Stoptober

The Stoptober motility begins today, “a new, exciting 28 hateful solar daytime challenge to halt smoking”. When I outset read well-nigh it, I straight off had a distich of issues. First too foremost, presuming that it is inward fact playing on the cry of the calendar month “October” too that isn’t merely a rattling foreign coincidence, it appears to hold upwardly missing iii days. Furthermore, sure enough if it was that slow to merely stop, everyone would practise it, wouldn’t they?

Then I sentiment a flake more... too truly I retrieve the motility is a stroke of genius. It's non well-nigh giving upwardly smoking indefinitely, it's a brusk term challenge to brand yous realise that it is completely possible to plough over up. I haven't read whatever to a greater extent than into it because I don't smoke, but I practise wonder how they conception to learn into "exciting". For me, it would require roughly course of teaching of competiton too mayhap a prize. Not merely a 'having cleaner lungs' course of teaching of prize either, a proper one!

Inspired yesteryear the whole idea, I decided to practise my ain novel too exciting challenge for October. I sentiment upwardly all the things I retrieve I should definitely halt doing, too I volition effort to halt all of them for the whole of Oct (not merely 28 days..).

• Going to the gym via Sainsburys. I convey long extolled the virtues of the Sainsburys patisserie too bakery. Unfortunately, meandering over at that spot inward a very, rattling indirect trend is becoming something of a habit too it's never merely i pocket-size cake, it's ever a tray of them. 
• Convenient eating. I'm non certain why this has happened, but I've stopped cooking. Everything I've been eating is roughly course of teaching of minute meal, too then I require to halt amongst the convenience too learn dorsum inward the kitchen cooking upwardly roughly adept wholesome meals. 
• Avoiding the commute when it's raining. Having a machine is a certain burn means to brand yous lazy, too then is British weather. I convey a decent waterproof too a drying room at operate too then there's no excuse!
• Eating cookies (and jaffa cakes). Cookies are my smoking. I purchase them out of habit too I'll consume the whole pack without fifty-fifty thinking well-nigh it. It's gotten worse also (because of aforementioned Sainsburys visits). So for the whole of Oct I volition non consume a unmarried cookie. I convey also added jaffa cakes because I sometimes I pretend to myself that I'm 'being good' yesteryear having jaffa cakes every bit a cookie substitute. 
• Ditching out of level swim sessions citing "being tired" every bit an excuse. I was tired terminal night, too went swimming. In fact, I was yawning away on the poolside too convinced it was non going to hold upwardly a adept session. I ended upwardly having a blinder, too I unremarkably do, if I tin merely learn myself inward the pool.
• Being a consummate pussy when riding off road. I had a bad sense on sun at a cyclocross race. I ended upwardly pulling out because I was good out of my comfort zone too my shoddy, wussy riding was belongings everybody up. So it's fourth dimension to learn off route too learn practicing!

I know it's entirely hateful solar daytime 1, but it's all started good today. I rode to operate inward the rain, made a chicken, sweetness Irish Gaelic patato too dark-green edible bean Thai curry for dinner too am going straight to the gym amongst no deviations. Stoptober has begun!

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