For the past few days, I haven’t been feeling very well. I’m not so sick that I can’t get out of bed, but when I tried to go to the gym I could barely manage 20 minutes before I had to give up. A pattern that I’ve seen emerge in the past three weeks since I started using the gym regularly is that there is a very strong link between my diet and my exercise. On the days I go to the gym, I mostly don’t feel like eating unhealthy food (or even if I do, the cravings aren’t that strong). That’s probably because: (1) I’m more aware of how much work it’ll take to burn off those extra calories if I eat them and (2) It takes away from the time I spend in my apartment, so I’m not as bored when I am there (because I have more stuff to catch up on). I also have no problem drinking 2 litres of water on the days I go to the gym. But lately I haven’t eaten very well and I’ve had some really strong cravings.

Aside from the horrible fluey feeling that I have now, I’ve felt really unhealthy for the past few days and I realised this is how I must have felt a lot of the time before I started making changes. There is no way I want to go back to feeling like that all the time.