Week in Review: Week 2, 03–09 July, 2022 (Cut)

One-Sentence Summary: Revving back up to speed.

Food: I did better this week than last week, but there is certainly room for improvement. The “Tracking Everything” version has me over my limit by about 125 cal/day and is due to eating more macarons than I had planned, and the peanut butter chocolate bombe on Saturday that was unplanned. However, those issues aside and ignored, I was spot-on with my macros, which I had tried very hard to do. So, yes, room for improvement, but, a huge improvement from last week’s cheating at ≈550 cal/day on average.

Exercise: I addressed this slightly in my last post, I did not get all the types of cardio in that I had hoped (blaming it on weather and sleep issues), but I did get in about as much cardio as last week, just split differently amongst things. It’s still less than my goal, but it’s an improvement. I also got back into strength training of some sort, even if it was literally in the last hour or two of the week. Steps were up this week, and because cardio was the same calories but I also did weights, total calories from exercise were up, though still about 250 below my goal. Same Watch badges as last week though not the June challenge. I will be getting my perfect exercise and move ring badges this coming week, but Apple – for some odd and unchangeable reason – says the week begins on Monday, not on Sunday, even though in the USA it begins on Sunday. Sigh.

Sleep: As I noted in several of the daily updates, I’ve been having some insomnia issues – trouble falling asleep, really. Not sure why. Something to watch for. It’s necessitated some naps this week.

Measurements: There are different schools of thought with tracking weight: Do it daily so you see variations and capture the min-max of the week, or do it weekly on the same day so you stress over it less? In this case, I like the daily because you can really see that there were just two or three days where I had decent drops in weight, while the rest of the days of the week were small drops or even gains. It drives home that just because you’ve gained weight from day-to-day, that does not mean the trend is up. I also used it on Friday to try to be super-food on food and exercise so I dropped on Saturday, which worked. So, I’m down on weight for the week, almost ready to say that it’s more than water weight (4.4 lbs? and same amount of fluid intake?), though I was only minisculely down on bodyfat this week, basically the same to within the noise as last week. Hopefully I’m starting the trend of strength training which will help cut fat.

Points: I did better this week than last, overall, which is clearly reflected in the points. I lost several points with food again (not as many as last week), with the most again lost due to exercise: Not doing core exercises, doing weights once instead of thrice, and doing cardio for <40 minutes three of the five times I did it this week. But, at least I did it five times, so I didn’t lose as many points as I could’ve (and that I did last week).

Looking Over the Week: I improved over last week, which is a good thing. There is room for improvement, which is going to always be the case, I suspect. I’m also sticking to my word of not cheating to fill my Watch rings, I really did fill them this whole week via exercise of some sort, and I didn’t decrease them in order to get ’em filled.

Looking Ahead One Week: This coming week is going to be a normal week, nothing big planned, so hopefully I get my work done and get my exercise done. No complications expected beyond weather: It’s going to be hot.

Looking Ahead More than One Week: It’s been two full weeks and I’m getting back to the point of it being 8 or 9pm and if I haven’t done any exercise feeling guilty about it and actually doing it. Hopefully that’s a good sign for keeping things up.