Day 0 Fasting - Resetting Everything

11:58 PM

I've decided to just reset my entire fasting streak and start again from 0, and fast until February 1st, 2025. I realize that I'm not going to be completing a 14 day fast anymore, so I should reset the streak.

Today has been exhausting. I barely remember any of it I fell asleep at around 7 AM, and woke up at around 12:30 PM. I worked for a bit, and took naps here and there. My weight throughout the day was between 163 and 165. At around 6 PM, I ate again, couldn't help myself. It's been 4 hours and 8 minutes since I last ate anything, my new fasting timer having started at 7:53 PM today.

Today I talked with ChatGPT about my life, goals, and plans for the future. I'm planning on overhauling my life during this fast, and emerging as someone new and different by the end. I mean, I will be physically someone new and different, but I would also like to have adopted new habits and leave the old me behind.

One of the habits I will be abandoning is using the computer or phone in my bedroom. Funny enough, I've accomplished a lot of work while lying down in my bed, since all I need is a laptop to work, and I can type from my bed. I've completed websites, apps, songs, fiction, stories, probably nearly all my journal entries have probably been while lying down in bed. It's a habit I'm abandoning. There's this new rule for me, where I am not allowed to bring anything with a screen into my bedroom, the exception being my Apple Watch Ultra 2 since I used that as my sleep tracker.

This entry, I'm typing up while sitting down, believe it or not. I'm in my office. This is where I should be doing work, and I do work here as well, but a lot of the time I just bring my laptop to bed and work from there. Not anymore. Office work only now. I have three standing desks, so I can either sit or stand while I work.

Right now, I'm still getting used to working while sitting down. You have to exert some force on your back to sit up straight, and then you have to keep your body straight, and neck straight, and there's no comfortable pillow to rest on while typing. It's a very different feeling from lazily lying down in bed. For me, I used to think I could think better while lying down, but I don't think that's true. It just takes more concentration and energy to work while sitting.

Once I'm comfortable working while sitting, I can graduate to standing up. But yeah, this rule of no screens in my bedroom is one of many that I will be implementing to create a new version of myself during this fast. I don't know what other rules I'll be implementing, but this is the first one so far, and I think it's a good rule.

Anyway, I'm so exhausted, probably from all this sitting, whew. I cleaned up tonight and did some work tonight too.

Oh yeah, the other rules are that I quit manga and anime. I'm no longer entertaining myself with any of that. That's why I cleaned and worked because I had nothing else to do. I think these new rules will create a much more productive me once this is all done.

I can't wait to eat again in a week, and to be able to exercise again too. Right now I'm not doing any physical exercises due to fasting, but once I'm done with the fast, I can do calisthenics and other workouts again. That's going to be fun. I might even go to the gym often and work out using the machines.

I wonder what other rules I'll be implementing during this fast?

I wonder how much pain and suffering I'll go through this time? It will be quite the experience. Thankfully it's almost the weekend, I can have two days where I just mostly lie down in bed. No more anime and manga. No more screens in my bedroom. I'll have to read a good old physical book I guess, since there won't be much else to do.

Anyway, that was my day today.