This month, I'm going to be working on my goal of Success and Skills. There are two components to the challenge. The skills piece will be to write 500 words a day ( i may edge this up to the more commonly recommended 1k if I'm finding 500 easy to achieve) these words can not be in the form of emails or posts to this blog. The Success piece will be to invest on average 1hr per week day and 2 hrs per weekend day in my "business" ventures. I really want to be moving towards a life of lifestyle design and location independence and i'm never going to get there without putting in the time, no matter how many podcasts I listen to or courses I buy.
So that's this month, I'll be attempting to track my results every few days here and attempting to hold onto some of the progress from the previous two months with Coding and Primal eating.
Primal Chalenge January De-Brief:
Thoughts after 21 days of "trying harder"
Overall, I think I can consider this a success. I defiantly dove back into some much better habits for the majority of this challenge. I struggled over some very obvious points, the biggest one was deny myself carbs. I really need to make an effort to just spend more money on awesome primal/paleo friendly foods that feel rich and decedent.
Weak points:
giving up carbs is hard and i defiantly have issues both getting into it, getting all grumpy and dumb, and staying there. Once i break out of it, i get loath to go back into ketosis. I think i should get some of those strips and try to make it a personal challenge to stay in keytosis for like X days.
I need to find better ways to get more veggies in. I am consistently finding it difficult to get the veggies in and I think that they are going to be key for continued success.
Strong Points:
I am defiantly better prepared to do this than ever before. Handling the shopping and the meals did not feel like much of a chore at all.
Having someone doing it with me was totally key! The accountability of knowing I was modeling the behavior for Patrick as well as teaching him and cooking for him was really really helpful. I need to find ways to make myself accountable online or personally? Maybe I do need to join the NF community.
I did take off some weight. I'd like to take off more, but I think I look/feel better than i did when i started so I'll take that.
Patrick lost 20lbs in 21 days and has more energy that I've ever seen! He's also inspired to keep improving himself which is like my major drive in life, so that is so super awesome that i was able to help someone get there!
