u/natureresider_88

story time fellas - i get home around 6, tell myself i'll sit for 10 minutes, and then somehow it's 9:40, lights off, deep in my phone, every day. everyday i feel so tired. time at home is supposed to be recovery but my brain just keeps getting more foggy..

from last month i forced my self to stay away from sofa after work. get home, drop the bag, walk back out for 60 minutes. doesn't matter where. put on your airpods u feel like the world is yours lol. and every time after the walk i feel so refreshed and got motivation to cook, or hang out with friends.

been doing it about a month now. my pacer app says i've walked 43 miles of laps around my neighborhood, still lose the occasional night to the phone but it's like once a week instead of seven.

ps. i also lost 12 pounds :)

how you spend your 5-9 after your 9-5 could really change your life!!

my mornings were 40 minutes of scrolling in bed before my feet even touched the floor. news, twitter, some argument between strangers. i didn't even enjoy it, it was just what my hands did.

so last month i tried a rule: no phone until i've been around the block once. not gonna pretend it was some clean transformation. first week i skipped twice and one morning i literally scrolled while walking, which defeats the entire point and i knew it while i was doing it.

but most days now the walk happens first. and the difference is real. the scroll urge kind of burns off on its own somewhere during the loop, and i come back and start the day without having absorbed 40 minutes of other people's noise first. my head is just quieter before 9am than it's been in years.

two things that helped it stick: leaving my shoes right by the door the night before, and a step challenge i'm in with friends on pacer, because apparently i need the number to move or it doesn't count in my brain.

still scroll at night, haven't fixed that one. but mornings belong to me now. if you hate how your day starts, this is a cheap thing to try.

anyone else swap a screen habit for something physical? did it hold?

seriously if you are not listening to music when walking, what is on your mind, or how could you even walk for more than 20 min (at least i could never - would be a torture to me)

let me know let me know

mine was like 24k at a theme park and i genuinely thought i was going to die by the end lol. felt like i earned about six meals.

curious what everyone's record is and how it happened. accidental ones count. i feel like nobody hits a huge number on purpose, it's always some random day out that wrecks you.