Posted in intuitive eating, positive self-talk on 29 June 2007 | No Comments »
We’ve merged into a phase of “micro-days.” My daughter has a cycle of 2-3 hours in which the same pattern repeats:
feel pain
take medicine as available
check temperature
try to eat and drink something
try to get comfortable
doze off for 5-30 minutes
wake up
About 4:30 this morning, I woke up with my typical feeling: like I’d slept not at all, [...]
Posted in exercise, positive self-talk on 28 June 2007 | No Comments »
Still working on family illness and trying to keep up with work. Thankfully DH is an angel who understands that we both need time alone away from the sick room. This morning I went into work and he’ll go in this afternoon. Tonight I get to go out with a friend while he will be [...]
Posted in positive self-talk, work on 26 June 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday’s objective was to keep choosing to be satisfied, since I was essentially overwhelmed trying to do normal stuff and take care of my daughter as well. Poor thing has mononucleosis, so she’s really suffering right now.
In general, I fulfilled this objective quite well. “I’m satisfied with my satisfaction objective.” LOL
I took care of the [...]
Posted in positive self-talk on 25 June 2007 | No Comments »
My mission is to adapt my Thinking, Activity and Eating habits to permanently change to a moderate range of Emotional, Physical and Social behaviors.
One of the primary dissatisfiers in my life is that I am frequently not satisfied. Not satisfied with:
how much I ate or didn’t eat
the outcome of what just happened (whatever it was)
my [...]
Posted in goals, positive self-talk on 24 June 2007 | No Comments »
Mission statements, at their best, give me motivation and lead me to clear goals. At their worst, they make me cynical (e.g. pretty much any of the stinkin’ mission statements from my last 3 companies)
So I’m building a mission statement for my recovery that will motivate me.
Here’s today’s draft:
My mission is to adapt my Thinking, [...]
Posted in positive self-talk on 23 June 2007 | No Comments »
In Trisha Gura’s book, Lying in Weight, she quotes Cynthia Bulik, a leading investigator of eating disorders:
Genes load the gun; environment pulls the trigger
Powerful words, and certainly seem to be true. Not everyone with a genetic background of ED gets one, nor does everyone in an ED-”friendly” environment.
Trisha also writes:
Those without an eating disorder ask, [...]
Posted in jon stewart and stephen colbert, weight loss and diets on 22 June 2007 | No Comments »
Unbelievably hilarious!
The part about Alli is at the end. See also Alli’s website.
The link to the Stephen Colbert video is Alli video. It expires on July 20, so don’t be worried if it’s suddenly gone.
(I’m still learning how to embed videos on wordpress.com)
Posted in exercise, positive self-talk on 21 June 2007 | No Comments »
I won! I won! I won!
The only physical activity I won in my life were spelling bees in elementary school, in which we had to write the correctly spelled word up on the chalkboard. Last night, at 48 years old, I added another physical activity win: aquajogging.
So maybe it wasn’t actually a competition, ok I’ll [...]
Posted in positive self-talk on 20 June 2007 | No Comments »
It happened twice today. People noticed my new haircut, and asked about it. But it’s not new. I haven’t had my hair cut in over 8 months. I’m not even styling it differently.
One comment: “You’re looking very fresh,” on a day in which I had not washed my hair at all. (Give the poor guy [...]
Posted in affirmations, positive self-talk, weight loss and diets on 19 June 2007 | No Comments »
Well, it looks as if there may be a kilo and a half loss after about 10 days at this “getting off the sofa” effort. I use the words “may be” because 1.5 kilo is well within the range that my body can normally vary, so only time will tell if it stays off.
But the [...]
