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Notes: Diet start date 1/11. Total Weight Loss needed to reach goal: 74.8 lbs Total
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now have 4 job bids pending at the Emerald City.
Weather: Cold, Cold, Cold . We need rain!. Our rainfall is 15" below normal. |
 My
talk with the therapist last night has helped. After I left there,
I felt pounds lighter, mentally. Some of the baggage in my head has
been cleared out or at least moved to a different area. I’m very
surprised by this.
I made a change in my life today. I finally signed up for training classes for the Literacy Volunteers of America. I’ve been putting this off for about a year now. They send me a notice of the training sessions every other month and something has always happened where I would miss one of the block of three sessions. I was going to put it off again with the excuse being that Dad is sick. But that was my excuse on other occasions along with family obligations and bad weather. I decided that there is no perfect time to do this so I might as well do it now and just rearrange my life around it. The sessions are the first three Saturdays in March for six hours each day. I decided that if Dad is still at the nursing home, I will visit him on Sunday or during the week instead. I want to do this for myself and it will benefit someone else in the community. I need to feed my brain with new ideas and experiences. And I will finally be giving something back to society. The therapist told me that I’m not making enough time for me. I’m too busy seeing to the needs of my family (Dad included) that I’m neglecting my own needs. I must find something that I want to do and enjoy and go for it. He also feels that I should do something socially, with or without my family. Go to the movies, a museum, or a craft fair. Anything to break the “work, home, sleep, work “ cycle. I have thought about joining the library society in my town. That’s a possibility and it would get me out of the house and out of my rut a few times a month. It won’t cost me much if any money either. Changes, he told me to start small with my changes. He suggested that even if I take a different route home from work, it would help to break the cycle. I am attempting to lose weight and that is a good change in my life. Although I am at the stage in this diet where I WANT A BIG CHEESEBURGER, A CHEESBURGER THE SIZE OF MY HEAD, WITH MUSHROOMS AND ONIONS AND PEPPERS AND FRENCH-FRIES AND A VANILLA MILK SHAKE. I want it bad. I could have all of that on the Weight Watchers plan, but it would be equivalent to about 2 days worth of calories. It’s not worth it, but I still want it. Yeah, I’m in a rut. Today I am thankful for: 1: Sugar-free Jello
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