Health.

So… Anyone that knows me personally knows I’m a fat fuck.

Seriously. I’m so unhealthy it’s ludicrous. I can barely run for 2 minutes and when I do, I can barely breathe.

I’ve tried many times to improve myself in this aspect, but all the times I’ve tried I’ve failed. Mostly because I kept cheating myself and kept taking little concessions whenever things got too tough. I’ve wanted to change, but each time I’ve tried, I fell extremely short, usually bouncing right back to my unhealthy lifestyle. People tell me that if I want to really lose weight, I’ve got to change my lifestyle completely, instead of peace by peace as I’ve attempted to do so originally, without making myself miserable. I recently started a new workout regimen, and I’ve started to feel a bit more energy waking each day. I’ve improved a bit over the past few days by doing ski steps and jumping jacks in HIIT (high intensity interval training, basically, you do 10 seconds of jumping jacks/ski steps/whatever exercise, then you either rest or jog in place or do sidle steps.) I’m finally moving on to running and jogging, and I want to try and run two or three times a day, adding on 10 seconds each time I run. If I manage to do this, I’ll definitely be happy as I know I can make some progress.

As for changing my diet, I’ve adopted a 5 meal plan, however, it’s rather tough to not be hungry at certain points in the day. I usually drink a lot of water when I feel hungry as is advised, but if I don’t time myself and space the 5 meals out exactly, I become hungry at around 10ish when I’m about to turn in. I want to learn how to resist hunger better, usually using water to stifle it.

I’ve also trained my body to need exactly 8 hours of sleep, no more, or no less. Usually, on a good day, I’ll go to sleep at 11 and wake up at about 7:00 AM of my own accord. No matter how tired I am, for example, at new years, I went to sleep at 2 oclock in the morning and woke up at approximately 10:30. I actually find it kind of weird that this happens every day, but I can’t say it’s inconvenient or anything, as sleeping exactly 8 hours has helped me a lot.

But I need to keep challenging myself to improve. I’ll post in my blog, usually after a normal entry what my progress is.

And yes, I am using this blog post as a way to challenge myself in the form of writing, and I am an attention whore.