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A Year from Now you may wish you Started Today.

-Karen Lamb

One of the many pitfalls when changing your lifestyle is falling back into old bad habits that messed it up in the first place.  It is sickeningly easy for me to have a warped sleep schedule, forget to drink water, make unhealthy food choices, etc. etc.  I still have yet to find a decent exercise schedule.  That is my list of woes. 

I am depressingly at ground zero again.  It only took two months of holidays and a stint of caretaking at the hospital.  There should be a plan B or C when life interrupts plan A.  Last year’s plan A hit the fan.  The plan for this year is similar to last year but better, it will be a success.  It will be different because there are new factors in this year that were not in place of last year.  I won’t go into detail because that would include family matters that should not be part of the website/blog.  It was a decision that has made me comfortable.  I will mention it again.  I believe in limited personal information.  I realize that with this website/blog might be difficult.  How to write about lifestyle change w/o mentioning the life you are living.  This might be a dilemma for other post. 

        

 Two weeks into the first 100 days’ project 2016, I am starting very slow.  The food journal is in effect and I am working on the sleep schedule.  Updates will be weekly because I have to have time for other writing projects and exercise plan.  The mindset is not here yet.  But it will eventually.  I will keep typing it until I make it true.  The project will be success.  I will be happy with my lifestyle and my environment. Like my quote above a year from now I will be glad that I started today or two weeks ago.   In later essays I will be talking about equipment, food journals and plans, time management.  I will also look into other health and wellness sites.  So many people are making the healthy lifestyle change.  I am not the only one.  I am not the only one struggling.   In the next 7 days my mindset and environment will be more positive.  That is the goal for this week.  Become positive.  

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself

you cannot tell it about other people. 

-Virginia Woolf 

The month of November was supposed to be the beginning of the next 100 days project.  I have postponed it until next year. The holidays are the worst time of year to change a lifestyle.  There is so much to do and so much to plan. There is also the feels; emotions runs high, overwhelm people in good and bad ways.   I wanted to be on a better life schedule before the holidays.  It got snagged by the little things and they became bigger things.   I decided it will be better for my wellbeing to be honest about what I want to accomplish with the 100 days project. 

First I want to live heathier and lose weight.  According to information on many health websites and magazines. I am dangerously obese.   I am under 5 feet in height and over 200lbs in weight.  I borderline on hypertension and diabetes.  I have to handle the situation now before it gets worse.  Losing weight is a good start but it is my whole lifestyle that is causing the problem. I hate having to mention all of this on an essay.  Other people have bared all and worst on the internet but I am not that kind of person and I never wanted to be.   I want my online life and real life to work together.  I don’t believe that everything has to be online. Some things need to be forgotten or only remembered by a few.

My life is complicated and unhealthy it is not good for me to continue this way.  I know this and everyone is telling me this.  It can trigger a certain kind of bad habit on my part, I get belligerent.  No has to tell me what is wrong with me when I know and live with it every day. 

Second I am a writer.  I want to complete works of fiction, sell them and live comfortably.  I have always told myself stories.  I decided to be a writer over 25 years ago. I didn’t pursue it because I was often told.  Have something to fall back on.  I was so busy with my day job that I almost lost my way to creativity.  Two years ago, after reading and listening to some great and some really bad works of fiction. I decided to do what I have always wanted to. I want to write and sell fiction. I want to entertain and inspire others to do great things.  I want to be recognized by the world as a writer.  I have gotten positive feedback from some of my work being made public.  So I will do my best to make my brand. 

Third my environment is always in disarray.  It is basically a downer.  I know that the only way it can change is if I change it.  After dealing with familial things I don’t have the energy to make my environment efficient.  I don’t have the motivation to do what has to be done.  It is a super lame excuse but there it is.  That is one of my many ugly truths. 

Last I want to be comfortable in the life that I am living.  I don’t want regrets and I don’t want to feel like all I am doing is existing.  I need 30 days to be make myself glad to be up in the day; another 30 days to follow an exercise regimen; another 30 days to make my environment efficient and 10 days to make a schedule and stick to.  No pressure.