You can do this @burly_man308 !

Wow! Anjelik! That's a workout!! You win the workout prize!!!!

@OregonRunner5

A friend of mine went to a dietician and she recommended 50 carbs, 25 fats, 25 protein. I've been using that and it's been working for me.

Today I tried out Intermittant Fasting, last time didn’t go so well which was last year, but today wasn’t so bad. I have made a lot of changes to how I eat and what I eat since last year and CCRDragon mentioned easing into it so today I broke my fast at 1:30pm, and hope to work up to 3pm in a month or so gradually. I was kinda worried I would be so hungry I would just go out and find Taco Bell and spend $30, but had a smoothie, some eggs and tomatoes and then veggie / turkey soup. Not too bad. I only had water with a little himalyan salt in it until time to eat - I think last time I was trying to drink coffee and stuff. I hope it works, it was nice to feel better. I hope the energy hangs in there - if I can make it past day four without any migraines, stomach / GI disaster, electrolytes way out of balance etc. — then it will be golden.

Good morning peeps! Haven't posted in a couple of days - been dealing with a sick kid and crazy work schedules. My daughter got a stomach bug and missed the last couple of days of school, but she's back in school today and work has calmed some so here I am!

Completed my diary Monday and Tuesday but not yesterday.

Good luck with the IF Oregon - I find for myself it is just the natural way that I eat and it makes it much easier to control my calories. If I eat early, I will usually eat often which is a disaster.

Good to hear you have also regained your focus, Burly!

Hope everyone else is well and continuing the process!!

Exercise and diary finished but not a good diary today!! Will do better tomorrow!! Work on squats today 120 squats!

My week has been sucking big time. I don't think I've successfully logged a full day of food and walking 2 miles to the bus stop yesterday was all the exercise I've done this week. I feel like once one part of my life falls to pieces everything else falls off with it. Got to work on compartmentalization. My 21 year old car broke down on me again this week and cost nearly 400 to repair. I really need a new one however new car and paying out of pocket for grad school do not go hand in hand.

@plainanjelik — hang in there, you’re doing great. :-) What is your major in grad school?

@plainanjelik — Oh cool! That’s a really interesting field. I’ve been studying fungi because up here in the PNW we have an unusually high number / variety of species and sub species and rare types and I found out that we have a type of fungus that will, often fatally, infect people. It is from the tropics originally but was brought in on plants / shrubs and once here has continued to mutate and change slightly to become a public health hazard mostly for dogs, cats, and people with impaired immune systems. What I found was really intriguing though was that is communicable between person to person, it can be caught just like a virus or a bacterium. The fungi is so dangerous that it kills 25% of people infected although they cautiously say it’s rare etc. etc.

I thought it was interesting because I’ve heard for years how agriculture gives rise to super bugs but I wonder if people would be prepared to face off with fungi when we destroy habitat and have been busy creating an entirely new biome system for them to adapt to and exploit.

I was back stomping around the woods today but my health isn’t great and it took a lot more out of me then I would like to admit and my GI hurt with the IBD threatening to flare up. Last time I got really depressed and down my GI was flaring, and today it was acting up and felt really down and defeated out there as people ran past me, dogs ran past me, Douglas Squirrels ran past me — I was the slowest creature in the woods except for one cold-hardy slug on the side of the visitors center / museum complex. But I think really maybe I just feel depressed when my GI acts up because I stop getting the nutrients I need from food.

I didn’t do very well with the intermittent fasting this weekend because I had to walk 5 miles of hills through the woods in the cold and the rain two days in a row (although today I took a shortcut back, didn’t do my full assigned loop). I just got too hungry I suppose and didn’t have enough gas in my tank. It will take time to fine tune my approach I reckon.

Volunteering for the National Park is pretty amazing. We had a special couple of days for Veterans Day welcoming in our Veterans and sharing history with people and making them feel safe and okay on the trails (14 miles of trail in the park!) I really like the people out there and as a shut-in / introvert it does me a lot of good to just get out.

Hope you all are having a great weekend, for me its when I struggle the most with food. I suspect my weigh in this week is going to be a + not a minus, but I did feel better all week and got a lot done so that’s in the right direction.

My diary and exercise completed from 10-11
Squats 80
Steps 11,899