Author: Brandon
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Day 19: Cold Water Therapy
I slept really well last night, the uncomfortably hot shower right before bed is definitely helping me. The cold water in the morning is improving my discipline – not hugely but it’s improving. I’m also thinking some other stuff must be happening as my beard is filling in. I’ve also noticed a reduction in the…
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Day 18: Cold Water Therapy
Well, today was exhausting – 400+ miles in a car doing 8 hours of travel across the state and back for my grandmother’s funeral. I feel a bit strange, I haven’t been sad that she’s gone. I more feel relief as she was such a vibrant person for most of my life and then the…
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Day 17: Cold Water Therapy
I’ve been feeling persistently cold after my showers the last few days – probably because I need to actually eat something earlier to give my body some fuel to warm back up. But then again, the cold water exposure is supposed to spur brown fat conversion. I’ll go in for a body scan next week…
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Day 16: Cold Water Therapy
I’ve been making a lot of excuses for myself lately. I have so much I’ve done this year and seen good things from, but I’ve stopped – some of it from feeling overloaded and some from giving myself excuses. Taking a cold water shower, even if it’s not first thing has been immensely helpful in…
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Day 15: Cold Water Therapy
I actually got out of bed before 530 this morning – hopefully I can do day 2 tomorrow. The water was freaggin cold again today (imagine that) – to the point where I was actually shivering. It may have also been that I made myself stand with my chest toward the shower head while I…
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Day 14: Cold Water Therapy
I got out of bed without much time to spare, but I did get my journaling done before I jumped into the shower. I’m getting interested in sauna/heat therapy for the health benefits, not to mention there’s actually a physiological response to being really uncomfortably hot that you can learn to control. Although said response…
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Day 13: Cold Water Therapy
I found out the faucet in my bathtub can go colder – I’d assumed the coldest was a quarter turn around the circle of travel. Nope. The water flows really good before that, and the water is COLD. Whew! Mentally I still resist the process like crazy – but then I turn off my mind…
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Day 12: Cold Water Therapy
So cold water just isn’t as difficult to expose yourself to after you’ve been outside working in the yard. On the other hand, I did find my faucet will go colder – so I guess I’ve been cheating myself in the mornings I get up – yeah I slept in this morning and then I…
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Day 10/11: Cold Water Therapy
I had a really busy couple of days, I still made myself take cold showers including waking up in a hotel yesterday. I realize my willingness to simply be uncomfortable has been increasing in my day to day life. I take a cold a shower all and then all day, my body is feeling a…