At the beginning of 2014, I started creating some rules for myself, with the hope that they would help me get back into shape. As detailed below, I’ve added one rule each month, and given myself a penalty for failure. The details can be found in the individual posts, but this page will serve as a place to summarize the current state of things.
- January 2014: Exercise on Monday, Wednesday, Friday (except when sick, injured, or away from home)
- February 2014: Only raw food (and non-fat yogurt) after 8 pm (not including restaurants)
- March 2014: No meat or fried dishes at work; also, nothing from the “snack wall”
- April 2014: Only raw fruit and vegetables, yogurt, seltzer, coffee, and what I bring for myself at work
- May 2014: Exercise on even days (i.e., not MWF); no candy bars at work; 20 push-ups and sit-ups per day; no passive internet use after 10:30 pm
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- Update: Ouch! Embarrassingly, I appear to have injured my shoulder in the act of doing my push-ups. These are on hold for now
- June 2014: No sweet baked goods at work or home; 40 sit-ups per day
- July 2014: No added sugar, two extra workouts
- August 2014: No ice cream at home, no nuts at work, no muffins anywhere
- September 2014: No chocolate at home
- October 2014: No beer at home
- November 2014: No fruit salad at work, no second helpings
- December 2014: One plate of food per meal, no Five Guys, 50 pull-ups a week
- January 2015: Agendas for all meetings I create, read two chapters of technical books per week
- February 2015: Only one chapter per week, therabands instead of pull-ups
- March 2015: No chocolate-covered pretzels, 60 sit-ups per day
- January 2017: Back on track
Penalty for failure: $100 donation to charity; public shame.
Stats:
- Workouts since last missed workout: 10
- Last workout: 12/14/17
- Next workout deadline: 12/15/17
Failures:
- Workout failures: 6
- Food failures: 2
- Push-up/sit-up failures: 14
- Passive internet viewing failures: 1
- Sugar failures: 1
- Chocolate failures: 2
- Reading failures: 1
Donations:
- Smile Train: $1300
- Bridge to Turkiye Fund: $100
- Heifer International: $100
- Camfed: $400
- Amnesty International: $100
- ACLU: $100
- EFF: $100
- Planned Parenthood: $700