Day 85, Eating Habit

Day 85 Record Keeping SRHI = 69
Day 53 Fixed Meditation SRHI = 72
Day 14 Walking SRHI = 13 (Did not walk yesterday)
Day 100 Eating SRHI = 58
Bad night sleep, good wakeup

Eating Habit

I believe I have mentioned before that I’ve formed, almost by accident, an eating habit. A friend of mine tried cutting out grains and sugar, and had amazing results. He generally does this, occasionally eating things like pizza if he craves it, but to a minimum degree. 

I’ve read about the diet - I believe it would generally follow “Primal” rather than Paleo according to Mark Sisson and his fantastic blog, Mark’s Daily Apple.

When I first started I had a belt that I could barely get to the first hole. Now I’m comfortably wearing the same belt at the 5th hole (there are no more holes, I’m going to have to drill another one in if I’m using that as my progress).

I’ve lost quite a chunk of weight.

The efficacy of the diet itself is irrelevant to this project. My concern is about making it a habit, and this provides an interesting challenge. Part of the reason it’s been so effortless is because I allow myself “cheats” once a week or so. In fact my weight loss increases the day after the cheat.

And this brings up an interesting point - is a daily cheat and loosening of restrictions in any habit make it easier to form? I’ve definitely noticed a certain ease in this habit - up until now it’s almost been effortless, when, in previous diets I’ve gone on, it’s been quite hard. This might be explained away because I’m only now getting into the “danger zone” in my quarter mark theory.

The other problem is that it formed of its own accord, so I do not have data for the first 99 days. I decided that I would start tracking it now simply because I’m hitting that wall - the habit, which was so ingrained, is getting unstable, and I think recording it will help. I wish I had thought to record it from the beginning, but what’re you gonna do?

Day 43 & Next Habit

Day 43 Record Keeping SRHI = 57
Day 11 Fixed Meditation SRHI = 48
Day 10 Dynamic Meditation SRHI = 57
Great night sleep, great wakeup.

I’ve still got a bit before I start my next habit, but I want to discuss what I think it should be. Ideally I want to start with habits that have the ability to support other ones. I’ve definitely not done this in the past, but I think this third iteration of the project I’ve been pretty good. 

I’ve done record keeping, the most basic of habits, then meditation, another basic one. If I let myself look to the future I can foresee several habits - becoming a morning person, working out, language learning, music learning, flossing, eating right, posture, writing, finances. Maybe learning to code.

Ideally the next step would be getting in shape. And since bodies are made mostly in the kitchen, eating right would be a good one to start next. But, for some odd reason, something I really have to analyze, I’m eating perfectly. It’s fallen in place almost effortlessly despite the fact I’ve had so much trouble doing it in the past. Now maybe that’ll change - it’s only been less than 2 months - but it feels pretty rock solid.

Since that’s out of the way, I think some basic exercise is in order. I recently watched and read a couple things that Mark Sisson and Elliot Hulse talk about - that the best way to get in shape is to become a more active person. And to do that, start with the basics - like walking for an hour every day. And once you’ve got that down, you can build on it.