Challenges Update: Week 1
This is the 8th day of my various challenges (Cooking, Fiber, TV). All are going pretty well.
- Fiber Challenge – I missed eating my bowl of cereal yesterday, mainly because I ran out of cereal. I’ve remedied that and will continue on. (I guess that means a box of cereal lasts approximately 6 days. At $4.39 a box you can see how this “fiber challenge” might significantly improve Kellog’s bottom line).
- TV Challenge – I haven’t watched television since August 24th. This has been a bit more challenging than the fiber challenge. Like an old friend that I miss seeing (at nights mostly). I’ve substituted reading a book on the sofa before bed to kind of wind down at night and that seems to work ok. I suppose this means I’ll have to always keep the right kind of books on hand. (Not too engrossing… Don’t want to get sucked into a book and end up reading till 4 a.m.) We’ll see how I feel about TV after 3 weeks without it.
- Cooking Challenge – This also has gone pretty well. As I look at my calendar I see that I’ve cooked every night that I could this week. What this means in practical terms is that I’ve avoided the cycle of Chinese food / other crappy food that I’ve maintained for what seems like forever. There were days where I had to eat out because of my scheduling. There were days where my primary meal was the leftovers from the night before. One observation is that the Turbo Cooker can be a hell of a lot more complex to use than it appears on the surface. Perhaps as with anything this gets easier with practice. (I used it once this past week.)
There’s the weekly challenge wrap up. Nothing too dramatic. I just have to keep on keeping on.