Yesterday I started to wonder why my metabolism has decreased exponentially over the past few months. I don't eat half as much as my daily intake in the states but I don’t get to move for most of the day. It’s really disgusting when I think about how much time I sit on my jiggly cheeks.
Monday – Friday a typical day looks like this:
- Sit at work for 11 hours stuck in my chicken coop cage
- Sleep for 6ish hours
- Lounge at home/clean the apt/shower/read books for a few hours
- Exercise for 1 hour
- And then there’s random movement [walking home from work, walking around during the day]
My M-F Movement
1 week = 120 hours
1/2 of my week is spent in the office
1/4 of my week is spent sleeping
There are not nearly enough hours in a day to work out when you sit in a cage all day. Once I arrive home, unless I suit up and hit the gym right away, I'm bombarded with several distractions that take up too much of my time. There are little things that consume so much time when you live alone.
I clean just about every other day. My hair is always all over the place… how am I not bald? I spent about 1 hour cleaning my apt last night and rearranging my furniture. [Cleaning 4 times per week, 240 minutes]
Cooking & doing the dishes, takes too much time. Last night I spent 45 minutes cooking and cleaning after myself. Eating time only took up about 10 minutes. Keep in mind that this was for a dinner that I ate alone. Imagine what it would be like cooking for a whole family. [Cooking-eating-dishes 5 x a week, 275 minutes]
Taking out the trash & recycling is one part separating and organizing, one part taking the shit down to the recycling center in the basement and then another part of going around the building and taking out the trash in the trash area. This takes up around 10 minutes of my time twice a week.[20 minutes per week]
Laundry is done at least twice a week. It doesn't take that much time to collect my laundry and load the machine, but whenever I put in a load I am basically committing myself to staying home for the 1 hour and 12 minutes that it takes to complete the load. This means that I have to schedule laundry time into my week at a time when I know that I will be home.
So during one week I spend around 9 hours just doing random home maintenance. These are 9 hours I could have saved back when I lived at home.It saddens me to think that I may spend the rest of my adult life this way. Just add a few more equations into the list like… a husband, damn kids, cooking dinner every night, cleaning, laundry, etc etc. I basically won’t have time to pursue my own interests especially if I work during the day.
This means that I need to get the important stuff out of the way early. Study, and then go back to school. Make bold career moves and move as much as possible when I’m not at work or sleeping, At least currently I get 1/4 of my day for myself. Imagine how life will be after kids… It’ll be a mess. I think your mom deserves a hug and so does your firm ass because after work life, you can wave that goodbye!