Hec, for what it's worth, when I bumped up to 0.5 my weight plateaued.

I'm at 1.5 right now

Thanks! I really appreciate everybody sharing their experience. It's really helpful.

I managed to do my whole Pilates class despite my bandaged hand, and without busting a stitch.

Next week I start doing three classes a week, including my one-on-one with Pilates Domme, Rachael.

If I can continue to throw in two runs a week that should be a really good level of activity for me.

I do need to do some more cleaning before Matilda gets back, including the dreaded Guinea Pig cage.

I think lunch will be a small soup with sausage, chicken and vegetables.

Nice. I'm doing a short (half mile) walk with the dog every day now -- that honestly seems to be her limit, ha! Then I swim three times a week, and I just got one of those snorkels you use when you're trying to perfect your freestyle, which I am not trying to do, because I don't actually have a form to speak of, BUT, I suck at side breathing and cannot stand water in my mouth, so I never do freestyle even though I'd like to. I'll report back on how that works out... breathing through the snorkel is weird.

breathing through the snorkel is weird.

I grew up in South Florida and had my scuba certification by age 10. Lot of snorkeling and respirators (for the air tank).

Guys, Guys, Guys... I know AI is probably evil, but I had the best win today. ChatGPT helped me write a Python program to rename 100 files with the correct course name instead of the gobbledegook that comes out of the program that creates the files. It helped me figure out how to install Python and run it. It saved me HOURS of opening the files and renaming them and then saving them to Box. I understand enough of the code so that I can change it for other projects to name them correctly as well! It is my first little program in years (I am IT adjacent, so mostly worked with Macros before).

Guys, Guys, Guys... I know AI is probably evil, but I had the best win today. ChatGPT helped me write a Python program to rename 100 files with the correct course name instead of the gobbledegook that comes out of the program that creates the files. It helped me figure out how to install Python and run it. It saved me HOURS of opening the files and renaming them and then saving them to Box.

That's impressive! I know AI is being used to make significant breakthroughs in medicine now. And when I went to Josh's memorial, I talked to an attorney who was incorporating high level AI into his law firm, and it sounded like it had a lot of utility.

I'm not sure there's anything intrinsically evil about AI, it was just very unethical in the way it scraped its data.

It is going to eliminate whole bands of jobs though in the fairly near future, and it would be nice if countries started figuring out Universal Basic Income instead of dumping a large chunk of humanity into unemployability, with a gross top layer of have-it-all billionaires and their adjacents.

As a bonus, I'll add Cintra Wilson's encounter with ChatGPT which kinda blew her mind: [link]