week/weak one...

It's difficult and sometimes discouraging when you want change to happen yet you find that your habits take a little bit more work to change than your mindset. After the first week of looking more closely at my eating habits and water and electricity usage, I've found that I can be pretty easily tempted into things I shouldn't really be doing. For the most part, my set diet of only eating 3 meals with meat a week (and hopefully trimming down to 0) is going well except for those times when my roommate makes chicken fettuccine for dinner or really craves a bucket from KFC... but I'm working on it and doing pretty well thus far. As for water and electricity, I've definitely already cut down on lights that really don't need to be on, but I still have some work to do with my showering habits. I used to allow myself longer shower times since I didn't shower everyday to begin with, but now trying to gradually cut down the time by a minute or two each time or not turning up the heat just a tad will be pretty hard to keep consistent, especially if it's a shower after a rough day. My third change is focused on heat, but since our weather's been a little shifty in temperature I'll need to give it another week before I can really notice a difference in turning the thermostat down. Once the weather becomes more stable, my heat usage will most likely make me realize that I don't need it that warm in the house, that I will be saving my precious college student's budget in turning it down, and think of all the nice comfortable blankets I can make for the house, my roommate, myself, and our cats too.