11-Day Update: Yeah … What Happened?

Well … work. This post was brought to you by the tag, “work-life balance” (there was none).

I had some motivation issues the week ending Feb. 13, and then I had three computers finish running months-long code roughly all at the same time, and before I could set up the next run or even iteration, I had to spend hours manually doing some stuff. So instead of doing everything else I wanted to do, I ended up spending practically all of last week working on that stuff … as I said, instead of doing almost anything else, including work-anything-else. Though I did get a paper written Thurs-Fri.

As in, no email (I owe lots of people email responses right now), no hydroponics, no adding in cardio, sleep suffered some, etc. And of course, not blogging on here. 😔

That said: I actually did still manage to get in three weight-lifting sessions the last two weeks, each! Yay!! So, there’s that. It slightly balanced out the fact that I made two pizza last week. I almost sorta managed to stay in my macro and calorie goals, but what I had to (or couldn’t) eat on Fri-Sat last week wasn’t pretty.

Oh, and I started using a new scale, one that doesn’t say I gained 2 lbs after I went to the bathroom, and it’s reading up to 5 lbs heavier than the old one. So, that’s just, well, “delightful” is a reasonable word for it.

So, where am I today? Well, it’s a new week. I did weights yesterday so I didn’t do them today. I was having some ginormous stress issues yesterday, so I followed my plan to spend most of the day de-stressing in the kitchen making vindaloo (lots of prep work) and kanellängd (a Swedish cinnamon roll loaf) which was also a lot of prep work. (Times like these, I’m very grateful for doing meal planning ahead of time!) I did more stuff on that computer thing I mentioned above this morning and then tonight. I have a massive – yet prioritized – To Do list for tomorrow that starts with answering some critical emails, I have no meetings, I will lift weights and might even walk since tomorrow (Monday) and the next day are going to be above 50° F … and it hasn’t been that warm in weeks and won’t be that warm again for the forecasted future.

I still have some major stressors going on right now – including work, and home, and even fitness (I feel like my progress is really slow and yet I’m sabotaging myself with things like eating pizza last week) – but I feel moderately better right now and as though I have at least some control going on. So, we’ll see what happens. All I can do is try, regardless of what Master Yoda might preach.