Sustainability. in Whey and Sonic Screwdrivers.

Vacuuming up buckets and buckets of water out of the carpet is oddly therapeutic. Vacuum floor, receive reward!

Did call maintenance yesterday, but well. It’s a Sunday today. I’ve triple-checked the hot water heater breaker. There may be a breaker ON the apparatus itself, but I forget offhand where it is. Given that there’s no hot water, well. Process of elimination in terms of the cause.

It amazes me a little just how well my carpet cleaner works. (Got it a decade ago.) Because of how saturated the carpet is, it sucked up a bucket’s worth REALLY fast. Which is both “Sweet, it’s working!” and “…Damn, this is going to take a bit.”

I mean, if you’re casually cleaning a carpet, you’re not going to put THAT much water down. So, it seems like you’re barely picking anything up. This sucker, only thing that slows it down is when enough cat hair gets clogged in one of the tiny filters. Easy to spray out, so no biggie.

Not the way I planned to spend my Sunday, but it still somehow counts as “adult activity”. I find it difficult to relax unless I feel like I have done something. Lifting only gets me so far. And that’s more routine than “I have to do this.”

Speaking of lifting. Here’s a really good comment I left on reddit. Post was inquiring “What helps you not burnout?”

SMART. Specific, Measurable, Achieveable, Reasonable, Timely.

Though, I'll get it down to one word: Sustainable. Motivation will get you to the gym. Routine will keep you there. As in, it's easy to blow your wad on a single workout. As my workouts have evolved into what I'm doing, I ask myself "will I want to do one more set every single week for the next year?"

My workouts are long, but sustainable. It's not one workout that yields progress. It's consistently showing up and doing a little more. At least, if you're versed in progressive overload.

Always start easy. Three days a week for "30 minutes" of whatever "30 minutes" means to you. And build from there.

Nutrition-wise, holy hell, that's another story. Just don't drink, and count that as a victory in the kitchen. : )

Moving inanimate objects may be my thing, but the umbrella of “fitness” is rather large. I like seeing progress workout-to-workout and week-to-week.

Sustainability. Sustainability. It is why I champion a meal of oats. A sustainable healthy habit. : )

(Though, thanks to today being wibbly-wobbly-timey-whimey day, I got to hit the gym an hour earlier. So I skipped oatmeal and just had some whey before heading out the door. Great workout, thanks to do days off. Sooo psyched to deadlift tomorrow. The evidence confirms: lifting helps with my depression/mood.)