jayne

I am realising how out of balance my life has become. Not just my eating, but everything else that I do. I seem to just have a habit of being ‘busy’ all the time.  And I don’t really make time for myself just to have fun or enjoy myself. I work and thats about it. I’ve been in a rut and I’m climbing out for good this time.

I remember once doing a writtten exercise where there was a wheel with six spokes, and I had to rate where I was on that spoke out of 10. The idea was to try and get the different areas back into balance so the wheels can turn smoothly and the journey of life is less bumpy. The spokes were:

• health
• spiritual
• financial
• relationships
• career
• hobbies

 Right now if I had to rate them they would all be about a 4 out of 10…..

So to try and get some balance back in my life I am drawing up a loose timetable for each day so I can set aside time to work on each area.

My goals for this weeks balancing act:

• less time online

• exercise 30 minutes every day

• relaxation exercise 30 minutes every day

• shop for healthy food

• phone a friend and arrange lunch out to catch up

• organise my desk ready for studying

• spend an hour in the garden this weekend

• declutter my lounge room and clean my desk
• go through my bills and write up a new budget

I’m going to try and set weekly Balancing Act goals and check off my progress.

Hi everyone, I’m back and ready to get back into losing weight and gettting fit! I needed a few weeks break to deal with a really stressful situation and now I’m ready to get back on track again.

I haven’t weighed myself yet, I’m going to weigh in on the weekend. I also want to get back onto the treadmill. It really helps me to sleep better and feel more in control somehow when I am exercising every day.

I have booked in to see a doctor who specialises in treating thyroid conditions. I was diagnosed with Hashimotos thyroiditis last year after a very stressful year of caring for my mum who has Alzheimers. She is in a nursing home now.

Even though I have improved a bit on the medication and my pathology results show the right thyroid levels I still feel unwell a lot of the time. And I still only sleep 4-6 hours a night which leaves me feeling pretty crappy.

 Anyway I found out about this dr on this website: Thyroid Disease Information and I am really looking forward to seeing her and getting myself checked out thoroughly. I know I have to reduce the stress levels and I am considering all my options regarding work. But I actually love my job and the nature of the work (counselling/ psych) is that it will be stressful.

So my life makeover begins again. I am so glad to be back here If there are any others out there with thyroid problems I’d love to hear from you.

Oh and I found out that Hot Rods are now Diamonds!  So i’m looking forward to getting back into the team challenges.

I had such a good time while I was gone! Someone I used to work with about 25 years ago was also at the seminar and omigod!! did we relive our younger days!! We had a real hoot just reminiscing about some of the very funny things that happened to us years ago during our nurses training. Honestly, we were crying just with laughter both nights when we went out for dinner, mind you the couple of wines probably helped!

So I think it did me good to just get away for a few days and unwind.

I went pretty good with the food. I had bacon eggs and tomato for breakfast; Cheese, salad, nuts and fruit for lunch & snacks and steak and steamed veggies for dinner. The wine was a treat.. I didn’t do any yoga or exercise but I think I needed the extra sleep really. 

I have returned feeling refreshed and ready for my weigh in tommorrow morning. I only have to lose a pound to reach my mini goal and then I will get a good haircut and colour as my first reward. I’m going to read a few blogs and then I’m off to bed early.

I didn’t lose any weight this week but I did lose 2″ which I am really happy about. TOM arrived and I always gain weight then so the fact the scales stayed the same means I will probably have a BIG loss next week.

 I have really improved my eating. I am bascially sticking to the 3 meals, 2 snacks. I haven’t skimped on portions because I don’t want to feel really hungry and then binge.

I ate in the car one day this week. I have decided that was the last time. I just have to rule out eating in the car completely.

I have made more of an effort with my appearance. It is so easy to drop into thinking Why Bother? so  I am making time in the mornings to spruce myself up a bit.

  This forum is wonderful! I only wish I had more time to post, read and send messages to people. I really appreciate the messages I have had. Thankyou, they help.

I am off to do some relaxation exercises and then some writing  for my emotional eating journal. I am finally

HOME ALONE !

I feel so motivated by this forum! Yesterday I shopped for food, made sure I had everything I need to stay on my plan. I’m going to use Southbeach. I need to be low carb and I did southbeach once before and got a really good result. As soon as I added non-vegie carbs I just stacked the weight on.

So my plan for this week is:

• drink only water or herbal tea
• 3 meals & 2 snacks each day
• 20 minutes on treadmill daily
• NO eating in the car!
• keep a food diary
• work on my emotional eating diary

When I reach my mini goal of 190 lbs I am going to get my hair streaked. I have become such a frump!  How did it happen? I used to take a lot of care with my appearance, but gradually I have fallen into the habit of doing the minimum, looking OK but not really making a huge effort.

I am tired of my wardrobe of shirts that I can wear as jackets over t shirts, to try and hide my fat arms and my chubby belly! And I won’t even mention the structurally engineered style bras that I wear!

so I need a whole makeover really.

 It’s time to put myself, and my health first for a change.

Have a great day everyone!