Posted in self-care on 12 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
Man, the ideas for self-care are just flowing right now. I’m gonna start a tag for this, and go back to search out my old posts that are relevant.
Why do self-care? Because no one can take care of you like you can. Because it’s the purest form of personal renewal and recovery. Because it feels [...]
Posted in affirmations, positive self-talk, work, tagged good self-care on 12 March 2008 | No Comments »
Good self-care is so much more than a cup of tea or a bubble bath. Today I gave myself good self-care by devoting time to get my computer workstation set up right.
You should read the manual HP wrote on the topic. Very easy to read and gives lots of useful suggestions, whether you’re working on [...]
Posted in affirmations, binging, tagged avoidance on 10 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. - Leo Buscaglia
Sunday morning, I got up and did not feel like swimming. Even the best reminders of how much I [...]
Posted in emotions on 7 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live - Dorothy Thompson
I fear that if I get too good at losing weight, I will convert my binge eating disorder into anorexia.
Posted in affirmations, positive self-talk, tagged INFP, Myers-Briggs on 6 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland
I took a test yesterday. Actually I re-took a test. Several times I’ve taken tests modeled after Myers-Briggs, and mostly I forget what the results were. This time I remember the results from at least the last time [...]
Posted in affirmations, intuitive eating on 5 March 2008 | No Comments »
At every meal, you are serving 2 guests: your body and your soul - Epictetus
Over the weekend I tried a new vegetable: Savoy cabbage. It’s the most beautiful cabbage, with all kinds of little folds. It has a beautiful dark green color, which gets lighter the deeper you go.
I made a casserole, by sauteeing thin [...]
Posted in affirmations on 3 March 2008 | No Comments »
Self-care for today: stop doing something that doesn’t give you the results you want
I’m not recording the data, but I noticed that the scale is moving downwards just as inexplicably as it went up. Over the weekend I ate perfectly normally, including cake and steak on Sunday (not at the same time).
My conclusion is that [...]
Posted in binging, goals, intuitive eating, positive self-talk, tagged weight gain on intuitive eating on 1 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the beginning of February, I decided to do a couple of things:
My plan: do a stomach hunger and lower calorie diet. All foods are still allowed, I’m just going to pay attention to eating less and getting fewer calories overall. Exercise is for fitness, not weight loss. I’ll weigh in once a month and [...]
