Welcome to another work week! Here comes item #1 on my latest “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
⚠️ WARNING
This post used AI assistance. AI is imperfect and OFTEN unreliable. Real people who have actually lived and achieved what they manifested, if credible, should be trusted more than any machine. Trust your own thinking first. Reader beware…
STAYING MOTIVATED TO 199.9 LBS. TIPS!!!
- Eat “AS MUCH AS WANT” only omelette meal to save time (+ FLAX SEEDS IS COMPLETE MEAL)!
- No exercise! Just watch what you eat!
- Watch Star Wars movies & series in chrono order! Build music studio FINALLY!
- Learn flight simulator FINALLY
- Clean “Barn Suite” FINALLY!
- LOOK FORWARD TO 199.99 lbs. FINALLY!
- COME ON … PEOPLE HAVE DONE MORE DIFFICULT THINGS!
DAILY “ToDo’s”
To start off each day:
- ☐✅ #01: Morning Prayer to the Universe: “Thank you for this day. I’m human and still learning. Please guide me today, help me notice the bridges, and show me my next step. Help me move toward what’s in my Little Red Book. I trust I’m being led. Thank you.“
- ☐✅ #02: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – xxx.x lbs. = xx.x lbs. total weight loss.) Hang on… With 0.5 lbs. weight loss you will be 199.5 lbs. on Tuesday, October 27, 2026! With 0.4 lbs. weight loss you will be 199.9 lbs. on Friday, January 1, 2027!
- ☐✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ☐✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! <>
- ☐✅ #05: 📕Read “The “Little Red Book” List: <>
- ☐✅ #06: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: <>
- ☐✅ #07: 🍳 “(As Much As Want) FOOD” Omelette! (This omelette consists of potatoes, egg whites, cauliflower rice, and mixed vegetables, with one tablespoon of flaxseed per day and optional flavoring from hot sauce, nutritional yeast, tomato sauce, and mustard): (Yes!)
- ☐✅ #08: ☕ “(As Much As Want) SALAD MIX”! <>
- ☐✅ #09: ☕ “(As Much As Want) DRINK” Black Coffee or Tea, (w/splash plant milk), or Water! <>
- ☐✅ #10: 🍞 “(One/Day) BREAD” Ezekiel “Muffin or Bread” or Rice/Corn Cakes (200 cals)! <>
- ☐✅ #11: 🥣 “(One/Day) OATMEAL“ Oatmeal or Weetabix (200 cals)! <>
- ☐✅ #12: 🐟 “(One/Day) MEAT“ Tuna or Chicken or Turkey or Beef (100 cals)! <>
- ☐✅ #13: 🍎 “(One/Day) FRUIT” Apple or Orange or Berries (100 cals)! <>
- ☐✅ #14: 🫙 “(One/Day) CONDIMENTS” Ketchup or Dressing or Hummus (100 cals max.)! <>
- ☐✅ #15: 🍺 “(One/Day) DRINK” Alcohol Free Beer or Zevia (100 cals max.)! <>
- ☐✅ #16: 💊 Take Daily Vitamins: <>
- ☐✅ #17: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! <>
- 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
PROJECTS
I have a goal of getting the “Barn Suite” in order. Did any of these happen today?
- ☐✅ #18a: 🏚️ Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- ✅ #18b: 🏚️ Assemble Lamp: (Feb. 10/26!)
- ✅ #18c: 🏚️ Oil Cutting Board: (Feb. 28/26!)
- ✅ #18d: 🏚️ Purchase Corner Bookcase: (Feb. 12, 2026!)
- ✅ #18e: 🏚️ Assemble Corner Bookcase: (Feb. 16, 2026!)
- ☐✅ #18f: 🏚️ Clean Kitchen: <>
- ✅ #18g: 🏚️ Assemble Soundbar: (Feb. 12/26!)
- ✅ #18h: 🏚️ Packaged Soundbar to return to Walmart: (Feb. 15/26!)
- ✅ #18i: 🏚️ Organize papers on round table: (Feb. 26/26!)
And assembling my music studio?
- ☐✅ #19a: 🎹 Fix/Restore external drives: <>
- ☐✅ #19b: 🎹 Download software: <>
- ☐✅ #19c: 🎹 Assemble drum kit: <>
And don’t forget the bookkeeping!
- ☐✅ #20a: 💾 Download OneDrive Data! <>
- ☐✅ #20b: 📷 Photograph “Physical” Journals! <>
And just for fun:
- ☐✅ #21a: 🌙 Read Keith Moon Book: <>
- ☐✅ #21b: ✈️ Flight Simulator (Take off/land Courtenay Airport!): <>
🔝 WEEKLY “NICE TO DO”!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday | ☐✅ 👕 Laundry Day: <> |
| Tuesday | ☐✅ 🚿 Shampoo + Conditioner Routine — Aussie Miracle Moist Shampoo for 30–60 seconds, rinse, then apply Being BIG HAIR Volumizing Conditioner to mid-lengths and ends for 2–3 minutes before rinsing cool: <> |
| Wednesday | ☐✅ 🥗 Record “Weight Loss” Video: <> ☐✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS VIDEO Creation: <> |
| Thursday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: <> |
| Sunday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
🔝 FUN, FUN, FUN!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday | ☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <> ☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <> ☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <> ☐✅ 🗣️ Learn Tagalog! <> ☐✅🌙 Read Keith Moon Book: <> ☐✅🧠 Read Dr. James Doty Book: <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Maggie Murphy (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Alison Coughlan (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen Dr. K videos! <> ☐✅ 📖 Read The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <> ☐✅ 📖 10 Books To Write! <> ☐✅ 🌎Read/Vision Board The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson: <> ☐✅ 💻 Manus Software! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
Today was less about where I went and more about what I was trying to solve inside my own head.
I started the day thinking about extreme simplicity. If a 5’7”, 320-pound man ate only chanko nabe, would he lose weight? Then I shifted to my own Omelette Diet, the one that works beautifully when I follow it and collapses when I don’t. Then I took it even further — potatoes, rice, cauliflower, vegetables, flax seed, egg whites. Could that be nutritionally complete? Would vitamins cover the gaps? Was there a way to engineer the perfect, minimalist reset?
It all sounded very clean on paper.
The conversation drifted into sweet cravings and why they hit so hard. It isn’t really about sugar. It’s about relief. It’s about the quiet in the evening. It’s about wanting warmth and using food as a substitute ritual. Fries are easier than vulnerability. A Coke is easier than silence.
In typical systems-architect fashion, I began building structure again — an emoji language for food tracking. 🍳 for omelette. 🥔 for potatoes. 🍞 for bread. 💪 for protein. 🥣 for oatmeal. 🥤 for Coke. 🍺 for beer. 🧂 for condiments. 🍎 for fruit. A symbolic control board for behavior. If I can name it, maybe I can manage it.
And then tonight happened.
Despite all the theory, all the macro calculations, all the nutrient completeness discussions, I went to McDonald’s and had one of their chickenburgers (see photo to the right). The familiar lights, the familiar order, the familiar ritual. It wasn’t hunger so much as habit. It wasn’t protein deficiency. It was the evening window opening, and me stepping through it.
That’s the real tension of the day.
On one side: potato protocols, air fryer fries, SpudFit ketchup, vitamin optimization.
On the other: a man sitting in his car at night with a tray and a drink, trying to quiet something that isn’t really about food.
If I’m honest, today wasn’t about designing the perfect diet.
It was about recognizing that the structure has to hold when the loneliness hits.
And tonight, it didn’t.
Tomorrow is another chance to test the system again.
