Feeling Good

10:17 PM

This morning I weighed 159.3 pounds, yesterday I weighed 158.8 pounds, so I gained half a pound, and therefore since I want to lose weight, made adjustments to the amount I ate today. I didn't track my calories, but I should have eaten less today than yesterday, so I should be showing some weight loss tomorrow. We'll see.

I don't know how my parents do it. I swear they both only eat like 1200 calories a day. I swear $50 of food can last both of them a week or more, both of them. $70 is enough to last me a week, but I am one person. It is surprising how little they eat and how little they want to eat. They don't stuff themselves, and they can easily control their hunger it seems.

I think I've watched too many influencers that say you can eat as much as you want. I've only gained weight each time I followed that advice. There should be some limit and control to how much we eat, and we will get better at controlling our appetites overtime.

Today I worked for a decent amount of time and got a good amount of work done. It would be nice to have a job where I can concentrate on listening to some audiobooks or some audio in the background, while working, and still earn a lot. One of my jobs was like that, as a custom form and BIRT (business intelligence reporting tool) developer, my job was like that. I was a master at my craft, being the most skilled in this job probably out of everyone in the entire world, I believe that. I could make anything in BIRT, and for fun I even remade websites in BIRT. It's been years since I last used it, but yeah, I could work and do that job while listening to any podcast or any program.

Since I read a lot of code now, I can't listen to any speech audio while working anymore. Reading something and listening to something, both use the same parts of the brain. Especially since I have to analyze what I'm reading, it's very hard to listen to something and write code at the same time. It's easy to play games while listening to some speech audio, or draw while listening to some speech audio, or walk or run while listening to some speech audio, because they don't interfere with each other. But coding and listening to audio, is not possible, at least not for me.

Right now I'm feeling extremely good. At times like this, I can often ruin it by doing something destructive like eating needlessly or watching porn or playing video games. I'm not sure why I go to destructive habits when I'm already feeling fine, but it's just a thing that happens. Now that I'm conscious of it though, I can prevent myself from doing those activities.

Anyway, that was my day today.