Days 2, 3, and 4

Hello lovelies!!

I was going to update each day, but I figured it would be easier just to combine a few days together. Seeing as it is reading this week at school, it is slightly easier to update at the moment as I’m not distracted by doing school work instead. Anyways, here is my updates…

Day 2

As I get up at 4am for work, I was a little bit hungry that morning, having not eaten since 7:30 the night before. Today was definitely a difficult day. I’m used to eating my lunch at 9:30, so having to wait another two hours was a little hard for me. I was very tempted to eat my lunch at 9:30, but I held out and waited until 11:30. Day 3 I will have to change things up…

Day 3

Well I changed things up today. I was still hungry at 4am, however, I stopped at 7-11 and bought a new bottle of water instead of making tea in the morning. The mug that I use for my tea works too well, and stays really hot for a long time so I don’t end up drinking as much as I should be through the day. So with the bottle of water I was able to fill it up a few times throughout the day and that kept my water level up, as opposed to avoiding my tea because it is still burning my mouth 4 hours after I made it. As for changing things up, I have switched around my breaks. I don’t really have  set time that I have to take my breaks. So instead of taking a 30 minute break at 9:30 for lunch, I now take 15 minutes at 9:30 and use my 30 minutes at 11:30. This way I have more time to eat during my last break. I wasn’t as hungry during my first two breaks today as I was on Day 1 and 2. I am slowly training my body of this new eating schedule.

Day 4

Continued on with my new schedule for breaks today. Although I did screw it up a bit as I was too busy to take my 15 minute break at 9:30, as I had 3 trucks come in for my to unload plus I had to take mats into the Mat Room. In the end I ended up having a 45 minute break at 11:30 because of that. I didn’t really feel hungry at my normal eating times. Except, as the clock ticked closer to 11:30, I really started chomping at the bit to have something to eat.

Being at work has really helped with my eating schedule for this few days. The real test will be coming up, being the weekend. Hopefully I am able to keep to my schedule as well this weekend as I have been doing this past week. I have already noticed that my work pants are a little bit looser than what they normally are. It most likely is me just loosing water weight, but even with it being water weight, I will take it as a good sign.

Until next time…xo

New Journey plus Day 1

As I have mentioned in previous posts (or may not have on this blog yet), I am absolutely horrible at keeping up posts. This is another example of that. Although with this new journey that I am starting, in order to help keep me accountable, I will, hopefully, be posting every day. Anyways, on with the journey…

So with my goals in archery and school, I want to also try to get myself into better shape. Ever since the accident with my foot, I have not been as active as what I used to be. With that I have gained some weight and I am sick of it. It is time for me to make a change. Between work, school and archery, I do not have a lot of spare time. I’m going to start on diet to begin with and then insert more activities as I can. There are plans, kind of, with two of my friends to maybe start doing a pole dancing class in March. Not sure if that is still going to happen or not, but it was in discussions. I want to also start going to Zumba classes again to help get my endurance up. This will also help out with archery, especially for shoots that are at Ridgedale or Sagittarius as they both involve climbing large mountains.

For the diet aspect, I am going to start off by doing a 16/8 intermittent fasting. I have done a little bit of research on it and it seems like it will be one of the easier ways for me to start my diet. I already kind of limit how/when I eat, this will just make it more of a routine. With a 16/8 fasting, the basis is that you don’t eat for 16 hours and then eat what you like for 8 hours. When it comes to the eating hours, I will still watch what I’m eating so that I’m not just eating junk. Through the rest of the day you can drink as much water, tea, or coffee as you like. I, of course, won’t be drinking coffee as it is gross.

With my schedule at work, it was kind of weird to find a good time to start my fast that would coincide well with my breaks. I decided that for my hours, I am going to go with 7:30pm to stop eating and 11:30am to start eating. 11:30 puts me just at my last coffee break, so that will give me 15 minutes to just get my first meal in.

Day 1 – Feb 18

On the 17th, I stopped eating at 7:30pm so that I could get a start on my 16 hours. In the morning, I made myself some tea, minus sugar. The rules that I read said that I could put sugar in my tea, however, I want to try an cut it out also. My tea was slightly tolerable. I might add a little bit of sugar tomorrow just to take the edge off just a bit, however, I won’t add nearly as much as the spoon and a half that I usually add. Ween myself off of it slowly. So with my timing, today I shouldn’t have eaten until 11:30. Well, I did not make it that long. Work today was extremely busy and I am trying to do the job of three people as a single person, which does not work. I ended up eating at 10:30, instead of 11:30. I normally take my lunch break at 9:30, but I was so busy today and behind schedule that I didn’t get to lunch until 10:30, and by that time I needed to have some sort of food. So I was bad on my first day and ate an hour early. This evening however, I stopped eating at 7:30 again, so hopefully I can last until 11:30 to have something to eat. I also figured out that I need to drink more throughout the day. I definitely  did not have enough to drink today to compensate for the lack of eating. Onwards to day 2!