Mind Over Scale

1. Talk to someone: Sharing how we feel helps to reduce the inner tension (but make sure it is someone who cares about your feelings).

2. Work on improving your self-esteem: Self-esteem is the way you see and feel about yourself … and there are lots of lots of things that undermine our self esteem. For example, experiencing a break up, putting on unwanted weight, doing badly on a test or being excluded by our friends. It’s important that we keep on working on our self-esteem by treating ourselves well and noticing when we succeed (instead of noticing the negatives).

3. Manage your stress levels: If we’re always feelings stressed then it’s hard to cope with life. We tend to over react and have a negative mind set … which drains us of our energy and saps our will to fight. So take a look at your lifestyle and see what you can drop. You may be doing too much, and don’t have time to relax.

4. Make the time and effort to enjoy yourself: Doing things that we enjoy helps to improve the way we feel. So build in little things like having coffee with a friend, or going to a game, or taking time to watch some sports.

5. Choose a healthy life style: Pay attention to your diet and how much you exercise; try to limit alcohol, and don’t deprive yourself of sleep.

Yeah nah. There is definitely a right time.

Start when you feel emotionally and mentally ready

Start when you’re getting sleep. When your stress levels are low. When you can afford to focus.

EVERY time I have experienced success it was because I was ready. Because my life was stable. Because I was getting sleep and felt secure/routine in my work life.

Losing weight is HARD. It requires physical and emotional energy because there will always be hard days - which I think is what this saying is SUPPOSED to be about.

I got into an extended funk earlier this month.  Appointment with neuro was less than helpful.  I just stopped doing much of anything; I went to work, came home, ate ALL of the wrong things, and just stewed in not caring/feeling sorry for myself/why this or that land.  

But I’m trying again. Two days is not much, but it’s a start, ahem, again…).  Back at the gym, planning again.  Avoiding (mostly) the munchies.  By the way it is far easier to not munch throughout the day while at work.  It’s that sitting on the couch before I go to bed time that’s the trouble.  It’s hard to get myself motivated to do other things after work.  I’m cheap, I’m just this side of sort of lazy, and another meeting with the floor this week has told me that perhaps walking the trails at the park alone isn’t very smart (though I did just that Friday with no issues—I’m hard headed at times.  What can I say?  Anyway.)

I want to just LOVE working out already.  Wake up geared up for that 30 min workout. Crave weight lifting.  Really want to just get out there and do that Cardio.  I love the feeling I have after I work out, but THAT’S AFTER I WORK OUT.  I have to get to the working out first.  I almost, I mean almost, talked myself into not going to the gym this morning.  Almost.  Reset my alarm clock and everything.  I laid back down, but then something just told me to get my butt up.  Day TWO. I was glad I did it.  But after I got home from the gym.   I wish convincing yourself to go to the gym counted as a workout… man.  I wish that wishes and dreams (without much action, you understand) would get me closer to cute.  SMH.  

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