Forgive me friends, for I have marked "non-compliant" this past week on my avatar check-in! I actually think it's a pretty cool feature, because if you mess up and go over by a lot (or under but lets be real who even does that?!) you won't ruin the algorithm's adjustments. So yeah. I got my period and became a ball of emotions (note anchorman quote in title lel) and had a day where I went over by quite a bit! I also tweaked my lower back and shoulder lifting this week. It's so bad that for the first time in a few years, I think I am going to take an entire week off to let my body completely heal. I will do some light cardio here and there to stay active, but yep. The one redeeming thing that happened was... I got to see my dear friend Christine compete at the Tennessee State bodybuilding competition here in Nashville!

I'm back from my family vacation, where I ate, drank, and was perhaps a little too merry at times.. ;P I had an absolute blast and ate intuitively for the most part. I tried to hit my protein, continued to lift, and just enjoyed the heck out of my time! As you can see, I ate the best churro of my life on this vacation. In fact, I ate 2 of them with NO RAGRETS.

As I mentioned in the last post, I used Avatar Nutrition's vacation mode feature to let the system know that I would be on vacation and not hitting my macros. I have never used this feature before, so when I got back I left it on vacation mode for another week and hit my previous week's macros, as I expected that my weight would drop back down some.