So its been over one year since I created the initial blog and abandoned it. I wasn't trying to abandon it, it was more like life was too busy and some injuries occurred. I'm back and now and ready to move forward with my plan. In the last three months I have made significant changes to my health.
The biggest changes:
I quite drinking alcohol. It was as easy as saying I'm done. I thought this would be the hardest thing to do, yet I told myself everyday that I don't drink. For two weeks, not a drop. And then I just didn't want to drink anymore. The biggest driver was that I went out and ran into some friends and chatted, had some beers, and enjoyed the evening. On my way home, I was walking, I saw people I knew across the street from where I live and stopped in to say hi and did the same. The next day I was out over 100 dollars and all I had was a nasty hangover. I questioned myself why do I do this. I spent over 100 dollars and have nothing to show for it, other than the next day being wasted. So now I'm sitting here thinking about how I just wasted all that money and all that time. At this point I was just done. I told myself no more, I've kept true except for one day. I had a moment of weakness and I fell mouth first into a glass of beer. Only to repeat the exact same thing I had done when I swore off drinking. However, I felt so much like trash while drinking that I didn't spend a lot of money or have a bad hangover. It just felt like I was poisoning my body. At that point it truly sunk in, I am just done with this. Still, to this day I haven't had a drop. I quit in July, had a lapse on Labor Day, and no alcohol to this day. Keep in mind, I wasn't fighting an addiction, I didn't drink everyday. Though, I do think I was starting to fall into that category. Before I quit, I had taken notice of this change in behavior and gave myself hard limits on what days I could drink. I would like to say that I adverted that crisis. If your reading this please do make a note that those that have an addiction should seek professional help to overcome this. I didn't suffer from withdrawals other than a headache a couple of weeks later. But having to quit would say that I indeed did have an addiction.
Two weeks after I quit drinking, I started making food changes. I cut out breakfast sandwiches or burritos and made breakfast become oatmeal and begun a 16:8 fast.
Fast-forward to September. I began my fitness journey. My meal plans still needs to be improved. I'm looking for a simplistic approach that will fill all the nutritional needs easy to prepare, filling, and cheap. I've begun walking and it has grown into a walk/jog mix. I created a path as I walked to follow. I then took a landmark and made that my finish line. The entire walk is about 4.6 miles. The timed duration is 3.54 miles. My first walk was 1 hour 5 minutes and 29 seconds. My fastest walk was 51:09. Today it was 52:48. My current goal is 45:00 to my goal.
That is it for now and thanks for reading, until next time,
Eric
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