I have gone back and forth on whether I should make some “rules” for myself for this holiday season. At first, I was like, “Nahhh, let’s live it up. like it is 1999.” Then I remembered that in every other holiday season, I fell far, far behind. My most notable goals are my health goals. Along with not feeling well from all the sugar I consumed, I would constantly beat myself up, and the next thing I knew, it was April, and yeah….
The thought of having energy for days and days, with no weight gain, is enough to plan where and what I will get my seasonal treats. Instead of getting a pumpkin pie blizzard, going to Starbucks and getting all the items with pumpkin spice in them, and then getting a cinnamon roll from Hardee’s, all in the same day. I will plan it and put it on my myfittnesspal and calendar.
In January, I will comb through and evaluate how I did.
Rehab my attention span.
I finally came to terms with the fact that I need to break my phone addiction if I was going to accomplish anything in life. I do not want to be the old woman who is close to death and realizes all I did was scroll through social media 24/7
I purchased a subscription to Freedom, and I am actually writing this because of it. Blocked the whole internet, and I hate being bored, so here I am.
I will admit that blocking the internet is only step one. If you are like me and have a short attention span, you may have needed to take it a step further and use a technique like the Pomodoro Technique. In fact, this is how I got this post written. Block everything with Freedom, then use a pomodoro timer. This shouldn’t have happened in my attention span before the internet, but years of social media have destroyed it.
Break my phone addiction
I finally. Came to terms with the fact that I need to break my phone addiction if I was going to accomplish anything in life. I do not want to be the old woman who is close to death and realizes all I did was scroll through social media 24/7 and spend an embarrassing amount of time doomscrolling
As I said earlier, I purchased a subscription to Freedom. I am actually writing this because the whole internet is blocked, and I hate being bored, so here I am.
Dig my way out of this reading slump.
This slump has more to do with my short attention span than anything else. Too much social media has me thinking anything more than 2 minutes is too much. I used to have laser-like focus before I fell into the deep abyss of social media. I am not even posting all that much..I am a professional lurker…Again, I am working on being part of the bookish community and increasing my focus so that I can actually enjoy sitting down to read, then when I look up, 8 hours have gone by, just like in the good old days.
Keep doing my workouts.
I will admit that I have been slacking in this department. I had COVID earlier this year, and I got better, but my workouts were still happening only sporadically.
Last week, I finally started doing them again, and I have to admit that I feel a million times better.
This is the workout I am currently doing and love
Track everything. I eat
Again, I have been slacking on my eating plan, and when my body finally screamed out in protest with a Rheumatoid arthritis flare-up, I started recording everything once again.
learn how to cook better than I do right now.
My cooking skills are… not very good at the moment, and I have finally realized that if I want to stay healthy, I am going to have to learn to cook my own food, because it is damn near impossible to avoid sugar and gluten at restaurants.
