Thank you for posting the Week 4 Journal in my absence, Laura!
I am disappointed in how I did with food and exercise during my trip to Ohio, but it's not like I went hog wild or anything. I just didn't exercise as I had planned and I didn't make as many good, better, best choices when eating out as I had expected.
We'll see what the damage is in the a.m. when I have my first post-Ohio-trip weigh-in.
I got another chapter and a half of Beck and a good bit more of The Secret read while I was gone and both are very motivating (and very similar in some respects).
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
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i will hold onto that spark. what a wonderful way to keep things in perspective. thank you.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
I've had more days like that than I can remember. All I can say is we all have days when everything just unravels. We all taste the dirt floor sometimes. Some of us know the texture of that floor quite well by now.
One of my best friends, who died this past February, told me shortly before her death, "Hold on to that spark, because this world is still a pretty cool place." She was a charismatic, sparkling person who knew the dirt floor better than many people do.
Don't beat yourself up. Tomorrow IS a new day. The very next minute is a brand new minute. All your own.
****************** “The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.”
Isabel - I justed posted off board to Sandy that despite all these wonderful tools that we've been provided from various sources, that it's hard to undo a lifetime of unhealthy habits in one summer.
We are all bound to have bad days/weekends but the important thing is getting back on track as quickly as possible and it sounds like you are doing just that.
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
puck, i loved reading your words. i can feel your kickbutt attitude. soldier on!!!
i had an awful eating weekend. it was like a slow unravel (or should i say--a slow flushing of the toilet?) i was back to mindless eating. i was obsessing and purposely chosing overly rich foods. so many bad habits resurfaced. i felt like such a failure this morning. i know, in the big scheme of things, i need to get over it and move on. i guess, with the Beck activities i was doing, and feeling the extra room in my pants and feeling so great...this just took me by surprise (like a slap in the face). just when i thought i was beyond this point...there i go into the downward spiral. the good thing is that i never went back to how i was in 2003 and 2004. ok, so i can give myself credit for that. the other thing i am trying to keep in mind is that i feel like i have 300 more tools to work with now, to get back on track , to really get to the root of what happened to me this weekend. i think overall, i was feeling a general imbalance in my life, an unsettling feeling for several reasons, and i went for the most comforting thing i knew--F-O-O-D! AHHH! so this morning, i have been struggling to pick up my face off the dirt floor (metaphor), find optimistism wherever i can (i ain't discriminatory--i looked to the Bible, to buddhism, to hunduism, to Beck, to Oprah..i was a cardcarrying SEEKER this morning, yes ma'am!) so i am trying to get my mo-jo and goove thang back. i am not that hungry since i totally over-fed myself for 2 days, so no snacks for me today. just 3 healthy square meals. i am also saying to myself "if a friend came to you with the same problem, what advice would you give this friend?" that is the same advice i need to follow for myself. i know i would be way more gentler and compassinate with the friend than i am with myself. ok, sorry for the extended ranting. keeping myself in motion...iz
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
I think I'm starting this week out on a very positive note. I sometimes do really well on weekends, sometimes I don't. This weekend has been really, really clean.
Plus I am really feeling like I've done a good job of learning my new habits. I've still got some work to do, but I've had lots of "tests" to try out what I've learned from the Beck book.
I'm not used to feeling like I'm really going to succeed in breaking out of these habits and get out of this spot where I've been stuck for much of the year.
Life is like a roller coaster, with lots of ups and downs, but the curves, spirals, loops and corkscrews are what make life interesting.
