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There is one more full week left to finish the month strong.
I'm officially one week free of weed! First of all, I want to say a big thank you to @moonlake@hexbear.net for this self improvement thread, which has been something I look forward to every week to track my progress. This has really been a great resource for me and the support has been great.
So a week ago today I threw out my weed, grinder, pipe, lighter, everything. Since then not being high has been very easy, to be honest. I've had a few moments where I thought it would be nice to smoke some weed, but never have I regretted throwing my stuff away. I feel like I have so much more free time now to write and read and draw and spend with my friend. When I was getting high, I would just count all of that time as void, as if it was time I was spending sleeping or commuting. I couldn't be productive at all, all I could do was eat loads and watch House MD.
Other than that, I worked out three times this week, went bouldering with a friend once, and ate pretty healthily all around. I've been at work 5 days this week, chasing that bag, getting money for myself to help my parents if I can. I've been writing my fantasy novel a bit, I'm up to 15,000 words with no intention of stopping and I'm finally figuring out some of the minutae of the plot and map. As of this week I have officially lost 5 whole kilograms which I'm very proud of. Overall I feel this was a very good week for me.
Congratulations on your streak!
And thank you for the shout out, I am really glad to hear that others are also looking forward to the megathread every week 