No useless videos for 90 days.

[Yan]

Entry 1.05 (Written on 2.05)

Day 223: No Useless Videos
Day 221: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 116: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 115: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 pomodoros - (8-72 day streak)
- Waking up at 5 45 to complete the deliveries that I forgot to wake up for on time on friday.
- Continnuing yearly report of independent worker.

1 Thing I could do better
- Get back home a little bit earlier to plan the next day

[Yan]

Entry 2.05 (Written on 03.05)

Day 224: No Useless Videos
Day 222: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 117: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 116: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros - 72 day streak
- Quickly adjusting to the changes in our apartment meeting which was supposed to be today. Whether it would happen or not, I made a relatively prompt decision about how to proceed
- Full abs and back workout (Without 30 minutes of extra warmup)

1 Thing I could do better
- Not get too carried away with planning food schedule, It swallowed 25 minutes I think (Those nutrition books.... :D)

Food schedule update:
I've just started listening to David Perlmutter's "Grain Brain" (About 2 hours in out of about 9) and already had an urge to change the schedule.
I also realized that the fact that I'm just dozing off after meals might have to do with high blood sugar (I was really wondering what was the cause)

Anyway I've dropped the foods with the highest glycemic index (I believe) from my schedule - Dates and Bread (Well at least after the dates run out that is, but for now I'll reduce them at least)
Instead I have replaced them with Peanuts, peanut butter and Brazil nuts generally (among other things) which is just a temporary patch, because my manganese and folic acid are quite high and I'll need to change those up too.

The exact details (for those interested):
Breakfast:
Orange - 1 piece
Tomato - 1 piece
Cucumber - 1 piece
Tofu - 75 grams
Oatmeal(Dry before cooking) - 30 grams
Soy/oat/almond/alternative milk - 200 ml
Flax seeds - 12 grams
Almonds - 40 grams
Sunflower seeds - 40 grams
Cranberries - 25g  (About 80 mcg of iodine) until Nori runs out - then 50g
Peanuts - 35g (Compensating for calories)
Brazil nuts - 12g (Compensating for calories)
Bread - 3 pieces (About 90 grams, but may be more or less)
Avocado - 100 grams
Dates - 60 grams
Salt - about 2 grams

Lunch:
Banana - 1 piece
Spinach - 200 100g (Because it is super high in folate, and 100g is super enough to meet vitamin K RDA)
Peas - 100 - 150 grams ( Up to 150 to end the can of 335g )
Cabbage - 35 g
Tofu - 75 g
Red Lentils(dry before cooking) - 70g
Nutritional Yeast - 6 g
Almonds - 25 40g (This just wasn't updated here for some reason, it's like that for a long time)
Sunflower seeds -25 40g (This just wasn't updated here for some reason, it's like that for a long time)
Peanuts - 35g (Compensating for calories)
Nori seaweed - 1 leaf(about 3 grams) because it has high poisonous alloy or whatever it is called apparently, so I decided to have a reduced amount, and not to stick with it for now. (has about 80 mcg of iodine) when I'm out of stock, will just add 25g to cranberries
Bread   2 pieces (about 60g)
Peanut butter - 30 60g to compensate for the bread and dates
Olive oil - 30g
Shiitake mushrooms - up to 25g (according to this article(https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/#:~:text=RDAs for vitamin D are,40 IU (Table 2). vitamin D RDA is 600 IU(15mcg) for an adult) according to this article https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/place-mushrooms-in-sunlight-to-get-your-vitamin-d#:~:text=Shiitake mushrooms ready for natural vitamin D enhancement&text=Place them evenly on a,to block moisture from dewfall.
Shiitake when exposed to 8 hr sunlight will have 11,500 IU or about 285 mcg, I suppose it is enough) Nonetheless, they are super expensive, so I sort of impulse-bought portobello mushrooms and once the shiitake runs out I will replace it with portobello as one for two, so up to 50g portobello (I looked it up now and according to this article after just 15-20 seconds in the light it had about 11 mcg vitamin D per 100g, so if I expose it to two days, it should definitely suffice, just as the shiitake, but still further research needs to be done by me on the subject.)
Cranberries dried(Unsweetened) - 50g 

Dinner:
Apple - 1 piece
Carrot 2-3 pieces - (About 150g)
Bread - one piece (About 30g) 
Dates - 60g (leaving half of the original amount just to finish up the stocks I have, plus at dinner time i usually ride my bike, so i need more carbs)
Rice(dry before cooking) - 70g
Tahini - 50g
Salt - 2g


That's it for now. (30 minutes used up again for this research... But this one is a must I believe so that I could report the schedule here) 🙂

 

Edited May 3, 2023 by Yan
Removed boldening from something

[Yan]

Entry 3.05 

Day 225: No Useless Videos
Day 223: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 118: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 117: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 pomodoros - (8-73 day streak)
- Setting an appointment for tooth dentist for periodical check
- Continuing progress on yearly report

1 Thing I could do better
- After apartment meeting time went out, re-focus on pomodoros faster

[Yan]

Entry 4.05  (Written on 05.05)

Day 226: No Useless Videos
Day 224: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 119: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 118: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 pomodoros (8-74 day streak)
- Having gone to an eco at effort test to get permit to donate blood. (Heart halter test is still needed)
- Tested reducing peanuts in my nutrition since I suppose they cause me a headache (I hadn't had a headache in years, and suddenly as I changed my nutrition I got them for two days, so it is super likely it is related to nutrition, and after brainstorming and reading about a few variants, google does say that there may be a cause between migraine and peanuts)

1 Thing I could do better 
- Considered making a smaller dinner, since I still felt strong fog today (Although the headache was a bit weaker( I believe since I reduced the peanuts which have some sort of amino acid which in high levels may cause headaches, according to some research i read in the google results)

[Yan]

Entry 5.05  (Written on 06.05)

Day 227: No Useless Videos
Day 225: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 120: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 119: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros
- Continued pomodoros despite feeling fog
- 22 deliveries

1 Thing I could do better 
-Get back home a bit earlier as usual so that I could fully plan the next day and not just partly
 

Edited May 9, 2023 by Yan
fixed day count

[Yan]

Entry 6.05  (Written on 07.05)

Day 228: No Useless Videos
Day 226: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 120: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 119: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros again
- Finishing filling up yearly report, now I only need to hand it in
- Talking to our courier support service regarding the problem that we have to leave the helmet downstairs when we go up, because it bothered me, in order to ask them if it's okay that in those cases i leave the delivery downstairs.

1 Thing I could do better 
-Less small talk during breakfast
 

Edited May 10, 2023 by Yan
fixed day count from 225 to 226

[Yan]

Entry 7.05

Day 229: No Useless Videos
Day 227: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 121: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 120: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- Despite waking up a bit late doing at least the hard part of the workout again
- Cleaning up room floor within 1 hr and 20 minutes. Improvement comparing to last time I believe
- 8 pomodoros

1 Thing I could do better 
-Wake up with alarm clock or even set it earlier (I set it for 07 30, and gt out of bed at 08 05)

Edited May 10, 2023 by Yan
Fixed day count (Misspfixed day count from 226 to 227)

[Yan]

Entry 8.05

Day 230: No Useless Videos
Day 228: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 122: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 121: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 pomodoros
- 40 minute run ( main set not including warmup ) at what seems to be a nice pace
- signing up for a 10k race

1 Thing I could do better 
-Prepare dinner in the morning, not at lunch (I forgot =/)

Edited May 10, 2023 by Yan
fixed day count from 227 to 228

[Yan]

Entry 9.05

Day 231: No Useless Videos
Day 229: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 123: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 122: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros
- full abs workout, despite leg soreness from yesterday's run
- Planned a few days of the week which contain out-of-routine days, and minimized time losses by doing so I believe.
For example when commuting I planned to make two pomodoros, thus maximizing time use, instead of doing them before and having nothing planned for commute

1 Thing I could do better 
-When planning weekly schedule, start from writing the known activities, then plan backwards from that. (I eventually did that, but could have done it earlier instead of being stuck in indecision)

Edited May 10, 2023 by Yan
fixed day count from 228 to 229

[Yan]

Entry 10.05

Day 232: No Useless Videos
Day 230: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 124: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 123: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros
- 3 hours deliveries
- Went to visit my brother for his birthday and had a half-hour talk with him

1 Thing I could do better 
-Take a little bit of a faster shower in the evening, to make more time for the evening routine

Edited May 13, 2023 by Yan
fixed date to 10.05

[Yan]

Entry 11.05

Day 233: No Useless Videos
Day 231: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 125: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 124: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros
- Fixed the changing of bike gears and spent about 85 dollars on it, though it still seems some further fixing will be needed.
- Completed the back workout which i didn´t complete on the day I was supposed to. Now only leg workout left

1 Thing I could do better 
-I should consider fixing my bike at another place although I know my current place quite some time, but they seem a bit "high" and so the bike fixes take a long time.

[Yan]

Entry 12.05

Day 234: No Useless Videos
Day 232: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 126: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 125: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- Having set an appointment with a knee orthopedist for sunday
- Having written an e-mail to my e-mail list that I was supposed to write yesterday
- Having read more about my mcl injury and having a new assumption that the pedal width might be a strong contributing factor to it's reocurring

1 Thing I could do better 
-Consider adding a nap to routinje

[Yan]

Entry 13.05

Day 235: No Useless Videos
Day 233: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 127: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 126: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- Having planned tomorrow in advance (Today)
- 8 pomodoros
- Completing the Delivery norm to get the weekend bonus and still being at home at 19 45 for the time of an event

1 Thing I could do better 
-Having planned the day in the morning when I realized I forgot to add the monthly event and that the schedule will have to change

[Yan]

Entry 14.05 (Written on 15.05)

Day 236: No Useless Videos
Day 234: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 128: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 127: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- Visiting a local bike store, where the salesman has helped me twice already with bike-related stuff (he regularly participates in triathlons etc.)
- 8 pomodoros (84 day streak)
- After finishing a 3 hour ride on a bike doing a tempo run for 40 minutes

1 Thing I could do better 
- Having asked the Orthopedist (I've had an appointment apart from the bike visit) to give me also an MRI scan, since he said that the guy who wrote the
U.S. results about MCL and LCL injury is likely mistaken, as he sees this guy do mistakes often.

[Yan]

Entry 15.05(Written on 17.05)

Day 237: No Useless Videos
Day 235: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 129: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 128: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- Completing a full chest and legs workout
- 8 pomodoros (85 day streak)
- Starting the book I've been neglecting from the start ( I was at page 250 or so out of 300 or so, but decided to re-start since I left it untouched for quite long )

1 Thing I could do better 
- I've gotta start watching my form and preferring quality over quantity in my P.T. but even better to have both. Start with correct form, and if needed do a couple of sets 'till i reach the amount I've been doing with improper form. That within time limits that I define for the workout of course 🙂

[Yan]

Entry 16.05(Written on 17.05)

Day 238: No Useless Videos
Day 236: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 130: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 129: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- Completeng a full abs workout and a little short of a full back workout. Even though I did one yesterday. It was the best choice in my opinion because I had morning meetings set for today and tomorrow, which would make it problematic to do the whole workout.
- 8 pomodoros (86 day streak)
- Having planned the commute to the store, which I believe saved me about 15-30 minutes. That's awesome!

1 Thing I could do better 
- Fixing form. I have yet done no injuries, but I feel if I continue improper form they might have a lot of a higher chance of occuring.

Food Schedule Update:
Still as a result of David Perlmutter's "Grain Brain" I would like to try removing oatmeal from my nutrition. Later on, the big amount of peanuts still needs to be fixed as my manganese levels are high and the amino acid penylanine is also quite high because of the amounts of peanuts and peanut butter I eat.
That said, I focused on oatmeal to see if it further fixes my brain fog in the morning.

The plan is to alternate Oatmeal and 50g quinoa (uncooked, which would buff up when cooked)
For the next two weeks, and then in the next iteration decide if I want to keep quinoa instead of oatmeal

The exact details (for those interested):
Breakfast:
Orange - 1 piece
Tomato - 1 piece
Cucumber - 1 piece
Tofu - 75 grams
Oatmeal(Dry before cooking) - 30 grams/Quinoa(Dry before cooking) 50g or less
Soy/oat/almond/alternative milk - 200 ml
Flax seeds - 12 grams
Almonds - 40 grams
Sunflower seeds - 40 grams
Cranberries - 25g 
Peanuts - 35g
Brazil nuts - 12g 
Avocado - 100 grams
Salt - about 2 grams

Lunch:
Banana - 1 piece
Spinach - 100g 
Peas - 100 - 150 grams ( Up to 150 to end the can of 335g )
Cabbage - 35 g
Tofu - 75 g
Red Lentils(dry before cooking) - 70g
Nutritional Yeast - 6 g
Almonds - 40g 
Sunflower seeds -40g 
Peanuts - 35g 
Cranberries - 25g (Ran out of Nori as planned)
Peanut butter - 60g
Olive oil - 30g
Portobello Mushrooms - Up to 50g as mentioned in the previous entry

Dinner:
Apple - 1 piece
Carrot 2-3 pieces - (About 150g)
Dates - 60g ('till they run out)
Rice(dry before cooking) - 70g
Tahini - 50g
Salt - 2g

[Yan]

Entry 17.05(Written on 18.05)

Day 239: No Useless Videos
Day 237: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 131: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 130: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 pomodoros! ( 8-87 streak )
- Continued the re-starting of the physical reading habit after missing yesterday's 5 pages, meaning, I did on day 1 - 5 pages, day 2 - 0 pages, day 3 - 4 pages. Today 11 pages are needed therefor.
- Having tried breakfast without oatmeal, it seems I had no falling asleep attack afterwards. Today will try quinoa as planned hopefully.

1 Thing I could do better 
- Having stayed in the area of the race route so that I would be close to it at the end of the shift and could check it out
Today it's the first thing I'm planning to do, before starting deiveries.
Then, as I finish the deliveries, I should go there on the bike and do a tempo run, to simulate the race day.

[Yan]

Entry 18.05(Written on 19.05)

Day 240: No Useless Videos
Day 238: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 132: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 131: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 8 pomodoros - 88 streak 
- Having gone through the bike route to know it before the race
- Having run the race path

1 Thing I could do better 
- Somehow I was too chill in the morning and missed my deadlines of food preparation and the schedule started sliding from there.

[Yan]

Entry 19.05

Day 240: No Useless Videos
Day 238: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 132: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 131: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 (8 pomodoros - 89 streak) 
- Pushed through tiredness in the afternoon and kept summarizing
- Went to a bike shop to adjust the seat as another attempt to fix the cause of my knee pain

1 Thing I could do better 
- Be home a little bit earlier and plan the schedule for tomorrow, plus made the time to read 😞 missed it yet again, 3 days in a row

[Amphibian220]

 

Good statistics.

Do you watch any useful videos on the internet, or are you going cold turkey on all internet videos?

[Yan]

On 5/20/2023 at 10:21 PM, Amphibian220 said:

 

Good statistics.

Do you watch any useful videos on the internet, or are you going cold turkey on all internet videos?

I do motivation videos for 10 minutes a day and sometimes a book summary by productivity game as of lately. Also in case it is related to a pomodoro I might watch one, or related to a task at hand, for example if I put on schedule to fix a window, I could watch a video in order to do that. The latter almost doesn't occur actually, I usually prefer to read a blog post.

[Yan]

Entry 20.05 (Written on 21.05)

Day 241: No Useless Videos
Day 239: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 133: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 132: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.
- 12 (8 pomodoros - 90 streak)  - 3 months, a brief woohoo, and moving forward 🙂
- Still managed to complete 23 deliveries and with the 18 deliveries of yesterday get the 27$ (or so) bonus - Still with the problematic knee, going very slowly to avoid harming it.
- Went to see and shortly try out a bike which is on sale from second hand but I've been checking out quite long (As a solution for the knee problems, and prevention of back and bladder problems hopefully)

1 Thing I could do better 
- Not assume that the guy I was planning to meet with will be ready at the time I told him I'd come (Not put expectations).

[Yan]

Entry 21.05 (Written on 23.05)

Day 242: No Useless Videos
Day 240: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 134: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 133: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.

-Still 12 pomodoros and changed workout to evening time in order to accomplish that.
-Having done a minimum workout, even though there was very little time left and I saw that a full one wouldn't fit
-During the workout, focusing on form, and having a few harder sets  than usual.

1 Thing I could do better 
-Wake up a little earlier 07 30 when alarm clock went off, not 08 05.

[Yan]

Entry 22.05 (Written on 23.05)

Day 243: No Useless Videos
Day 241: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 135: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 134: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.

-Completing the hard part of the workout that was left from yesterday.
-Doing almost 3 hours of deliveries, since I already worked out today, I allowed myself to do 10 minutes less. 
-12 pomodoros, with no food break in between, it's not that I want to always do it, but I planned it this time, and stuck to it.

1 Thing I could do better 
-When starting to doubt what to do next in my projects, go with the system to get the momentum going instead of just staring at the screen, which I eventually did, but I could do it earlier

[Yan]

Entry 23.05

Day 244: No Useless Videos
Day 242: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 136: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 135: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did right, no matter how small.

-My first 10k race!  - Achievement unlocked 😄
-Buying a new pedal pair, It's about 62$ perhaps it will help me with my knees, even if it does, the back issue will have to be addressed now, probably with getting a full suspension bike. Not better to get a full suspension bike straight away you ask? Well, if there's a chance I could pay 62$ to solve my problems instead of a 1000$ I'm sure as hell giving it a shot
-12 pomodoros

1 Thing I could do better 
-Avoid eating the extra carrot and peanut butter (Still within schedule boundaries, but I wanted to eat less of it, since I combined two meals int one because of the race.