Have a nice day. My Actifit Report Card: January 25 2026

Looking at today it was an overall very good day. Now I will admit that I had a great breakfast in the hotel I was staying at (The Four Points Surabaya) and I was trying hard to have a bit, high protein and fiber meal which looked like this.

I really do want to lose weight and I know that what I eat will play a huge part in whether or not I actually achieve my goal.

As I'm preparing to leave, I have the waiter bring me a cool place saying "Have a Nice Day" with three small cakes on it, and one had edible golf leaf.

Now I really shouldn't be eating sweets on a diet. However, when the staff go out of their way to give a really nice treat like that? What can I say, being polite is important.

After that stretches, bodyweight exercises and balance exercises before heading out to church.

Now if you read yesterday I scoped out how to get to the church BUT I forgot to take into account that the church started before the mall opened. Ouch

So, I had to walk around the mall and try to find a way to get to the church. Now this is not a mall where you want to walk around it, but I did, and I had to ask the security guard at the parkade for help. He referred me to the Mall door security. As I don't speak Indonesian it was....challenging.

However, the mall guard opened the door for me and gave me rudimentary directions on how to get to the church. And it involved walking through the mall when it was closed and virtually empty. Weird feeling.

Eventually I found the elevator (or lift as the guard called it)

And horray! I found my way to the church.

Church was great. They congregation was a lot younger than I am used to but no issues there.

It was a day for communion and they had a little different style for giving the bread and wine....

... And it was actually alcoholic wine (dilute but still alcohol) which kind of surprised me.

The church was almost full which was nice to see and they gave me a cool welcome package.

Even more interesting I got to meet one of the associate pastors who invited me to lunch. Now I'm supposed to do just one meal a day but again, when a local invites me to eat and talk with them.....I can't pass that up.

I thought it was especially funny when he said that he saw me walking to the church and thought "That foreigner must be totally lost" ... And then he sees me in the church afterwards ... Hahahaha.

After lunch we are trying to find my way back to the hotel and right underneath the food court, one a short walk from the church door we as for directions. The security guard in the mall chuckles and points to something right behind us.

The walk that took me almost an hour yesterday would have taken me 5 minutes (or less) if I only knew about the other exit from the hotel :D

But then it was time to go to another hotel in a different area of Surabaya.

It was a really really fancy hotel and I got upgraded to a homestyle suite complete with bedroom, living room, washroom and full kitchen.

Seriously, how many hotel rooms come with a complete fridge?

And the pool was beautiful.

I didn't go swimming because I'm checking out tomorrow and didn't want to have to travel with wet clothing..

But I did use the weight room for an upper body workout and time on the treadmill.

Dinner in the executive lounge.

And overall it made for a very enjoyable day...even if it wasn't the easiest day to stick to my diet. I mean when I get a welcome tray like this...

It is very hard to say no.

Still I weighed myself and I'm down roughly 1kg since I started my trip and my diet.

Overall that makes me very pleased :)

Thanks for reading and that's my day today
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Treadmill, Walking, Weight Lifting