The mind is the enemy

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Hey, people say you gotta dance like nobody´s watching so the next step MUST be to party with yourself ;) I used to feel "guilty" about staying home most weekend nights (and would assume people´d think me a sad and lonely person if I told them) but really: who cares? Do what feels good hon.
 
LaMa I used to feel the same way but it turned out that I was with a boyfriend who I didn't actually want to be spending my Saturday nights with... Once I got rid of that situation I was suddenly ok with my homebody status. Saturday night plans tend to cause some severe anxiety with me, anyway. It's funny because people who keep themselves busy hear that you have no plans all weekend and their response is always "That's so great, I'm jealous, I'd love a weekend to just do nothing!" Welcome to my life, glad to hear you're jealous of it, haha.
 
Long weekend update - Ran 3.6 miles on Sunday and my foot has been yelling at me since. I've not been great about extra stretching and applying ice, so I can't complain too much.

Had a few drinks over the past few days but kept the amount lower than usual. I've got a good supply of high test craft beer so it's made it easy to choose one for the night and be done with it. Last night I shared a bottle of white wine and that was it. After-dinner snack was grapes, which I shared with my guinea pigs. The grapes aren't awesome, so I was eating 1/2 of each to determine if they were sweet enough for the piggies. I got the bad ones, they got the good ones. Spoiled brats!

Sneaky snacking update (since this is still something I struggle with): had a low moment on Sunday when I ate a handful of Swedish Fish, a handful of potato chips, and a babybel cheese. And keeping distracted didn't help because I was doing a jigsaw puzzle at the time. Monday I made smoothies during prime sneaking time, and that was a successful distraction.
 
:D Spoiled brats indeed :D I´d have done the exact opposite (which is probably why I don´t have pets...). Great work keeping the sneaky snacking to a minimum!
 
Tuesday recap:

-Did yoga instead of sneaky snacking. I've been dealing with a lot of pain/tightness in my right shoulder and the first few poses were crazy painful. But today I was able to shave my underarm in the shower without stretching first, which hasn't happened in a while.

-No booze.

-No treats after dinner.

-Only a handful of gummy bears as a daytime treat.
 
I'm trying to do good things this week because I've got vacation coming up starting Friday. We're doing a weekend yurt camping trip with a couple of friends first and then our plans are up in the air after that. It'll definitely include hiking and probably camping, but also eating and drinking yummy things. I'm hoping a healthy week before will help me remember that life feels better when I'm fueled properly.
 
Hello WLF! It's been a while. I haven't been doing well (obviously, you'd hear about it every day if I was doing great). My vacation was good, very relaxing but we ate out a LOT, which is rare for us. All new restaurants, so we definitely over did it trying new things. The whole week was just eating out or eating leftovers. But the fall foliage was BEAUTIFUL, we enjoyed apple picking on a weekday (when things weren't crazy, on the weekends they have people patrolling the orchard on segways), and hiked the mountain that we hike at least once every year.

Unfortunately, I have this bad habit of getting pretty down in the dumps after pretty much any happy thing in life. It happens after big things like vacations and major races, and also small things like nights out with friends. Which means this past couple of weeks have actually been really rough on my mood as I've had a vacation and three social events with different groups of friends. I'm thinking about talking to someone about it, but have only gotten so far as to write the number for the doctor's office in a post-it note. Hopefully I'll bite the bullet soon. Exercise helps my mood a lot but the post-happy moment blues thing is consistent no matter how active I am.

To end the post on a high note...I did a treadmill run last night, which was my first run in weeks. It felt hard but good, and I slept better last night than I have in a while.
 
Post-happiness blues are no fun. I think talking to someone about it is a good idea, you may well get rid of them with some simple exercises (I don´t know, but it´s quite possible). Good luck!
 
I get the post-holiday blues too I think Oaks. It's illogical I know to expect everything to be rosy when you get back & it takes a week or so for me to get back to normal. 2 days after getting back last week I could have run away! Talking to someone may help & it is worth a try. Typing in my dairy does the trick for me usually as it's my therapy. Talk to us more if you like. We have more in common than you may think, xoxo Cate
 
Thank you LaMa and Cate for your constant support. Writing helps a bunch, I'm definitely a better person when I get all of my thoughts out of my head (which I do best with a pen and paper). I'm good with writing in my personal journal when I'm at the office but I'm awful about doing it at night and on the weekends, which is when I need it the most.

Well, everyone is gearing up for their November challenges! I thought about throwing my hat in the ring but I know that I need to focus on mini goals. I've had success with 3 or 4 day plans, so I'm going to set myself up with a Monday to Thursday challenge. Three goals max so I don't get overwhelmed. One food goal, one exercise goal, and one "other" goal. I'll see how I did on Friday and make some weekend goals.

Food: No booze! None whatsoever. I can think of a million food goals but this is what I'm going with.
Exercise: Two runs (likely Tuesday and Thursday). One hill workout, and one speed workout.
Other: Out of bed by 6 am on the days I don't run. The quiet mornings are my favorite but I rarely take advantage of them.

It feels soooo good to be getting back into running. Today I did 4 easy miles outside. My goal was five but my tummy unfortunately had other plans. Then I did some other random exercises (incline pushups, squats, and glute stuff). Now I'm icing my foot like a good little runner.
 
You're welcome Oaks. Thank you for yours :grouphug: No booze? I'm impressed! I'm glad you're back into running & doing something that makes you feel good. Much love, xo Cate
 
Just four days of no booze! I can handle that. I'll be enjoying wine on Friday, I know that for a fact, haha.
 
Thanks, Stacy! I've had success with mini-goals in the past, let's hope I can do so again!

It's 6:35 am and I've been up since 6, drinking coffee and putting away dishes and browsing around here. I had trouble getting to sleep last night which is surprising because the time change should have made me exhausted. Hopefully that means that tonight I will sleep like a rock.

Food plan for today includes grape nuts for breakfast, leftover pad thai for lunch, a fruit smoothie snack, and a salad for dinner with last night's burrito supplies. And either an apple for dessert or a tea cup full of homemade pumpkin ice cream. I made the ice cream yesterday and while I didn't officially have a scoop I sure licked everything clean as I was making it!
 
I'm not in the southern hemisphere... What weird thing did I say wrong to make you think that?
 
The time shift thing, I thought it would make sense to not be tired after an extra hour of sleep but I guess you meant you ought to be tired when your body thinks it´s an hour later than it really is. Which makes sense of course :) We moved the clocks a week ago and my body won´t budge yet.
 
Yeah, I meant that at 11:00 last night when I tried to go to sleep my body SHOULD have felt like it was midnight... But it didn't. This morning felt good but now I'm back to being sleeeepy!
 
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