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Whilst traveling, the wife and I listened to a good 3 or 4 hours of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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Today I am traveling to Tucson to do some property management and planning. I'm reusing the list system I have saved from quakecon and mutating it to fit the purpose of the Tucson trip. I have a "Packing" and "Return" list. Stuff that's packed get moved to "Return" and on return I'll move them back to "Packing" when I've packed them for the return trip.

I also have a list for various Tucson themes and items to achieve therein. Anything not calendar'd that I plan on doing go into the list.

I have finished reading Your Money or Your Life. I will revisit it regularly to do each of the steps. It seems it is consistently available from the library, so this should be fairly straightforward.

I may do the steps out of order. Step 1 itself I may do piecemeal, working backwards, one bit at a time (possibly yearly increments).

Anyways, really need to switch to work.

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I'm tracking weight consistently in other systems (as with calorie counting). No longer need to make a note daily in here. I'll do some weight-thinking maybe once a week from now on (putting reminder in my tickler).

Yesterday, there was an event with tips on saving money and building wealth at work. The event itself was held in the UK, and it lasted some 3 hours or so. It was beginner stuff, but it motivated me to update certain strategies and stuff.

I have updated my auto-deposit into Betterment to be $300 twice a month (aka every paycheck). Also, I've come to terms with my set-it-and-forget-it nature and have decided that Betterment is a better use-case for me than Vanguard. Maybe in the future I'll change my mind, but I've already put non-retirement accounts from Vanguard into Betterment. I might consider moving the retirement accounts as well... but for now I'm good. The Vanguard 2055 fund seems to be a fine set it and forget it.

Time to go to work.

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213.8 again this morning. Which surprised me, actually. Thought I'd gain some weight in fluids due to being at the office and also all the additional exercise (which leads to craving more fluids/calories). I've updated my goal again to the "lose 2 pounds per week" setting (the highest you can set it to in the app, for good reason), because I've noticed during the weekdays I'm very good at playing "meet calorie goals" game, and a 2500 calorie buffer on weekends (to meet the 1 pound per week goal) should be plenty of buffer.

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Over the weekend, I:

• went to Wayward Vegan Cafe Saturday morning
• started browsing a machine learning course with my cousin
• skipped the gym Sunday morning to have a proper rest day
• walked to refill my bus card Saturday morning instead of going to gym
• played quite a bit of Celeste
• Read the majority of Your Money or Your Life

Nothing else of particular to note.

213.8 this morning. I have a feeling it'll be somewhere between 216 and 217 tomorrow morning though. I've updated my daily goal to be working towards 1.5 pounds lost per week. This is to actually have a goal of 1 pound lost per week, but build up a cheat day's worth of calories by Sunday each week.

As of the end of last night, I was 250 calories over per day on average for losing 1.5 pounds a week (aka was on track to lose 1 pound a week). Perfect. Going to be going for that every week.

Time to go to work.

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Been a while since I made some time to think.

Been weighing in at 218.6 in the morning. Not a great sign. Weigh 215.6 after bathroom shenanigans, though. Been slowly working on my diet, but also been really hungry since the 6.7-mile run to my therapist appointment back on Tuesday (was also sore up until today). Maybe it was a normal bump in weight gain due to the exercise.

We'll see. I still have the goal of being below 210 by the end of this month.

According to my calorie counting, I should be on-track for losing 1 pound a week. And to be fair, one pound a week since I started counting calories would only put me as low as 215.... Wow, been counting calories for 4 weeks. Didn't realize.

Actually, my averages over the last 4 weeks only put me at about a 80-calorie deficit per day. Which is 2240 calories burnt since the start of calorie counting, which is 0.64 pound. Which is actually pretty close to my tracked weight loss, if I trust these first-in-the-morning numbers (which I do, I think).

I just need to eat less. Simple as that.

I have some ideas on where to cut calories, as well. Just need to build the neural net habit for it. And this week I'm doing a pretty good job. The last 7 days I'm at a 500-calorie deficit per day as planned. There are certain packaged foods I like to eat that if I avoid I can keep my numbers where they need to be (I'm talking about Cliff builder's protein bars).

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