Timeblock

Dream

Don't remember my dream at all.

Thinking

Yesterday, my heartbeat had trouble slowing down after my run home from the orthodontist. I did a pretty hard run, and that sort of thing has happened after hard runs before, but I do know my medication can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. It's something I should keep tabs on, for sure.

I think it is likely I'll be below 190 by my birthday, which is neat. Have a good 10 pounds of buffer for my decade of being below 200! Though, I'm not taking such a goal seriously, and even if I did, I'd measure it not as pass/fail but percentage of time below 200. That way getting above 200 isn't simply a failure.

I'm getting light enough now that I'm noticing it is much easier on my body to run. Which makes pushing myself too hard all the easier. Got my heart rate up to 185 during my run yesterday, and that's too high. I'm not supposed to go above (220 - 30)*0.8 = 152. Though (220 - 30) = 190 is the literal "maximum heart rate", so at least I'm not going above that. My average heart rate during the run was 159. I should at least strive to not go above 152 for average heart rate, I think.

A Time to Rethink

Things are in flux. Lots of new variables are at play and my environment (both my surroundings and how I naturally react to those surroundings). It's time to reconsider certain aspects of my systems and habits therein, I think.

Certain changes are coming naturally. Suddenly, I've switched from naturally eating too much food to eating too little food, but because I measure calories in/out, and surprisingly measure it pretty accurately, I caught this change and am working towards pushing myself to eat a bit more (I want to lose weight slowly, so working on small deficits of 250-500 calories per day, not 1000 which can happen if I don't make sure to eat more).