Sep 27, 2024
My quest to find, acquire, and read books about Libraries, books, bookshops, booksellers, cafe-bookstores continues…Also love that many of them are translations.
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My quest to find, acquire, and read books about Libraries, books, bookshops, booksellers, cafe-bookstores continues…Also love that many of them are translations.
Reading books about books, bookshops, booksellers, writers, and readers alike while sitting in a bookshop cafe is THE biggest JOY of my life. I will never get tired of this. This will never get old. And inshallah one day, I’ll have bookshop of my own to curate and care for. This IS my dream. I have held onto this little joyful dream as a mere imaginary thought for the longest time, but I think it’s time to start laying some bricks for its foundation. My joy. My dream.
It’s day 100! I made it!
Staring weight: 196.4lbs
Current weight: 180.2lbs
Lost: 16.2lbs
I have changed so much through the course of these 100 days. I’ve created a consistency in my workouts and physical activity. Even if I can’t make the gym, I’ve taken myself out oncasual walks just because instead of wasting away on the couch. I have self soothed a lot of panic and frustration from my weight gain and fluctuations. I’ve not let one bad day ruin the rest. I picked myself back up over and over again. I tried to be even keel through the ups and downs of the number on the scale. I did not give up on myself. I’ve chosen my higher self over the lower self urges and dopamine hits. The end of 100 days is definitely not the end of my discipline. Just of the logging under this tag here. I’ll soon start to log my usual journal as I start my travel month. Hopefully starting tomorrow, I can do a digital detox and a quick palate cleanse before I decide to come back.
I’m back to reading Discipline is destiny to commemorate my 100 days!
These 100 days also represent my growing pains. I’m hoping for the momentum to take hold now and for me to be in flow state and my evolution to be more effortless. That definitely does not mean I don’t have to still make micro decisions every second of every day in favor of my higher self. It just means that these decisions will get easier, I’m rewired for the most part. This new self pretty much feels on autopilot. I don’t have to convince myself to go workout or on a walk. It just happens, it’s a given, it’s facts that just happen. It’s non negotiable.
Food has also been similar, but definitely harder, considering I was prone to BED in the past, the diet bits are still very intentional and I have to be a lot stricter and decisions take some time to arrive at with a lot of back and forth and convincing. However, I’ve given myself a lot of flexibility and freedom to enjoy my life without feeling like I’m missing out. I’ve also realized that shit food, fast food, junk food is literally not worth it. It’s yucky, it’s not fulfilling, it’s not energizing. It just comes with lots of regrets and carcinogens. It’s just a matter of reminding myself that I’m not going to feel good when I’m in the throes of hyper-focusing on a particular food or a particular reason to binge. It’s about bringing my awareness back to the body and my present moment and not spiral in my head. Like physically interrupting my current position, either walking away from the spot or going and doing some task and really assess my hunger! Also feeding myself around my workout schedule has helped with looking at food as a fuel instead of a pass time or an emotional crutch.