I might not praise myself on many things, but one thing I do praise is my willpower…mostly due to severe perfectionism. This is normally a bad thing, like when I was in school and I couldn’t finish my homework because I had to start over to make the handwriting neater, or when I would spend months in art class, trying to finish a folio and have nothing by the end of it, “nothing was good enough.” I find it very difficult to reach my extremely high standards, and it’s painfully difficult to lower them and know I am not doing the best of the best. But, with something like cancelling out something I am consuming, it’s easy. Either I drink Coke, and I fail, or I don’t have any and I succeed. There isn’t a middle man, any thoughts creeping through that say I could have done that BETTER, or FASTER. It’s just, “I didn’t have any Coke this week, if I have one, that ruins the streak…so I won’t.”
Five weeks today! :edit: WAITAMINUTE! Am I SIX weeks into my strike instead of five?! HOW DID I LOSE COUNT OF THIS?! From my comments, I started on the 4th of October. WOAH I GAINED A WEEK! SIX WEEKS!
Only problem? I’m drinking a lemonade fairly often these days. I think it’s because the places I eat lunch at offer fizzy drinks, now I don’t want to have the Coke, and I just go for the clear drink to prevent staining my teeth further and I don’t want to split my meals up and pay more for less. It should be encouraging me to eat less of those foods, but it isn’t at this point.
But, my goal was less caffeine. That’s what I have done so far. Then I move onto the next thing, and the next. There will always be something else.
Gift time for my efforts? I think so.
One step at a time!
Indeed! I just assumed this was the most important thing to tackle first, cause it was ruining my teeth and the crashes after a few too many cans were intense. I realised while being off Coke that I feel pretty much the same as I do when I am drinking it, the caffeine highs aren’t as great as I thought, and sure I can perk up…but eating something does the job just the same. I think more than anything I was dependant on the sugar, more than the caffeine. So I was sugar crashing, how about that.
It has been really easy, though…I was surprised. So, lets hope that the next step is as easy! haha
Haha you sound so like me…I couldn’t finish my homework either because I had to re-write it so many times to make it as neat as possible!!
Great work on the 6 weeks way to go!
Thanks
This is too easy now, I am thinking I am just tricking myself into accomplishment! haha. I need to do something new.
Not only did I have to write it as neat as possible, I had to decorate it too. Sometimes my maths homework would be compromised if I didn’t match colours on the (completely unnecessary) borders around the page. Shame I focused more on how pretty things were instead of the substance, lol!