8:03 PM
It's been about a week since my back injury, and as far as I'm aware, I'm fully recovered. I don't feel any pain anywhere anymore. I can do every movement again with no limitation. Well, I noticed I'm not as flexible as I once was, but I don't feel any pain from any kind of stretching or movement anymore.
The butterfly sitting position is when you sit sort of cross-legged, but instead of crossing your legs, the bottoms of your feet touch. The butterfly stretch is when you try to touch your head to your feet from this position. I used to be flexible enough to do this, bring my head all the way down to my feet so that my forehead could touch my feet, or that I could even lick my own feet if I wanted (no I never tried this because the idea is gross, but I have brought my nose to my feet a bunch of times). This was an ability I did easily, and I took it for granted. Now I can't even bring my head down even to my feet anymore. At least I don't feel any pain, but I don't know if I'll ever get this ability back.
At some point a few years ago I used to also be able to touch my toes from a standing position without bending my knees. It's been years since I was last able to do this, and now I'm still not able to do it. I guess it's time to rebuild my mobility and flexibility.
This morning I weighed 174.9 pounds, which was awesome. I was 180 pounds or so when I left for Puerto Rico, now I'm 5 pounds lighter. So cool. I look so much better today than even a month ago. There's still a lot of room for improvement, so I still have a long way to go. I don't know what it's like yet to be under 170 pounds, maybe I'll be able to find out soon.
On average, after reaching the low 170s, I get arrogant and start eating a lot of food again, and my weight shoots up. This time I'm actively tracking my calories, and even though I still sometimes can't help myself and go over my limit, at least I know when I do and at least have some resistance. I set my limit to 2000 calories per day, but I've already eaten 2500 today. I'm not planning on eating for the rest of the night though.
I still haven't been getting over 6 hours of sleep. The amount of sleep I get per day is so little, that even getting 5 hours of sleep is put into the "typical" range for me for my Apple Watch. I've recently been taking some sleeping supplements, saw them at Marshalls and I decided to try them, and nothing is helping. I try not to overdose because I think some people end their lives doing that, but even taking more than the daily dosage still doesn't do anything for me.
It's not like I'm tired or anything though. Even with 5 hours of sleep today, I exercised at home, worked, and I'm about to go exercise again at the gym right now. I don't drink coffee, I ate for under $5 of food the whole day today. I am overweight, had this back injury, and yet I still can't get myself tired enough to go to sleep for more than 7 hours.
Based on the posts from other people who experienced deadlifting injuries, some people never recovered, some people couldn't walk even after being bedridden for a few days. These people eat animal corpses and secretions. I was able to walk after a day, although with a lot of pain and difficulty, enough that I had to lean against the wall just to move, or I had to crawl on the ground. I'm not immune to injury or sickness, no one is. I'm just against animal cruelty which is why I don't eat any animals, and I get a lot of benefits from it. Some people have ridiculous claims about how difficult, expensive, or unhealthy it is, these people have no idea about anything.
It's weird how people's logic turn off completely when you bring up the idea of choosing to not murder any animals. Any illogical excuse they would never use for any other scenario, people use in defense of killing the innocent. I've done vegan street activism where I interview people on the streets. I would sometimes start with "Are you a kind and compassionate person?" everyone answers yes, no one has ever said otherwise. I would then ask "Are you against all animal abuse and cruelty?" Everyone answers yes, no one has ever said otherwise. I would ask "would you ever hurt an animal? do you think it's wrong to hurt animals?" people answer no they would never hurt an animal, that there's basically no scenario in which it's okay to hurt animals. Then you bring up meat, and all of a sudden, they go backwards on all their previous claims, literally all of it, and try to justify it somehow. It's happened pretty much every single time, although some people are convinced to go vegan on the spot, others try to continually justify their needless killing of the innocent.
It's really an extremely simple idea to just not murder the innocent. Really really simple. Yet most of society is unable to understand it. It is really weird. I like having vegan friends, we get it. It's like we make this basic and extremely obvious connection the rest of the world doesn't understand. We can't wrap our heads around how illogical and senseless people can be.
I think for my BMI, I'm extremely healthy, which is exceptional. Most people with my BMI wouldn't be able to do 7 pull ups in a row, and I just did that today. Actually my VO2 Max is pretty low, that is one part of me I know is terribly unhealthy. I'm very objective about things, I can be convinced when I'm wrong and I know when something is negative. I know I am overweight, I know my fastest mile, if I would just run one single mile, is probably 8-9 minutes (which is really slow), I know my VO2 max is below average for my age. I have seen lower from other people my age. I've seen people who exercise cardio every day who only have just slightly higher than my own, but that doesn't matter, my VO2 max is still really low and far from where I want it to be. My resting heart rate is good and low though, under 50s some nights which is extremely amazing and healthy.
Anyway, I'm going to the gym right now. I'm going to do extremely light exercises.
10:24 PM
I went with Eric and Gus to the gym. We forgot that the gym closes at 9 PM today, and we got there at a bit before 8:40 PM. After entering and them saying the gym was closing soon, we decided to just walk instead of working out. So we walked for a bit, and went to Wal-Mart to look for some batteries because two smoke alarms in my home started beeping recently. I had two spare 9V batteries for smoke alarms, and I just used up both of them the past 2 days. So I needed to get some, but they were $10.47 for a single one by Duracell, the other brands were all sold out, so I decided to just not buy any. I think the one I bought was like a pack of 3 for $8. I wasn't going to spend $10.47 for 1.
I told them about the sleep problem I had, and they recommended Zzzquil. I took some just a few minutes ago. We'll see how it works. I also took an extra strength melatonin sleep supplement, the same one I got from Costco. It has 30mg of melatonin. Normally they have just 2mg, and this one has 30mg. It still hasn't helped me though since I've been using it for a couple of days now.
Anyway, I am actually getting sleepy. I'm just gonna go to sleep. Or try to. We'll see if this actually does anything.
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