Postponed post

If it isn’t incredibly clear I have abandoned my goals until after Thanksgiving due to travel and general failure for the goals to be feasible. However, they will return once I get back to Burlington, Vermont.

Prague/Budapest has been awesome and John was definitely a good choice as a companion for the trip. Now that I know about google travel’s explore section, travelling cheaply will be much easier. There are round-trip flights from Boston to many places (even nonstop) for less than $400. Combine that with couch-surfing or livingsocial/groupon deals and I’ll be set!

Back to other goals (since travelling to new country IS a goal)…

As some people know I try to use a point system to determine things I should do. I don’t usually flat out calculate numbers because of how long it would take but I weigh them appropriately enough. The categories are: Health/Fitness; Education/Knowledge; and Social. In regards to importance; Health and Education are very close but Education still trumps it and, of course, Social is really the lowest right now. There are definitely times when fitness and education are ‘impossible’. That is, I am completely out of it but not tired (if I was tired then I could ‘sleep’ for ‘Health’) then sometimes I can engage in a social act that would otherwise be out of the question. Additionally, there are intermediate categories, such as creativity. Creativity, for me, is usually lumped into ‘Social’ but it can be involved in both ‘Health’ or ‘Knowledge’. For instance, diagraming the physiology of a fruit fly has some knowledge points whereas drawing ‘for relief’ (rejuvenation) might be Health related. As I mentioned, though, this is most often a ‘Social’ behavior and I am nearly obligated to give my ‘art’ away to complete it.

I’ll try to clarify my decisions throughout the day to make the pattern more clear in the future. This exercise will help me focus a lot more, since this decision-making regime requires that I be self-conscious and such focus.

Until then!

counts cause I haven't slept yet

11/08/13

Hello. Hi.

I ate too much cookie yesterday and also too many goodies today but it’s still OK cause it was all free. See what I mean about bad things being free? Next week I will have to resist ALL the ‘bad’ things (unless they are from Sam) and some ‘good’ things (unless they are from Sam). If I am given free bad things as gifts (tasty goodies) from people who are not Sam and I feel guilty declining, then I will save them and give them to Sam. So he might be getting a lot of tasty treats next week.

Tonight I will drink with Greg and Co… I won’t drink next week except for the event on the 15^th and I still will have to avoid ‘real’ food that isn’t whey or beets until Sat. The whey and beets thing, I think, I will do for 5 days, not 7 since things will be difficult when I am in Massachusetts and then Prague. I’ll start it up again once I return from Prague although, while there, I will follow a minimalist rule (which I will determine when there since I need to be realistic)

11/10/13 but its actually 11/09/13 because I haven’t gone to bed yet.

I have successfully continued my current goal.

However, I will need to modify my next goal due to having to go to Lunch with professors.

New Goal: Whey protein and beets only unless food from BF or with high authorities (and with them, I will have to try to choose ‘healthy’ choices)

This should still be a challenge since I won’t be able to eat the free treats I see everywhere but I think it is fair.

The PB+J continues

I did say I would report regularly. I didn’t say ‘how regularly’. I’m going to go with every 1-2 days.

Yesterday: Went pretty well although I binged on pizza at the hash (not against the rules for the week). Leaving my credit card at home so I don’t purchase any additional food is proving very effective. I successfully am keeping up with the recording.

Today: So far so good. I was very tempted to have the Thursday Panini but resisted successfully. Consuming whey protein has been sufficient but it takes some time for me to feel full (normal) so I have to exhibit patience. Thanks to Sam bringing me jelly; I was able to have my daily PB+J. I’m not really looking forward to beets after I run out of bread but I’m sure I’ll find some super easy way of making them tasty after eating them every day for a week next week.

Here's your random picture taken today. This is a picture of part of my desk. Yes, that IS a soda cup full of condiments with my name tag on it velcro'd to the cork pinboard next to the empty tissue box taped to the wall. Saves space and I recommend it.

A Wild Goal Appears!

Today I went in for my Nov 5^th check-up. I have a cold but apparently everyone has one. Some people have two. I’ve decided that I want to do food/consumption experiments on myself for a bit. Primarily, to exercise my willpower.

As of yesterday, I am leaving my credit card at home so I don’t buy very much. I still have a little bit of cash but it’ll feel more like a pressure not to. And so: I am keeping track of the food I eat on livestrong.com.

http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/daemonzeiro/

This site also shows my ‘calorie goal’ which I regularly surpass. When a muffin is 500 calories, that’s what happens.

I will eat only food that I have at home or is given to me for the whole week and then evolve the next week. That’s right, all those cookies and muffins were given to me free. It’s super hard to turn down free food.

So, as long as I am successful this week, next week I will try eating only whey protein and beets while evaluating my physical and psychological state. I need to have at least one solid food so that I can correctly consume my multivitamin. If I can spend a week only consuming whey and protein bars it will be a miracle since people keep trying to give me cookies. The only asterisk to this is: if my bf feeds me. This isn’t to pressure him but it’s a principle-type rule.

This week, starting tomorrow, I will report regularly on my consumption pattern, psychological state (including the physical pain experienced from being forced to exhibit willpower) and will take random pictures of things that I look at for long periods of time. This include Teagan, Esper, and disaster areas. Completely unrelated but I’ll give them figure legends that suggest otherwise.

All this so that I can procrastinate.