Well, it’s that time again – time to check in and see how monetizing failure in my diet and exercise regime has been working. June saw my five-and-a-half month streak of workouts come to an end, though for a good reason – we finally moved! Being within a half mile of work means getting two hours of my life back, every […]
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Well, it’s the end of the month, which means it’s time to check in on my experiment in monetizing failure. May was a bit rougher than prior months, with an injury and my first set of failures. The toughest part of the new rules turned out to be the daily sit-ups and push-ups. Not because they were difficult, […]
Things have continued to go well through April, with the new rule (no work food, other than raw vegetables and fruit) improving my diet significantly. As expected, though, I’ve uncovered a number of ways to be bad without straying into financial consequence territory. For instance, though lunch now consists of a homemade PB&J and the occasional […]
My new exercise and dieting program has continued to go well through March. I was even able to get one day ahead in my workout schedule. I’ve started getting some random aches and pains, so we’ll see how the next couple weeks go, but overall the exercise schedule has been working out well. Diet continues to be the main […]
Back in January, I started in on an exercise schedule with monetary penalties for missed workouts. In February, I added a restriction against late night snacks. I’m happy to report that things have continued to go well, with nary a missed workout or unapproved nosh. I haven’t been able to motivate myself to bank any […]
So, it’s been one month, and I’m happy to report that progress has been good. 14 workouts, none missed, no money donated. All of the workouts were on our home elliptical machine, gradually building from 20 minutes at level 7 to 45 minutes at level 8. It’s a bit depressing to realize that 45 minutes […]
For a while there, I was doing pretty well. I was going to bed early, waking up at 4 am(!), hitting the gym, and getting back home before my son woke up. Then I pulled a muscle, my daughter was born, and BAM a year and a half later I’m 15 pounds overweight. Other parents […]