Healthy Habits

Overall this project helped me a bit, even if it wasn’t as much progress on multiple good habits as I’d hoped.

I did learn that a lot of my difficulty in moving my bed time was largely the result of my intuition on what was ‘late’. Trying to move my bedtime up by ~15 minutes per day makes logical sense in being slow and steady, but my brain wasn’t back propagating various wind down routine times. I ended up successfully going to bed an hour ‘earlier’ after daylight savings because it was much easer to think of everything as being off by exactly 1 hour. I’ll still count that as a win!

I’ve been a bit short on time to fill out my whole spreadsheet every day. I’m also having trouble moving the needle on most of the points. So I’m cutting what I’m tracking down to bed time, daily walk, and alcohol and focusing on those.

Going into the start, I averaged -0.5 points per day for the last week.

Here’s my scoring method:

• Bed time: 10pm = 3pt, -1 every 30min late
• Avoiding alcohol: 1 drink = -1pt
• Daily walk = 1 mile = 1pt
• Run: 1 mile = 1pt
• Body weight training: Burpees, Tricep dips, Bear crawl, V ups: 50 reps any = 1pt
• Stretching: 10 minutes = 1pt
• Vegetables: 1 serving = 1pt
• Eating earlier: Last food at 5pm 2pt, 6pm 1pt, 7pm 0pt, 8pm -1pt, 9pm -2pt
• Time wasters: -1pt per hour
• Junk food: -1pt per serving