Posted by Joel
Sun, 27 May 2007 02:00:00 GMT
Today's day eleven and I haven't cheated yet. I feel a renewed sense of confidence and willpower. And I'm down to 187 lbs; the last two months I was wavering between 192 and 196. It feels kind of easy, honestly. It's coming with the same sense of simple, motivated purpose that I had when I quit smoking.
I know it requires a lifestyle change, and that's going to come at the end of this; I'll eat junk and drink alcohol, but in real moderation, and I'll exercise, but with an easier schedule. Plenty of days I don't want to go in to exercise. I usually don't even start until 10 or 11pm. But despite that I go in, do my weights, run three miles, take a shower, make myself some tea, and go to bed. And that sort of discipline feels good.
One of the hardest parts is quitting alcohol but now that everybody has already realized I'm not going to drink for a while it's a lot easier because the initial scoffing is over with for the most part.
This week we moved LuckyOliver over to a new database server which made it much faster. We also greatly improved the search results. Yesterday was a new record transaction day. Slow and steady. Just need to keep at this and it could happen.
Today I'm going to SLO to see my mom and sister.
Marc got a new cat. It's a black cat and likes to break things and scurry around. It has no name yet.
Since it seems everybody is kind of taking a hiatus from WoW I specced my druid feral and am just doing quests and killing people solo pretty much when I do play. I actually had a really good time playing for a couple hours today just questing.
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Posted by Joel
Sat, 19 May 2007 21:31:04 GMT
After finding myself working out only once a week but still eating junk and drinking beer and all that, I was still at around the same weight I started at. So, much like I did last summer, I'm going to try taking my fitness very, very seriously for a short time. Last time, I was very successful in this goal until a certain day shot my motivation and confidence levels, but I don't see anything like that in the foreseeable future.
The goal I have set for myself is going to last until my 26th birthday, which is January 19th, 2008. This goal is to not drink any alcohol in any form. There are two reasons for this. First, the obvious one, is that I think I drink too much alcohol, and it's not a good habit to start increasing. I looked at my kitchen table and had 14 bottle caps after a week. That's quite a bit. And in terms of fitness, at 150 calories each, that's over 2000 calories, a day's worth of food.
But for me, not even 2000 will be a day worth of food. More like 1500. I'm only eating two healthy, portion controlled meals a day and I'm avoiding snacks, desserts, fatty coffee drinks, etc like the plague.
And I'm exercising every single day. Weekends included. I'm about to go right now. This is very important to me and I want to be a very different person when I'm 26. I have allowed myself to live in this comfortable environment on the terms I would use it to make myself a better person, and in some ways I have been successful at that over the last year, but now is a time to take it to the next level.
Today is day four.
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