RhiaWolfe Follows the Way of the Samurai

[RhiaWolfe]

Konichiwa! Hello everyone! I am back and starting on my challenge. First, I want to give an update on a few things that have happened in the past few months. 

 

About a month ago I got really sick with a stomach flu. I could barely keep water down. Once I started being able to eat again, I was eating just light foods. I took advantage of this and decided not to go back to eating and drinking the way I had been. I stopped drinking soda altogether, I started cooking more at home, I started eating healthier and taking my lunch to work. It was going great and I was getting results! I had just started introducing some more movement in my life when I started slipping on my nutrition. I can feel myself falling back into old habits. I need to get control of this before it gets out of hand and I lose what progress I've made. I had finally lost most of my quarantine weight. 

 

Also, since I got my Master's degree, I've felt stagnant, like I'm not working towards anything or learning anything new. So, in good nerd fashion, I decided to try and learn Japanese. I've been doing pretty good so far. I'm still a beginner, but I'm working on learning my Kanji on WaniKani and I've started grammar lessons on Bunpro. I'm also on a Japanese learning discord channel so I can talk to others and learn better as I go along. So, my theme this challenge is going to center around the Japanese language and culture. 

 

 

 

Challenge Details:

 

Nutrition - Track and Adjust: For the first week of the challenge I am going to track what I eat. I'm not going to track calories, but just whatever I eat so I can see patterns and what I need to do to improve. Then I will make a quantifiable goal to follow up on starting week 2. So, I want to do this for all 7 days next week. 

 

Movement - 15 minute walks:  To start off I want to get in a 15 minute walk every day at least 5 days a week. I think this a good starting point to get more movement in my life. 

 

Bonus - Learn Japanese: I want to work on my Japanese at least once a day 5 days a week. Just watching anime or listening to Jrock doesn't count. I need to actually put forth effort to learn my kanji, vocabulary, and grammar. 

 

Let's do this!!!! 

[Grizzy]

Walks are my primary form of exercise these days. Yay for walks!

[DoubleTrouble]

[Fonzico]

Oh hey, fancy meeting you here!

 

Harness that momentum and let's GO!

[Teros]

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On 5/7/2021 at 10:08 AM, RhiaWolfe said:

since I got my Master's degree, I've felt stagnant, like I'm not working towards anything or learning anything new

 

That's what jumping into more reading has done for me.  I'm almost finished with my HP Lovecraft book.