My pool is closed for the season. I find it exciting—oh, not now. Indeed, the pool area is an exceeding drab thing. The black cover sucks the vibrancy from the space; the overgrowth of plants imparts an abandoned mood.

However, my eyes don't see this. No, I envision next year: what I'll look like and what I'll be doing when that pool is open again around mid-March. It was on 3/23/23 with a pool temperature of 63° when I swam for the first time at my house. Perhaps next year, it'll be 3/24/24 to swim at 64°.

I got to thinking: why not make the first New Year Resolution involve carving down to a BMI of 24 in '24? I've got 108 lbs to lose. Can I do this?

Fortunately, I've got this in my back pocket, the knowledge of a high-fat carnivore from November to June '23:

• Time span: 30 weeks
• Daily fat avg.: 213 g
• Daily protein avg.: 77 g
• Daily carbs avg.: <1 g
• Weightloss: 2.56 lbs / week (0.37 / day)

The 24 BMI target will be achieved on August 15. At 166 lbs, I'll borrow from that STRANGER THINGS poster that hung in my gym: "One summer can change everything."

My last post featured my foot setback and the shelving of self. Things have since changed as on Saturday, I put in 1700 steps followed by Sunday's 4200. The foot still aches. There are mornings I gotta boot it up with a percussion massager. That said, "By the Power of Carnivore...I Have the Power!"

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What Am I Listening to Today?

I want to bring this site back to its past. My temperament has always aligned itself with retrowave / synthwave, even before it was a thing.

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