Week 8

Finally, this blog has come to its end.
I got hit by a car today. Very interesting huh! Well, anyway, I now usually walk 2 miles at night time.
I think this experiment has helped me become more health oriented than before. I quit smoking, and started eating healthy. Sadly due to these requirements, I sleep less. I normally come home later than 10:30pm, so if I exercise and shower, that is easily past 12am. I try my best to finish my home work before going to school, so I sleep around 3-4am. So instead of being unhealthy through lack of exercise and lack of healthy food, I am now unhealthy through lack of sleep.
I am thinking about re-organizing my schedule so I can actually have time to sleep while working out along with all my other work I must finish.
I have not played any games on my nintendo ds in a while, I miss my friend terribly, and I want to eat ice cream.
The punishments were easy to ignore, but the rewards actually helped motivate me.
I think this project would've worked better if I were to change somebody else.

Overall, this project was very interesting, and helped me figure out what I should really change about myself.

Week 7

Total failure...
Sadly, I have not exercised for a long time. Since the weather is so hot lately, my punishment of not eating ice cream but watching people eat them worked very well. I don't think this whole conditioning is working for me, because like I said before, I'm doing this on myself, and I can easily get out of any punishment I give myself. Since I could not eat ice cream, I ate shaved ice. These two ARE different, but they bring the same result. Instead of punishing myself for not working out, I think I would do better when I actually DECIDE to change my habits.
I am going to exercise tomorrow, because my friend will be off from work on Thursday. I plan to work out every night from now on, instead of three days a week. My "transfer-itis" is getting a lot better especially after my new laptop arrived.

The punishments helped me, but did not last very long. Hopefully, my decision to change will be a long term one.

Week 6

I was sick on Sunday, and couldn't return home until Tuesday... so I couldn't work out during the weekend.
My friend got a job, and he doesn't come back home until 9pm. He told me that it would be hard for us to work out together. Since I left all my things at his house, I plan to bring everything back tomorrow at 9pm.
I'll start working out by myself from now on, and I will keep the 2 mile thing.
I plan to work out on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday night. I don't know why, but I'm starting to get really lazy with everything. I think its the whole "transfer-itis" thing...

Hope I return to my whole happy-go-lucky and enthusiastic personality soon.
ah... I'm so tired

Anyway... I personally think that the operant conditioning thing is working, but I don't think it works too well because I'm the one doing it on myself.
I read this one blog post like thing http://bigcatnews.blogspot.com/2008/11/operant-conditioning-on-humans.html
and it was quite amusing... I guess this will work better if I didn't know about it... but since I'm doing this for myself, I am able to think in a different term and find another way around it.

update on week 5

failed...
couldn't work out this week... so decided to add few punishments
I normally eat ice cream or pudding right after I eat dinner, so for every day I don't exercise, I decided to not eat those treats but WATCH OTHER PEOPLE eating them.
I watched my friend and his mom eat their cake and ice cream.
I also watched my mother eat ice cream. It made me suffer horribly and I got a little annoyed.
So... No bubble bath for me today, and no ice cream or pudding for me...
I am quite depressed.

(early) Week 5

I think I pushed myself too hard yesterday, because I felt like throwing up after a while, but it was nice to walk/jog.
I concentrated on weights today.. and it was painful. I got frustrated because I couldn't feel the tension on the places I needed the tension, but my friend said I might feel it tomorrow morning, so I'm quite worried about that...
The plan is working well, I don't even really need to punish myself. I look forward to these exercises because it is quite fun to have legs that feels like jello after working out a while...
The burning sensation in the lungs are quite fun, and I love feeling all tense after working out.
It is painful, but I feel like I have pushed my limits to gain something higher.
OH! and thank you everyone for worrying about my cut. I'm fine now, I don't really feel pain anymore.
I decided to add a positive reinforcement. I shall take a bubble bath on a Sunday after I work out, but only if I exercised at least 3 days in that week. I love taking baths, especially bubble baths. I took a bubble bath today and realized that if I have something to look forward to, I will enjoy exercising even more!

I shall update more on Week 5 later~

week 4

Well its almost near the midst of this week, and I worked out often last week and not much on this week. I think its the cut that made me a little lazy.
I jogged and walked two miles at night time, and lifted weights at my friend's house.
I fail at lifting weights, and walking was annoying in the beginning, but later it got fun, I wanted to keep walking.

I couldn't work out on Friday, because of the cut, and other excuses, so I did not play any games on DS Lite, and did not visit my friend.
He also ignored my calls, texts, and aim messages, which made me really sad.
I actually left my DS Lite at my friend's house, and installed a lot of new games in it.
I love beating games, so not being able to beat any of the new games I installed is quite vexing.
I am starting to enjoy working out because of my friend's positive influence, and thanks to him, I'm eating more healthy.

I think I should makes some more positive punishment, because I learn to work my way out of negative punishments. I will somehow find a way around all my barriers from having fun, and find another way to amuse myself.

I think the most effective part of this plan is that now I actually enjoy working out.

*bad news

I sat on a knife... and got a cut on my leg...
sounds stupid but it does hurt quite a bit...
so my intense workout plan is going to be cut down to "not so very intense" workout...
the cut is longer than my pinky... and a bit deep...
i cut it yesterday morning, but it is still bleeding...
um...
yeah...
i'll still workout and everything, but i'm going to try not to put too much pressure on it.
ahhhh fail...

week 3

to start working out!

I decided to make my friend into my exercise partner. My friend will be the positive reinforcement for my work out plan. I really enjoy hanging out with my friend, and I told him to ignore me and not hang out with me when I refuse to work out. Not only that, his house is filled with great food and TV! My house doesn't have a TV [because my mom thinks its a waste of time], and my mom and I normally don't eat at our house, so our fridge is empty. If I work out, I get to hang out with him and eat healthy, and watch TV as much as I want!

Also, I am quite addicted to my Nintendo DS Lite, and I carry it with me all the time, but from now on, if I fail to work out at least three times a week, I shall not play any games for that whole week. This might be quite hard for me because I always play games on my free time between classes, or before work.

Not watching TV, and not playing games will be my negative punishment for not exercising, and my friend not hanging out with me or ignoring me will be a positive punishment.

I actually walked 2 miles with this plan, and I plan to keep this plan for as long as it works!

According to this one website I found, cardio is the best way to start exercising, http://exercise.about.com/cs/exbeginners/l/blimplement.htm
So I plan to start by walking and running, and slowly merge into lifting weights or even lifting myself with push-ups and sit-ups.

Also, since I am quite busy [excuses... but I do have two jobs with 21 units... or was it 22...], so this article I found seems very helpful.
http://exercise.about.com/od/fittinginexercise/a/busy_exercise.htm
It talks about how to exercise in a busy schedule.
I think I'm doing most of the envolving other people in my exercises.

so true...

I told my friend [that exercises every day], about my plan, and he decided to join in with me. So we plan to start walking around the track in Walnut [i think its the high school track area]...
or run... maybe...
cuz since i'm a smoker, and he is a smoker, it is quite hard for us to run
especially since i'm anemic, and have a small heart... i would faint if i ran for too long...
[excuses excuses... i know... but i fainted like 5 times in one semester in 11th grade, and 3 times in senior year...]

anyway... hopefully this works...

i think it will cuz this friend changed my eating habbits...

FAIL

I got home around 11pm so I couldn't do any work out as i planned...
and I was at school until late, went to my friend's house to do hw... so fail again...
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
SIGH Tuesday i'll also be late cuz i have class until 10pm
so... maybe starting from... wednesday... after work... i guess... i'll start...
sigh

Schedule I created for Work Out Plan!!!

okay... so i have created a new work out plan for meeee XD
I am normally at school 6 days a week from 8am... so I don't think I'll be able to work out in the morning because I have to drive my mom to work at times.
I get out of school early on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but sadly I work at TLJ bakery until 10pm on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays...
The only days I'm actually free to work out is Thursdays and Sundays...
I really think it would be nice to work out every night, but having a late class that ends after 10pm doesn't sound too great.

I plan to do cardio for about 30min and push-ups/sit-ups for another 30min.
It's only one hour so I don't think it would be too much for my overly packed weekdays...
I shall start from (hopefully) today...
If I end up not working out, I'll post again... *sigh*

week 1

I'm a psychology student in mt san antonio college... and this is my behavior change blog...
my target behavior is... exercising...
i never exercise anymore due to work and too much school work...
these are just excuses if i look at it closely...
i normally do have time to exercise, but i don't and hang out with friends or go online.
I really enjoy being lazy, and one day i realized that i've gained 25 pounds... *shock*
so i decided to try to exercise even more.
wish me luck!