I need a little more discipline. There’s nothing like a 30 Days to force myself to follow some rules.
For the next 30 Days, I will:
1. Go to bed before midnight.
2. Not eat dessert after dinner.
My motivations are pretty simple. I’ve been going to bed Way Too Late these last few weeks. I’ve also been eating Way Too Much ice cream, no thanks to Safeway’s $2.49 a pint sale on Ben & Jerry’s last month. I feel crappy. This has to stop.
To be more specific, the goal is to try to be asleep by midnight, but I’ll allow jumping into bed at 11:59 PM if necessary. I’m also allowed to eat whatever I want for dinner, and much of it as I want. But no dessert. No snacks, either. Just dinner, dinner, and more dinner if I’m still hungry.
Here’s to feeling less crappy.
Now I’m imagining one of those action movie slow-mo scenes: Wide screen, one side showing the clock at 11:59. Just as the clock starts to flip (it’s one of those old school ones where the numbers flip over) to 12:00, SoopahViv flies across the room diving under the covers. Imagine a combo of “Dukes of Hazzard” car hood slide move and Shaw Brothers Kung-Fu movie wire-flying. Of course you need to toss a weapon of some type (throwing knife, darts or shuriken will suffice) at the light switch to turn out the lights just as the clock hits 12:00.
That’s pretty much how day 1 went. But I made it!