If your CICO was a line graph and yesterday was normal, today was a big spike, and tomorrow was normal, none of that shit matters when you look at the line over the length of a year of good habits.

You won't even be able to see this one-off, single-day spike, blip, what have you. It's a drop of water in the middle of the ocean.

Let yourself make mistakes, just acknowledge it was not the norm, and learn from it. If you bastardize failure you're setting yourself up to fail harder due to unrealistic expectations, unsustainability, etc.

So I say fuck it. Blow your CICO up today. Just do right by yourself for the rest of the week.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is what I'm trying to get better at. Same with hitting lower than my PR one day at the gym. Fortunately I can graph all of the above thanks to a few apps I like and it's easy to see that history is full of misses while the trend is still overwhelmingly upward. Gotta remind myself better of that kind of thing everywhere in life.

Thanks for the reminder! 💪

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Out of curiosity, and don't feel obligated to answer, what is your daily schedule like? I work 48-60 hour weeks (12 hr shifts, 4-5 days a week) and I have a hard time working up the motivation to exercise. Even things I enjoy like riding my bike or swimming. I just can't wrap my head around how people feel like exercising. It's always a burden and as a result, I rarely do it. But I feel great afterwards and want to incorporate it in my routine but it just never happens