As posted on BCB today: I’ve been thinking a lot today, and I can’t come up with anything new to do to help me stay the course. That means that the only course of action is to fall back on the remedial mindset. No click, but I gotta do it. No burst of positive energy. [...]
31Jan10
One more time, again, because I can’t just quit, and I’ll never be done if I don’t get started.
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Posted in Giving up, Starting Again Again
Tagged attitude adjustment, health issues, remedial mindset
Tagged attitude adjustment, health issues, remedial mindset
29Jan10
What to do with a Grumpy Day?
I’m grumpy. Broadband has stopped working at home. I think it’s because I told the telephone woman that I don’t need my name on that line because we don’t use it any more. Well, we don’t use the phone but it’s our broadband line. Oops. The fact that it’s my own fault makes me grumpier. [...]
28Jan10
Positive Thinking
I’m descended, on my father’s side, from a long line of cynics. I’m pretty sure that somewhere I could find a family plaque with the motto, “Don’t get your hopes up.” It’s not that I can’t see that the glass is half-full. I see it – I can even say it. But I’m secretly looking [...]
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Posted in Things to try, Thoughts on the Process
Tagged positive thinking and weight loss
Tagged positive thinking and weight loss
27Jan10
Paying Attention
A mildly depressive personality is the flip side of some great blessings in life. I don’t want to stop being creative or visionary. Therefore, I have to put up with the fact that sometimes my mood will dip below “fed up” and into a place that I’d rather not be. I’m also very very lucky [...]
25Jan10
Two Minds
Well. It turns out that feeling a bit depressed is, in fact, the same as being a bit depressed. What a bizarre day I had yesterday. I spent all day with my brain in two places at once. Sane brain was thinking about all the things I could be doing to take care of myself [...]
24Jan10
Rookie Mistakes
I made a couple yesterday – but I also made a couple of good decisions too. Mistake: I knew I was going out so ate only a little breakfast, thinking that would afford me a relaxing lunch. But then the lunch place didn’t have any soup I loved the look of so I decided to [...]
23Jan10
The Cost of Freedom
Why does it take me so long to get to the point of actually going beyond good intentions to good practice? Why does it take weeks to go from wanting to do the right thing to actually doing it? That’s the same question but it baffles me so much that I wanted to ask it [...]
22Jan10
Day 1 or Just Keeping On?
In life in general I love the idea of new beginnings, blank slates, amnesties, jubilee years – grace and forgiveness . When I decide to give myself one of those in my food/body struggles, it’s hard not to think of it as a whole new beginning. Over on BCB I’ve re-invented myself a few times, [...]
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Posted in Keeping Going, Thoughts on the Process
Tagged diet accountability, goal weight, Last Ten Pounds
Tagged diet accountability, goal weight, Last Ten Pounds
21Jan10
Looking for Motivation
I’m feeling a bit depressed which is not the same as being a bit depressed. I’m just feeling low and needing motivation and energy. I’m getting through my days like a very slow pinball wandering from task to task doing a little at each place but lacking the focus to get down to anything for [...]
20Jan10
Now what?
This year, even the traditional first day of the new year diet didn’t work for me. I skated right past that milestone without so much as a pound lost since then. That is a bad sign…