jody

I am in the middle of moving. It's not a move by choice, it's an eviction. So it's even more stressful than "just moving". I have no idea where I am going to go, since I have no income and am disabled and can't work. I am doing my best to pack my belongings, and stay on track with my medications/sanity and sobriety. And to still take care of myself. My move-out date is April 30, so this challenge is the perfect length. Diet Eat my three meals a day. Hopefully 3 squares. But just remembering to eat will be good! Eat at least 3 servings of vegetables a day, and at least 1 good piece of protein. The primary hope is to not live on carbs alone. Do not purchase "snack cakes" and sugary cereals this month. Fitness Walk every day (5 minutes), even if just marching in place. Take Rowdy to the dog park, and throw the ball around for him, once a week, if I can get a ride there. Try to fit in some full body stretching exercises every day. Level Up Your Life Don't isolate! Find someone to connect with for just a short conversation, via text at the very least. Remember to take my medications every day. Practice mindfulness for 15 minutes every day.

Another update, just for myself. Trying to check in weekly, challenge or not! I know there is a new one starting up, so I will likely go there and begin a new one, tweaking this one to fit my goals. So, how am I doing so far? Let's see . . . Diet Drop the iced coffee for more water. I already quit soda 3 months ago, and am still going strong! I have sucked at this. I went and had a three day binge! Bad bad bad! Eat a vegetable with one meal every day, even if it's only canned. Canned veggies are better than no veggies! Right? I got food stamps approval, yay! So I bought some fresh veggies! Woot! And fruit, too! It's so nice to have real food! Fitness Walk every day (5 minutes), even if just marching in place. I have been more physically active the past week out of necessity. I am being evicted and have to pack my things in a hurry and also figure out where to go. Take Rowdy to the dog park, and throw the ball around for him, once a week, if I can get a ride there. I took Rowdy to the dog park and played fetch, and also walked the perimeter of the park, which is about 0.6 miles, which is a TON of walking for me. Level Up Your Life Reach out to a friend every day, even if it is only via text. If that friend doesn't respond, try someone else. Find someone to connect with for just a short conversation. Don't isolate! I've been doing this every day. And more than one friend, too. Because things have been chaotic and very stressful over here with the pending move, I have needed more strength from my friends. Spend 15 minutes in mindfulness every day. I really need to work on this one.

So, how am I doing so far? Let's see . . . Diet Drop the iced coffee for more water. I already quit soda 3 months ago, and am still going strong! I have had one iced coffee since last Thursday. No, make that two. One was really bad, a caramel iced coffee from McDonalds. The other wasn't as bad, just a plain iced coffee from Taco Bell. Much less junk in that one. I'm drinking lots of water, and have not had any soda, either. That's the longest I've gone without soda, I hope I can keep it up! Eat a vegetable with one meal every day, even if it's only canned. Canned veggies are better than no veggies! Right? Strike out. I have not had vegetables even once since making this goal. Well, except for the tidbits included in cup noodles, which isn't really anything, so . . . yeah. No veggies. Dang. I sorta forgot about the goal, too. I'll work on this more. Fitness Walk every day (5 minutes), even if just marching in place. I haven't walked or marched in place every day, but I have done so more days than not. So that's something. Take Rowdy to the dog park, and throw the ball around for him, once a week, if I can get a ride there. I will be for sure taking Rowdy to the dog park on Thursday. I didn't have a car last week at all, so I couldn't get there. But I can borrow one for this Thursday, so it's on my calendar. Level Up Your Life Reach out to a friend every day, even if it is only via text. If that friend doesn't respond, try someone else. Find someone to connect with for just a short conversation. Don't isolate! I've been doing this, strangely enough. For me it's strange anyway. I'm a total recluse, not by choice. I'm socially awkward in the worst way, plus disabled. So it's been good that I'm reaching out. It's via text mostly. Spend 15 minutes in mindfulness every day. I am getting better at this. But I'm still not consistent.

I'm 300 pounds. Walking hurts. I can't get far, maybe to the mailbox and back, without a lot of back pain. My current goal is probably pathetic, just 5 minutes of walking (or even marching in place) a day. But I was wondering if there are other exercises someone of my large size could do to help alleviate the back pain. Any ideas?

I am joining this challenge very late. And I have a bad habit of not sticking with this whole thing. I suffer from depression and bi-polar disorder, as well as disabling anxiety disorder. So I might need lots of support and kindness and encouragement to keep things up. I want to want it as bad as everyone else seems to want it. So here I am, starting very late, but I picked easier stuff to do, stuff I think I can be successful at. I used the template I found somewhere else on the forums. Diet Drop the iced coffee for more water. I already quit soda 3 months ago, and am still going strong!Eat a vegetable with one meal every day, even if it's only canned. Canned veggies are better than no veggies! Right? Fitness Walk every day (5 minutes), even if just marching in place.Take Rowdy to the dog park, and throw the ball around for him, once a week, if I can get a ride there. Level Up Your Life Reach out to a friend every day, even if it is only via text. If that friend doesn't respond, try someone else. Find someone to connect with for just a short conversation. Don't isolate!Spend 15 minutes in mindfulness every day.

Can I respawn again? Am I resurrected? I need to have a clean slate and start over. Diet Drop the iced coffee for more water.Eat a vegetable with one meal every day, even if it's only canned. Canned is better than nothing. Fitness Walk every day (5 minutes), even if just marching in place.Take Rowdy to the dog park, and throw the ball around for him, once a week. Level Up Your Life Reach out to a friend every day, even if it is only via text. If that friend doesn't respond, try someone else. Find someone to connect with for just a short conversation. Don't isolate! I guess I'll start a new challenge. Join a board. Add this forum to my sticky pins so that I visit it more. Maybe that will help. I'm trying not to give up on myself.

Am I resurrected? I need to have a clean slate and start over. Feel free to copy and paste and use for your own challenge (make sure to follow the 'pick 1' or 'pick 2' directions! don't do all of them!) Use as much or as little from this as you'd like. Diet Drop the iced coffee for more water.Eat a vegetable with one meal every day, even if it's only canned. Canned is better than nothing. Fitness Walk every day (5 minutes), even if just marching in place.Take Rowdy to the dog park, and throw the ball around for him, once a week. Level Up Your Life Reach out to a friend every day, even if it is only via text. If that friend doesn't respond, try someone else. Find someone to connect with for just a short conversation. Don't isolate!

Well, obviously I haven't done so well. I never get on this website. I never work on it, either. I've gotten fatter by about 25 pounds on top of it. I have very limited mobility. I have no idea what I can do for myself when I struggle so much with depression that I can't seem to make myself care most days. I only know that it's all getting worse instead of better, because I suck. I like what Lalie said, that sometimes exercise takes the form of shuffling around outside for half an hour. That's good. I don't need any more alone time, I'm basiclly a shut in. Not by choice, really. I don't have a car. I guess it's my choice to stay fat and immobile though. I guess I'm choosing to stay stuck by not moving. I suppose that's true. I'm not sure what to do next.

FOOD LOG: Breakfast: It was about 9:30 this morning. I sat in my car as it idled outside of McDonalds. I ate alone, listening to music on the radio. I felt guilty, knowing that what I was putting into my body was terrible for me, and opposite of what I should be eating! I have a food problem. I can't seem to figure out how to make myself actually make good choices. I make poor ones all the time, and then feel guilty about it. Lunch: It was about 4 in the afternoon, and I felt weak and shakey. I'm sure the poor breakfast choices had a lot to do with it. I had just left a parent teacher conference with my kids' step-mom. (We get along great, by the way.) She offered to buy me Taco Bell. I was more than happy to let her do just that. I ate a hard taco supreme and one of those Doritos hard tacos. And drank a large Pepsi. Again, bad choices. I didn't care. Dinner: I had forgotten to eat dinner, and didn't notice until after 9 p.m. My adult daughter and I ordered a pizza from Dominos. She ate one whole slice. I finished the rest of the medium sausage pizza. Washed it down with water. That's good at least, right? No, I'm not kidding myself. I know the whole day was a disaster. I have a food problem. I binge eat like mad, feeling guilty the whole time. It's a bad habit. I have to figure out how to force myself to stop doing that. ACTIVITY LOG: Fetch with Rowdy: I played fetch with my australian shepherd, Rowdy. We played for about 30 minutes. This is a minimal exertion activity on my part, generally. I was still sore from my previous attempt at the Nerd Fitness Beginner Body Weight Workout: I am so out of shape. It's depressing. The more I overeat, the more I gain weight, the more difficult moving becomes, and the more discouraged I get, and it's a cycle. The discouragement leads to binge eating. Bleh! Feels hopeless! SPIRITUAL LOG: Went to my church's addiction recovery program. Spent some time in prayer today. Don't feel I was very sincere to be honest. I felt angry with God. Read a few uplifting things, felt better afterwards. SOBRIETY LOG: I have been sober for 70 days now. I am working on step 4, inventory. I attended a 12 step meeting today. MENTAL HEALTH LOG: I struggled today with my eating disorder (binge eating, food addition, whatever). I also had guilt and depression because of it. I did remember to take my medications today. AND I remembered to drop off the prescription for the new medication that my psychiatrist wrote for me to try. NOTES: Maybe I'm not serious enough to be doing this. I want to change, but I feel like the challenges of changing myself are insurmountable! My mental illness takes over me, and I struggle and fail. My eating disorder gets the better of me all of the time. I struggle. If I don't do better, I will die at a young age. My doctor told me I had to shed 100 pounds within 18 months! In the past 2 weeks I have gained 5. I feel like it's hopeless! This battle log is gonna be 100% honest. Unflinching and fearless. Not that there won't be fear. But that I won't let fear stop me from being 100% honest about my struggles, my failures, my faults, and my successes. I hope that by being brutally honest, I will find whatever it is I need to make a change.

FOOD LOG: Breakfast: It was about 7:30 this morning. I sat on my love seat and ate 2 cups of fruity pebbles, dry (I was out of milk). I ate alone, with my dog staring at me with those forlorn eyes, hoping I would drop something! While I ate my breakfast, I browsed news apps on my phone. Something I was hoping would engage my mind, and help me wake up! I was feeling super tired and lazy, and wanted to go back to bed. After I was done, I did just that.Lunch: It was about 2 in the afternoon, and I felt ravenous! I had just dropped off my daughter at work and stopped by In-N-Out burger on the way home. I had a hamburger with onion and extra pickles, a french fries, and a medium coke. I also used a catsup packet. I ate alone, in my car, while parked and listening to the radio. I felt incredibly hungry before I ate, while I ate I was in happy-ville, and after I ate I felt contented.Dinner: I have not had dinner yet. I might report dinner on tomorrow's log, just before breakfast. I am still working out the kinks on how I want to utilize this "battle log" thing.ACTIVITY LOG: Fetch with Rowdy: I played fetch with my australian shepherd, Rowdy. We played for about 30 minutes. This is a minimal exertion activity on my part, generally.Nerd Fitness Beginner Body Weight Workout: Well, I tried anyway. I am a big woman, and my body weight is enormously difficult for me even standing, let alone in movement. I did not do more than one "circuit", and my "circuit" was modified to: 20 body weight squats with my walker, 10 modified push-ups (on my knees) with a lot of rest between each one, 8 "lunges" (I can't do a proper lunge, have to find a modification until I am more fit than I am currently), 10 dumbell rows with a 3 pound dumbell, 0 second plank (I was unable to assume that position, need a modifier), and 10 "jumping jacks" horribly modified because I am completely unable to jump, but I did try it, and was unable to do more than 10. I am so out of shape.SPIRITUAL LOG: Listened to K-Love on the radio, I love that station.PrayerSOBRIETY LOG: I have been sober for 68 days now.I am working on step 4, inventory.MENTAL HEALTH LOG: I have really struggled with my depression lately. I have missed quite a lot of work, actually. I sometimes forget to take my medications. It is not that I don't want to. It's just that, even with alarm reminders, I get absent minded. I will turn off the alarm and two seconds later forget what I went to go do (which is go take medication). It's very difficult to manage my mental illness. I saw my psychiatrist yesterday. He gave me two new prescriptions. I have not started them yet, I am always nervous about starting something new/different. But I will start them, and I will be as compliant as I can be.

It all started when my son went to the hospital last November and spent Thanksgiving in the psych ward. Life quickly went crazy. And then . . . well, then I went crazy too. I struggle with major depression, ptsd, and bipolar disorder. I am in a really bad place, and the only way to pull out of it is with support. Part of moving towards recover is to get physically active. Move. Feel better. So while a lot of folks join this place for weight loss or whatever, me, I just want to feel better. Sure, losing weight will help. But so will just plain and simple taking care of myself. Can I do it? Sometimes I really don't know. But I want to. I really do.

Week 1: Challenge Check-In: Mental health goal: A- Continue to take my medications daily. - I've only missed two times last week, which is a marked improvement. I take medications twice daily.Continue to work the steps of my addiction recovery program. - I attended my addiction recovery meeting, and have been checking in with my sponsor daily. I have been working on step 2.Continue my weekly visit with my therapist. - I went last week, and will be going again later today! Physical health goals: C+ Increase my weekly walks from 3 miles a week cumulative to 5 miles a week cumulative. - I failed to do this, only made 3 miles.Prepare homemade frozen paleo meals for the coming week, every week, to help me stay on track with my paleo eating goals. - Complete and total fail! Didn't even try! Bad Jody!Drink more water, and less soda. - I bought some water bottles. I did not limit my soda intake, though. But I did drink more water. Need improvement bigtime. Spiritual health goals: C+ Pray daily. - I think I missed a day or two last week. I wasn't fully committed. I'm going to try harder this week.Read scriptures daily. - I definitely missed a couple of days, but I did better this past week than I have in a long time.And work the steps of my addiction recovery program. - See above. ADL goals: D+ Improve personal hygeine by showering 5 days of the week, minimum. - Fail. I really need to try harder at this. I'm patheitc.Improve personal hygeine by brushing my teeth twice daily, and rinsing with an oral rinse. - Improved but not perfect. I am trying "On Guard Toothpaste" by doTerra.Improve self-care by shaving down the forest on my legs at least once weekly. - Yay! At least I can say I did this one. Other goals: B Enjoy a sunset. - Oops. I forgot about this one!Enjoy a sunrise. - Oops, I forgot about this one, too.Visit the mountains. - I'm so totally doing this on the weekend! If it's not raining. It's so pretty on the mountains, and I don't have to drive far to get to a pretty spot.Go to a park. - Didn't do this last week, but plan to do it this week. It rained over the weekend, so it wasn't park weather.Visit a friend. - Went to lunch with a pal. Was nice to chit chat for a while.Write a letter to a friend or family member. - Written, but failed to mail it just yet.

My new year's resolution is to take better care of myself. That may sound vague, but I have a plan! If it's okay, I'm gonna skip those attribute points, because they stress me out. My goals are SMART, and are posted in my 6WC 3 Link in my signature.

Ahh . . . the elusive inner dragon . . . . I know it's in here somewhere . . . I just can't seem to find it! This year my resolution is to take better care of myself. I know that sounds very vague, but I have some very specific goals and ideas in mind to help with that. And this challenge is for me, so I only have to make it fit me, not anyone else. So here goes: Main Challenge: Taking better care of myself means meeting my needs mentally, physically, and spiritually. There are many steps in that process. So I'm going to detail them here, and print it out for daily tracking. I will report here once weekly, on Sunday afternoons. Outside of that, I'm not going to obsess over daily battle logs and other stuff, because for me it is too overwhelming. Subchallenges/Mini-goals: Mental health goal: Continue to take my medications daily.Continue to work the steps of my addiction recovery program.Continue my weekly visit with my therapist. Physical health goals: Increase my weekly walks from 3 miles a week cumulative to 5 miles a week cumulative. Track progress with "Map My Walk" app on my iPhone.Prepare homemade frozen paleo meals for the coming week, every week, to help me stay on track with my paleo eating goals.Drink more water, and less soda. This means buying water bottles, and while I know that isn't green, it's the only way I consisitenly drink water. So sue me. I will also limit myself to only one canned soda beverage a day. Spiritual health goals: Pray daily.Read scriptures daily.And work the steps of my addiction recovery program. ADL goals: Improve personal hygeine by showering 5 days of the week, minimum. More than that is detrimental to my overly dry skin in the winter.Improve personal hygeine by brushing my teeth twice daily, and rinsing with an oral rinse. Not necessarily Listerine, but something to protect enamal.Imrprove self-care by shaving down the forest on my legs at least once weekly. I hate shaving. But I need to. The forest is thick and unsightly. Other goals: Enjoy a sunset.Enjoy a sunrise.Visit the mountains.Go to a park.Visit a friend.Write a letter to a friend or family member.

I've got 120 pounds to lose . . . I could use some buddies, too.

Take my medication daily. Not take on any extra projects. Feed my spirit daily. Attend my addiction recovery program on Thursdays. Attend church on Sundays. 15 minutes of grounding meditation every day.Yesterday I remembered to take my medication. I kinda went overboard with the daily stuff, though, and took on more than I could handle. I did "feed my spirit" yesterday, reading scriptures and remembering to pray. I didn't have an addiction recovery group yesterday (it was Monday) nor church, for the same reason. I forgot to do meditation.

My main goal is to stay "sane" for the next two weeks between challenges. To acheive this goal, I'm going to: Take my medication daily. Not take on any extra projects. Feed my spirit daily. Attend my addiction recovery program on Thursdays. Attend church on Sundays. 15 minutes of grounding meditation every day.

Well, I had myself a major mental health crisis . . . just had too much to deal with and my body just sort of shut itself down. But I'm back in the game now . . . and hopeful that I do better this time.

Well, it's pretty obvious I failed this challenge. i had to drop out, due to some crazy. I am getting some help, but it was pretty bad for a little bit there. I'm doing my best to be my authentic self, to give myself another chance, and to take care of ME a little more than I have been. Anyways, this battle log thing is a bad idea for me, I mostly live in the 6 week challenges, and doing two is too hard for me, too much to keep track of. so i'm simplifying. if you wanna find me, i'll be posting in the 6 week challenge boards from now on. adventurers for the time being, i guess.