Lifestyle Project Week One

For the lifestyle project I decided to do Water consumption Energy consuption and Food. For Water consuption I cut back my showers from ten minutes to about five minutes and tried to lower the temperature of them a bit. I had a little trouble with this mainly because I have a lot of hair and it takes forever to wash. Also, I had a little trouble turnning the temperature down becuase I love hot showers and the lukewarm shower was not the same. I made sure that I turned off the water while brushing my teeth and washing my hands etc. For energy I did not drive my car at all this week and pretty much just stayed on campus. I tried to turn off the lights as much as possible and opened the windows to get more light in. My roomate sleeps all the time so our room light is pretty much never on and so I just use a desk lamp when I was doing homework or just went to the library where the lights would be on anyways. Food was not that hard for me I decided to go all vegan, becuase I can't have dairy anyways. I caught myself going for a turkey sandwich once but before I actually got it I realized I can't have it and went for the good old peanut butter instead. It really wasnt that difficult for me to not eat meat, but I just had to actually pay attention to what I was putting on my plate. I found myself eating lots of salad and stuff like that in the commons becuase some days all the stuff they had in the main line had either milk or meat in it.