Day 1 - 75D/
Day 1 of our 75 difficult challenge is done and completed. It wasn't super difficult, but the thing about this challenge is that it's not necessarily the level of difficulty to do each of the things individually...the difficulty lies in the continuous nature of the challenge. Doing these things EVERY single day without break for a continuous 75 days. I'm sure further into the challenge the monotony will set in and it will be a slog to get through. But alas, that was not the experience for day 1.
Interestingly, the most difficult part was drinking the gallon of water. Not in the actual drinking, but in the gauging of the gallon itself. We got two gallon jugs and figured we would fill those daily and then we would know...but we also drink two cups of coffee each in the morning, I like to drink iced-t throughout the day and seltzer water as well. A gallon of water plus those things is just not going to cut it. We do have large 40oz Stanley tumblers so we are figuring if we fill and drain that three times daily we will be on goal. (120oz in a gallon...we looked it up lol). I know there are some purists out there who will say that anything but water doesn't count, and if we were drinking high calorie or sugary drinks I could probably get on board with that argument, but coffee and ice-d tea don't fall in that category so I think the result is the same. Increase the amount of liquids you drink that will hydrate you. Check.
Not checking instagram wasn't super difficult for day 1. I am very interested to really think through (and write about) the experience of why instagram is so "addictive" and how stepping away from it affects my overall satisfaction of life, feelings of fomo, genuine missing out on things etc...When I think about it simply, it seems silly that an app on our phones has taken over so many of our lives...but it is the world we live in and we all have to decide how we are going to let it affect us. I'm also still on facebook and twitter - I don't feel the desire to scroll endlessly on fb and I don't know anyone personally on twitter...its more for news/politics/entertainment purposes - so I don't feel like I've been totally cut off from the world because I still I'm still "connected" to it through those two apps.
Other than that, everything went relatively well. Paul and I did our walk in the morning, I stretched in the evening while we were watching the Lincoln Lawyer, I read and wrote in the morning before I started work and I didn't eat anything until noon and did not eat after 8pm. I didn't have any sugar and had half of a sandwich bun b/c we had to eat out for lunch. We actually at the food court on Ft. Hood. We drove down to Killeen to pick up a freezer and stoped on post to get me a new military ID (mine had expired) and they ended up confiscating it at the gate because it was expired. And then the ID place was closed for the 4th of July. Womp womp. Now we have to drive all the way back down there next week to get me a new one. Oh well...at least it was a pretty drive and we got to listen to John Crist's new podcast which is actually pretty good. Not a total loss.
