Well, there you have it, it's been about 6 days into my "diet" and today I failed.
I haven't written about how it's been going since my last post about my decision to start living healthier because quite frankly not much has happened. The plan was to start slow but I do admit it's been going a little too slow, here's a rundown on the good and the bad.
The good:
I've mostly just been drinking water and a little natural orange, apple and mango juice. Although I'm sure there's quite a bit of sugar there I've stuck to water about 85% of the time and I'm quite happy about that. Most people would think that's pretty normal and nothing worth mentioning but these people may not know my habits in the past and for a very long time, an unhealthy long amount of time. For years I've been avoiding water and sticking to soda's to the point where I'm almost surprised I don't have diabetes yet. You may wonder how this happened, how could I have gotten so used to something as bad in these amounts as soda, well, I think it's cause I used to smoke in the past. With smoking you get dry mouth quite often, stuff gets stuck on your tongue, you wake up with really bad breath, etc, and carbonated drinks really helped get rid of that, or at least it felt that way. You may also wonder why I don't just get carbonated water instead but once you're used to soda it's kind of difficult to switch to water.
Another thing is that I've been watching what I eat, not to the point where I go hungry, especially not since that would make falling asleep already harder than it usually is for me, but to the point where I'm not as disgusted with myself as usual after the meal is done and I've been full around 20 bites ago already. So that's some progress, I guess.
I've yet to place myself on a scale, we've had some repairs going on here at home so it's been a bit messy since we got back. Something we were hoping we'd avoid during our travels but for some reason they decided to wait for us before they started repairing everything (not really, just unlucky timing). I do however plan on checking my weight soon and at least posting something on these posts that are original pictures since I'm someone who doesn't want to dox himself.
The bad:
I really wanted to start walking but haven't found myself doing it yet, I could probably come up with a million excuses right now as to why I haven't and I know there's no point in that, I just need to do it and once I'm doing it it won't be as bad as I keep thinking before I start doing it. Why would it even be that bad? It's just walking. Ugh.
I've prepared myself with material to walk more, I have some walking shoes I can use for this specifically, I've got audiobooks of a book series I bought way back in Portugal that I was planning on reading but is somehow still there; The three-body problem (which may be fitting in this scenario as I'm almost becoming 3 bodies in one). So what am I waiting for? You tell me.
I've also got an app that'll track my distances that I can start sharing in future posts.
I will however start doing it very soon and once I do I wanna make sure I can keep doing it daily. I initially wrote about this to not have any excuses to not do what I wanted to start doing, now here I am telling you all that I've barely done anything.. oh well.
It's the weekend coming up here and I wanna get one thing done before I give this a serious try, so bear with me. I've been spending quite a bit of time lately thinking, planning and writing out things for this new project I've been working on that I'm quite excited about and can't wait to share more info once things are set in stone. That's at least the excuse I'm using right now to start walking and exercising a bit later. Let's see what my post will say come Monday.
Hope you're all doing well and thanks for all the encouragement and great advice in my previous post. I'm going to try not to let everyone down in my next post. 😅
PS! Feel free to blame 
