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I am now feeling more normal. Not totally, but I'm getting there. I've gone on a few walks and managed to clean my house for a semi-extended period of time. Tomorrow I'm back to work.

I've designed a 6 week program, diet and exercise, to start tomorrow as well. I've detailed a calorie cycling program to work with my psychological diet issues; a weight lifting program based on what I learned in NROL (but not strictly an Alwyn program); and minimum cardio and NEAT for each day as well (which just means I've specified run/walk/crosstrainer).

I need to be this detailed, I think. I'm a flexible person, always have been. Lyle McDonalds Guide to Flexible Dieting seemed like common sense to me, but at the same time it gave me too much psychological leeway. I'm not prone to throw in the towel if I make a little mistake. I'm just prone to excusing too many "little mistakes".

Anyway, I even have a maintenence/refeed period at week four, which happens to historically be my plateu week but luckily is also a weekend packed with celebrations. I've managed to fit 3200 calories into each of three days and that's still technically a 1600 calorie deficit for the week. If I do it as a refeed I'll raise it even more (if I need to, I'm not sure?).

I'd like to lose 2 lbs per week (except for week 4/ maintain) so the goal for the 6 weeks is to lose 10 lbs. I think I'll lose more though, I'm guessing the first two weeks will be huge. What I'm holding now is from no movement, little to no caloric restriction and hypothyroid. Now that the thyroid is fixed and exercise is commencing, tightening up the diet should see some big losses. (Which, I know is not all fat but that's what will be comforting to know!)

Weigh in/bodyfat caliper/ body part measurements tomorrow morning and each Monday.

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