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No Twitter again yesterday. Exciting.

Going to the gym only to stretch yesterday was a success. Because the work day will be messed with via an all hands today, I'm just doing another stretch day today. Also, I just felt great yesterday. There's so many possible reasons why:

• sleep is in a good place (felt amazing after nap)
• stretching
• lack of Twitter
• extra 2 miles of walking
• counting calories
• reduced sugar due to counting calories

I have a feeling it's a bit of everything. Cronometer is looking like a solid addition to my daily habits. I'll probably pay for gold soon. It's super useful that it syncs with my Fitbit. It tells me how many calories I can have based on calories burned from fitbit. It'll be interesting to see if my calorie tracking and fitbit's calories burned is accurate enough to lead to accurate weight loss ETAs.

I went ahead and got gold subscription just now. Now I can make recipes and stuff, which should streamline my calorie counting and/or make it more accurate.

All right, gym time.

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Yesterday, I successfully avoided Twitter the whole day. I also avoided YouTube but that wasn't really on purpose, it was just a full day. I had trouble falling asleep, and I think it was because it was too hot in the room. Once I opened the windows I fell asleep pretty quickly. I have an AC setup in my office, but the cool air doesn't really get into the bedroom. Better to turn off the AC and open windows in both rooms to create a breeze, I think. Potentially, in the future I'll want some fans to create circulation between the rooms. Or I can explore getting another window adapter for the AC so it can be setup in the bedroom.

Anyways, I'm going to "skip" the gym today, but I want to make the travel part of the gym non-negotiable. Also, I suppose, the stretching is non-negotiable. So, I'm going to walk to the gym, stretch, and walk home. No additional working out. I overdid it last week. More important to build the habit of going to the gym on a daily basis than to ramp up on my workouts. Especially since now I'm counting calories. I've reprioritized my hierarchy of self-improvement.

Time to go.

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I needed a self-care weekend. My only focus was taking a nap and going to bed at the right times on Saturday and Sunday. Otherwise, it was mostly just a bunch of playing Factorio. No going back and backlogging, that's not worth anything.

I think I'm going to try to quit Twitter again. We'll see how it goes.

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Yesterday started off bad but I recovered pretty well. I am still not going climbing today. I overdid it. I will be back at building the habit this weekend, and I'm going to take it super slow (aka no "hard" days until at least September and my diet is in a good place).

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Losing some self-control. This is a time to learn how and where I can fight and adapt back to ideal state. It's possible I'm going too hard too fast at the gym and should roll that back a bit.

In any case, I consider various things that I still managed to do a success:

• still made this log post
• moved my working setup back to my office and started a pomodoro

We'll see if I can make it to 8 pomodoros for the day. That'd be a full recovery.

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Now that I'm doing hard days at the climb gym... the idea of going everyday is revealing itself as a mistake. I'll reconsider it after my body has gotten used to hard days at the gym, but for now I'll just go on the hard days of Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Maybe I'll try out an off-day Saturday and see how my body reacts to going easy on an off day.

I didn't get any gaming in yesterday, and so I'm going to make up for that a bit this morning. We'll see if that is a mistake later today.

I'm feeling a bit tired this morning. I've gotten the usual amount of sleep, though. I woke up in the middle of the night for a bit, though. We'll see how I feel throughout the day.

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Slept thru my watch alarm this morning. Which is weird as I woke up 10 minutes beforehand and felt pretty awake. I'm trying to train myself to wake up precisely at 0500, but maybe that's the wrong tact. In any case, I slept well last night. Didn't feel particularly sleep deprived yesterday, but by the end of the day I was dead tired.

Part of me just wants to play video games today, but... I got to go to the gym and then I have to go to work.

So that's what I'm doing.

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Had trouble falling asleep last night. I think it was the heat. I may look into getting an air conditioner. I'm marking today as "sleep deprived" even though I feel pretty good, still. According to my fitbit, I got a little over 6 hours of sleep. Typically, it reports a little over 7 hours. So a loss of an hour. Which I believe is in territory where I am impaired but may not notice.

I have switched my phone alarm to 0505. Watch alarm is still 0500. This is to see if watch wakes me up, but if it doesn't, not lose too much time. Watch woke me up today, which is good.

Expected to be sorer today than I am. Yesterday I was pretty exhausted, too. Lots of laying down on the floor in my office (standing desk only, no chair in room). But, as per usual, once I was engaged in the game I'm playing, I didn't note my exhaustion. I have been practicing entering this state at work. It was something I worked on last year, to great success. I am getting better at it this year with my recent crop of rules.

I set a timer to limit my interaction with this post, but am now staying with the task until the timer alarm rings. I believe that in the long run, building this habit will be stronger than the flexibility of switching when I am done with a task.

And with that the bell rings and it is time for work.

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Low intensity climbing yesterday went really well. It was still really tiring, and I thought I'd be sore today, but I am not. I was capable of focusing on form, which I think will help when struggling against the harder challenges like I plan to today. I noticed that I have become more flexible, even though I missed about a week of stretching. Doing it everyday for a bit helped considerably, I suppose.

I'm also still losing weight despite what I consider a terrible diet. I'll need to convince myself to clean up my diet for health reasons as opposed to weight reasons (I'm consuming a lot of sugar per day right now).

Started a project yesterday: One FIRE at a Time. I'll link to its github once there's something more than a rough-draft README. MVP is a python prototype, but I'd like to make it a website at some point.

In any case, it's time for me to go to the climb gym.

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What's this? Personal pomodoros? You better believe it, Teresa.

It's only because:

1. need to go to climb gym before I'm allowed gaming/twitter/youtube
2. I need to go to the farmer's market today and it's near the climb gym and it opens at 0800
3. Today is an easy day at the climb gym, so staying there for 2 hours is a no go

What's an easy day? Walking there (no running), stretching, only the easiest climbing challenges, and (probably) no working out afterwards (read: pull-ups and inclined situps). Though, we'll see exactly what it means once I'm there.

My goal is to go to the climb gym every day, but only do a hard workout on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I also plan on yoga on Tuesday, Wesnesday, and Thursday.

The reason I want to go to the gym every day is to erase the friction of actually going to the gym. Getting to the gym is the hard part, doing stuff at the gym once I'm there is easy. By going every day I hope to ingrain the habit, and then I can more easily develop a healthy workout regiment and also make healthy goals (I want abs and I want to do lots of fingertip pullups).

The plan right now is to just organize for the next hour, but I may instead want to make a simple script to divvy up my savings and decide what I've paid off for life. I wonder if I should include 401k and IRA money in this equation. I think only necessary expenses can be included in those number. With the Roth conversion ladder, I will have access to that money within the first decade of retirement (if needed), so I think that rule works.