I wrote earlier on faith, which felt liberating. After writing here, I then had enough of my cobwebs out to compose a heartfelt and honest email on faith to a friend — now all I must do is await her reply.
Anyhow, I didn’t really speak of any specific goals last time because… well… it wasn’t really the most appropriate time to share. Now, after a nap and a great conversation with another friend, I believe I’m ready to start proclaiming some of my goals to myself.
I’m making goals, not resolutions.
1. Ask for paper sacks, rather than plastic, when I go grocery shopping. If the store does not have plastic sacks, bring in my own bag or don’t buy more than what I can carry out using my backpack and or arms.
2. Drink more water. My daily goal is to approximately half of my physical weight per day in ounces.
3. Reduce my soda pop intake, starting out by drinking no soda at work. Diet drinks are okay, but I’m not allowed to drink any soda while working (unless feeling ill).
4. Eliminate caffeine from my diet, minus what is naturally occuring in some teas and chocolate.
5. Floss my teeth everyday!
6. Schedule my “quiet time” and keep it a priority.
7. Go “gluten-free” in an attempt to better control my RSD.
8. Exercise some everyday.
9. Continue the recovery process for self-injury…
10. Compete in the State Fair next summer in crochet!
I am SO HAPPY to see someone who made “goals” instead of “resolutions.” I just wrote a whole post on that. Good for you 🙂
Are you starting all of these at the same time? Personally, I know that I couldn’t start drinking more water, stop drinking coke, and eliminate all caffeine at my diet at the same time. Maybe I could start replacing my coffee with tea (which I would consider water) and then gradually replace each coke with something non-sodaish… but if I did all of this January 1st, I would definitely have a (caffeine) headache!
Good luck with your goals.
Thanks for your encouragement 🙂 I didn’t know you had written on it too, but I found your entry and I think our entries make quite a pair! I like how your entry discusses changing and modifying goals because that is very important.
The caffeine thing isn’t a big deal to me, as I have found myself alternating between caffeine and no caffeine for years. I don’t drink coffee, rather soda and sometimes tea. I’m a big soda drinker, however not drinking it at work will eliminate a good chunk of time where I would have the OPPORTUNITY to drink it — therefore reducing my consumption. I still let myself drink soda when I’m home, yet I have noticed a decreased interest in it. I was drinking it for energy, but I don’t usually NEED the energy when I’m home and drinking a soda first thing in the morning doesn’t sit well on my stomach (so no worries about not having caffeine in the morning).
The gluten-free part is absolutely the hardest, as my body is rebelling!! I crave complex carbs and have yet to fingure our exactly how to eat. I’m learning how to read labels and I’m striving to eat foods with less ingredients, therefore are less processed.
Well good luck! Gluten-free would be tough for me, too. I’m not sure what RSD is, but I have a friend who was recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease, and she’s finding the switch to be challenging as well.
I find that when I stop drinking soda for a period of time (even for, say, 3 weeks) that I lose the taste for it. The only soda I drink is Diet Coke (I don’t even like Diet Pepsi), and I go through periods of “Diet Coke Detox” (I seriously call it that). Why I go back to drinking it, who knows…
One more question for you 🙂 What do you crochet?