{"id":12062,"date":"2021-01-10T17:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2021-01-10T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:48:53","slug":"establishing-habits-for-now-this-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/establishing-habits-for-now-this-is-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing Habits (for now this is enough)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, here we are.  Week 1 down of being a reasonable hoo-man, and honestly it was pretty great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"622\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-01.jpg 622w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-01-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a new routine, one that I quite like.  My alarm goes off at 8am, I snooze it once while my brain wakes up, and then I do this 10 minute meditation thing I came up with.  Half the time, I start the process with crazy brain work or life thoughts, but by the end, my mind is calm, clear, and awake.  Then I go over what I&#8217;d like to accomplish, setting my intentions for the day.  If I&#8217;m nervous or excited about something, I acknowledge the butterflies in my stomach, and give them a pep talk.    This week I&#8217;ve woken up feeling more relaxed and energized than I have in months.  Maybe years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each day at lunch I&#8217;ve made time to either bike 20 minutes or run 1 mile.  I&#8217;m keeping the feelings of &#8220;wow, this is pathetic&#8221; at bay and being grateful that my back is holding up so I can actually do some daily activity.  I&#8217;m also prioritizing 10-15 mins of stretching and rolling each day, and some very light strength 3x week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean&#8230; very light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>3&#215;10 knee pushups<\/li><li>3&#215;20 crunches<\/li><li>3&#215;20 side crunches<\/li><li>3&#215;10 supermans<\/li><li>3&#215;10 sec boat pose<\/li><li>3&#215;10 single leg calf raises<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look back at my history, this is nothing.  Laughable.  Why even bother?  But for now, it is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been tracking my calories, trying to stay around 1500 per day.  For the level of activity I&#8217;m doing, I can certainly safely go lower, but I don&#8217;t want to drive myself crazy.  This should reasonably be a 3500-ish calorie deficit for the week, taking off 1 lb.  One nice thing about being SO far gone for SO long?  I&#8217;m about 5 lbs down already.  It&#8217;s all water\/inflammation weight certainly, but it was nice to see the OMG number go away pretty quickly.  My plan is about 1\/3 Snap Kitchen meal delivery, 1\/3 batch cooked healthy meals, and 1\/3 making shit up like this greek chicken meal we threw together today.  Homemade hummus is best hummus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-03-1024x775.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-03-1024x775.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-03-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-03-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-03-900x681.jpg 900w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-03.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been trying to chill on the pressure to DO ALL THE HOBBIES.  Between all manner of games, writing, photography\/editing, reading, painting, and guitar, there&#8217;s always more I want to be doing with my spare time.  This weekend, I&#8217;ve been meaning to paint and crack back open a video game I started Friday and also another I started last week and haven&#8217;t even touched my guitar but I also spent all day yesterday reading two books in a really fun RPG lit series snuggled under my blanket next to a roaring fire and then spent today playing outside in the once-every-10-years snow Austin gets.  It is okay sometimes not to be productive with my spare time and just relax.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-02-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-02-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-02-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-02-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-02-900x686.jpg 900w, https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1-10-02.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some interesting things brewing professionally right now for me as well, but they are all in &#8220;wait and see&#8221; mode.  I&#8217;m eager to see which of two (both favorable and exciting) paths will lay out for me in 2021.  In the meantime, I&#8217;m appreciative of the fresh start on this year&#8217;s to do list.  For the first time in forever, I didn&#8217;t start a work week behind the eight ball.  I was adequately prepared for every meeting I had, and there was this moment where I was working my way down my to do list for the day and I found myself doing something 45 minutes ahead of schedule.  I finished my work for the week on Friday without anything hanging over my head.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize it&#8217;s not always going to be this way, but it nice to have a moment in time where things were really and truly under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the next week, for the rest of January, really, I plan to just continue to keep all these nascent habits going.  I&#8217;d like to add a little bit to the bike and run each week, but ONLY if it&#8217;s good for me to do so.  I&#8217;m not who I was, I&#8217;m not who I want to be yet, but I see a path there now, and that is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/establishing-habits-for-now-this-is-enough\/' data-title='Establishing Habits (for now this is enough)' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/establishing-habits-for-now-this-is-enough\/' data-title='Establishing Habits (for now this is enough)' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/10\/establishing-habits-for-now-this-is-enough\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\" show-faces='false' width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here we are. Week 1 down of being a reasonable hoo-man, and honestly it was pretty great. I&#8217;ve got a new routine, one that I quite like. 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