Fast ends on Monday the 28th at 10:40 am. I may go longer.

I was doing really well on my 30 day get a 6 pack abs challenge and I started to get stressed. My body is stressed. Amazingly my mind is doing really well. I swear if it’s not one thing it’s the other, but it’s always something.

I got 2 hours of sleep last night total and that was broken up. Maybe 5 minutes each of REM and deep sleep. My mind doesn’t feel tired my body does. Of course, I try and do stupid things like drink a few beers and eat some junk food as though that will somehow help. I think it made it worse, I might have relieved some of the stress from the pain my body is in, but it didn’t help with the sleep.

So I ended up putting on weight, couldn’t be much for actual weight, but I have my final weigh in in a week or so. I think July 4th would be a good day to end this portion of the 6 pack abs challenge. I hope to look a little better by then.

I don’t think I like the 19 hour a day average intermittent fasting. I think I prefer more of an 17 hour a day. I’m trying to think of how I want to go about next month, because I’m going to continue on this until I have my abs, that’s all there is to it.

Because July will be a day where the fruit is ripe, I was thinking of making it a keto month with longer fasts. Like maybe eat as many as 50 grams of carbs in a day, as long as I make my maco’s eating in a small calories deficient. This is what is making this take so long. I’m trying to build muscle and only focus on losing the fat. And maybe do a weakly 24-48 hour fast.

I’ll see about August, maybe go back to carnivore.

I’m thinking about quitting the caffeine again, maybe only have 1 cup a day or only in the morning or one in the morning and one in the afternoon, but not too late. Most definitely no alcohol, that really makes the morning glucose rise and ruins any weight loss for the day even if I don’t go over the calories.

I’m still loving the fitbod app, I’m so glad I found that. I’m going to use it for the entire year. At my age, as long as I don’t get weaker I’m doing better than most. They make you believe that it’s impossible to build muscle when you are a woman in your 50’s plus.

I think this is about it, just kind of goofing off. Trying not to let the heat and the bug bites get to me, and hopefully, I can get some rest for my body so I don’t hurt so much.

I’m going to add my stupid little motivate myself videos to my posts.