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.