Life Experiment 01 - Day 1, Block 4 start

Well I'm entering the home stretch of the first full day... I don't really believe that there is anything concrete that I can take from my experience today... I'm just hunkering down for a couple days of difficulty, if not more.

I do feel pretty good about my level of dedication and feel like this will be tremendously successful if my body successfully starts falling into REM sleep right away.

After my 5:30p nap, I awoke upset, wondering how the heck I could have possibly overslept, and then realized it was 5:59 and I woke naturally (although not gently) within 30 seconds of my alarm. I'm chalking this up to total coincidence, but it was still a nice result. I am not fully rested though, and I can feel it. I'm not dragging, but I have a full 5 hours until my next nap.

The exercise is boring and I need to read the manual to jack up the exercise bike so it's more challenging. Not breaking a sweat means I could be getting more out of it than I am. It also really hurts my butt!!! Blast! It STILL hurts.

Sleep – 29 minutes, 30 seconds
Fatigue – kinda tired, but less than prior to the nap
Weight – 261 lbs...
Exercise - 20 mins
3.94 miles
143 calories
25.0 carbs
Food - chicken and rice and broccoli
Mood - Encouraged but vigilant about monitoring fatigue in the next 5 hours
Health - minor cough
Memory - ugh... it took me a while to remember the word "vigilant"


The music from the new Star Trek movie is good at energizing me, so that's what I'm listening to at the present. It's very important for me to remember that upbeat music is a good way to rescue one's self from fatigue. I had a decently productive day, and I'm gonna start with some database work tonight to test my focus and clarity.

I think I'm going to break each block into two posts... right now I'm going back and editing posts and that's confusing. My first post will basically be how i feel after my nap and stats on exercise etc. My second post will summarize how that block went.

Sounds like a plan to me.