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Date: 27.10.2024 Weight: 88.7 Kg Food: Same as usual high in protein, less in carbs and a medium amount of fat. Product: So it is has been a week the app is live. It is now time to start doing marketing for the past week I bought a new Samsung smart phone just to use TikTok. It is banned in India but have to use VPN so that it works here. I am using Windscribe VPN. Here is the stats for the past week. Now my next focus should be on marketing, Already researched about the top TikTok Accounts and the type of Videos that go viral. Will be testing new videos to post in TikTok, Insta, and YouTube. Also planning to create a website to increase SEO too. No revenue yet :) 

Date: 20.10.2024 Weight: 88.8 Kg The weight increased a 200g Food: Same as usual high in protein, less in carbs and a medium amount of fat. Exercise: Same didn't do much but surprisingly the cyst vanished on its own and the pain in my middle finger is gradually going away. This might be due to no exercises. Let's see how it goes Next week. Product: Finally the app is live after three rejections. :) Here is the link to the App. There isn't much downloads yet but will start once we start doing the Marketing. :) So I have been in the process of researching the best ways to market the app so for the next 60 days more focus will be poured into marketing the app. :)

Date: 13.10.2024 Weight: 88.6 Kg 🔻 The weight was pretty much under 90 even after having food. Down 200g from last week. Food: Same as usual high in protein, less in carbs and a medium amount of fat. Exercise: Same didn't do much as I got pain near my knuckles on the right hand. Took an Xray, MRI scan and consulted with an Ortho Doctor to find out I had a small Cyst nothing to worry about. So not much exercise this week. Product: The product is completed and submitted to Apple for review. It was rejected two times with reasons and I had to make some changes in the app flow and some features which was hindering and kind of not necessary. So did the changes and submitted again. I am expecting it should be approved by the next week and we should start working on the marketing side.  My sister is having baby shower function on Oct 23rd so a bit busy in travelling. So we should see much more updates next week.   

Date: 06.10.24 Weight: 88.95 Kg 🔻 It was hovering around 89.3 Kg for a few days and today morning I was below 89 after several months. Around 900g of weight loss comparing the last month which might be on the higher side. Lets' see how it goes. Food: With the increase in protein intake, I had a slight pain in my right hand knuckle. Consulted with a  Ortho Doctor immediately and doctor recommended me to take a blood test for uric acid which might be the problem as I am having Meat based foods most of the time. Have to take a blood test this week and see what my levels are but I think it might be a sprain. Let's see. Exercise: Completely stopped it due to the hand, will start slowly after the Blood work. Also due to spending a lot of time with building the app this week. Product: The app is 95% done with some tweaks, It would have been finished so much earlier but I had to redo it a few times. The product development journey was not like an Up Down graph but more like a Dragon claw shape which extends and retracts back. I had strip down everything and start working. You have to keep in mind that I do not know how to code just understand  the login behind it. I have scratched my head a few times in this process. Especially in the last two days.  The will be ready and uploaded within the next week and the marketing the app should start. I need to focus on marketing the app till the end of this challenge for maximum results.

Date: 29.09.24 Weight: 89.85 Kg 🔻 The weight has been hovering around 90kg for the past week and is stable for the last three days around 89Kg which is around 750g of weigh loss in a week which is a good healthy amount of weight change so probably at the end of the challenge I would weight around 85Kg. Food: Completely avoided eating any packaged food for this week except a few Polo Mints. ;)  Been eating around 200-300g of Pan fried Breast Chicken most of the time. Purchased a new cast iron pan for the Chicken and Fish fry. Learning how to cook in this process as well. Been following a similar diet plan of eating my first meal at 2:30pm and dinner at 6:30pm, sometimes I have an Apple or Orange or both around 8:00pm but no food after that. Exercise: Only in the last couple of days I have started doing 30 Incline Pushups daily which I kind of like it and easy to do. Just takes a few minutes. I need to start incorporating Walking in my daily routine. I think I will start it from this week. For the pullups I need to find a place to do the Australian Row pull ups in my home using the pull up bar which I will setup today and start doing that. Also have to start Jump rope. I think I am taking my time to add exercises one by one. Product: It has been amazing building a product using Ai. The initial app is done around 60-70% the main functionality of the app is done. I did pivot from my Initial app idea. I just took one of the features of the main as this will not have any overhead cost and easy to get it done. Next I need to integrate with Apple Developer and integrate Payments and stuff. It should be done within the next two weeks. So that I can concentrate on marketing and bringing the revenue to app for the remaining days of the challenge. I am limited my the number of tokens I can use for Claude. Yesterday I had a costly mistake of using Claude's Opus Model when I was limited. Do not use Opus, Sonnet 3.5 is the best now and 3 is the second best and similar in cost as well. Attaching my screenshot of the API Usage. In this process got to learn that handline Json files put too much load. The app is basically a Database wrapper. So did some research and learnt about SQL database. So I created a Sqlite Database for my data and I am using GRDB in iOS to load the data in the app. It is much easier in handling the data but it has it's own limitations as well. Easy to write a query and change the data fast and don't try to Vacuum the data after any major change. :) Pro Tip for using Claude with TypingMind: Don't use the same chat for modifying the code, For every bug or feature you need to add create a new chat and attach the files to it so it starts from the start and doesn't need to read the whole history of chat which gobbles up a lot of Tokens.  Everything has been moving in a great direction! Let's meet next week. One week at a time. :)

So the day has finally come! From today the challenge started. Weight: 90.65 Kg I will be doing a daily weight check and update here weekly with the update. Health: Completely stopped taking any packaged foods and avoid 90% of foods with sugar. I did take Amul's Cold Coffee in the last two days and that's it. ( It did had a good amount of Protein ). I am taking 20g of Cashew, Almond, Pistachio, and Walnut daily. I used to finish 500g each before but now more controlled. Added 4 Boiled Egg Whites and 1 Whole boiled egg in my food. ( Usually have it in the afternoon need to change it to evening ). Changed my lunch time to 2:30 pm and dinner at 6:30. I also have a one or two apples and oranges depending on the day. Ordered Unflavored Whey protein and will be testing it Idli or Dosa. Here is a rough estimate of the food. I am trying to be not too strict about the quantity. Also installed this Chrome Plugin called News Feed Eradicator so that I am not distracted which will not block but just hide all the feed in all the social media. Definitely recommend it. I used it a year or two years ago but again installed today so that I am laser focused on the work.  So that's all folks will see you next week and update on how it is going.

So started taking this life thing a bit more serious with more focus and clarity.  According to me now I value these three when it comes life. Health, Wealth and Family.  So let's start from one by one.  Health: I took a DEXA scan voluntarily in the first week of September. Attaching the Report below. I weigh 91 kg with 38% Fat. That opened my eyes, I knew I was a bit fat but taking a report totally changed me. Slowly gradually stopped taking Junk Food and ate my last Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, etc. If you are like me recommend taking a DEXA scan to see how much Fat % you have in your body. Definitely will help you to make decisions. FamilyMain highlight of 2024 when it comes to family would be my Sister's marriage which happened in February. She is also pregnant now. :) I have been in home since 2021 and have been with the family. So I think I pretty much am good with the Family side but now parents started looking for alliance which I find interesting as well. Let's see how that goes.  So why this newsletter? I am planning to document my journey on what goes and how it evolves. Going to post every week and document the process on what challenges I am facing. Personally I am challenging myself to improve my health and release the app before New Year. The challenge will officially start on September 22nd but I have been slowly getting ready to the challenge. So you can expect the next update on the 22nd. :)  See you next week!  Best,  SummerMaxi