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Daily progress: March 21st and 22nd, 2009

Pedro Timóteo — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:57:06 +0000

Two in one, this time. Today was the end of the first week (new goals for the next to be posted tomorrow), and the first trial (having a solid food breakfast every morning; results and comments coming tomorrow, as well). Today’s was a couple of scrambled eggs – between that and “normal” breakfast food in Portugal (bread or cereal), there’s no contest, and eggs are quick to cook.

So far, I’ve reached all my goals and upheld all my decisions, except one: last dinner (just about an hour ago), I “got distracted” and ate too much – what would have been “normal” for me before I started all this. My habits, when I don’t think about it consciously, still lead me to fill the plate too much, and to eat everything on it, even if I’m already satisfied before I finish. I’ll have to pay more attention to that.

Tomorrow is housekeeper day, so I won’t have time to exercise in the morning; I’ll have to do it when I get home. I could get up earlier, but exercise makes noise, and I’d be waking up the neighbors, which is not nice (it’s for exactly that reason that I only open the windows in the room(s) where the birds are, as they have “morning calls” at first light, so I have to ensure that “first light” doesn’t come too early for them).

Even though I’m not noticing a big physical difference (I’ve lost some weight, but, as Mário said, it’s normal for that to happen in the beginning), I feel great, simply because I’ve made a decision – to improve my life –, and I’m sticking with it. This has been affecting other areas of my life as well, such as shyness and self-confidence; if I can do this, I can do anything. Starting this blog, so far, has been one of the best ideas I’ve had in my life, and I feel dumb for not doing it decades sooner (even before there was such a thing as a “blog”, in fact). But better late than never…

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Daily progress: March 20th, 2009

Pedro Timóteo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:59:39 +0000

Not much new to add today (I must find a way of making these more interesting). Dinner was a salad and two scrambled eggs, and I’m feeling a bit hungry right now (dinner was about 3 hours ago), so maybe I’ll eat some fruit or something before going to bed. I felt fine and awake today, and my abs only hurt when I consciously contract them. Tomorrow, since it’s Saturday, I plan to do a little more exercise than today, though all of it still at home.

So far, after 3 days, the main difference that I notice is that I feel wide awake during the entire day, which comes mostly from 1) sleeping well, and 2) not going to bed with a lot of alcohol in my system every evening (which also affects number 1). However, there’s also the psychological part, which is even more important: I feel that I have a purpose, and goals. That hasn’t been true for most of my life.

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Daily progress: March 19th, 2009

Pedro Timóteo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:09:48 +0000

Not a lot to add to my previous posts from earlier today. I went to my father’s to have dinner, and I thought he looked touched from my “happy father’s day”, which was always nice to see. I ended up cooking some hamburgers there, for me and my sibilings, and ate one and a half with some rice and beans – not a lot, as I’m really trying to eat less. Indeed, everything tasted so good that, normally, I’d have eaten twice as much.

My nausea from the morning and afternoon eventually passed, and I fell good now, though still more sleepy than I should. I’ll try to go to sleep earlier, tonight. Tomorrow is Friday (always good), and I have a new boxing mini-game to try out in Wii Fit. Plus, I’ll try a different kind of breakfast, to see if it makes me feel better than today’s did.

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Daily progress: March 18th, 2009

Pedro Timóteo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:45:00 +0000

The first day went well, I think. I felt I had more “energy” than usual, and that I am needing less sleep since I have stopped drinking for the last couple of days, but today I noticed it much more; the novelty here was the 10 minutes or so of exercise in the morning, so that must have been it. Let’s see how sore my body is tomorrow (yes, I’m that much out of shape).

Both lunch and dinner were green salads with bits of ham and cheese, so carbohydrates are low. No breakfast (unless you count a glass of soy milk and coffee) or mid-afternoon meal, but that’s the norm for me, though, as the last post suggests, I will be experimenting with the odd concept of “breakfast” for the next few days. We’ll see how it goes.

No dishes to wash right now, which is always a good thing.

No expenses, either, as I’ve been having lunch at home, and as I work near it, the spending of gas is very low. Unfortunately, I have an itch to buy a bunch of Richard Dawkins DVDs… but I’ll have to wait. And, no, downloading them is not fine. Oh, well, this should all be solved in a few months.

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