Pheeeeeeew, already one week has passed since my last post….amazing how time flies…

In the meantime I returned to home (I started the Cold Shower Challenge during my work stay in Berne, Switzerland) and surprisingly, it was A WHOLE LOT harder to continue the challenge at home:
the breathing excercises don’t work as well as when I started and it is way harder to face the cold shower in the morning.

I cannot really put my finger on the reason.
My suspicion is that it’s a combination of different things: the biggest one probably being that here, I have my habit of LONG HOT showers which is hard to break, also my flat here is a lot colder than the one I lived in during my workstay and I also feel a bit like being on holiday in Switzerland.

But enough of cause-digging and back to my experiences:

I still had at least a short cold shower after my hot shower every morning (yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, the challenge is still on ;-)). It also feels easier if the water is REALLY cold, instead of just lukewarm, because the body then really has to adapt.

Two days ago, I also found some more videos of Wim Hof, including the official Shower Challenge poster which decorates now my bathroom door.
Only since then I have an „official“ time how long the cold shower should last, I only started counting the days off Wim Hof’s shower challenge after I detected this info.

The official Wim-Hof-Cold shower challenge

On the same day, I found a video about intermittent fasting which I try now as well….and the start was easier than I expected: on Wednesday I had a late dinner, around 8 PM and had my breakfast around 11 AM on Thursday. Friday morning I felt real stressed out about work, so I had to have breakfast before I started working but then I had cake around 5 PM which was my last meal of the day and didn’t start to eat today before 9:30 AM the next day.
Usually, I don’t do ANYTHING before I had my porridge breakfast but it seems that if I really put my mind onto something and commit to something, somehow it works out – at least for a while – even if my habits were quite the opposite.

Fasting Challenge: Day 3

So let’s see how long this all sticks, especially after the 30 days are over 🙂