Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
- King Whitney, Jr
I've been fearful. I'm going to work on changing that.
This week I'm working on implementing even more changes. I've been up and down with all of my other ones, but it's time to start working on solidifying those, and adding additional ones. Even though I've been going to the gym the last 4 months, I've gained 10 pounds. While some of it is definitely muscle, there is a significant portion that is fat. This is what I'm working on identifying with these changes that I'm starting this week.
First, dropping my drinking. I didn't get drunk all of the time, but I did do lots of casual drinking (What I called casual at least). To not drink yesterday was a bit hard. Leading me to believe that I'm more addicted to it than what I wanted to believe. But I managed. I'm getting great support from Kayla.
Second, working more on my diet. I've been great with improving my eating selection. I'm about 80% comfortable with a huge number of vegetables. Enough that, for the most part, I won't even try to eat around them. Moving forward, I'm switching to just a salad for dinner.
I've been observing my diet. Between getting up and when I get home, I'm following my diet pretty well. This means the increased vegetables, the dropping of snacks, and the high amount of calories in the morning to supply energy all day. I start to fail miserably when I get home. Huge meals (And the drinking) supplied my body with tons of extra calories that it didn't need to make it through the night. But focusing more on only having a light dinner and light snack in the evening, I'm expecting about a 1,000 calorie swing. Putting me from the (I'm guessing) 500 calories over to 500 calories under basal metabolic rate (Normal amount of calories my body spends in a day). We'll see how this goes for a couple of months.
Finally, the more fun stuff! I played lots more Dark Souls 2 last night. Holy crap, I'm loving this game. It's been quite a while since I've been this enticed by a game. I've got some changes from yesterday. I've been doing a lot of co-op to help people defeat bosses. With two other people usually, I'm only being focused about 1/3 of the fight. I've wanted to do more damage, so I've been experimenting with a halberd for those fights. And it's definitely helping. The only unfortunate part is that I've still yet to get a stronger weapon, and all of my levels last night went into faith.
I don't have much to say on faith yet. It was a considerable investment to begin implementing it. I'm only faith level 16 and attunement level 10. The level 10 attunement only gives me one spell slot. Also, my lightning spell requires a faith of 22 (There is a ring I can buy that increases my faith, so I might invest in that). This means I need more attunement (If I want the heal, force spell, and the lightning), and a bunch more faith. At 10k+ souls a level now, it's going to take awhile.
I'll keep you posted on how that turns out tonight.
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