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Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of July! bonfire


Some discussion ideas:

  • How was your week?
    
  • Do you have some plans for next week?
    
  • Do you have any sober days or streaks?
    
  • Do you have some useful resources that you can share?
    

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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I did pretty good this week.

I ran 6 morning and did at least 5k each time. I plan to keep pushing my miles up gradually, at least to 10k 6x/week.

I ate better, but I still haven't figured out an intermittent fasting schedule that doesn't affect my ability to work. I'm going to try to calorie count for a couple weeks just to see where I'm at with my current eating. I don't think I'm doing too poorly but I can't tell without counting.

Didn't do much else besides gig work because it was super busy. Last week was my highest earning week ever and I beat that by $200 this week. My partner really wants to read Capital with me, but I just don't have the energy to read something so heavy right now. I'm hoping I can work a bit less in the coming week and at least start it.

[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I sometimes use Cronometer to track my calories, it has a browser version so I can quickly track everything on my laptop. It's free and very easy to use, you can copy/paste meals or entire days that you tracked

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I still have a lot of the meals I regularly eat in MyFitnessPal, so I'll probably use that.

Thanks for the rec, tho, I'll check it out