Middle
age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will
get you home earlier.
Well
it may be Monday morning but I couldn’t slept a bit longer this morning I have
to admit, I knew I should’ve gone to bed really early last night, but I waited
till a ‘reasonable’ time! Hey Ho, shall
rectify that tonight.
Well
I’m hoping for a weight loss this morning because I have stayed on track all
week, I’ve used every ProPoint going I admit, I did laugh last night when I
realised I’d still gone my pedometer on in bed, that’s cheating, you can’t earn
extra for turning over in bed! I did
earn plenty though by walking the dog, managed one run this week and also doing
housework. Yesterday I was going to do
another run but instead I cleaned my living room and hall, stairs & landing
and did my ironing, finished the day with 5pp on my pedometer, not quite as
many as I’d have earned doing a run but way more productive and now downstairs
in my house is lovely and tidy. Upstairs
can wait till next week or maybe I’ll get a spurt of energy later today!
I
may have already mentioned this, but hey I’m middle-aged I’ve started repeating
myself ;-) I was chatting with my mate the other day about how I was struggling
to stay on track, to do an entire week without tripping up or sabotaging myself
and we chatted and she pointed out that lots of things had changed in my life
over the last year and I was working them out.
In her words, “when lifes hard, weight loss is hard”. How true is that statement, yet my life hasn’t
dramatically changed since Wednesday when we had that conversation but what has
changed are my thoughts. I’ve
acknowledged the changes, I’ve acknowledged that I’ve not got the control over
my life I have had and I’ve accepted the challenge, this week has been much
easier because of that.
I’ve
also put in place changes to help me with that, I’ve tweaked a few things, I’ve
looked at what was causing me to not make it to the end of the day and it’s
working. I’ve stopped being my biggest
saboteur and started being my biggest supporter – I better lose weight today!
Still
of course loving the Olympics, I didn’t watch the 100m last night, was too
tired went to bed, just catching up on iplayer, I did however watch the women’s
marathon which was brilliant especially as you would expect towards the end,
weight loss is more a marathon than a sprint isn’t it!
I
love a bit of self help personally, I don’t believe weight problems are only
about food, there are so many different factors that come into the equation and
I am constantly looking inside to try and work out what makes me tick,
obviously not on a daily basis but when I do see my weight going up, I try to
work out what is going on in my life that may be contributing towards
that. Sometimes it may just be that I’m
enjoying life a little too much (if that’s possible) and having numerous good
times. I found an interesting read this week
on this website http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/docs/SelfHelpCourse.pdf
It’s an interesting read; I particularly like the Fact or Opinion
section on page 33, which explains that at stressful times, we tend to be
driven by our emotions and opinions, which create a vicious cycle by fuelling
each other. Our emotions strengthen our opinions, which in turn, intensify our
emotions.
This leads to impulsive acts and unhelpful longer term
consequences, which help to maintain the overall problem.
It can therefore be helpful to ask ourselves whether what we’re
thinking is FACT or OPINION.
- If it’s a fact, then we can make choices about what we can or
cannot do.
-If it’s an opinion, then we can look at the facts – what we do know
about the situation.
I
shall take this on board for sure because I know that one of the situations
that has influenced my eating/drinking habits over the past month has been the
situation with my mom not being well, because I couldn’t control that situation
and MAKE her better, I’ve used food/drink as a distraction, realising this,
acknowledging the situation and then working on how best to deal with it, is
much more productive than stressing myself out because I can’t find a way to
make her feel better!
There
you go, something for you to think about today, what in your might be interfering
with your weight loss efforts? What can you do to change that or at least to
understand it.
Ooo
that’s a bit much to take in on a Monday morning isn’t it, maybe come back to
it later in the week ;-)
Have
a fabulous day, I plan too, when I wake up properly!
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