I made a New Year's resolution earlier this year to sleep earlier. I also set a running goal for myself. #1401058
Last month's post. #1424150
In February, I had less bedtime violations compared to January. The aim is to sleep at 10:30pm with a hard cutoff at 11:30pm. Anything past 11:30pm considers as a violation and is met with a punishment of doing 200 push ups the next day. February's violations were:
- Feb 1, 11:50pm
- Feb 8, 12:30am
- Feb 15, 12:30am
- Feb 25, 12:30am
For runs, I crushed the goal of running 100km each month and also made progress towards the "nice to have" goal of reaching 1000 miles by the end of the year. I ran a total of 142.6km in February. Here is the running summary for the month.
In terms of alcohol consumption, I had 1 can of 355mL beer and 1 shot of whiskey in the month of February. Still not zero yet and will try to work on that in March.
Holy cow that alcohol goal is impressive!!
Midnight is a more epic cutoff than 1130 but maybe you’d have even worse violations
I'm doing full marathon training, and each year when I train for my marathon, I try to cut all alcohol consumption. I go back to drinking after I complete my marathon, until 6 months prior to next year's marathon, then I try to cut alcohol again. So, it's constantly half year on and half year off alcohol. I try not to go over 3 drinks per week during my "on alcohol" period though.
Drink up
I like your term bedtime violations. I’m not so gung-ho to pair it with push-ups, but I will use it to remind myself to resist doomscrolling at night!
Hmmm... The negative effects of doomscrolling isn't limited to before bedtime. I would try to cut that down as much as possible during anytime.
The earliest I went to bed in February was 1am. The latest was 4:30am.
To be fair, you were in the middle of moving houses. Packing and unpacking takes time.
I still wouldn't have gone to bed early. I am a night person. But I am trying to get to bed a bit earlier.
I guess if you sleep enough hours, it shouldn't be too bad? Not sleeping enough is really bad for your health though.
I usually get around 7-7.5 hours a night.
Sounds like a good amount.
I'm less intolerant than you are about the violation, hehe, so I'd rather hear what your average time of bed was... Are you sort of, mostly hitting your goal?
You mean before I set the resolution? I've been mostly going to bed at about 12:30am-1:30am, sometimes 2am. The unhealthy thing is that I wake up at 6am, latest 6:30am, everyday. So I was constantly lacking sleep.
If you're asking my average after I've set the resolution, bedtime was mostly 11:30pm (yes, pushed to as late as possible without violations), with a few rare occasions when it was 10:30pm-10:45pm.
So, to answer your question, I'm not hitting the goal of 10:30pm and I still need a lot of work, haha.
So the goal doesn't motivate you, but the threat of (self-imposed) punishment does?
I guess? I like to stay up late, at least I had a long time habit of doing so. The urge to stay up late seems to override the desire to reach that 10:30pm bedtime goal. The 11:30 hard cutoff is more like an ultimatum to myself. Also, my wife started to give me warnings every 5 minutes starting at 11:15. She's not a big fan of my constant lack of sleep days. The constant warning (nagging) helps too.