Tag: morning-routine
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Day 23: Cold Water Therapy
I didn’t take a hot shower last night – I was tired anyway. I still slept pretty good. I did get out of bed at 545 this morning – which is an improvement over recent weeks. I got out of bed and hydrated, then went in and took my shower without hardly a second thought.…
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Day 22: Cold Water Therapy
Got up and going and took a shower pretty quick after getting up and getting hydrated. It still takes some discipline to turn the water to cold and stand there. But the outcome of the shower is definitely worth it – I’m awake and feeling better. The hot water shower before bed is helping –…
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Day 21: Cold Water Therapy
It sucks all the more when you wake up and the house is kind of cold, then get in the shower and turn it to cold. But I did it, and I also got my uncomfortably hot shower in last night. The hot shower seemed to help me sleep, I woke up early, but I…
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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…