, but between late breakfast, cleaning the litter boxes, vacuuming the house and making lunch, there wasn't a whole lot of time left before we went to my mother-in-law's. So I just watched the cycling on TV instead (Liège-Bastogne-Liège). The most important part of the weeds-job has been done anyway. The rest can wait. World Championship Snooker started as well, so that potentially means there is going to be a lot of sleep deficit the coming weeks. Although I'm managing to get in bed relatively early for my doing lately. But that's because I'm tired. I have a cold I can't seem to get rid of - so I constantly have a runny nose, which means I can't breathe properly when asleep, so I sleep with my mouth open, which leads to a dry throat in the morning and thus a developing cough. It's one big vicious cycle. And I get nudged awake more at night, because open mouth = snoring. 😅 I'm not sick, but I'm not 100% either. 🙄

Yeah, I used to do a toned-down version of this as well. Usually just "How was your day?" "Fine." "Anything in particular?" "The usual." The idea being: I just got home, leave me alone for 20 minutes to wind down. I don't want to talk now, and if I do, then I'll start the conversation myself. Although I still kinda do that. The reverse as well: if I'm not interested, I'll tune out, and chances are that it's going to be highly visible that I'm not paying attention. I blame it on my autism spectrum disorder, though. 😇 On another note: yikes, I've been neglecting my own thread! 😱 It's not like I haven't been present, I've posted in the Weight loss PVP, and in the DailyDare threads. I just never got around to actually posting in this thread... Maybe I need to make more posts, but shorter ones? That way I get to post what I want to talk about, without it being one big time-consuming write-up that eventually gets postponed??? 🤔

Hasn't happened yet! It's for this Saturday.

It was. I still need more sleep, but I feel a lot less stressed. We call it "alone-time". We've unintentionally developed a rule through the years that if one of us asks for alone-time, they immediately get it, no questions asked. And to be able to go off and have that solitude and know that it won't be taken as a negative, or misunderstood, is something I am grateful for. Any introvert who needs this in their life, deserves to have it.

Sending you a Care Bear Stare!!

The imposter syndrome is strong right now. I think it's mostly work related, but it seems to be draining the energy I could have used to drive to the gym the last two days. Yuck.

2024 - Year of Progression Word of the Year: Consistency Sleep: 10 Hrs Water: 1/4 Meals: 7:30am - Coffee 11:30am - Coffee, yogurt parfait 3:30pm - Coffee, sandwich 6:00pm - Diet Soda, chicken, pasta, veggies, cookies 8:30pm - Protein Cookie Fitness: Rest Day Language: 0 Portuguese Lesson 0 Spanish Lesson 0 Japanese Lesson Reading: 0 min Meditation: 5 Min Notes: What a day, roughest one in a while. Mrs. ReturnOfTheDad found a lump last week. We got it checked out today with a mammogram and ultrasound. Doctor thinks it’s cancer. Have a biopsy scheduled tomorrow to find out more. Should have the results by next week. Just going to try and be there for her as much as I can and stay in the moment. The future is too much to think about right now.

It's definitely an option. I just need to commit to actually doing it then sticking with it. Which is where I seem to be extra struggling. I have a YouTube playlist of exactly that.

Should last through the weekend, I think. It's due to get hot again next week though. How was lunch?

Come to think of it, I did this exact thing to my parents when I was about that age. Huh. It's a phase. It'll pass.

I really admire that you and H are able to be solitary with each other like that. I can see myself needing something like time away but I wouldn't know how to ask for it or even to trust that I could. That's really cool to me and something to strive for.