Hello comrades and welcome to the fifth and last improvement megathread of June! 
How was your June? What would you like to focus on in July?
Fun fact: tomorrow (July 1st) will be the exact middle day of the year. It will be the 183rd day of the year and 183 more days will remain until the end of the year. Good time to look back and review your year so far. It’s also a good time to remember your new year resolutions and get back on track with your goals. A lot progress can be done in 6 months. What would you like to do until the end of the year?
Poster caption: By the (rail)road of peace and friendship! Moscow - Beijing 1954
Good luck with your goals! 
I began studying for my part 107 commercial drone license. It’s a pretty casual process, but I need to do it if I want to legally* film protest footage for my party.
*Illegally isn’t an option when modern drones are constantly broadcasting the location of the pilot to anyone with a cell phone. Fuck Remote ID.
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I bought a cheap treadmill to walk on because I live in hell and it’s too hot out to even walk except at like 4 am and I’m not waking up that early. I’ve had a lot of old person back pain lately and it’s because I’m so sedentary. Currently posting from the treadmill.
We have a cheap elliptical gathering dust. I ought to just use that a bit every day. I’ve also got the old man back and hip pain coming in. A relatively tame weekend trip has left me exhausted
I saw some pop-health headline about walking being good for lower back pain, so I walked around work for a while last week (it’s a huge, air conditioned building) and it felt good, so I decided to start this. Even just walking at a brisk pace for a half hour was good today!
My year was going great until I got fucked up with some health issues that lasted for a few months. I was going running 2x per week before that. I finally recovered but now it’s too hot to live so I’m trying to figure out how to stay active and exercise. I wish I had a fucking peloton but they are incredibly expensive.
Overall it was a decent year so far and I managed to make a lot of progress, especially with nutrition and exercise. When the summer ends I’m gonna get back to running every week. Until then I’ll try to do some bodyweight exercises. Last week I touched grass with friends, I want to keep that up in July.
This is personal to me so don’t laugh, but I’ve decided to give up masturbation. I won’t go into the lurid details but I’ve noticed the porn I’ve been searching up is getting to be uncomfortable to look at or even think about, but I needed it to get off. Thankfully nothing illegal but shit I’d be mortified if anyone found out I was consuming. So I decided to call it quits.
I put a tracker on my phone and I’ve cleared 24 hours. I’ve been trying to stay away from sexualized things that might trigger me too. Thankfully my meds already kind of help in suppressing my sex drive by quite a bit. So I hope I can stick with it and try and reset or restart my brain so I can get back into a more healthy mindset when it comes to getting off.
Or I could go full monk and never get myself off ever again, who knows?
Of all of the vices, I think this would be the one most difficult for me to give up. Best of luck with your efforts to forgo it
Roughest week in a good couple of months. I had several days where I would just get stuck in bed for hours, basically just eating sandwiches, and no exercise. One day I had a little porn binge, but no more than that day. Didn’t repair my flat tire. I’m trying not to be too hard on myself but I’m also wary because if I let this slide it could easily get worse. I’m going to call the doctor tomorrow to revise my medication which is literally making me more depressed.
update:
☑︎ flat tire
☑︎ call doctor
My June was pretty good. I maintained my sobriety streak even despite going to a very specific social event in which I normally drink and smoke heavily. Instead I had a lovely time swimming and enjoying the sun with my friends.
I’ve ridden ~500 miles on my motorcycle and have loved every minute of it.
I’ve gained ~10 lbs from consistently eating breakfast and lunch. And given that my job is quite physical a solid chunk of the weight gained has been muscle. My arms are noticeably bigger which feels great ngl.
My goals now are to continue on with what I’ve started and build up on my successes. I’ll be picking up some weights soon to start doing heavier lifting. And once I have the money saved up for it I’ll be buying a nice rowing machine to get my back stronk and to replace my cardio since I’m no longer riding my bicycle as much as I was. As far as being midway through the year, I feel like I’m happy with the progress that I made despite not having any new years resolutions
My arms are noticeably bigger which feels great ngl.
Now your thoughts and opinions are more correct. The big your arms the more objectively correct you are, especially when talking to nerds. People don’t know but Marx was fuckin’ yakked.
Back on track this week. Went to the gym 3 times, running twice, doing as many miles walking as I can. Upping the intensity on my workouts and it’s kinda been kicking my ass
Unfortunately I’ve put some weight back on since I’m back to eating out more. Need to do more to get myself in a good place with my diet.
For July I just want to keep the consistency going with my workouts. Eat a lot better too. And on a smaller note now that my gym no longer has rowing machines, I want to master the skierg. It’s a weird machine that almost looks like a standing rowing machine which emulates a skiing motion. On a rowing machine I had been able to go about 10 minutes. On my first go on the skierg I went about 3 lol.
It’s been 20 days of giving a shit again and minding what I eat. I think it’s also helping my mother a bit be less blasé about her own eating and health. I’m down either 8 or 16 pounds if you count my first weigh in as the night before or the first morning since I lost like 8 pounds in a day according to the scale.
Still been a struggle though especially as work drama has been making me want to stop caring but I’m worth more than that drama.
Not much to report this week. I went to a mysterious and dreary land known only as “Tennessee” last week to visit an old college buddy. We linked up chatted about life and growing up and the general struggle of being alive. I’m back on the hustlegrind today. About to hit the gym and do my evening reading.
