Afternoon   Took an hr nap while my sick kid played games, felt good. When I woke up I had another shake, again, so good. I mix with with 1/2 milk and 1/2 cup water. Watched my girly shows all afternoon.   Picked up my kid from school, came home and had 2 low cal yogurts for a snack.   I feel bad for not working out, but my body just didn't want to. I plan to start interval training again on Monday.   My hubs comes home today! Yay, I missed him so much.    ----------   My kid has exercise for homework, so he did 10 mins on the treadmill, some light weights, sit ups and push-ups. He enjoyed himself and I enjoyed watching him.    ----------   Yay, hubs is home! And after talking with him about slim fast, we agreed I shouldn't be on it. I admit I had a minor relapse with anorexia. So I plan to eat normally starting tomorrow, I'll have the slim fast for a snack to finish it off. I didn't realize how little calories are in a shake. So I'm having a larger supper and a snack later to make up the calories. Yum! I'll feel full tonight!    I'm going to do a full body workout tomorrow with my 7lb dumbbells. Kids are off school Monday so I'll interval train Tuesday-Friday.   ----------   Supper was fish, waffle fries and broccoli. Yum yum. Night time snack was 2 whippets. 

I saw on instagram the #winterarc trend and decided to jump aboard.    mission statement: to become a healthy hero.   shadow wolf’s rules to bullet journal daily. get a workout or exercise snack in. complete an infitnite  fitness quest drink mostly water throughout the day  daily self care act read 10 pages of a nonfiction book. get back into duolingo eat more healthy snacks eat more balanced meals  enjoy the experience 

This happens in my home with corn on the cob. Of course, it may be that no one else cares about their sloppy cobs and feels a little corn wastage is acceptable. Still. 

Yes, I know the warnings. Feelings are fleeting. Feelings are unreliable. Feelings have no moral compass. Feelings are dependent on what you had for lunch. Phht.   I don't mean feelings as in emotions. I mean feelings as in instincts, awareness of persistent gravity, unconscious perception. You see, for a long time I let my thinking outweigh my feelings, thinking (of course) that mens was a more trustworthy partner than spiritus. For a very long time, I didn't know that thinkings were just feelings of the mind -- fragmentary flashes of fear and aspiration whose interruptions made the steady song of life itself seem fragmented. Important, often. Helpful, certainly. But neither complete nor sufficient.   As we approach the turning of the year, it's time to return to the well of contemplation. For this challenge, then, I'll do the usual work from a different angle -- honoring the desires of my heart. It looks like this:     That's the system. I'll make updates in my regular posts to record the metrics, but the weekly score will be a subjective assessment. A few notes:   1. I'm using yoga as a spiritual practice because of the traditional 'yoking' function -- physical flexibility is a plus but not an explicit goal. 2. Music is in the mental category because I want to intentionally include theory in my lessons; we're doing musical math as much as anything. 3. Using body comp as a metric in the sense of power/weight ratio; cosmetic improvements welcome but not required. "Mock scoring" is using the scores of our annual physical fitness assessment as a simple summary of functional strength gains (e.g. I don't want to post the whole grid for changes to weight and time under load for each exercise).    The scoresheet (weekly):

I had never heard of lunar gardening.  So interesting!     Thank you and welcome!     I hadn't even thought of that.  Just as well I didn't use it then.

Do you imagine A Certain Wizard would have any sense of humor at all about me training to be a vampire?   Mostly it is bribery. Pure seasonal bribery. I can watch vampire shows if I do movement things. (Ahem. I meant that Mr Cardboard Demon Trap Game is making training vampire-fighting skills fun.) Mostly strength training and walking, although later I might add yoga. Indoors walking may not be ideal, but getting it done is the important thing, and if being warm and having vampires does it, that's how it's going to be done. I'm aiming for volume, not perfection. I have brain benefits to test.

Wow, you have all the resources for this challenge.   Do tell, what are the vampire activities? Sucking blood or destroying things with fire?

Hi Darling! This looks wonderful and I am here to cheer as ever! ❤️ 

I appreciate this challenge. I am so fond of you, Harriet, and I want things to be the best they can be for you. ❤️   I am glad Mr. Harriet seems to be coming around. It is important that he sees you as his future and that he can let go of this other, less tangible thing to keep what he has.   I remember when Dave asked me if we’d have kids. I gave a short, sharp “Hell No”. He blinked and asked if I was sure. I said absolutely, and if that was a deal breaker for him we’d better end things where we were. He looked and me, said “I want you more” and that was the end of that. I think there are moments he thinks about kids still, but more often are the times where we (the only childless couple in our friend group) look at each other and say “You know what is great? Not having kids.” I wish you both peace and resolution on the matter. 

“Everstorm in Circadia” just makes me think of cicadas and that is a hard pass for me.