Welcome to another day of dieting folks! Item #1 on my “ToDo List” will start today off: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
Remember, losing weight means:
- No more joint pain.
- Easier to get up/down stairs.
- New clothes.
- Socialize more.
- Travel more.
Morning
- ✅ #01: 📌 Work on Universal Planner! (Yep!)
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- ✅ #02: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (Nope!)
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- ✅ #03: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 352.3 lbs. = 9.6 lbs. total weight loss.)
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- ✅ #04: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
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- ☐✅ #05: 📕Read/Craft Ultimate Manifestation Letter: (9:31 pm,
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- ✅ #06: ☕ Over AM Coffee, say Terje’s Script! (*** NOTES ***) (3:33 pm!)
- #1) Hello – Begin by acknowledging them out loud. Simply say “Hello Universe” and open the conversation. The goal is not perfection or certainty, but connection. Say “THANK YOU” for everything and be SPECIFIC about manifestations!
- #2) Honesty – Speak truthfully about what you actually feel — fear, loneliness, frustration, gratitude, confusion, hope, excitement, doubt, or exhaustion. Don’t perform spirituality. Just be real.
- #3) Companionship – Treat them like companions walking beside you. Share little moments throughout the day: things you notice, appreciate, wonder about, or find beautiful or funny. Build relationship, not just requests.
- #4) Meetings – Take a few moments each day to talk through your life with them — what’s ahead today, what you’re worried about, what you want, where you feel stuck, and where you’d appreciate support or clarity.
- #5) Asking – Ask first for emotional relief and inner calm, then ask for solutions, guidance, pop-ins, signs, opportunities, ideas, or small favors. Ask openly without demanding exact outcomes or trying to control how the answer arrives.
- #6) Releasing – After asking, stop forcing. Go live your life. Walk, drive, work, brainstorm out loud, drink coffee, move through ordinary moments, and allow ideas or clarity to arise naturally instead of mentally gripping for answers.
- #7) Noticing – Pay attention to what returns — sudden ideas, emotional shifts, coincidences, synchronicities, timing, relief, unexpected opportunities, little “winks,” or moments that feel quietly meaningful. Then continue the conversation and relationship over time.
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*** Daily ***
- ✅ #07: 🥔 Eat POTATOES!!! (Yep!)
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- ✅ #08: 💊 Take Vitamins! (Yep!)
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- ✅ #09: 💧 Drink 1 GALLON water (with 6 Tbsp lemon juice, 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar, 1 tsp Himalayan sea salt! (Yep!)
*** Follow Your Bliss Today! ***
- ☐✅ #10: 🥋 Integrate Kung Fu!
- Watch/Process/Complete Shaolin.Online! (*** Workbooks ***)
- I commit to daily practice—body and mind.
- I eat with awareness and stop when satisfied.
- I move my body every day, even briefly.
- I return to the present moment whenever I notice I’ve drifted.
- I do not chase perfection—I practice consistency.
- I finish this course.
- Watch & Take Notes for the Original Kung Fu TV Series! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
- MAX OUT on “Chin Ups”! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
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- Watch/Process/Complete Shaolin.Online! (*** Workbooks ***)
- ✅ #11: 🎧 Watch/Listen YouTube Videos!
- SpudFit (Notes)! (2 videos!)
- Help By Buzz (Notes)! (2 videos!)
- Terry’s Spirit Lab (Notes)! <>
- Maggie Murphy (Notes)! (Subreddit)! <>
- Regular Guy (Notes)! <>
- Chad Foster (Notes)! <>
- With Dee (Notes)! <>
- Alison Coghlan (Notes)! <>
- Tim Grimes (Notes)! <>
- Dr. K – HealthyGamerGG (Notes)! <>
- Joseph Alai (Notes)! <>
- Paul In The Philippines (Notes)! <>
- Fly Me To The Philippines (Notes)! <>
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- ☐✅ #12: ✨ Work On New Novel! (*** NovelMay26 ***)
- Develop Plot! <>
- Flush Out Story! <>
- Create Images! <>
- Runway Video! <>
- Cite Manifestation Sources, Videos, Scriptures & Concepts! <>
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- ☐✅ #13: 📺 Watch Television!
- Amazon Prime Fallout! <>
- HBO Doom Patrol!
- Amazon Prime “The Boys”! <>
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- ☐✅ #14: 📖 Read Books!
- Read Keith Moon Book! <>
- Read/Vision Board The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson! <>
- Read Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To” by Dr. David Sinclair! <>
- Read Dr. James Doty Book: <>
- Read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor“! <>
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- ☐✅ #15: 🎮 Play Games!
- Play GTA5! <>
- Play Flight Simulator! <>
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- ☐✅ #16: 🏡 Clean up “Barn Suite”!
- Organize Kitchen! <>
- Oil Cutting Board! <>
- Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- Organize Bathroom! <>
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- ☐✅ #17: 🎵 Set up Music Studio!
- Back Up OneDrive Photos To Disk! <>
- Purchase & Install Software: <>
- Fix/Restore External Disk Drives! <>
- Set Up Components: <>
- Assemble drum kit: <>
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” WEEKLY “NICE TO DO”!
| Day | Focus Area |
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| 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: (Tim’s & Sumeria “long” goes live!) |
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” FUN, FUN, FUN!
| Day | Focus Area |
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| 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)! (Subreddit)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 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! <> ☐✅✨ DreamGen! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
Today marked the beginning of something new: DDVegan #0001. The name represents what I’m hoping will be a two-part journey. The DD is the dieting phase I’m beginning now, while the Vegan part is where I ultimately want to end up—not permanently dieting, but living a vegan lifestyle that I can actually maintain.
For this first phase, I’m deliberately keeping food ridiculously simple. Potatoes are the main event, along with spices, zero-fat sauces, almond milk, coffee and water. The plan is to continue this phase until I reach 199.9 pounds. That’s a long way down the road, so I’m trying not to spend too much time thinking about the entire journey. Today was simply #0001.
And naturally, on the first day of my new eating program, I ended up at McDonald’s. 🙂 I sat there tonight with a black coffee and took a couple of pictures to commemorate the occasion (see photo to the right). No burger. No fries. No ice cream. Just coffee. It wasn’t exactly an Instagram-worthy vegan feast, but perhaps that’s the whole idea.
I’ve been thinking again about Andrew Taylor and his potato experiment as well. I watched him respond to critics who predicted that his potato-only approach would begin causing problems after several months. Eight months into his experiment, Andrew reported that he felt great, had good blood-test results and had lost roughly 50 kilograms. Of course, that’s Andrew’s personal experience rather than proof that everyone should do the same thing, but I continue to find the simplicity of what he did fascinating. Pasted text
At the same time, I know I don’t want potatoes to be the destination. That’s why I’ve been looking more closely at Derek and Chad Sarno. The brothers grew up around traditional Italian-American family cooking and eventually ended up at the forefront of plant-based cooking. What attracts me to their philosophy is that vegan food doesn’t have to mean sad little bowls of lettuce. They approach plants as something you can turn into seriously good food.
I also learned a little more about their childhood and how much their grandmother, Nana, influenced their love of cooking. There’s something appealing about that because their eventual move toward plant-based food didn’t require them to abandon the idea that food should be pleasurable, generous and something worth sharing. They changed the ingredients without necessarily throwing away everything they loved about food.
Then there was my new word for the day: seitan. I’d heard the name before without really understanding what it was. It turns out it’s essentially the protein portion of wheat—gluten—which can be seasoned and cooked into all sorts of surprisingly meat-like foods. That’s certainly not on the DDVegan menu right now, but it could become interesting when I eventually reach the Vegan half of this experiment.
I also spent some time with Buzz today. In one video he talked about the importance of respecting Filipino culture when foreigners move to the Philippines. He described experiences with the national anthem, public prayer, children being taught kindness and the very different customs surrounding death. His basic philosophy was simple: you’re living in somebody else’s country, so pay attention to their customs rather than expecting them to adopt yours. Pasted text
So today wasn’t just about starting another diet. There were potatoes, vegan cooking, Andrew, Derek and Chad, seitan, Buzz and the Philippines—and somewhere in the middle of all that, a black coffee at McDonald’s marking Day One of another experiment. I don’t know exactly what DDVegan #0100 is going to look like yet, and that’s probably okay. For tonight, #0001 is enough. Same life. Still becoming.
