Wellness Project - Week 5

I know that I didn't officially change the time I get up every morning, but I decided to experiment a little this week. Starting Tuesday morning, I've been getting up 15 minutes earlier than usual, at 8:45AM. Surprisingly, this small change has been somewhat more difficult to adjust to than the previous changes in my waking time. I've had to ensure that I'm doing things that will keep me up—but even then, I have felt really tired. I'm hoping that this fatigue will go away, but at the same time, I'm not sure I'll be able to wake up any earlier.

This change has kind of forced me to go to bed a little earlier, though, so I'm getting to bed closer to 11PM than I used to last week. That's of course good, so I hope that I'll be able to keep getting up at 8:45AM for the remainder of this project.

Fitness Project - Week 4

I've been making steady progress since two weeks ago. It may not be much progress, but progress nonetheless. My legs are certainly more stretchy than they used to be. Although it probably doesn't count for much, I'm able to kick pretty high now. I can't keep my legs up yet—probably because the leg muscles aren't strong enough—and when I try to move my legs in a circle, my movement is jerky. I'm not sure if that's because my legs still aren't stretchy enough to do that or not.

So, half of this project is over. I'm not sure I'd say I'm quite half way toward my goal, however. I still feel slight pain when I try to stretch as far as I should have been able to by now. I'm not sure I'll make my original goal by the end of the remaining four weeks, but I'll stick to it for now. I'm not ready to adjust the goal just yet.

Wellness Project - Week 4

Starting this week, I was supposed to have finally been getting to bed no later than 11PM. Well, things didn't work out as I had thought they would. I've still been going to bed later than 11PM, although usually not later than 12AM, so at least I haven't been regressing too much. Actually, I'm not sure if it would count as regression since I'd have to make progress first before I could regress.

I've still been getting up at 9AM, just like last week. Considering my difficulty going to bed earlier than 11PM, I might want to get up a little earlier each week, although I hadn't originally planned to do that. Maybe I'll first try harder to stop whatever I'm doing to make the 11PM deadline before resorting to that, though.

Wellness Project - Week 3

This past week I suffered a strange case of mild insomnia. Monday night's sleep wasn't consistent, and I kept moving around in bed, desperately trying to fall asleep. I found I would wake up every so often, which was really unusual. As a result, I slept in an extra hour, until 10AM. I have had episodes in the past where I couldn't fall asleep, but thankfully this episode lasted only one night.

I'm a pretty light sleeper sometimes, so my environment pretty much has been silent and dark for me to be able to actually get to sleep. It used to be that I would go to bed later than everyone else in my house, which actually helped me get to sleep since there weren't any distractions from them. Now that I'm starting to go to bed earlier than they, however, I sometimes have difficulty falling asleep from the lights and their noises.

Fitness Project - Week 2

Having started my fitness routine last week, by now I think I can say that things have been more difficult than I had originally anticipated. The problem isn't the routine I've laid out, but rather my leg muscles. They unfortunately haven't been as elastic as I'd hoped, so that's been an unexpected hurdle. I'm not sure what this means for reaching my end goal, but perhaps things will prove better in the coming weeks.

As it is, I've almost barely been achieving my target final stretch times. I've been reaching the point of mild discomfort prematurely, so I've been having to just hold my final stretch there.

I've had much better luck stretching my arms and neck, which of course doesn't help when my main focus is my legs. If this keeps up, then I'll have to revise my end goal, so I hope my legs can get with the program soon.

Wellness Project - Week 2

Well, this past Saturday was the worst of my sickness. For a part of the day, I felt really exhausted and tired even though I had had adequate sleep the night before. Regardless, I proceeded with going to bed (and getting up) a half hour earlier this week, as I had planned to. Nothing very notable happened; I'm still usually a little tired when I wake up, and I still haven't resorted to napping during the day. It's sometimes difficult to occupy myself enough to stay awake, though, so it's not especially easy.

Thankfully, I've been progressively getting better each day since then. I just hope I don't catch anything else. It's never fun :(

Wellness Project - Week 1

So I started my Wellness Project this week. Considering this, I've actually had great success in keeping with my original goals. I've been going to bed around 12:30 and getting up at around 10:00. I've typically woken up tired, but that effect usually faded after a few minutes before coming back a few hours later and lasting for a few hours. At those times, it's been tough, but I haven't taken a single nap yet―I've kept myself busy enough to stay awake. I haven't used caffeine or anything, either, so hopefully my body will naturally get used to this new sleep schedule.

Unfortunately, I've been getting sick lately―a sore throat. It's most likely to do with the rest of my family getting sick from their work, though, not my new sleeping habit. Here's hoping I get better soon.