DAY 8

Hi all, it has gotten pretty late today. But somehow, I have really come to like writing blogs like this, it is kinda refreshing to pen down whatever my experience was of today and really just take some time for myself. Well if I take too much time with this blog, my sleep scheduled will get f'ed up, so I will keep it short.

By my evaluation, today was nice. My time at office was fairly productive, and I really got some work done. Regarding my latest project, the codebase migration, it is almost complete. So I sent a company wide email describing the main upgrades and improvements in the new codebase which was well received. Also, we have a new engineer on the team who is being onboarded onto this new codebase. He is new to the company itself and doesn't really have much context regarding what is what, and the codebase in question is pretty huge and complicated, not easy to manoeuvre the first time you see it. To be honest, it would take months by yourself to understand fully how things are happening in it. So, he was told that I was the person to talk to if he had any doubts and to no one's surprise, he scheduled a call with me today. I addressed all his doubts, and at the end, he asked me what my contribution was regarding this project. I casually mentioned that I wrote most of the codebase along with another data scientist; with the help of an engineer (HS). I don't think he was expecting that answer, or the fact that only 3 people had written this monster. It took him a while to digest that information and he asked how much time it took and so on and so forth; and finally, he mentioned that it was one of the most well written codebases he had seen in his life. Coming from an engineer, I felt pretty flattered and appreciated. After having to deal with super unreasonable deadlines and incessant chants of "We have to ship it asap", this was like the sweetest comment I could've ever heard, and it did moisten my eyes for a second.

Anyway, I guess I've digressed a lot; this is why I said yesterday that I wouldn't talk about work - there's so much to say that it would never end. Coming to the actual reason why I started blogging, I have to mention, the urge to smoke is almost non-existent now. Of course HS and friends aren't back yet, so no one is really having a smoke in front of me such that I feel like smoking too, but my chewing gum consumption has been reduced to 0. Well I still have 6 packets of them left, guess I will just keep them for when people smoke in front of me. Talking about HS, well he somehow did find fuel in black and is on the way back right now. He will reach home in an hour or so, and so the challenge begins from tomorrow where I will have to fight back taunts and visual bait. But then, I think I am well equipped to deal with that since I don't get any cravings now. But just to bolster my determination, I am not going to touch j's or cigs at least till my GF is in India. She will leave for America again by the last week of Jan, so yeah. Small, manageable goals is the way to go. Come on life, and semi-toxic friends - I shall face y'all head on.

Are you guys interested about knowing how my fitness journey is going? Well then this paragraph is for you, else you can skip it. Today I completed all my fitness goals! 7000 steps completed, full work out completed (it was shoulder and legs day today - I can't lift my legs without them shaking for now), 801 kcals burnt and 1713 kcals consumed (just shy of the target of 1800). Fat intake was a little over the limit while the fibre intake was less. Protein and carb intake was on point. I received the smart scale from the subscription. I used to think my weight was 91 kg. It wasn't, the scale showed 96.85 kg and my heart sank. Well ideally I'm supposed to take the measurement in the early morning on an empty stomach, but how much would that have reduced my weight measurement anyway. I haven't taken the blood glucose measurement yet, it will be taken tomorrow morning. So it seems things are on track and I am mostly happy about how I have been able to follow these routines without much issue but not about my weight.

It's almost 1 am now. Time to sleep. I want to switch my workout timings to the morning instead of after office. 11 hours in office does sap your energy a lot. I am mentally gearing up for tomorrow's challenge, may the Gods of Determination be with me for, at least, the next 3 weeks. Ending it here for today. Will see y'all tomorrow.