Category: Dec17

Starting Early

Ever since I posted the other day I have been feeling low.  I really need to get started on this journey rather than waiting.

Annual goals for 2018:

  • Get healthy: mentally and physically
  • Have a healthy work / life balance
  • Spend more time with family
  • Follow my dreams – eliminate all things I don’t enjoy or causes unnecessary stress
  • Have ME time

Being overweight is no fun. I have aches and pains I shouldn’t. My knees hurt constantly. I get tired, I can’t be bothered to do anything and I am so irritable. I don’t want to leave the house or do anything with anyone. Just horrible to be with.  I weighed myself and that was a bit of a shock.  I am now the heaviest I have ever been.

I have been researching how much water I should be drinking as this is the first thing I would like to get sorted. So the advice I am going to follow is:

Take your weight in pounds and divide by 2. This number is the amount of ounces you should be drinking daily.

In my case I currently weigh 261 lbs so this equates to 130.5 oz or 3.7 litres. This is a lot more than the 2 litres recommended. I think (hope) being properly hydrated will really help me get on the right track.  I have measured it using my normal drinking glass and it is 13 and a third glasses a day.  Of course other liquids would contribute towards that too but i am just going to concentrate on water for now.

D247FA9B-C12B-4C50-86D5-8109953895D1261 lbs shocked me but I am not surprised as I don’t feel well so another reason for just getting started right away.  Here is a simulation of what that looks like – certainly nothing I am proud of – but I am in control of changing this.

 

 

 

 

The other couple of habits are to do with my mental health.

  • Open my post and personal emails everyday.    This may not sound like much but the post can build up and then I get an illogical fear of getting behind and thinking that there is something terrible in the post.  It is not logical, I know that but the fear becomes real to the point I shake opening it. So I would rather avoid this altogether by keeping on top.
  • De-clutter the kitchen drawers.   Too much stuff can also get on top of me and I do have a tendency to hoard things I know longer need.  This year I would like to clear the house and make space so every week i will do something to improve this situation.

Preparation

When starting something new there needs to be time for preparation before launching in.  Tools need to be in place, plans written up and short and long term goals set.  That is what I would do at work if i was starting a new project so I am going to treat this in exactly the same way and perhaps I will be more successful.  Mental preparation – 10 days to get my head round this and get ready.

I have a bad habit of being too ambitious and I need to carefully take this into account as this could lead to failure.

I am going to try to concentrate on one or two things every week and build on that.  For this I have downloaded free planners from Productiveflourishing.com. Perhaps this is a little over the top but this is how I achieve professionally so we will see how it goes.

Firstly, I am going to try and enjoy Christmas and New Year celebrations and get the plan written.

Start date Thursday 4th of January 2018.