Breakfast: Plumcots x 2
Lunch: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own-Bowl (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Eggplant Spread, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Toum, Roasted Broccoli, Feta Cheese Crumbles, Avocado, Lemon Vinaigrette); Spindrift Lemon & Grapefruit
Fitness: Rucking, around 1 hour, 22 minutes
Dinner: Grilled Chicken from FreshDirect; Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Blueberry Lemon
Lunch: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-0wn Bowl (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Eggplant Spread, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Toum, Roasted Broccoli, Feta Cheese Crumbles, Lemon Vinaigrette); Bai Brasilia Blueberry & Baru Blood Orange
Fitness: Rucking, around 1 hour, 3 minutes
Dinner: Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Meadow Berry
3:15 AM Snack: Curried chicken salad
Woke up around 10:40 AM
Lunch: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own-Bowl: White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Tzatziki, Toum, Roasted Broccoli, Feta Cheese Crumbles, Avocado, Pomegranate Vinaigrette; Spindrift Grapefruit & Lemon
Fitness: Rucking, 45 minutes
Feeling my hips and hamstrings
Dinner: Curried chicken salad x 2; Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Vanilla Bean
1 AM Snack: Curried Chicken Salad x 2 , Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Meadow Berry
Anti-Sleep: Stayed up till 4:30 AM, iPhone in bed with me
Sleep: Woke up around 9:30
Dinner: Yasas, Limesalt, Build-Your-Own-Bowl (White Rice, Fajita Vegetables, Pinto Beans, Barbacoa, Drained x 2, Queso Blanco, Tomatillo Salsa, Shredded Cheese, Sour Cream, Guacamole); Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Blueberry Lemon; Curried Chicken Salad; Spindrift Lime, Lemon & Grapefruit
Sleep: Went to bed a little after 11:30 PM. Put iPhone in the kSafe, used Sleep Mask. Woke up around 3:10 AM to pee. Woke up around 7:30 AM.
Breakfast: Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Plain + Blueberries + Honey
Lunch: Beyond Breakfast Sausage, Spindrift Lime
Fitness: Rucking: roughly 45 minutes
Banana Bread Victory! I got an unexpected banana bread "gift" from FreshDirect (when FreshDirect adds something to my order by mistake, and I tell them, they just tell me to keep it.) Instead of inhaling it at my kitchen counter, I offered it to my neighbor. She was happy, I was happy, Win/Win!
Dinner: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own-Bowl (Jasmine Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Roasted Broccoli, Avocado, Crumbled Feta, Eggplant, Red Pepper & Feta Spread, Toum, Lemon Vinaigrette); Spindrift Lemon; Bai Brasilia Blueberry
After-Midnight (1:24 AM) Snack: Painterland Sisters Yogurt, Vanilla Bean
Sleep: Not sure when I fell asleep, but I was watching an NBA podcast on my iPhone. Woke up at 8:28 AM. A lot of dreams, wrote down a few lines for my Dreams journal.
Lunch: 2 Cara Cara Oranges, Spindrift Lime
Dinner: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki, Roasted Carrots, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Tzatziki, Toum, Roasted Broccoli, Feta Cheese, Avocado, Lemon Vinagrette); Spindrift Grapefruit, Spindrift Lemon
Fitness: Rucking, around 50 minutes
Sleep: Not sure when I went to sleep. Woke up around 9:30 AM. I think I was woken up around 1:30 AM by a notification on my iPhone warning about potential flooding (I probably wouldn't have heard this if my iPhone was in my kSafe.)
Lunch: Plumcots x 2 from FreshDirect
Snack: Curried Chicken Salad from FreshDirect, Painterland Sisters Blueberry Lemon yogurt, Spindrift Lime
Nap: Fell asleep while watching podcasts in bed.
Fitness: None. Woke up at 6 PM. Had a 7 PM call scheduled with my cousin. Decided not to go rucking, didn't want to do yoga. I need to get back to the gym.
Dinner: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Tzatziki, Toum, Roasted Broccoli, Feta Cheese, Avocado, Lemon Vinaigrette); Spindrift Lime
Snack: Curried Chicken Salad from FreshDirect, Pineapple, Spindrift Lime
"Midnight" (more like ~2 AM) snacking w/ podcasts
Sleep: Went to sleep after 2 AM. Woke up around 7:45 AM. I listened to podcasts while trying to fall asleep.
Breakfast: Curried Chicken Salad from FreshDirect, Painterland Sisters Meadow Berry Yogurt,
Lunch: Curried Chicken Salad from FreshDirect x 2, Pineapple
Dinner: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Tzatziki, Toum, Pickled Red Onions, Feta Cheese, Diced Avocado, Lemon Vinaigrette), Spindrift Lemon, Spindrift Grapefruit, Spindrift Lime
Fitness: Rucking, 47 minutes total
Sleep: Didn't get to bed until around 1:40 AM. A long nap in the early evening plus staying up late to watch Alex Eala's 1st round tennis match at the U.S. Open wasn't ideal for sleep. Woke up at 2:25 AM and went to read on my Kindle in my bedroom chair. Am I starting to build a habit of needing the Kindle to fall asleep? Woke up to a 9:30 AM alarm of my iPhone still in the kSafe.
Lunch: Grilled chicken from FreshDirect, Spindrift Lime
Fitness: Rucking, 35 minutes
Dinner: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Roasted Broccoli, Avocado, Crumbled Feta, Tzatziki, Red Pepper & Feta Spread, Toum, Lemon Vinaigrette); Spindrift Grapefruit, Spindrift Lemon, Bai Rubi Raspberry Lemon Lime
Snack: Painterland Sisters Blueberry Lemon Yogurt, Spindrift Lime
Sleep: Went to bed around 11:30 PM. Locked away my iPhone and iPad in the kSafe. Used my sleep mask. Got up a little after midnight to read on my Kindle, maybe for a half hour, then went back to bed. Woke up around 7:30 AM.
MEASUREMENTS (1st of the month)
Mar 1 (last time I took these measurements) -> Sep 1
Right upper arm (mid-bicep) 15 -> 15
Left upper arm (mid-bicep) 14 -> 15.5
Waist (horizontal at navel) 43.5 -> 49.5
Hips (at widest point below waist) 41.5 -> 45
Right leg (mid-thigh) 21 -> 22
Left leg (mid-thigh) 21 -> 23.5
Total Inches 156 -> 170.5 (Up 14.5 inches since Mar 1)
It's even worse if I go back to my best month of August 2025:
Aug 1, 2025 -> Sep 1, 2026
Right upper arm (mid-bicep) 13.5 -> 15
Left upper arm (mid-bicep) 12.5 -> 15.5
Waist (horizontal at navel) 40.5 -> 49.5
Hips (at widest point below waist) 38.5 -> 45
Right leg (mid-thigh) 19.5 -> 22
Left leg (mid-thigh) 19.5 -> 23.5
Total Inches 144 -> 170.5 (Up 26.5 inches since Mar 1)
Breakfast: Painterland Sisters yogurt, Plain; Pineapple
Lunch: Wonder, Yasas, Build-Your-Own (White Rice, Chicken Souvlaki x 2, Spicy Pepper & Feta Spread, Tzatziki, Toum, Roasted Broccoli, Feta Cheese, Diced Avocado, Lemon Vinaigrette); Pineapple; Spindrift Lemon, Spindrift Grapefruit, Spindrift Lime
Nap
Fitness: Yoga For Brain Power | 12-Minute Home Yoga Practice
I was
originally going to ruck, but somehow forgot to put on my Rucker 4.0
before leaving to do errands. It's
been a while since I've practiced yoga with Yoga With Adriene. Picked one of the videos from her playlist of 10-20 minute practices. There's always a point during the practice when I ask myself, "Are we done yet?" but I'm happy at the end. I'm glad I have Yoga With Adriene as one of my fitness options.
Dinner: Curried Chicken Salad; Painterland Sisters yogurt, Meadow Berry; Spindrift Lime
