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My morning blink and my takeaways -

- I want to make mediation a habit. I already use this trick with a longer song to get myself focused at the task of hand and *only* listen to that song while working. I never considered doing the same for mediation.

- Forgiving myself for my mistakes (past and current) and being OK with myself is vital

Apple fitness and Oura info - morning 11/7/2023

No particular reason I stopped posting for a while. I continued exercising, then I didn’t, then started again. Same with being mindful of my eating.

I’m still working with a nutritionist. She’s been helping a lot when I keep my mind towards it.

I got engaged! That’s a big deal.

I finally got to go to Harry Potter world at Universal… still conflicted on my feelings towards HP in general but having a vacation was great.

Got my first cold in two years - that’s fun.

I gained weight. I lost weight. Gained some back.

Basically, life.

I do realize that I’m better at sticking to working out if I write about it. I just finished a workout now and it felt great. I love the feeling of working out. I love the feeling I have after I work out. It’s just getting myself there that’s hard.

Had my first meeting yesterday and it went well! Not entirely sure what I was expecting but overall I feel validated. I do know a lot about nutrition and had a lot of things right, I just need to work on portion control (which, not surprising in the slightest).

Hello friends! Work has jumbled up my schedule but I’m trying to fit in posting on tumblr to keep me accountable. I’ve still been exercising and working out and (mostly) eating healthily. Hopefully I’ll start posting more regularly!

I did so much yesterday morning and got an awful headache in the early afternoon to the point where I was seeing double. Glad that I worked hard in the morning so I could relax in the evening. I did a few stretches before bed which felt good.

I've read about this before and even thought about it, but full credit to this Wheezy Waiter video for really hitting it home.

For me, in fitness, are goals worth having?

When discussing his motivation for working out consistently every day, he says he doesn't think about or doesn't have goals. And at first, that seemed completely counterintuitive to everything I was trying to do. Not have goals? How do you keep motivated to work out X amount of times a week? But he likened working out to brushing your teeth. Why do you brush your teeth every day? You probably don't have a mouth cleanliness goal you're trying to reach. You brush your teeth because it's good for you.

I'm not alone in this - I've had goals to lose X amount of weight by some date, or reach a certain goal weight, or work out a certain amount of times a week. I've had real trouble reaching those goals because my focus has been on the end result - i.e., reaching X weight, but not on the process.

I'm in the middle of reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, and it's already helped me so much. He also stresses that we focus too much on goals without developing a system of getting there. So sure, have goals, but make sure you know how you're going to get there. And don't change the process once you do get there.

Another thing from Atomic Habits that has really helped me is switching up your mindset and defining who you are. We rely so much on our current habits to define us, but it really should be the opposite way around. Clear gives the example of someone quitting smoking - instead of saying "I'm trying to quit smoking," say "I'm not a smoker."

And honestly, there's a lot of power in saying "I am this person." I've been trying for ages to become a morning person and wake up early - I've set different alarms, I've moved my alarm to the other side of the room, I've downloaded those alarm apps that make you do a puzzle before shutting off. None of that has worked for me. But switching my mindset from "I want to be a morning person, so I'll try to wake up earlier" to "I am a morning person who gets up early" has been incredibly helpful. It's still early, but I've woken up at 5:45 every week day last week, and the fact that I did it again on Monday, after a weekend of not getting up at 5:45, means I'm definitely on the right path.

I really didn’t wanna. I was tired, I was grumpy, I just wanted to sit down. But I meal prepped lunch for the week and I’m really proud of myself.

A couple weeks ago, I realized I was an adult with adult money so I could easily fulfill my very cheap dream of owning a slip and slide. Boyfriend went and set it up, and we had a blast.