Weekly Improvement Thread - Feb 16th 2025
Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of February!
It's the middle of the month, good time to reasses your progress and make some plans for the rest of the month.Good luck with your goals!
This week has been rough for me honestly, i'm struggling immensely with finding employment and it feels especially difficult at this current time to find any jobs that I think i'm cut out for. I'm trying my best not to become completely discouraged but holy shit is it tough, I've never had this much trouble looking for an entry-level job.
I wish the best for everyone this week though and hope you're all able to make progress in one way or another
Im lifting. thats it. thats the post
in addition to keeping up with what i wanted to with music i've also dipped my feet fingers into the world of self-hosting a bit, which has been a journey
i've also dipped my feet fingers into the world of self-hosting a bit, which has been a journey
I hope you like your new mono-hobby, the ride truly never ends with self-hosting
it's a mixture of very rewarding, fun, aggravating, and stressful. we're both pretty new to it and apparently we already have the attention of a bunch of bots looking for random things which i wasn't expecting. it is something i wish i got into sooner however.
So I'm back up to 2 months sober from alcohol. Nothing has really changed for me except one major change: I was given a puppy since his old owners couldn't handle him. He has already gotten me to go on 2 runs for the first time in years so I think I'll be running more from now on. He's a German shepard/Huskie mix and is a tiny little ball of chaotic energy but I love him so much already
Getting a puppy is truly the solution to all life problems
The solution to many problems and the cause of a few dozen more. But it's absolutely worth it
have you tried Leechblock NG? I find that having the blur feature on after 5-10mins for websites I spend a lot of time on makes me want to look at them less
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Can you please add me to the roll call?
Welcome aboard, we are happy to have you!
Starting to get back into the flow of things, finally. Not quite at the levels I had been close to the end of last year, but I worked out at home 3 times this past week, which is way more than I had done in a week during January.
Biggest hurdle to getting back into a good rhythm has been work though. We're short staffed and I've fallen behind on a lot of stuff. So I'm hoping to catch up this week so that I at least get rid of something else to worry about.
Got something for my crush on Valentine's. Been forever since I've done anything for anyone on Valentine's. I had really wanted to do something for her last year, but my social anxiety got the best of me.
Plans for this week... still lots of work
But I'll probably work out 4-5 days at home if I don't feel too worn out.This week was awful. Only one run in and I ate a bunch of frozen trash. Even my muse was faltering for the songs I'm working on. To be fair to myself, I have a family member who's dying. I did finally get to energy to buy groceries, so I should have at least all the rice and beans to keep me off the frozen crap.
Been switching up my excessive at the gym from strength to size, higher reps at 80% my max. did arms and chest, yesterday legs and today will be core/back.
Pretty big week for me. I cut down on weed significantly, previously I was getting high or wanting to get high every day. I got high three times this week and am not feeling a craving.
I went swimming this week which felt very nice and relaxing, I swam 1km in about 45 minutes. I would like to get faster at swimming but I'm not sure if I need to work on my form or something or just kick harder and build up stamina. I just finished a workout, 550 calories according to my app. I'm using an abs workout app for when I can't get to the gym and it's going well. My goal is to become unbreakable
As I lose weight I am going to reveal a rippling set of abs which has been hiding under my fat.I have been really locked in on my reading despite being unmedicated for ADHD! I read an academic text which melted my brain, but I was able to parse it, make it into a presentation and read it out in my lecture. That presentation caused me a massive amount of anxiety but I was able to do it. Also I read 200 pages of a book called Butter, because my friends are doing it for our new book club tomorrow and I hadn't started reading it. It's not a great book tbh, but getting back into reading feels great. I say down on the train for 2 hours and read, which I haven't been able to do in a long time
I've also signed up to a video game writing course basically on a whim. I've not been looking at a career in the gaming industry, but this could be a huge opportunity for me to start.
I've been cooking proper meals this week for the first time in about a year. I've had massive anxiety about cooking in my shared kitchen because one of my housemates is extremely judgemental, but honestly fuck her. I made some good bread
Not everything has suddenly become perfect. I ate a lot more food than I should have when I got high and felt very bad in my tummy that night, also haven't been sleeping well because this strain of weed makes my sleep weird. But I've learned not to try and transform my life in one big go, because that burns me out and then things get worse for me again.
Overall I'm very happy with my progress this week.
I think as long as I make time 3 days a week to gym that's prob good enough. Been doing that last week with training to failure and yeah I'm sore as hell but
Hello self improvement comrades.
I derailed pretty hard in February due to a mix of stressors: work is going crazy and I took on too much responsibility, partner having a long term health crisis and surgery next week, and my poor little kitty had a serious allergic reaction to pollen or dust mites or food who knows so she had to go to the vet and wear a cone for a while.
Therapy is helping a lot.
Time to get re-railed
And imo it always starts with physical fitness and healthy eating first so for this week