Goal Check-in Sept 23

Anybody want some goals? My semi-monthly goals have been hardly used this month. Instead I did great work on portion control and experienced new levels of satisfaction and peace with food.

Yesterday I noticed that I ate more than I’ve been eating recently, but didn’t have any particular reason to do so.  Today I’m back to normal, actually got that way last night, and I’m glad.

When I noticed that I was active, but wasn’t having any fun, I realized that must change. For the rest of the day I specifically chose to stop and enjoy whatever I was doing. It changed my day, and my eating habits.

Today I enjoyed my aquajogging in a different way. I’m starting to build some habits, and the first 20 minutes or so has a nice pattern. At each side of the first laps, I do 25 water jumping jacks. There are 2 types of jumping jacks I do, and I do 100 of each type with a lap after each set of 25.  Then I have some freeform and go til I’m done.

Today I pushed hard for power, really exercising my muscles. In order to clear my brain about a work problem I currently have, I said, “enough is enough” and focused on my muscles. It worked.

My positives:

1. I’m proud of the energy I expended to build strength today
2. It’s good to learn how to break back into conscious eating
3. I’m getting my house in shape
4. Some chores are becoming second-nature
5. My ability to separate work concerns from everyday life is increasing