Week Two: day 10

Week in Review 

A year from Now, 

You may wish you started Today.

-Karen Lamb

Attempting to write an essay with a 300+ word count about health, wellness, lifestyle change and the project to carry them out 3x a week is actually too much for me right now.  Instead of working on me and my environment, I agonized over what I am not writing.  Overwhelming myself with information and methods for a better life.  So many people are doing it and so many have their reasons.  They are also successful which might annoy me a little bit.  Even when it had been a struggle for them, they have achieved their goals.  I am stuck in the process or sometimes stuck in the pre-process.  It kills the motivations.  So the plan for the weekend is to keep the enthusiasm and regulate.  What does that mean?  An unhealthy habit that is deeply embedded is lack of sleep.  Part of the change in lifestyle is to maintain the healthier sleep routine.  I may have mentioned it in an earlier post.  Decent hours of sleep continue to elude me.  Experts say 6 0r 8 hours are good for most adults.  However factors like obesity, work schedule and poor choices in general are causing people to lose sleep hours more and more each year.   I get thrown off my sleep schedule on the weekends, once it is ruined, I am messed up for the rest of week.  It takes days to get back to some semblance of normal.  This writer lives on three to four hours of sleep and constant fatigue.  There are poor food choices and lethargy. If analyze correctly one can see how they feed off each other like the cute-eats-cute logo.  Disturbing but still pleasant to look at.

The Week in review, so far it has been meh, slow and uneventful. There was no setbacks but there was also no progress either.  There is a food journal in the works, which will be extended to 3 weeks instead of two weeks recommended.  The idea of food journal has been introduced to me before.   Reasons include just becoming aware of what an individual puts into their mouths.  Another reason is the calorie counter, although we are not using that aspect of the food journal at this time.  The food journal is just a way to see how we handle food in general.  Awareness is part of the battle. Consistency is another part.  Sometime next week I would explain all that is included in the food journal, an honest analysis of what kind of foods I am taking into my body.

The search for a satisfying exercise routine will continue. A suggestion was made that whatever routine chosen it should be something the person likes to do, i.e. if you don’t like to run, don’t put it in your plan.  Having an exercise plan that doesn’t fit the person, is a road for ruin.  It becomes an obstacle, that later kills motivation.  Dancing is very helpful.  However we also have to consider target areas.  Personal obstacle is there is no desire to exercise at all.  This writer is an inside person, last year I tricked myself into walking for a cup of coffee and writing time.  It was the perfect scheme.  Daily exercise with writing time and coffee.  I liked that trick.  I want to continue easing into a positive lifestyle change.  This will also mean that I have to limit my time on certain activities.  This week is not looking forward to the weekend, this is probably due to the fatigue.  Time is precious and efficiency is so important. These are the goals for the next week and weekend.

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Day 6 - TGIF

A year from Now you may wish 

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

Reflections of the week.  There has not been as much change as I would have liked.  Which mean progress has not reached expectation.  Actually I really didn’t have any and that might be where I made my mistake.  There are many factors to being a lifestyle change and well-being.  I tried to analyze some of it but I think I just complained about my issues with it and various stages misconduct.   It is amazes me how a person can write the same thing in 300 word or more and it all sound like the same thing over and over again.  I am trying to change the tone of these entries.  The point is to sound more objective and less subjective. Even when writing about myself.  I am actually tired of writing the world ‘I’.  So starting next week I will do my best to stop.  In this post it will sound like a mix bag.  Some paragraph will be subjective and some objective.  There were all written at the same time.  English teachers and professors across the nation just cringed.  This is no way to write an essay.  TG this isn’t the writing website blog.  This is the health and well-being.    

Over the weekend I will be coming up with daily recipes to try and making a schedule.  So the week can be filled with productivity.  Unfortunately for you few readers, it will be put up here for your view.  With hope and true grit I will be making better decisions on the course of this blog and my lifestyle.  Last year I found some website blogs that have been praised for their content, I will look them up again.  I want to see where I am hitting and missing.  I am glad that I was able to post something for the last 4 days and meet the word challenge.  If anyone is interested you might have to look at old posts.  There should be better references and cites of work.  Which will me a well thought out and prepared post.  Not sure I will be there yet but next week I will do better.

 

What does the 100 days project XX{20} at 100daysvi.blogspot.com mean.  When it was started the founder thought it was an original idea and anticipated followers and more.  Achievement, accomplishment, creativity and support.  A circle of friends and family, encouraging each other to meet their goals within the 100 days deadline.  It did not catch on and maybe that made the founder a little depressed.  She too became unable to reach the various goals she places on herself short term and long term went to the toilet.  She regretted it and refused to give up so now we are at #20, strange enough it could be actually the 21^st  or 30^th.  Four years ago stuff got shaky.  Twenty is a nice round number that the founder believes it is best. Of course the next project will be 21 and this may be mentioned again.  The writer plans to prepare better post so that will not be the case. 

In conclusion this entry is all about what I didn’t do and I didn’t go into detail.  The plan is to not give up and make sure that this week is not repeated.  Moving forward is the short term goal.  Observe experts and steal what you can without being sued.  Or revamp it and make it your own.  Be funny, be happy, be content, be well and ……

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Routine

First Forget inspiration, Habit is more dependable.

Habit will Sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.

-Octavia E. Butler

That quote is from one of my favorite authors.  It had to do with writing but I think it can be applied to lifestyle change.   Especially now, at the beginning of the year many feel the need to make grand changed in our lives.  We make the cliché New Year’s resolutions, the promise that we will change starting with the first day of the New Year.  For some of us it is good, we are a determined and we reach the goal we wish to attain.  For others and I am a part of this group, we are good for a time, but we lose focus, lose track, we burn out.  Then we complain about not being able to accomplish anything.  Forming habits takes time, we don’t see when they happen, changing habit is harder and takes time because we are breaking from what we normally do.  

Today I don’t feel like typing.  Today I doubt the title has anything to do with the words I am going to post up here.  But I am doing it to change myself to making a daily write and posting it up on my health blog.  I should be this good to all my blogs.  The 100 days is lucky enough to be the first getting this treatment.  I wish I could say that I am different, that I am not waiting for an auspicious time. But I am waiting for Sunday, January 11, 2015.  I needed a sustainable, attainable plan.  I couldn’t just wake up at 5:00 am in the morning and decided to exercise and eat differently.  I could but eventually I would stop. I would go back to habits and be happy I was there.   This may have been written before but this week is a prep week.  I look over the meal plans, exercise routines and other healthy advice and figure out where they will fit into my life.  Some small changes are great but it will take time before they can be applied to my real life.  Some changes will seem odd but fit with my modified lifestyle.  For example, I would rather drink oatmeal than eat it.  In this day and age that may not seem as strange as it once did to me six years ago.  Before the smoothie became such a thing and health alternative.

I think for this blog I will add a temporary deadline.  From now on and next week I will attempt to have a post in by 10:00am, Eastern Standard Time.  I think this will help me with writing and help me form a working habit.  I will also be looking at subjects to write about. So each post won’t be about intangible things hopes, dreams and plans.