Goals in the New Year
Friday, December 29, 2006
I was watching the news this morning as I was getting ready for work and the newsman was talking about the number one resolution for the new year. Can you guess what it was? It was to loose weight. I of course said "Yep" Me too, Me Too...
That's my number one goal right now. So, today while working and running around taking care of other peoples "Bull shit". I've been thinking to myself what do I need to do to be successful at my goal for loosing weight. I began to think what things I need to change in my life to make this happen. I know that I eat completely wrong and need to change this habit. I know that I don't get nearly the proper amount of exercise or activity each day. I know that I don't put a priority on my health. I know that I don't get the proper amount of sleep. I tend to burn the candle on both ends and my over all health suffers. I drink too much coffee. I don't put any priority into activities that would benefit my health, like walking, jogging, biking, hiking, backpacking, and the like. These things I really like doing too. I use the pretext that I have no one to do these things with and I don't have time. I mean here I live in one of the most beautiful places in the United States and it has the best weather of all places year around and I can't seem to get my fat ass out and do them.
I'm just trying to figure out a way to jump start myself into a healthy lifestyle. Of course this means that I have to CHANGE things that are ingrained into my life style that will be hard to overcome. My "Habits" that are keeping me from moving towards my goals, need to become old "habits" and new "healthy" ones need to take their place. It will be a hard battle to conquer all of these bad habits at once, but I believe the keys is to figure out which one will be the best one to change first and than figure out which will be the next best one and then, etc...
I've been thinking about how I should start to implementing rules into my eating habits that will help me change the bad habits and make some good new ones. For example: Don't eat after 6 pm, I tell myself this all of the time... But do I do it? Of course not... I find myself working up until 6pm and I still haven't eaten lunch... SO, of course I'm starving and I go and eat lunch and dinner. Well, not really lunch and dinner, but a large meal none the less. I've left a large gap in my day without eating, especially while I'm working. I think, if I am able to eat at the same time everyday with the right amounts of food, I'll be feeling better and perhaps start to loose some of this weight.
I was watching the news this morning as I was getting ready for work and the newsman was talking about the number one resolution for the new year. Can you guess what it was? It was to loose weight. I of course said "Yep" Me too, Me Too...
That's my number one goal right now. So, today while working and running around taking care of other peoples "Bull shit". I've been thinking to myself what do I need to do to be successful at my goal for loosing weight. I began to think what things I need to change in my life to make this happen. I know that I eat completely wrong and need to change this habit. I know that I don't get nearly the proper amount of exercise or activity each day. I know that I don't put a priority on my health. I know that I don't get the proper amount of sleep. I tend to burn the candle on both ends and my over all health suffers. I drink too much coffee. I don't put any priority into activities that would benefit my health, like walking, jogging, biking, hiking, backpacking, and the like. These things I really like doing too. I use the pretext that I have no one to do these things with and I don't have time. I mean here I live in one of the most beautiful places in the United States and it has the best weather of all places year around and I can't seem to get my fat ass out and do them.
I'm just trying to figure out a way to jump start myself into a healthy lifestyle. Of course this means that I have to CHANGE things that are ingrained into my life style that will be hard to overcome. My "Habits" that are keeping me from moving towards my goals, need to become old "habits" and new "healthy" ones need to take their place. It will be a hard battle to conquer all of these bad habits at once, but I believe the keys is to figure out which one will be the best one to change first and than figure out which will be the next best one and then, etc...
I've been thinking about how I should start to implementing rules into my eating habits that will help me change the bad habits and make some good new ones. For example: Don't eat after 6 pm, I tell myself this all of the time... But do I do it? Of course not... I find myself working up until 6pm and I still haven't eaten lunch... SO, of course I'm starving and I go and eat lunch and dinner. Well, not really lunch and dinner, but a large meal none the less. I've left a large gap in my day without eating, especially while I'm working. I think, if I am able to eat at the same time everyday with the right amounts of food, I'll be feeling better and perhaps start to loose some of this weight.