It's about time to step back and take a look at the improvements I've made in my life. While I've gone back and forth on my goals to losing weight and to writing more, I've done quite a bit in terms of getting my life on track to actually complete those goals. I'm measuring progression in my life, but not by the criteria I expected to a couple months ago.
The two biggest changes have to do with my eating habits and my exercising habits. For my diet for most of my life, I avoided vegetables like the plague. I'd even throw up if forced to eat them (Which happened a lot). But slowly, I began eating them. Where even a few months ago it was a drain on my willpower to eat a spinach salad, I've not been eating them for almost every lunch. I don't even need to take the stem off anymore! Slowly, I'm going to add in peppers, cucumbers, and whatever I find delicious in my salads. Because, if I'm going to eat that salad, why shouldn't I make it something that tastes great to me! (Not others).
Exercising is the other big change. I've tried starting up an exercise routine quite a few times these past two years. I'd last only about 2-3 weeks on running ones, and maybe 1-2 weeks with strength training. Well, it's been almost 6 weeks that I've been strength training. I'm not seeing large amounts of strength gain, but I am seeing more definition. Also, yesterday I started running again with Kayla. I really wanted to start sooner, but I prefer running outside, and up until now, it has been about a bijillion degrees below zero each morning.
I hope to keep that up. This summer, I want to join a small soccer league. Something to get me out and allow me to be competitive.
I just want to give a shout out to Dark Souls, which I've been playing quite a lot recently. It has the most subtle progression I've seen in a game, and I love it. The biggest one I saw yesterday had to do with the skeletons in the graveyard. I attempted to fight them early in the game, and got completely destroyed. Couldn't even do damage. Even after a couple of levels, I was still in the same boat.
So I dropped it and completed the next area of the game. Came back, and still got destroyed. Completed a few more areas of the game, and was finally able to come back and beat them. However, it took a few tries, and I took tons of damage.
Fast forward some more to where I am now. I came back and these things that were bosses compared to me forever ago, now do about 4% of my life per hit, and I can kill them with one swing.
In a lot of RPGs, if you are stuck on some sort of mob, you gain a few levels, and then now they are the easiest thing in the world. In Dark Souls, you can gain a few levels, and still see no noticeable difference. But if you keep at it, tackle what you can handle right now, and keep moving forward, you'll eventually find yourself doing things you found impossible before.
Keep up the good work.
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