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!