Yo-yo mindset and Vulnerability to external events!
Great advice, you guys!!! I loved the thought and effort you put into my journal the other day and so earnestly tried to help me. I read every word and made notes. You are the best buddies ever!!!! I love my FS friends!!! I always love to rush over here and vent about my goings-on!! My FS friends and FS journal knows my life to the tee--more so than my real life people!!
Anyway, I plan to abide by all your wonderful advice. Starting tomorrow. Yes, you heard right. Not today! I am continuing to do the 4-day long damage still...I can't seem to stop this pattern. Stress-eating out of control, mood despondent, exercise MIA, and to-do list is getting only the clerical stuff off it--the main item is still untouched!!!
This time it is not just the work stuff. I am also stressed and troubled by the stressful situation my little sister (Leesah) is dealing with her newborn baby, Justin..the two of them are fighting so hard and it's so hard to not be able to do anything to help or be there for them.
Besides that rather unusual stressor, I do find myself constantly getting shaken up by externale events, and letting that determine how I feel about what I want to eat or not work out!! for e.g., yesterday, I felt judged for the way I looked by this incident with a person that was reminiscent of all my demons blast from the past!! And the otherwise normal day was thrown off-kilter. I went and had coffee, but sampled 4-5 pieces of bread at Panera, and then 1/2 pizza at subway, and then more goldfish crackers!!!
Anyhow, I want to stop this roller-coaster of eating bad and letting the hard-earned work go to the wayside. This is supposed to be the last two days of my personal training in the gym. And I feel like I am at the brink of losing all the wondrful things i learned there and doing so much damage that it'll be difficult to start the cardio again and hence the tendency to go days without it, and then to have to start from scratch!!! So, no, starting tomorrow, July 1st, I am cleaning up this closet of this junk!!! Physical and emotional junk!!!
I want to challenge myself to 1 month of self-control (week to week check-in, every Tuesday), and avoiding the tendency to use external excuses to self-sabotage!!. For one month, no matter what happens out there, deadlines, failures, sicknesses, sadness, fights, frustrations, disappointments, temptations, poor planning, inadequate sleep, or whatever other excuse I can russle up, MY DIET WILL NOT BE PREY TO IT!!! EXERCISE WILL NOT BE PREY TO IT!!!!!
The new plan: workout daily: 8.30-10.30 weekdays, 10-12: weekends Additional classes: Monday 5.30-6.30 yoga (0r Thurs 12-1) Wednesday: 5.30-6.30: Total body Thursday 12-1: pilates yoga Friday: 12-1: cardio sculpt Saturday: 11-12: spinning
30 mins of hard cardio daily. Tuesday: Lower body Thursday: Upper body Friday: Core
NONNEGOTIABLE!!!
Keeping with Evelyn's positivity idea, I am chanting now that I have a good life and good, surmountable problems. God is giving me only that which I can fight. That is more than I can say for the way others are being tested. So I am lucky and I am going to appreciate that blessing of being given a chance to put my best foot forward!!! I am going to push my mind to work and focus like never before. I am goign to push my body to move daily and push harder like never before. I am going to push my emotions to rise out of every sinking hole they go finding themselves in!!
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GOOD DEAL! Sounds like a plan to me! um....tomorrow's the 30th. Are you sneaking in an extra bad day???
29 jun 09 por membro: BlackButterfly615
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lol! and oops!! Blackbutterfuly, good catch!! I was thinking tomorrow was the 1st! But no sweat, I'll start tomorrow as a pre-test for the new month!
29 jun 09 por membro: 08willbegreat
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Kewel....just remember.... "timeouts are temporary". LOL
29 jun 09 por membro: BlackButterfly615
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Those are some great goals you have listed above. We will always have stresses in our lives with which to deal. They never go away completely it seems. But when we find ways that we can deal with stress WITHOUT overeating, that is the key to success. It's hard to do but that's what we must strive for. We'll still slip every once in a while, but it's okay. GO FOR THE GUSTO, SISTER! I'm rooting for you!
29 jun 09 por membro: mbhpro
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I went back and read your journal and the responses....such good, no, great advice...Evelyn is so precise and eloquent...she's a jewel on this site. I don't think I can add anything but, I will mimick Armyk and say "I have faith in you". Now, STOP SELF SABOTAGING and do this!
29 jun 09 por membro: kimbulie
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Congrats on facing the demons and formulating a new plan of attack. I'm loving the positive affirmations, too. You CAN do this, dear friend. You WILL!!!!
29 jun 09 por membro: evelyn64
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Oh, almost forgot.... WHY THE HECK ARE THERE STILL GOLDFISH CRACKERS WITHIN ARM'S REACH???? Hehehe.... sorry, just had to get that out there!
29 jun 09 por membro: evelyn64
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hey girl, things sound like they have been a little crazy for you lately, nice to see you have a plan of action, now like they have said before me "you can do this". i have faith in you, you have been a great source of support and inspiration for me, so i'm counting on you to reach your goal, oh how proud we will be when we get there! and follow evelyn's advice and ditch the goldfish(haha!) talk to you soon.
30 jun 09 por membro: vf123
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Great plan of attack...very specific and doable. You will do this! Maybe try meditation to feed your emotional hunger...it's working for me.
30 jun 09 por membro: JulieC
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Hehehe... I just thought of something... how about flushing the goldfish (crackers) down the toilet? Hehehe... I know... I'm lame... but I amuse myself!
30 jun 09 por membro: evelyn64
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hahahaha!! that was kinda funny, made more so when I see all these barbs from y'all on my kryptonite! :( ok, ok, no more damn goldfish crackers..or any other...the chips and crackers business is getting out of hand! So, yeah, i'm flushing away..and there go...swimmingly! ;)
30 jun 09 por membro: 08willbegreat
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