Day 1641

Day 1641 Record Keeping
Day 1613 Fixed Meditation (15 min, vipassana)
Day 1487 Writing (3, 20 min Pomodoros, HARD)
Day 1026 Exercise (20 min, biking)
Day 767 Mobility/Stretching (10 min, back & erector smash)
Day 113 Sunday Groceries
Day 77 Flossing (12 teeth)
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Ok sleep. Seriously thinking about moving "Sunday" Groceries to another day. I did it today, and it was much less stressful. I'm also attempting to move up my flossing habit. And I'm getting back into exercise - I've finally changed the name. A part of me is uncertain whether or not to start the habit from scratch. But I guess all habits if properly built require evolving - a change that can either make it, break it, but in either case has it looking very different from the small habit from which it started began.

Day 1634

Day 1634 Record Keeping
Day 1605 Fixed Meditation (10 min, vipassana, 30 min vipassana sit at Insight med group)
Day 1480 Writing (3, 20 min Pomodoros)
Day 1019 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 760 Mobility/Stretching (10 min, hip stretch & back smash)
Day 70 Flossing (6 teeth)
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Good sleep.  First time doing a social instance of a habit. It's something I'd like to do more of. Also, didn't have time this weekend or today to get my groceries done for the week.

Day 1627 & Updates After Sickness (Flossing Superhabit)

Day 1627 Record Keeping
Day 1598 Fixed Meditation (10 min, vipassana)
Day 1473 Writing (3, 20 min Pomdoros)
Day 1012 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 753 Mobility/Stretching (DID NOT DO)
Day 111 Sunday Groceries
Day 63 Flossing (SUPERHABIT, 6 teeth)
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Great sleep. 

Updates After Sickness (Flossing Superhabit)

I'm finally back.

I've been sick for almost a month. I thought I was getting over it 9 days ago, but it came back with a vengeance. While it has completely messed up a lot of my individual instances of habits, I have kept a few things up.

First, I've been keeping up my flossing, both recording it and doing it. Flossing is now a SUPERHABIT, after achieving scores in the 80s on the SRHI for the last week. I plan on experimenting on the best ways to stretch the habit, which should be easier since it's a simple matter of counting teeth. This should get me a full 3 dimensional graph of the entire process of long term change from a behavioral standpoint. 

I've also successfully kept up with my Sunday Grocery habit in a new location, and eating has worked pretty damn well. I've been pairing this with a very specific thus far off-blog experiment - a 90 day no beer challenge. I'm on day 19, and the technique I'm using is working both effortlessly and flawlessly. More on that in a later post. 

I'll also be posting on two other projects. The first, a new take on getting up early, got interrupted by my sickness, but I think I still got some interesting data from it. The second, on writing, is still a work in progress, but I hope to soon set up trials on how to level that up shortly.

But before all that, I intend to slowly get back to my full complement of habits at levels back before my sickness.

 

Day 1616

Day 1616 Record Keeping
Day 1587 Fixed Meditation (DID NOT DO)
Day 1462 Writing (DID NOT DO)
Day 1001 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 742 Mobility/Stretching (DID NOT DO)
Day 52 Flossing (SRHI = 64, 6 teeth)
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Good sleep. Really sick, day trip. Only got home to at 2 am. Recorded only to observe that because of the change of location, I'm not really certain if I flossed today. Usually I floss in the shower, but because theres not enough of a ledge, I haven't been able to have it out, so I end up brushing, and therefore flossing outside of the shower. It's interesting that just a simple changeup can interfere with a habit at the brink of superhabit status.

Day 1614

Day 1614 Record Keeping
Day 1585 Fixed Meditation (20 min, vipassana/gratitude)
Day 1460 Writing (DID NOT DO)
Day 999 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 740 Mobility/Stretching (DID NOT DO)
Day 109 Sunday Groceries
Day 50 Flossing (SRHI = 82, 6 teeth)
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Horrible sleep. I've been massively sick for the last week and a half. I've also moved into an apartment in Houston, making this move from Spain to the States official. It's been really hectic, because we really don't have anything. Combined with the massive heat index, and it's just been pretty horrible. Still, not once did I stop flossing, so I'm pretty sure that's a superhabit now. It's unfortunate that I didn't have the will to record this last week, because I really wanted to have a clean graph of my habit model, from habit, superhabit, and in the third dimension, the number of teeth flossed. Ah well.

I'm back to my "structured randomness" eating, my Sunday groceries (at a new store), and lunch salads. I've also added another challenge  - not drinking beer - since it seems to really mess with my stomach these days. I'll be posting a full post about that soon.

Day 1601

Day 1601 Record Keeping
Day 1572 Fixed Meditation (10 min, vipassana)
Day 1447 Writing (editings)
Day 986 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 727 Mobility/Stretching (5 min, back smash)
Day 37 Flossing (SRHI = 79, 6 teeth)
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Horrendous sleep. Tested out two night time rituals yesterday - cold water face plunge and a hot bath. Had the worst sleep, woke up several times during the night, once freezing cold, the other really hot. Felt incredibly sore the next morning, so opted out of workout. Felt horrible in general - headache, upset stomach - so went down to minimums.