My current goals

I'm taking things VERY slowly

My current goals are:

• Become a proficient piano player
• Improve japanese fluency
• Learn french once and for all
• Get to 18.5 BMI (currently 19.5)
• Alternatively, maintain or increase current BMI and decrease body fat percentage to healthy lowest range
• Maintain current level of health

What I am doing to reach those goals:

• Play piano on average 30 minutes a day (not necessarily every day), finger dexterity and mobility exercises
• Been doing this since last quarter of 2019
• HOWEVER: believe it or not, I was so atrophied I was having forearm DOMS for a while.
• Instead of 30 minutes every day, I was playing one day and resting five.
• My body was only capable of sticking to this routine by the second quarter of 2020. No joke.
• Grinding anki, reading untranslated manga
• This hasn't been a challenge since at least the second half of 2018. Need to graduate to light novels.
• Watching anime RAWS for training of listening comprehension.
• Putting french on hold until I'm done with japanese.
• I'll give myself 2 more years. 3 if I see legitimate progress that justifies it.
• I've spent too much time idling on japanese. It's time to come to terms with the fact I might not become fully fluent and move on.
• Exercise. Due to terrible physical condition, the following has only been fully put into practice by early 2020:
• Simple dynamic warm-up before any work-out
• Riding my bike at least 70 minutes a week
• Basic flexibility at least once a week
• Simple abdominal work-out at least twice a week
• Simple leg work-out at least once a week.
• Eat well, drink at least 1L of water outside meals
• Tea. Tea provides water and whatever reported benefits of whatever brew I'm having. Two birds with one stone!
• Complement with basic supplement stack: broad-range supplement, omega 3 and collagen.

How am I monitoring progress (aka e-stat fraud countermeasures):

• For piano and workouts, I always underestimate time spent. Meaning, if I'm riding my bike for 40 minutes, I'll time a 42.5minute ride.
• I don't count calories with precision. I hardly changed my diet outside sticking to 3 meals with barely no snacking inbetween.
• Instead, I overestimate calories eaten and underestimate calories spent exercising.
• If I measure a portion of cereal at 200kcal and its milk at 125kcal, I'll assume my breakfast around 400kcal. The standard bowl is never standard.
• Always assume dinner is at least 1000kcal
• Rode 18 minutes at 18kmph? There's at least 17 minutes left which I'll take at a brisk, but lower pace. Round down to 14 and calculate from there.
• Spent 30 minutes doing calisthenics? How many of those were spent in pauses in between sets and exercises?
• Subtract pauses and calculate kcal spent based on light calisthenics or light flexibility MET values, because this was certainly not an overly strenuous activity.
• And don't you forget about overestimating seconds spent in pauses! Taking a 60 second pause? Count to 65. Let the body rest as long as it needs if not enough.