April 21

Today is Friday. I am not feeling the woohoo.

It is looking like no overtime today plus no need to come in & work over the weekend. I have a couple items I would like to get accomplished, though I am not sure if I am expected to be places without consultation until last minute. I haven't decided if I am going to just say no or see if I can convince them to run me to Costco to fill my propane tank. 

My head still isn't there. I can feel the tiredness that is more than just lack of rest. I am not 100% sure what it means as yet. Maybe a little more self care is in order. 

Wednesday and Thursday I got a little teeny bit over 8,000 steps, today is looking like it will head that way again. I am usually not bad 4,000+/day on days I work. It is day that I do not work. I have have had days recorded with only 12 steps. I am attempting to break this trend. It seems like I go into less-active-than-a-sloth mode on the weekends. Except to go to the bathroom or food for me or my cat, I curl up in bed.

Evening Babbling

A long day at work today. It's been a while since I had to work more than an hour extra. I'm hoping this means I won't have to work over the weekend. 

I'm running out of steam as I didn't slug around in bed this morning. I was out the door and on my way by 6am. A couple times my 5am alarm resulted in me getting out of bed around 6am. I got a good 1-1/3km or so walk this morning. The sky was a gorgeous fiery colour pallet spread from horizon to horizon. I'm not even home and I'm over 6k steps. The morning boost of steps aren't that difficult especially with the weather improving. 

The nice thing about the whole morning switch up is that while I did work 2 extra hours today, that means leaving work is 6pm not after 7. Though the 2 extra hours tonight means all my stragglers for the week are cleared up. I can get back to working a bit every day on the check / install / quote / final connection processing & leave me a little time to track oddities to get things resolved. 

I had hoped to have things at home settled by Sunday, but I suspect I may need to add an extra week to that - so month end. I am getting little bits done everyday while keeping up everything. So all is trending in the right direction.

I'm home now. Cat is fed, supper is started, and some chores picked at a little. I did make a quick stop at SDM to get some wipes and have the pharmacist look at my arm. Odd mark I noticed last night. She wasn't concerned as there is no tenderness or soreness. Advised if it does start to hurt or get painful or doesn't look like it is healing by Monday, it wouldn't hurt to see someone. 

Have a good evening. Do take care, please.  

April 20

happy 4/20 folks 

I guess it isn't too hard to figure why I'm so tired lately. 

Sun night 6h0 In bed / Sleeping 5h7

Mon night 6:13 In bed / Sleeping 5h11

Tue night 5h53 In bed / Sleeping 4h37

Wed night 7h0 In bed / Sleeping 6h22

April 19

My first babble post since the first of the month, I got a bit sidetracked and overwhelmed with a couple things. Home life is not ideal right at the moment. I have been under a lot of stress and frustrations. Half of it is self-inflicted stress and the other half is due to my 15 year old cat being sick right now.

Puss N Boots is on the mend, but vet bills have exceeded $700 so far between the post-work run to the Emergency Animal Hospital in Burnside due to a spongey, weeping, sore on her back leg near her bum and the follow up appointment full assessment / updated shots visit with her new vet. She has seemed so healthy shortly after I got her, I haven’t taken her to a vet after than first visit. I have another appointment later next month for a diabetic consultation. I will find out later today a rough estimate of how much I need to have squirrelled away.

The fuss and worry over dad in the hospital last September and his death in October just after Thanksgiving; I have not been looking after a lot of stuff. I was doing just the absolutely minimum to get through the day so I could be available for Mum & Dad. I really started to notice the issues in late February, so I started trying to get myself back on track with taking care of my needs. Then I started up the lifestyle changes in my March to get myself back so going up 2 high ceiling floors of stairs didn’t leave me breathless and almost gaspy. So many people close to my age I have been hearing about who are having major health issues or sampling dropping dead. Biggest comment of the survivors seems to be if I only started taking care of myself sooner, maybe I could have avoided all or some of this. Then the panic over my cat, I have been sliding again. I have started back to daily chores again on Sunday; where I plan to have the basics gone through by Sunday including a sort & cull. This coming Monday I have assigned each room a day of the week Monday to Saturday with Sunday as a general tidy up. This along with keeping the basic dishes done up daily, I should have a less cluttered home. Which I am hoping will lend itself to a less cluttered mind. I have to admit just the few accomplishments so far have reduced my feeling of overwhelmed madness inside.

Back to weighing & measurements on Saturday; then Tuesdays will be weight only and Saturday the full measurements. 

April 1

So after a week of up 0.1kg, same, down 0.1, up 0.2, up 0.5, drop 0.7, drop 0.1; the next weight change is down 0.1kg / 0.22lb. The oddity is over dropped 0.3kg / 0.66lb of body fat while increasing my hydration. Not sure on how that happened, but it sounds good. In my head, less body fat at my levels is always good. 

I just need to find a way to increase my energy levels without significantly increasing my caffeine intake or go back to energy drinks (which is even worse in my books). 

Start of Week 1 

Weight - 89.3kg / 196.9lb 

Body Fat - 36.6% / 32.7kg / 72.1lb 

Body Water - 46.3% 

Bone Density - 5.9% 

BMI - 32.8 (obesity class 1) 

Start for Week 2 

Weight - 86.3kg / 190.3lb 

Body Fat - 35.8% / 30.9kg / 68.1lb 

Body Water - 46.9% 

Bone Density - 5.9% 

BMI - 31.7 (obesity class 1)

Start for Week 3
Weight - 84.0kg / 185.2 

Body Fat - 35.6% / 29.9kg / 65.9lb
Body Water - 47.0%
Bone Density - 5.8%
BMI - 30.85 (obesity class 1)

Start for Week 4
Weight - 83.9kg / 185.0lb

Body Fat - 35.3% / 29.6kg / 65.3lb
Body Water - 47.2%
Bone Density - 5.8%
BMI - 30.82 (obesity class 1)