Week 5 Reflection

I did lots of baking and I tried out a couple of new recipes! I’m not very good at cooking, but I’m hoping to get better. I also decided to do a full cleanup of the kitchen. The kitchen in the house is very tiny, and my mom and I barely have any cabinet space for food. All of the cabinets are taken up by appliances, Tupperware, pots, and other kitchen items, so our food has to be put on the counter. With my mom’s help, we cleared some room in the cabinets, cleaned everything up inside, and now we have our counters free of food! I cleaned the floors, the stove, and the fridge as well.

This week I also started my intermittent fasting! There are many types, but fasting is a set time for eating and a time for fasting. I did a lot of research before I started to see which type of fasting was best for me. One type is a 5:2 method where you eat regularly for 5 days and then for 2 days, you eat 500 calories. I’m doing the 16/8 method. I have a specific time window when I can eat, so my time window is from 11 am-7 pm every day. I can’t eat anything before 11 and I can’t eat anything after 7. I’m doing this so I don’t overeat in quarantine and to hopefully lose a little weight before I go to college. So far it’s going well!