So, I started this little personal project, kinda called it “weather weight” in my head. It wasn’t anything super scientific, more just curiosity. I kept noticing how different weather seemed to make me feel physically, you know? Sometimes heavy and slow, other times light and bouncy. I wondered if it was real or just me imagining things.
Getting Started
I figured the only way to know was to track it somehow. Didn’t want to get complicated with apps or spreadsheets right away. Too much setup. So, I just grabbed an old notebook and a pen, kept it simple. Placed it right by my coffee maker so I’d see it every morning.
The Daily Grind
My process was pretty basic. Each morning, while waiting for the coffee to brew, I’d spend maybe two minutes jotting stuff down:
- The Weather: Just a quick look outside or a glance at the phone. Was it sunny, cloudy, raining, foggy? Hot, cold, humid? I wasn’t recording exact numbers, just the general vibe.
- How I Felt: This was the main thing. Did I feel energetic or sluggish? Did my body feel ‘heavy’ or ‘light’? I tried to put a word or two down, sometimes a simple 1-to-5 scale for energy.
- Actual Weight (Sometimes): If I remembered and felt like it, I’d step on the scale and note that down too. But I wasn’t strict about this part.
Sticking With It (Mostly)
I tried to do this every day for about a month. Honestly, I missed some days. Life happens, right? Sometimes I’d forget, other times I just wasn’t feeling it. And describing the ‘feeling’ was harder than I thought. ‘Heavy’ could mean tired, or it could mean my joints felt stiff. I just wrote down whatever came to mind first.
What I Found Out
After a few weeks, I flipped back through the notebook. It wasn’t a perfect correlation, not by a long shot. There were sunny days I felt like crud, and gloomy days I felt surprisingly good. Humans are weird, I guess.
But, there was a bit of a pattern. Those really damp, humid days? Yeah, those often lined up with entries where I wrote ‘heavy’, ‘slow’, ‘sluggish’. It felt like moving through thicker air. On the flip side, those bright, cool, crisp autumn days? Those often had ‘energetic’, ‘light’, ‘good’ written next to them.
The number on the scale didn’t seem directly tied to the daily weather in any obvious way I could see from my notes. Maybe tiny fluctuations, but nothing dramatic that screamed ‘weather effect’. So, the “weight” part of my little project name ended up being much more about the feeling of weight or drag, rather than actual pounds or kilos.
Wrapping Up
So, that was my little experiment with “weather weight”. It was interesting to pay attention to my body and the environment like that. Confirmed some suspicions, mainly that humidity really does seem to drag me down personally. It wasn’t groundbreaking science, just a personal observation exercise. I still have the notebook, might keep adding to it now and then when I feel a particularly strong ‘weather weight’ day. It’s kinda neat to have that little record.