Day 49: Just One Thing for 100 Days

My best friend Sylvia and I can talk for hours. We used to dream of starting our own company called the Feinphy-Murphman Corporation (the most ridiculous combo of our last names) aka Corporation of Crazy Schemes. We renamed our idiosyncrasies and neuroses "the nature of our genius" and created our own sayings such as "brown crayoning" things and "that's just frosting on the poop cake." We would create "plans" and call each other every day. When life got particularly overwhelming, we created an accountability structure we called: Just One Thing. Simply, we would commit to doing just one thing each day and let the other know.

My next 100 days are inspired by my best friend, S, and our Just One Thing Plan. But this time, it's got a twist. My ONE THING will be the same for the entire 100 Days.

What One Thing Could I Do Every Day that Would Benefit My Health the Most with the Least Effort and Stress to Me?

Drinking water.

When I drink more water, I drink less coffee, I eat less food, I feel better. But here's the deal I JUST DON'T DO IT. Seriously, I'll go like DAYS. Slamming diet coke after diet coke (I know it's bad for me)and coffee after coffee. If I focus on trying to cut down on coffee, it takes more mental energy than I can muster. (I am so IMPRESSED by Debbie's amazing progress in this regard!) But I've found from earlier in my plan, focusing on what I CAN do sort of magically makes the other stuff fall away.

SO ...

Over the next 100 days, I will drink 700 glasses of water.

The rules: This is measured in degrees of success and by no means a pass-fail endeavor. A glass is roughly 8 ounces, but I'm not gonna get all psycho about it. Flavored water COUNTS, but I'll try to drink mostly just regular water.

If anybody knows where I can get like a cool tally tool or something for this blog so I can keep a running total at the top that would rock.

I will celebrate each 100 glass milestone, by announcing it in my blog and bragging and buying myself something and taking a photo of me and that something and posting it (ie commemorative pack of gum in honor of Glass 300 reached on this day, etc). If you would like to give my water challenge a go, feel free to start a counting and brag about how far along you are in my comments. At every 100 glasses I will brag about you in my blog if that is any kind of incentive. And by you, I mean like the seven fellow shredders who read this and mythical lurkers in the future. There's no deadline to join. You can start whenever. If you buy yourself something to celebrate a milestone and snap a photo, you can also send me a pic, and I will post your commemorative milestone photo, too.

I'm using West Coast time for my blog, because that's how my computer is configured and I'll be back in LA (hopefully) by the time the 100 days is up.

It's seven hours into my "Water Challenge," and I have drunk three glasses of water already. Woo-hoo. Only 697 glasses to go!