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It’s been a busy week so far. I’ve been working, training, going to groups, having meetings, and doing lunch, among other things.

I guess I’ll start off with the biggest news of the week: I heard back from Apple. Bad news. I didn’t get the position. It was nice of them to give me a call to let me know. Jason explained that the positions were very competitive and that a lot of people were interviewing for them, but didn’t give me any real reason why I didn’t make it past the second interview. Sigh. Oh well, such is life. Time to move on, redouble my efforts, and get back to work.

Speaking of work, the social media and web work I am doing for my old boss, Jean-Paul, and his company, Billistic is going well. This week the Twitter account blew up! We had added about 275 followers in the first month of activity, then added over 100 on Tuesday alone. It’s a curious thing, as I’m left wondering a little bit about what prompted the surge in activity, but I have some ideas and the trend is continuing, so we’re quite happy. Follow along at @Go_Billistic.

Working out is going very well. I’m down 4.4 pounds since Sunday. I’m getting stronger and leaner, which is what I’m doing all the working out for. I’ve started using a couple apps to track progress, and finally seem to have figured out how to get MyFitnessPal to post to my Facebook page. Poor app design, as it turns out – the updates I’m doing on the app aren’t triggering it to post to my wall. The workaround is to do my morning weigh-in and evening diary completion online, then it posts.

Oh, and I joined the 21st century, and created an instagram account. My username there, as well as most places now, is imagin8orr. I’ve only posted a few pics so far, but I like the app and can see myself posting a lot more in the future. I’m a shutterbug at heart and instagram is a great app for sharing pics.

I hit chest pretty hard last night, then followed it with dinner and an hour long walk. Today I hit back, semi-hard, and am planning to go on another hour long walk after dinner. Now that I’m phasing into my cutting routines, I’m finding I’m more tired – be it from extra exercise, fewer calrories, or probably both.

I’ve started tracking my workouts in a couple apps: BodySpace by bodybuilding.com and MyFitnessPal. BodySpace is good for tracking workouts and sharing them with the community. MyFitnessPal is more about tracking food intake than exercise, though it does have the ability to add workout information and does link to the iPhone’s Health app to incorporate walking and general movement caloric expenditure. It’s got some great features, particularly a bar code scanner utility, that makes tracking food really easy. I like not having to log everything I’m eating by hand, and it gives a good breakdown of what I’ve eaten so far, how many calories I have left to meet my daily goals, and breakdown of nutrients.

I’m not sure if I’m going to keep using them both. Part of me is still drawn to the old school notebook usage, and it makes updating here easier. Still, maybe it’s just learning and getting used to a new way of doing things, so I’m going to keep at it for a while and see if it sticks.

Part of the issue is that neither seems to be linking and posting to Facebook, so I don’t have links readily available that I can include here. I probably need to unlink and relink the apps to get them working again, since I made some tweaks to the settings after I installed them.

Weight: 218.2

Back

Lat pulldown – 100 x 10/10/10/8/8
Cable row – 100 x 8/8/8/8/8
4600 + 4000 = 8600 pounds moved

Even though it’s a rest day, I needed to get moving and not sit on my butt all day. So I decided to go for a walk and went out for a stroll this afternoon. I did about a four mile loop around the neighborhood, through the park, and back again. A good, hour-long, active recovery walk.

Weight: 221

Recovery

Walking: 65m