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Monday, January 16, 2023

Ugh.  Yesterday did not quite go as desired.  I (luckily) have not had a lot of back issues over the years but it was a problem starting in the afternoon.  It continues today.  I'm working around it as best I can, moving gingerly and carefully, but the pain is not completely avoidable.  And it greatly limits what I can do.  At least it does not majorly impact my ability to sit at my desk and work, though I'm sure that doesn't do anything good for it.  Please be temporary!

My estimate of what the scale would look like was way off, much to my pleased surprise.  Apparently even a little exercise has a positive impact.  I expected bad things given the extreme food intake and bad things that were consumed.  Plenty of liquid was disposed, which I'm sure was quite helpful.  On the psychological front, I barely managed to refrain from additional late eating, which would have been completely unnecessary as I was quite full - it was purely mental, the desire to eat.  It didn't hurt that I could not decide what it was I was craving and didn't have junky snackable stuff left, I ate it all already.

/derail:  I have been skimming back through the archives and man it's been a long time since I've been serious and focused and consistent for more than a couple days.  I see my weight bouncing up and down within ranges of ten pounds or so.  The current range is definitely higher than it was during the summer -- it may be that regular exercise really does make that much difference.  I have been getting none of late and that most likely contributes to my being 25 pounds above my low.  But it's also very much bad diet - slips, fast food, sugar, tons of pizzas.  All of the above.  I can do better and I need to do better.  Vacation coming in a couple months.  Golf season.  I want to be leaner and freer when that time comes.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Brisket, toast

Way, way too much brisket.  Oh well.  Cleaned up.  Unsurprisingly I was very sated all afternoon.

Dinner:  2x mexican, 2x american tacos, 12 oz Miller Lite, home shake

Standard.  Fatter tacos than last week, very satisfying.

Exercise:  Nope.  Stupid back.  I did also sleep as late as I could get away with, it was needed.

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