Quote From: missy77Wow! I congratulate you on doing everything that you are doing. You seem pretty in check with everything. I've been giving myself excuses all week long, too tiered, homework, plannig my day for the kids (daycare) cook, clean, the dog, see, all excuses that shouldn't stop me but I'm letting it!
I gotta get off my ass and start something, I just can't seem to go at it. 1 week before (periods) I'm a total nut and crave surgar and just can't stop, it drives me crazy!!!!! but as soon it's over I'm this totaly devoted person and into it! I can't seem to find the middle! and it's driving me bananas!!
Keep up the good work! maybe some of your dedication will rub off on me! lol
Missy, one of the reasons I'm able to do this is because I've learned to step back and figure out what's going on within me. When I chose to do this self-challenge, I decided it back in September -- like 3 weeks ago. Every day, I would look at the exercise class schedule -- I had highlighted those classes I wanted to take. I allowed myself to listen to myself ... then write it down and then take one by one and work them out.
Your excuses is just your tapes going off ... have you ever learned any cognitive behavioral changes? It's not hard to learn ... in fact, I do it automatically now ... it's why I'm able to move forward without too much thought.
Oh yeah, you said you hate writing ... it's harder to do this when you don't journal or like writing ... for me, it's all about giving myself the gift of doing for me.
And it's the sugar that probably did you end. I know that I had to do a lot of reading articles, listening to health briefs on the news, reading books to finally start to pull together a plan to do differently. It's just a habit that you have adopted. I too had the same habit.
I still do, when I get tired, I want candy / sugar for energy -- however, I saw that within an hour, I was crashing. Now when I turn to candy / sugar / caffeine, I get sick.
Take care.
