How many times can I start over?

Well since this is my blog, I can do what I want...ie, start over 36 1/3 times if I really want to.  So once more into the breach...I think that starting tomorrow (because it's late at night) I will cut down sweets for the next 20 days.  So the goal will be to have less sweets, not no sweets, because it doesn't seem to work to go cold turkey.  However something needs to be done, because I think I may have put on a little weight, and so that means I've been eating way too many sweets. 

So no more than 1 of the following each day - a day being from wake up to sleepy time again.  And nothing after 10 pm at all.  So 1 of the following each day, 1 ice cream novelty (ie drumstick, or klondike bar), 1 small glass bowl of ice cream (about a handful size), or 1 regular size candy bar. 

I think this is an attainable goal that I can work with, and then we will see where we go from there.  wally out!

20 Days Project 3.0



Mar '09



Well here we are restarting (and by we, I mean me - and whoever in the heck is reading this)!!!  I have lost a total of 55 lbs since winter two years ago, so just a couple of months over two years.  I've started by brushing my teeth at night, and now it's time to choose the next goal.  When I stopped the last time it was because for some reason I couldn't get into the habit of writing.  I was too scared of failing, so I quit instead. 



OK - So if you look at my pictures there on the right you can see the difference between the 55lbs.  It might be a little hard to see because the sizes are the same, but I can see a slimmer face, and a smaller upper half.  Well, well, well...what should I do for my next 20 Days Project - I'm thinking NO Candy - NO Fruit Snacks - 

April '12

NO Ice Cream for 20 Days + Write 15 Minutes each day for 20 Days!  Starting tomorrow.  Peace and I'm out of here!!! YO!!

To Start Again!

Okay - so it's a new year, and it's time to restart my goals.  I've pretty much switched over to diet pop.  I don't miss the regular stuff that much.  Diet Cherry Coke is probably the best tasting.  Cherry Coke Zero doesn't taste as good, which is hard to understand.  Both have no calories, no fat, no...nothing.  Just sodium.  So how can a difference between 30mg and 40mg of sodium equal such a difference in taste.  Coming in second would be Dr. Pepper Cherry Diet.  It might be up there with Diet Cherry Coke.  Oh, and then there is Mt. Dew diet.  It's up there.  Okay so basically we have Diet Mt. Dew, Diet Cherry Coke, and Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry as the best and then Cherry Coke Zero sucks.  But every once and a while, I gotta have me some Cherry Pepsi.  I wish that Pepsi still made Lemon Pepsi, or Pepsi Twist.  I'm positive that a Diet Lemon Pepsi would taste goooooooood! 

On that note, I'll say goodnight.  walt

Restart?

Well today I got a call from my WebMD Health Coach and during the checkup I commited to go pop-free again for a month.  Until November 3rd.  Hopefully I lose weight through it.  We'll see.

Starting Over

Okay I'm going to have to face it that I've totally given up since my last post about a month ago. I haven't really done any of my goals/habits - except maybe I've brushed my teeth a couple of times at night. When I gave up my writing goal - I gave up on all. I tried to just move onto the next goal, but I wasn't trying very hard. So I've been coasting the past couple of weeks, and not falling all the way back into the way it was before, but almost.

I'm insured through Blue Cross (of Minnesota for some reason - probably because that's where SuperValu comes from) and they have a Wellness program. I get a discount each week if I participate in the probgram and so I do. Well, I got an introductory call today and I talked about how I'd had some goals up until the beginning of March etc. So I decided (with some help from the Wellness coach) to begin again on my goals, and at least with relation to the Wellness program, to focus on weight loss. So I need some way to keep up the pressure on these weight goals even if a goal in another area slips.

I think that I'll divide my goals in four areas. In Luke 2:52 it is talking about Jesus adolescence between the time when he was twelve and talked with the doctors in the temple and by the time that he was thirty-three and started his ministry.

"And Jesus increased in Wisdom and Stature, and in Favor with God and man." or you could split the last and in "Favor with God" and "Favor with Man". So there are the four areas Wisdom = Mental, Stature = Physical, Favor with God = Spiritual, and Favor with Man = Social.

So for now I'll get those physical goals that I had before, up and running again and then I'll add 1 goal from each area after 20 days. So for the next 20 days it'll be back to the basics. Brush at night, no candy, no pop, no picking + I will restart writing 30 minutes each day. That will be my Mental goal that I'll start today as well. I'm going to do this, because I wish to be in a writing class/conference this summer and I need to get into the habit of writing each day as soon as I can.

Another reason that I'm starting over, is because I want to feel better. I feel like I'm under a lot of pressure right now. I've been floating a loan of several hundred dollars since December, and I still need to finish my business files from 2008 to do my 2008 taxes, so that I can then do my 2009 business & taxes. Then I'll get back a bunch of money, but there seems to be so much that I need to do. It's pretty overwhelming sometimes. I try to break it up into parts...like okay today I'll do this folder of stuff etc.

I also need that money to get back up on the correct level of medication that I need to be taking. At the beginning of the year, I had to reach my deductible again. So I cut way down on the meds I was taking, and stretch out others, and took older ones that I had from earlier in the year.

okay - enough for now. walt