History

It is June 1, 2023! It is the OFFICIAL start of summer (c'mon, June ain't spring).

If this was 2019 as I gearing up for STRANGER THINGS 3, I would have just kicked off The Lost 7th Expedition after a 190 days freefall up the scale. There would be six weeks of new wave music and then a tie the most weight lost in an Expedition (43 lbs).

I gaze back on 2020's June 1, the genesis for what I am doing now. After completing Taubes' The Case Against Sugar on that day, I wrote this in my return from the wasteland:

My basic strategy is to reduce sugars thereby not requiring as much insulin which in turn, doesn't get in the way of hormones for resource allocation. While I have my base level of meals to make sure I capture maximum nutrition, I'm not so hardcore calorie-centric. This is especially notable as in these early stages, if I'm hungry beyond my meal plan, I have the freedom to eat 6 oz of beans or whatever. This softer stance has kept the binges at bay.

At its core, that is what I do to this day. That disregard for calories was a fundamental shift, but absolutely critical was the sugar/carb approach. I only wish I did not regard protein so highly back then and downplayed fat—it was standard for me to eat 150 grams of protein a day. Gluconeogenesis from the excess protein would nip me at me from January to July 2021.

But the biggest takeaway is that this was the moment I was unlocking the secret to massive, sustainable weightloss.

Site Design

I am abandoning my retrowave theme for this site. Oh, I am ready to drop it in! Those colors pop! The synthwave idea works well for base level content, the birdcage liner stuff that I have a tendency to post. But when it comes to serious topics, it is a little silly.

Brainstorm

This morning was a good 3 AM. My mind whirled about with ideas!

1. In this season, remember 2020: stop following the news. What has it anything to do with me? I have got plenty to do besides shaking my head at folks. That includes piecing together the news from my beloved The Babylon Bee.
2. Create an achievement system based on Garmin / World of Warcraft.
3. Create a daily checkoff sheet that functions like my resistance sheet.
4. Create a DnD-inspired task management system that through the use of metaphor would be shaped by dice rolls to create a story.
5. Create a simpler I/O budget system that would do a better job at sharing the narrative for the month. Many budgets fail to address the why.
6. Instead of an audiobook focus, use a targeted Wonderium coursework approach.
7. Be the Mindmap Monster!

Folks my age typically say stuff how their bodies cannot handle the same things their twentysomething selves could. I heard it in my thirties; I heard it in my forties. Perhaps it will be valid in my fifties...then again, Shawn Baker is rocking it at 56. With how I feel now from this ancestral lifestyle, as I continue to run with carnivore, some 11 years from now, I will be rocketing up the fireworks into my 50s. It is a cheat code as to how much powered up I have become by not following the "right" answers.

I wish I knew this in the 90s.

Last night, I fell asleep at 10:52 PM. Moments later, I was up at 1:45 AM and set up my day. I whipped up my stick-and-a-half butter coffee at 3 AM to invoke my Legs workout at 3:45 AM. Finishing up at 4:42 AM, I had this kneejerk reaction to drive up to BRC to add cardio! Instead, I began this composition.

For those of you playing at home, I did my resistance workout (legs, no less) on 2 hours and 53 minutes of sleep. My take on age at whatever era you're in:

Or..."Well, I realized my body is kind of a gullible idiot:"

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Today is a throwback to winter '22. I have got an OST from The Hobbit trilogy pulled up.

Once again, I compose on FocusWriter on my Chinese techno-nationalist box. OK, my Lenovo does not sound that threatening—it has a CUTE name! Oh, those crafty commies! Ironically, when we think of computer desktop platforms, if I ask who has the largest market share worldwide, I bet Lenovo does not come to mind—probably Apple, right, because of all of the competing IBM clones? Yeah, I am using old school language here!

I heartily return to that era because of what it represented. I remember what were in posts like December 24's Grandma Got Runover by a (Pork Belly). It was from a week without a shower, a time of my quotation: "I can't sleep in my bed because I would literally die in there." I need that as a reminder as I consider the posts that immediately follow. I need reminders like this from New Year's Eve:

I'm really proud of my Destination '23, my take on the New Year Resolutions. It took DAYS to create, not for the design or the words, but for its ideas and implementation. I choose...

...to activate things that worked well in 2020;
...to achieve things I failed to do in 2021;
...and to do what I should have done in 2022.

It is what I really love about the end of the year: we examine what lies ahead and dream of possibilities. These things do not come so readily in the upcoming summer months. I need it further for I have been on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster—inasmuch an INTJ can roll on one of those. Though I hit my protein marks, after 7:30 PM (once again), I just overate to a tally of 94 grams in excess! I heading back to pick up that fat fast that I failed on Sunday to attain for a bit of a metabolic confusion correction.

When eating becomes an activity, problems arise. I also suspect that as this is wing-based eating, that I am not satisfied like how I am with beef. My Neandertal Valley ancestors brought down mastodons and tyrannosaurus rexes. They didn't settle for a chicken!

And yet, there may be something I need to address emotionally; I must be failing to accomplish something. That's the driver of the INTJ, right? Yeah...

• I left the haunted BRC.
• I unfastened my Garmin and set it on the table.
• I have slept in on the last two 3-something AMs and have to reschedule my workouts

These are not the primary issues, but they seem to be symptomatic of it! Instead of focusing on how I'm gonna paint the walls on this website, I ought to focus on my sight picture. And thus, I am gonna bring back Destination '23 and how to effectively augment its capability of fruition.