31*, feels like 23*, 96% humidity, NNE 8 mph wind, Light Snow
This is the last day of my old ways---That's the hope that everyone has every year with their new resolutions. It is my hope as well. Starting tomorrow, things that have passed these lips to find a home on my hips will have to start packing up and going bye-bye. In the living room, waiting future wear and tear are my exercise gear-- the new things I bought, and some old forgotten things that have gathered dust for a little too long. In the closet, backpacking gear waits patiently for the first trails of the year. My bike waits in the shed for warm day riding. I am gearing up for my "eat local" self-challenge, and a year of creatively finding ways to cut costs AND improve my life.
I will leave you with a little song I love.
Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Oh Nuts
38*, feels like 34*, 68% humidity, SE 5 mph wind, fair
Today the healthy habit schedule suggested having a handful of crunchy nuts for a snack. So I replaced a bag of chips or candy with a handful of cashews which is what I had on hand. So from now on, instead of something like chips, I have to reach for the nuts.
I also found another healthy habit calender in a magazine I subscribe to, and since I think this is kind of fun, after this one is completed I will continue on with that one.
At walmart today, I bought an exercise ball and a resistance band. I've wanted them for a long time since I see in all the magazines lots of exorcises that use both these items but I just couldn't justify buying them before. I had 2 1o dollar gift certificates to walmart and I had just enough to cover both items.
This weekend, I am going to have to get all my work out gear together in one place, in view so that I am reminded daily to work out. Also, I need to set time aside for this on a calender of my own and figure out what kind of routine I want. After all, the new year is right around the corner....
Today the healthy habit schedule suggested having a handful of crunchy nuts for a snack. So I replaced a bag of chips or candy with a handful of cashews which is what I had on hand. So from now on, instead of something like chips, I have to reach for the nuts.
I also found another healthy habit calender in a magazine I subscribe to, and since I think this is kind of fun, after this one is completed I will continue on with that one.
At walmart today, I bought an exercise ball and a resistance band. I've wanted them for a long time since I see in all the magazines lots of exorcises that use both these items but I just couldn't justify buying them before. I had 2 1o dollar gift certificates to walmart and I had just enough to cover both items.
This weekend, I am going to have to get all my work out gear together in one place, in view so that I am reminded daily to work out. Also, I need to set time aside for this on a calender of my own and figure out what kind of routine I want. After all, the new year is right around the corner....
Sunday, December 23, 2007
21 days untill a new habit.
19*, feels like 0*, 65% humidity, SW 31 mph wind, light snow, WIND ADVISORY
I've been working on deciding what new years resolutions I would like to make concerning my health and fitness. But I didn't want to go with the old stand by of counting calories for a week and going to the gym for a month before petering out. Part of the reason those methods don't work is that I am incredibly busy all the time and I work too much to want to force myself to sit down and count all calories every minute of the day or to drag my tired body to the gym after a long day's work.
But, I have to admit right now I DO want to gain health and lose weight. These few weeks I have been under an incredible amount of stress, which has led to over eating and eating nothing but JUNK. To top it off, my injuries have made exercising a non-existent thing for the time being. I mean absolutely very little of anything healthy has entered this temple lately. It's becoming a HUGE bad habit that is not helping my HUGE butt at all.
So just as I was trying to figure what kind of resolutions I would make this year I picked up several magazines out of boredom for something to read at work when I saw several articles that made sense and I thought I would try them. They aren't diet plans, but habit plans. The first article lead me to eatbetteramerica.com, a website community devoted to helping Americans to eat better and to encourage us to live healthier lifestyles. Once I registered, it gave me about 4 choices for resolutions. What did I want to accomplish this year? I chose the loose 10 lbs. option. (I have much more to lose then that, but they didn't give me a bigger option. Perhaps that is a good thing though, 10 lbs seems an easier goal.) It gave me a calender of hints to print off. 21 days to a new habit. Each day it tells you to think about something new, or to try something new. OK, I thought. This looks much less intimidating then those diet plans where every meal is planned out for you even though you don't like certain foods and would never really eat or make room in your meager grocery budget for. (After all, I am a busy person and I have no time to cook 3 meals a day plus snacks all day long... who are these people who can follow those plans? Stay at home wives? Come on, get real!) OK, I can do this.
So the other articles that interested me were about these women who lost weight simply by WRITING. Huh? I thought but as I read the articles it made sense. The rules were simple, write 3 pages every day about whatever, how you feel, what you ate and why, anything really. It helped them to realize what they were doing to themselves and to make changes from the things they saw they did not like. So, I'm combining the two things. I'll use the 21 days to a good habit tool and a journal as a way to record my thoughts and feelings along the way. I was so excited about this that I actually started my new me resolution yesterday.
The first day asked me to rate your confidence of achieving my goal. I gave myself an 8. After all, its only 10 lbs. much easier to envision then what I actually have to lose in the end. I wrote quite a bit about that but I don't feel like going over it here since it was yesterday. I have it written in a paper journal.
Today I was asked to identify my eating triggers and to work out a plan to remedy the urge when it hits to eat.
I am both a bored eater and a stress eater. As I said further up, I am definitely under a lot of stress. If I were to list everything I ate last week you would be shocked, and I would be ashamed. So I came up with a plan to help should the trigger situations occur. (See next post)
I've been working on deciding what new years resolutions I would like to make concerning my health and fitness. But I didn't want to go with the old stand by of counting calories for a week and going to the gym for a month before petering out. Part of the reason those methods don't work is that I am incredibly busy all the time and I work too much to want to force myself to sit down and count all calories every minute of the day or to drag my tired body to the gym after a long day's work.
But, I have to admit right now I DO want to gain health and lose weight. These few weeks I have been under an incredible amount of stress, which has led to over eating and eating nothing but JUNK. To top it off, my injuries have made exercising a non-existent thing for the time being. I mean absolutely very little of anything healthy has entered this temple lately. It's becoming a HUGE bad habit that is not helping my HUGE butt at all.
So just as I was trying to figure what kind of resolutions I would make this year I picked up several magazines out of boredom for something to read at work when I saw several articles that made sense and I thought I would try them. They aren't diet plans, but habit plans. The first article lead me to eatbetteramerica.com, a website community devoted to helping Americans to eat better and to encourage us to live healthier lifestyles. Once I registered, it gave me about 4 choices for resolutions. What did I want to accomplish this year? I chose the loose 10 lbs. option. (I have much more to lose then that, but they didn't give me a bigger option. Perhaps that is a good thing though, 10 lbs seems an easier goal.) It gave me a calender of hints to print off. 21 days to a new habit. Each day it tells you to think about something new, or to try something new. OK, I thought. This looks much less intimidating then those diet plans where every meal is planned out for you even though you don't like certain foods and would never really eat or make room in your meager grocery budget for. (After all, I am a busy person and I have no time to cook 3 meals a day plus snacks all day long... who are these people who can follow those plans? Stay at home wives? Come on, get real!) OK, I can do this.
So the other articles that interested me were about these women who lost weight simply by WRITING. Huh? I thought but as I read the articles it made sense. The rules were simple, write 3 pages every day about whatever, how you feel, what you ate and why, anything really. It helped them to realize what they were doing to themselves and to make changes from the things they saw they did not like. So, I'm combining the two things. I'll use the 21 days to a good habit tool and a journal as a way to record my thoughts and feelings along the way. I was so excited about this that I actually started my new me resolution yesterday.
The first day asked me to rate your confidence of achieving my goal. I gave myself an 8. After all, its only 10 lbs. much easier to envision then what I actually have to lose in the end. I wrote quite a bit about that but I don't feel like going over it here since it was yesterday. I have it written in a paper journal.
Today I was asked to identify my eating triggers and to work out a plan to remedy the urge when it hits to eat.
I am both a bored eater and a stress eater. As I said further up, I am definitely under a lot of stress. If I were to list everything I ate last week you would be shocked, and I would be ashamed. So I came up with a plan to help should the trigger situations occur. (See next post)
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