Factory Reset

We didn't go skiing today. Instead had a pretty chill morning, slept in a bit, Corey said we'd climb later. Started my fast before fast Sunday tomorrow. Kids played with friends, Corey working in the front room. I've been up in my bedroom most of the day reseting my phone, yay. Mel had texted me yesterday that Christian helped her factory reset her phone and afterwards she had 26.63 GB of storage, wow! My phone was at 63.93 of 64 GB in use as of this morning, with 421.9 MB available (not good). Corey said he could help me with it tomorrow, but I decided not to wait and see if I could figure it out. I didn't know what I was doing, but with google AI and youtube videos helping me, I was able to do it. Mel said she used this app - Apple Devices for Windows. I backed my phone up there, then I backed up to icloud as well, then to the Settings app to the bottom of General, to Transfer or Reset iphone where I clicked "Erase All Content and Settings". That was a little scary. Thankfully it came back on, opened up to the new factory settings, so got that going after each prompt: Language English, set up face ID, etc etc. Then back to the computer to restore my backup info. My phone said "Restore in Progress" for almost 40 min, which I was quite a bit longer than it had taken to back everything up, hmm. I couldn't push anything or do anything about it, so just waited, only a little bit concerned. Soon it opened up and was loading all my apps and info, and look at this - ok looks like all the stuff is there again, good! And I go to check my iphone storage and look at this ~

41.56 GB!!! Yes, that's much better! Man, what in the world was all that iOS space filled up with this past year? It has been taking up 55% of my storage! I don't know what that was about, but I'm glad it's gone, yayyyyy. It loaded all my apps, photos, text messages, etc everything like it was this morning. And more good news: I was able to reinstall things I've been deleting the past month. I have Gospel Library back, yay, and Apple podcasts, and now I should be able to take photos this year, yay! So I'm much relieved about all that. Today I've done laundry, swept and mopped the kitchen, practiced the Living Christ more, and scrolled a bit on Instagram. Oh yeah, I was able to get that app again too (thought I had deleted it before the lack of storage issue, so hopefully things don't get out of hand with the girls wanting to use it or me scrolling myself.) A reason why I wanted to fix my phone today was a friend who did the girls trip with us has gotten very slender these past few months, and she shared the link in the girls trip group chat of the health coach guy's instagram account who helped her, it's her brother's friend I think she said? His handle is fitnessdane, he talks about inflammation and I've seen the result with her, so I'm interested. Going to focus on not stressing my body and resting more. She cut out cardio when she started in July last year cause he told her to and to keep walking to under 10K steps. UNDER! She has started to work back in weight training now that she's not inflamed anymore, and is doing that 3x a week. For exercise I've been doing all the same things I've done for years, but weights been creeping back on, and even though I know I'm stronger from climbing, all the weight is not muscle. I feel bloated, so yeah, hoping to learn more about this and see what happens. She said he required her to work with him for 6 month, and it was $400 a month, plus the supplements and stuff he told her to get. That's not in our budget right now, and even if it was I don't know that I'd do it. I'm going to listen his content thought and see what I can figure out. With it being fast Sunday tomorrow AND the first day of the month, maybe March would be a good experiment for me to do less and rest more and read and we'll see what I can learn, Kinda like a personal reset month as a lent-ish thing before Easter. I like that idea. Ok, going to go climb and/or sit in the sauna.