Today was a great morning. I was up early, hit dunkin and met the fitness group before 8:30. We hiked the blue skyline trail at Blue Hills, well, half of it. I guess the whole trail is 7 miles. We did about 3 or 4. Some spots were pretty steep and it was more like climbing down a cliff! But I'm really proud of myself. I'm counting that for the one fitness thing I've never done before (June was play a round of golf and May the golf lessons). I know tomorrow I'm going to be beat, but in a good way.
After we were done, I went shopping for mom's bday that was a few days ago. I'll see her tomorrow. Spent some time at Derby Street... love shopping there. Found a bunch of stuff I wanted for me, but not the time! :) I ended up getting her a couple of cute nightgowns, a Mom bracelet and a really cute Red Sox hat. I think she'll like all of it. I have it all wrapped up and ready to go for tomorrow.
More trouble with the modem today. Had to unplug it at least 5 times and got extremely frustrated with it. I was supposed to work from home a bit this weekend. Not sure if that'll end up happening or not. I'm afraid to start cuz it will boot me off line again! VERY annoying when I'm in the middle of something.
Well for July I made 8 goals for myself. I did 3.
Fitness/health goals:
1. Run 3 miles 3 times a week for 2 weeks. Nope. That most likely would have happened if I didn't pull out my back twice in row and completely stopped running for a couple of weeks. When the new session of 5K training started back up, with the timer and whistle, it was too hard to do my own thing, so I started the training again, but this time I was pushing myself for speed. I've NEVER run this fast before. I even lapped people. SO, yeah, I didn't make the goal, but I'm ok with it.
2. Golf at least 3 times. Nope again. I golfed twice in July. Strawberry Valley and then last Sunday with mom and dad. I was supposed to golf this past Tuesday in Braintree but I was in a psycho mood and cranky and I knew it was not the right frame of mind to try to golf when I was already nervous about the course anyway. I would have been miserable and just ended up more frustrated. SO... tomorrow I'm hitting the driving range with mom and dad and then Tuesday I'm golfing in Rockland.
3. Make a decision on ADD treatment. Yup. Taking meds for it has really helped me stay focused, be better organized in what I'm doing and how I think and also curbed my procrastination (also something associated with ADD). I think it is a really big deal how well I have responded to it. I want to give it another month and really see the changes in everything at that point.
4. Make an eye doctor appointment. Yup. Not until September 10th, but that's ok,the goal was to make the appointment, right?
5. Take a yoga class. Nope. I really did look on line for a class I could take, but I haven't been able to find anywhere that is closer than 20 minutes away. Most of the places have power yoga or hot yoga. That's not what I want to do. I want more of a gentle yoga or just Kripalu yoga. I'm still working on this one.
6. Only weight myself on the July 2nd and 12th. Nope, but for a reason. Well, I did weigh myself those two days for the first half of the month. Then I went on the ADD medication which causes appetite suppression. So I've been weighing myself more often watching it and checking it. So, that one sort of changed.
7. Make plans outside of meetup to spend time with a friend on the south shore. Nope. I tried! I really did. I'm with meetup 3-4 times a week already. I see people with that so much. I tried to get together with a couple of people... even called one of my friends today. Just didn't work out, outside of meetup. We'll see for next month how that one plays out.
8. Get along with my family down the Cape. No blow outs. Yup. That was a big one. Minor bickering a little bit, but nothing big, so that was really good. I have to say, I'm really getting along with my mom so much better lately. I don't really know what has changed with that. But its a good thing.
So looking back, I'm ok with only making 3 of 8 goals. I did parts of all and tried on all and I'm ok with where it is.
Now looking forward to August?? I think my list will be even longer with a couple of repeats or close to it! :)
Fitness/Health Goals:
1. Run 2 miles, 3 times a week
2. Take a yoga class
3. Golf at least 3 times
4. Take Alex's bootcamp at least twice
5. Take a Zumba class
6. Write in my food/fitness journal (I need this especially with the appetite suppression... I need to make sure I am eating right and enough).
Other Goals:
1. Go through all of the clothes in my closet in the living room to downsize and donate.
2. Shop at the Farmer's Market at least once
3. Go out with a friend on the south shore, outside of meetup.
SO I up-ed my goals to 9 for August. I have a lot on my plate for the month already, but I think I can do it. Granted I thought I could accomplish all in July, but I'm positive with it and I feel good about the goals I set for the month.
I do like the directions things are going in, so I'm feeling good about that. July was a good month. Lots of changes, lots of growth, lots of reflection. But I like where I am better now than where I was on the 1st! I'm hoping I say the same thing about August! :)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The good with the bitching
Yesterday morning when I woke up, I laid in bed for a while, watching the news, playing on my laptop. It was 7:50 when I updated my facebook status to "Ever have mornings that you just don't want to get out of bed??"
I finally forced myself to get up and managed to make it to work only 5 minutes late at 8:35. (love my 5 mile commute)
Last night I went to be around 10:30, didn't fall right to sleep. I remember tossing and turning most of the night. I should have just turned on the AC, but I didn't want to have to close all of the windows too. So I continued to toss and turn.
You know when you finally realize, I think I'm not going back to sleep at this point and wonder what time is? Then you finally give in and look at the clock? Yeah, that was at 4:30am. So, again, watched the news, grabbed the laptop. And at 6am, gave up. It was a bit dreary out so I didn't want to go for a walk or jog. I ended up hopping into the shower and made it my office before 7:30.
Lucky me had a crazy busy day working on various new projects that need to be done immediately. I forgot to take any break at all at lunch time and didn't realize I didn't eat until 4pm.
At 5 when my department was leaving, I was almost done with a big portion of the project I was doing... so I stayed! I ended up working until 5:30. So on maybe 5 hours of sleep I worked a 10 hour day. Nice.
I almost feel asleep when I first got home from work on my sofa, but told myself.. NO, I will never sleep through the night if I go to bed this early. Of course, I got my second wind around 9pm and cleaned out my fridge, including taking out one of the shelves to wash it in the sink (that's the shelves I put all the berry containers on). And here I am now, after 10pm, awake, laying on the sofa and on the lap top again. Interesting.
The power of positive thinking... I am going to sleep the entire night straight through and fall right to sleep when I go to bed. I am going to wake right up when my alarm goes off at 6:30 and get right now. I will make it into work early again tomorrow to get a jump start on this project and delegate and assign work to those in my department. That's my plan.
On another note.... I do NOT know what is up with my modem. First, I hate computers. I am not computer literate. I do not live on the information super highway. I just bought my first IPod last year and I still have a flip cell phone that uses T Word to text (do the kids know what that is now with their new phones??).
I have a wireless modem for my laptop. The cable comes into my living room and I have a splitter to connect it to my cable box on the TV and to my modem. Right now I see 3 lights out of 4 green. The bottom one, the one that's not any color? Yeah, that's the one that give me online access. Just not allowing it right now. Every time I am on line, I lose my connection. Not fun when I'm watching something on Hulu, or about to send a long email I didn't copy first, so when I hit send and the screen goes to change, I get the internet explorer bad screen. SO frustrating. I unplug the power cord, I unplug the cable cord, hook them back up, wait and hope I get service back. Sometimes I do, sometimes it takes me 3 or 4 times. SO frustrating! Ooops, now its back! Now I have all 4 green lights and see that this blog post finally had an autosave while I'm typing.
See what I mean? No rhyme or reason! I don't know if its the modem or splitter or cable wires or what! My cable is always fine on that TV so I don't know what's going on. Just annoying.
I realized tonight, I do have a problem with anxiety. My boss has been out for a week. His flight was last Friday morning, then he stopped in late today to check his email and do a few other things so tomorrow is easier. I was in a good mood, although tired. Even when I checked all my emails, lots of positive stuff going on. I was happy. Then I thought about work and the project and that my boss seemed a bit off. Then I got worried. Is he not telling me something? Is something up? Did I miss something? Will there be problems tomorrow? Um, what if his flight just landed and he hasn't been home yet? What if he's just tired? Yeah, that could be the case, but I have already worked myself up that somethings going to hit the fan tomorrow and then end up all over me. I don't like feeling like this. Usually when I get a bad feeling about something, I'm right. Which I hate. That helps feed my anxiety. Which, with this whole crazy spiral, is how I finally realized tonight, that yeah, I do have a problem with anxiety. Hopefully I'm just overtired and I miss read things.
I'm hoping that tomorrow is a great day. It's FRIDAY. It has to be a great day!
I'm going to try to focus on the positives. Maybe the whole, "The Secret" thing is right. The power of positive thinking, the law of attraction. Like attracts like. So if I think positive, I'll get positive.
I know I want to be happy. I know I don't want to constantly be stressed out, have my stomach in knots with headaches and have my jaw aching all the time from me constantly clenching it (right now it is KILLING ME!)
SO I need to start thinking and focusing on the positive. Easier said than done, but I'll do my best.
Let try it again. Tomorrow is going to be a great day and tonight I am going to be an amazing nights sleep. I am going to wake up feeling refreshed and ready to face the day! Guess I should go to sleep with that on my mind, huh?
I finally forced myself to get up and managed to make it to work only 5 minutes late at 8:35. (love my 5 mile commute)
Last night I went to be around 10:30, didn't fall right to sleep. I remember tossing and turning most of the night. I should have just turned on the AC, but I didn't want to have to close all of the windows too. So I continued to toss and turn.
You know when you finally realize, I think I'm not going back to sleep at this point and wonder what time is? Then you finally give in and look at the clock? Yeah, that was at 4:30am. So, again, watched the news, grabbed the laptop. And at 6am, gave up. It was a bit dreary out so I didn't want to go for a walk or jog. I ended up hopping into the shower and made it my office before 7:30.
Lucky me had a crazy busy day working on various new projects that need to be done immediately. I forgot to take any break at all at lunch time and didn't realize I didn't eat until 4pm.
At 5 when my department was leaving, I was almost done with a big portion of the project I was doing... so I stayed! I ended up working until 5:30. So on maybe 5 hours of sleep I worked a 10 hour day. Nice.
I almost feel asleep when I first got home from work on my sofa, but told myself.. NO, I will never sleep through the night if I go to bed this early. Of course, I got my second wind around 9pm and cleaned out my fridge, including taking out one of the shelves to wash it in the sink (that's the shelves I put all the berry containers on). And here I am now, after 10pm, awake, laying on the sofa and on the lap top again. Interesting.
The power of positive thinking... I am going to sleep the entire night straight through and fall right to sleep when I go to bed. I am going to wake right up when my alarm goes off at 6:30 and get right now. I will make it into work early again tomorrow to get a jump start on this project and delegate and assign work to those in my department. That's my plan.
On another note.... I do NOT know what is up with my modem. First, I hate computers. I am not computer literate. I do not live on the information super highway. I just bought my first IPod last year and I still have a flip cell phone that uses T Word to text (do the kids know what that is now with their new phones??).
I have a wireless modem for my laptop. The cable comes into my living room and I have a splitter to connect it to my cable box on the TV and to my modem. Right now I see 3 lights out of 4 green. The bottom one, the one that's not any color? Yeah, that's the one that give me online access. Just not allowing it right now. Every time I am on line, I lose my connection. Not fun when I'm watching something on Hulu, or about to send a long email I didn't copy first, so when I hit send and the screen goes to change, I get the internet explorer bad screen. SO frustrating. I unplug the power cord, I unplug the cable cord, hook them back up, wait and hope I get service back. Sometimes I do, sometimes it takes me 3 or 4 times. SO frustrating! Ooops, now its back! Now I have all 4 green lights and see that this blog post finally had an autosave while I'm typing.
See what I mean? No rhyme or reason! I don't know if its the modem or splitter or cable wires or what! My cable is always fine on that TV so I don't know what's going on. Just annoying.
I realized tonight, I do have a problem with anxiety. My boss has been out for a week. His flight was last Friday morning, then he stopped in late today to check his email and do a few other things so tomorrow is easier. I was in a good mood, although tired. Even when I checked all my emails, lots of positive stuff going on. I was happy. Then I thought about work and the project and that my boss seemed a bit off. Then I got worried. Is he not telling me something? Is something up? Did I miss something? Will there be problems tomorrow? Um, what if his flight just landed and he hasn't been home yet? What if he's just tired? Yeah, that could be the case, but I have already worked myself up that somethings going to hit the fan tomorrow and then end up all over me. I don't like feeling like this. Usually when I get a bad feeling about something, I'm right. Which I hate. That helps feed my anxiety. Which, with this whole crazy spiral, is how I finally realized tonight, that yeah, I do have a problem with anxiety. Hopefully I'm just overtired and I miss read things.
I'm hoping that tomorrow is a great day. It's FRIDAY. It has to be a great day!
I'm going to try to focus on the positives. Maybe the whole, "The Secret" thing is right. The power of positive thinking, the law of attraction. Like attracts like. So if I think positive, I'll get positive.
I know I want to be happy. I know I don't want to constantly be stressed out, have my stomach in knots with headaches and have my jaw aching all the time from me constantly clenching it (right now it is KILLING ME!)
SO I need to start thinking and focusing on the positive. Easier said than done, but I'll do my best.
Let try it again. Tomorrow is going to be a great day and tonight I am going to be an amazing nights sleep. I am going to wake up feeling refreshed and ready to face the day! Guess I should go to sleep with that on my mind, huh?
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
More Health and Fitness
I was back at the track tonight for the 5K training. When my back was out at the begining of the month, I lost where I was at. Then I started the training again and needed to do the stop watch and whistle. It was too hard to get into my own grove, so I did the training with them. Tonight I was with someone who was already over 2 miles but she did the training with me (1/2 lap jog, 1/2 lap walk, one lap jog, one lap walk, repete). We really pushed each other tonight. I don't know if I ever went that fast before. We actually lapped a few people! Was kind of exciting!
I want to go again on Friday after work but just do my own thing. I want to do a mile, then walk, then do another mile if I can. That way next week will be easier.
And on Saturday morning I am doing a hike, and I'm pretty sure it will be a 7 mile hike.
With the new medication I am on, it causes suppressed appetite. I have completely noticed that, although I haven't said it to my doctors. I'm just not hungry...ever. I am going to start using my food journal again and use the fitness journal with it too. I need to keep a record of what I am eating so I know I am actually eating and making good choices with it.
I REALLY want to lose 11 pounds in the next 6 weeks. It is going to be hard, but I know I can focus and have a chance to do it.
I was going to take my bootcamp class tomorrow, but I'm afraid I won't be able to walk when I have my Saturday hike! I'm hoping its cancelled and rains!
Overall, right now things are good. I like this. I'm not super stressed out. I'm ok. Life is good! :)
I want to go again on Friday after work but just do my own thing. I want to do a mile, then walk, then do another mile if I can. That way next week will be easier.
And on Saturday morning I am doing a hike, and I'm pretty sure it will be a 7 mile hike.
With the new medication I am on, it causes suppressed appetite. I have completely noticed that, although I haven't said it to my doctors. I'm just not hungry...ever. I am going to start using my food journal again and use the fitness journal with it too. I need to keep a record of what I am eating so I know I am actually eating and making good choices with it.
I REALLY want to lose 11 pounds in the next 6 weeks. It is going to be hard, but I know I can focus and have a chance to do it.
I was going to take my bootcamp class tomorrow, but I'm afraid I won't be able to walk when I have my Saturday hike! I'm hoping its cancelled and rains!
Overall, right now things are good. I like this. I'm not super stressed out. I'm ok. Life is good! :)
Monday, July 26, 2010
Fitness and updates....
I had a really fun weekend. I got a little bit of cleaning down around the house on Saturday then got to hang out with my friend for a while before the concert. We had SO much fun and Bon Jovi was great!!
Sunday I slept in a bit, then went to mom and dad's. We ended up golfing a par 3 and I did HORRIBLE. I felt so sick and it was hot out.
Tonight I was at the track with my running group. The newbies are doing such an amazing job! It was really nice to see them succeed as they are! It was great. I'm so proud of them all!
Tmorrow I have golf again and I'm so scared I am going to do horrible again. I guess worst case, I'll pick it up and carry it. Can't hurt.
So for my monthly goals... I weighted myself way more but I'm watching the new meds. And obviously made the ADD treatment decision. I'm not running 3 miles right now and lost a lot when I hurt my back for a couple of weeks. (tonight I did more speed but really could have done more). I haven't found a yoga class and that's a little disappointing. I want to find something regular that was fun like before. I haven't called the eye doctor yet. And tomorrow will be the 3rd time I'm golfing this month. The rest of the goals.... got along great with my family down the cape and I'm trying to make plans with friends outside of meetup, but I have plans almost every day WITH meetup. So maybe next month.
Sunday I slept in a bit, then went to mom and dad's. We ended up golfing a par 3 and I did HORRIBLE. I felt so sick and it was hot out.
Tonight I was at the track with my running group. The newbies are doing such an amazing job! It was really nice to see them succeed as they are! It was great. I'm so proud of them all!
Tmorrow I have golf again and I'm so scared I am going to do horrible again. I guess worst case, I'll pick it up and carry it. Can't hurt.
So for my monthly goals... I weighted myself way more but I'm watching the new meds. And obviously made the ADD treatment decision. I'm not running 3 miles right now and lost a lot when I hurt my back for a couple of weeks. (tonight I did more speed but really could have done more). I haven't found a yoga class and that's a little disappointing. I want to find something regular that was fun like before. I haven't called the eye doctor yet. And tomorrow will be the 3rd time I'm golfing this month. The rest of the goals.... got along great with my family down the cape and I'm trying to make plans with friends outside of meetup, but I have plans almost every day WITH meetup. So maybe next month.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Changes
So I changed up the format, layout and design of the blog. Kind of like the new one. And really sad thing I just noticed, I actually matches my living room! WOW, sad. But that's ok.
I've had a good night tonight doing much of nothing, but that was the goal. I watched a little tv, read a magazine, cleaned out an old box of nothing. And now I'm on the laptop. I plan on getting to bed pretty early and possibly catching up on my sleep. I have a list ready for tomorrow of things I would like to accomplish. I'm ok if I don't even do half on the list. It is a pretty far reaching list! :) But as long as I get a few things done and get some of the more major cleaning things done... the floors and the fridge are the priorities right now.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm meeting a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a year. She's actually my boss's daughter who used to work with us. She was a work friend and since she stopped working there, we've emailed a bit, but that's it. I have never seen her outside of work. I'm meeting her at 3 where she is house sitting and hanging at the pool. Then we are getting ready there and going to see Bon Jovi tomorrow night. This will be interesting. Again... my boss's daughter. So the conversation about the office will be muted a bit. We'll see.
Thing is, I love her dad! He's a great boss. Him and I get along REALLY well. We just click. I really like and respect him. He told me that someone who we fired around March said she thought that he favored me. Whatever. We just get along and I like him. So that part of it, I can be honest to her about. But the bs office politics crap? That's the part I have to watch.
I realized I just don't do office politics very well. I don't like. I don't play it. I don't do games. I am who I am. That's it.
I'm really happy for the weekend. It was a long week. I need the break. It was long, but very productive. And I'm just tired! I'm spent. I'm here on Friday night at almost 10pm on my sofa in my pj's and looking forward to going to sleep! :)
Sunday I'm heading up to my parents house for the day again. Not sure on the weather, if it will be a beach day or not. Need to wait until tomorrow to find out for sure. If we can do the beach, that'll be the choice (only so many weekends in a summer for the beach!). If not, I asked mom if the 3 of us can golf at the par 3 near her house. I'd like to go with my dad there too. I'm not sure if he'd be up for it, but I'd like the practice and I'd like his pointers and opinions on how I'm doing.
Overall, this was a really good week, just the normal ups and downs. OH... work signed my up for a 2 day team leader training. My boss had mentioned it to me. Now, we are currently in mid July. There are 5 1/2 months left in the entire year. I have 2 schedule vacation days for those 5 1/2 months... my birthday and the day after. What 2 days would that training they signed up and paid $400 for fall on? Yup, my birthday adn the day after. Nice, huh? I told them no. I told them my friend has already requested the day off of work and I have plans that day. SO now, the only other time this class is offered in the state (not in RI, CT or NH at ALL!) is the 2 days before my birthday in Worcester. My not favorite HR person told me, so I guess you're driving to Worcester. Fun! Labor day is the 6th, the class will be the 7th and 8th, then I'm off the 9th and 10th for my bday. I won't be at work that entire week!
My biggest concern with Worcester that week? The week of Labor day, traffic is always INSANE. With summer over, it'll be nuts! So the 60 or so mile one way trip will be a minimum of 90 minutes, if not more each way. I'll have to leave my house at 7am to get there and hope to be home by 6pm! :( At least they will pay for gas and for 240 miles? I don't remember what the IRS pays but I think it is at least 40 cents a mile, so that's roughly $100. Not too bad, I guess, for 3-4 hours of my life gone in traffic! :)
Tomorrow 2 other things I want to try to do (beside the cleaning and organizing at home, before I meet my friend at the pool) is to go for a run and also check out the square down the street. I know there is a yoga place around the corner, but I don't drive right in front of it. I want to know if I can take a yoga class that close to home!
That's it! Time for bed!
I've had a good night tonight doing much of nothing, but that was the goal. I watched a little tv, read a magazine, cleaned out an old box of nothing. And now I'm on the laptop. I plan on getting to bed pretty early and possibly catching up on my sleep. I have a list ready for tomorrow of things I would like to accomplish. I'm ok if I don't even do half on the list. It is a pretty far reaching list! :) But as long as I get a few things done and get some of the more major cleaning things done... the floors and the fridge are the priorities right now.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm meeting a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a year. She's actually my boss's daughter who used to work with us. She was a work friend and since she stopped working there, we've emailed a bit, but that's it. I have never seen her outside of work. I'm meeting her at 3 where she is house sitting and hanging at the pool. Then we are getting ready there and going to see Bon Jovi tomorrow night. This will be interesting. Again... my boss's daughter. So the conversation about the office will be muted a bit. We'll see.
Thing is, I love her dad! He's a great boss. Him and I get along REALLY well. We just click. I really like and respect him. He told me that someone who we fired around March said she thought that he favored me. Whatever. We just get along and I like him. So that part of it, I can be honest to her about. But the bs office politics crap? That's the part I have to watch.
I realized I just don't do office politics very well. I don't like. I don't play it. I don't do games. I am who I am. That's it.
I'm really happy for the weekend. It was a long week. I need the break. It was long, but very productive. And I'm just tired! I'm spent. I'm here on Friday night at almost 10pm on my sofa in my pj's and looking forward to going to sleep! :)
Sunday I'm heading up to my parents house for the day again. Not sure on the weather, if it will be a beach day or not. Need to wait until tomorrow to find out for sure. If we can do the beach, that'll be the choice (only so many weekends in a summer for the beach!). If not, I asked mom if the 3 of us can golf at the par 3 near her house. I'd like to go with my dad there too. I'm not sure if he'd be up for it, but I'd like the practice and I'd like his pointers and opinions on how I'm doing.
Overall, this was a really good week, just the normal ups and downs. OH... work signed my up for a 2 day team leader training. My boss had mentioned it to me. Now, we are currently in mid July. There are 5 1/2 months left in the entire year. I have 2 schedule vacation days for those 5 1/2 months... my birthday and the day after. What 2 days would that training they signed up and paid $400 for fall on? Yup, my birthday adn the day after. Nice, huh? I told them no. I told them my friend has already requested the day off of work and I have plans that day. SO now, the only other time this class is offered in the state (not in RI, CT or NH at ALL!) is the 2 days before my birthday in Worcester. My not favorite HR person told me, so I guess you're driving to Worcester. Fun! Labor day is the 6th, the class will be the 7th and 8th, then I'm off the 9th and 10th for my bday. I won't be at work that entire week!
My biggest concern with Worcester that week? The week of Labor day, traffic is always INSANE. With summer over, it'll be nuts! So the 60 or so mile one way trip will be a minimum of 90 minutes, if not more each way. I'll have to leave my house at 7am to get there and hope to be home by 6pm! :( At least they will pay for gas and for 240 miles? I don't remember what the IRS pays but I think it is at least 40 cents a mile, so that's roughly $100. Not too bad, I guess, for 3-4 hours of my life gone in traffic! :)
Tomorrow 2 other things I want to try to do (beside the cleaning and organizing at home, before I meet my friend at the pool) is to go for a run and also check out the square down the street. I know there is a yoga place around the corner, but I don't drive right in front of it. I want to know if I can take a yoga class that close to home!
That's it! Time for bed!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Been a while
Lots has gone on this month and it has been pretty busy. Full of lots of ups and downs, but slowly starting to even out and things are looking pretty positive overall.
Starting when I last wrote, I did get diagnoised with ADD. I saw my primary care doctor and she prescribed me something that I started taking this past weekend. Today was day 6 on it and I have already seen a difference in my life. Positive differences. So it is nice.
I was down the cape for a week with my family. No blow outs with the family. 7 days straight at the beach! I got a great tan!
The day before I left I pulled a muscle in my lower back. It was horrible. I couldn't do anything. I jogged once, but it made it worse. I was taking muscle relaxers up to 3 times a day! Then on the Monday I went back to work, when it was almost better, after my shower, I flipped my head down to put my hair up in a towel. Did it ALL over again! That SUCKED. SO the entire week last week my back was sore again.
That night (the first monday back) I started up the newest session of the couch to 5K. I couldn't run like I wanted to, so I did the week 1 training. And I realized that with the whistle, its hard to not do what they are doing. Plus, not running at all on my own, I've lost LOTS of it. This week I going way faster than I would but I still did the week 2 training with the newbies. But I do love this group. They are SO good and REALLY nice people!
I golfed this week too on Tuesday night and did ok. Per my group, I did great. I know I kept up and I even got a legit par on one! Ok, so I carried the ball a couple of times, but that's ok! :)
Work is insane as always, but I've seen that I've been handling the stress better than I would otherwise before. SO I'm ok with it for now. Plus tomorrow is Friday!
I've been trying to reach out to a few people and basically trying to work on making some friendships. I already consider 2 of the girls from the fitness group friends but even more now. And after golf on Tuesday I went out with another for a drink when we were done. We'll see how those keep going, but I'm trying.
As far as my monthly goals? I started ADD treatment, haven't found a yoga class, haven't called for an eye doctor apt, and with my back injury I am not at 3 miles anymore... not even sure about being at 2 miles right now. I didn't blow up with my family on vacation, I'm trying to make plans with someone for Sunday night. But with my weight... I did weigh myself extra, but more because of the ADD medication. It causes appatite suppressent. I know I have lost weight. So I'm checking on where I am with that too.
So that's it! That's where I am at in July at this point.
Starting when I last wrote, I did get diagnoised with ADD. I saw my primary care doctor and she prescribed me something that I started taking this past weekend. Today was day 6 on it and I have already seen a difference in my life. Positive differences. So it is nice.
I was down the cape for a week with my family. No blow outs with the family. 7 days straight at the beach! I got a great tan!
The day before I left I pulled a muscle in my lower back. It was horrible. I couldn't do anything. I jogged once, but it made it worse. I was taking muscle relaxers up to 3 times a day! Then on the Monday I went back to work, when it was almost better, after my shower, I flipped my head down to put my hair up in a towel. Did it ALL over again! That SUCKED. SO the entire week last week my back was sore again.
That night (the first monday back) I started up the newest session of the couch to 5K. I couldn't run like I wanted to, so I did the week 1 training. And I realized that with the whistle, its hard to not do what they are doing. Plus, not running at all on my own, I've lost LOTS of it. This week I going way faster than I would but I still did the week 2 training with the newbies. But I do love this group. They are SO good and REALLY nice people!
I golfed this week too on Tuesday night and did ok. Per my group, I did great. I know I kept up and I even got a legit par on one! Ok, so I carried the ball a couple of times, but that's ok! :)
Work is insane as always, but I've seen that I've been handling the stress better than I would otherwise before. SO I'm ok with it for now. Plus tomorrow is Friday!
I've been trying to reach out to a few people and basically trying to work on making some friendships. I already consider 2 of the girls from the fitness group friends but even more now. And after golf on Tuesday I went out with another for a drink when we were done. We'll see how those keep going, but I'm trying.
As far as my monthly goals? I started ADD treatment, haven't found a yoga class, haven't called for an eye doctor apt, and with my back injury I am not at 3 miles anymore... not even sure about being at 2 miles right now. I didn't blow up with my family on vacation, I'm trying to make plans with someone for Sunday night. But with my weight... I did weigh myself extra, but more because of the ADD medication. It causes appatite suppressent. I know I have lost weight. So I'm checking on where I am with that too.
So that's it! That's where I am at in July at this point.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Goals and review and overall updates
Kind of forgot about my monthly goals. Not good. Overall June was a tough month, especially at work. Things were just challenging.
1. I had a ton of stress. I didn't act out against others when I was stressed, so that's an improvement I guess. I know if I can say one way I handled it well. I just handled it.
2. I ran 3 miles twice in a week, so I got close to my goal. I still did 6 mils in a week, right? :)
3. I didn't weigh myself at all. I was 143 on May 30th and today I was 144.4. (my plan is to weigh myself on July 12th when I'm back from vacation and again on August 2nd)
4. I don't know if any situations came up that I thought about wanting control. So I can't say this one matters this month.
So... that was June. What else looking back? I was officially diagnosed with ADD. Not that my rambelings didn't already give that one away! We'll see what happens when I hear more from my doctors. But I do love the book I bought about ADD my doctor recommended! Delivered from Distraction. SO good!
Crap with work was out of control and I almost walked out of the buildig more than once! My stress level is out of control! I'm really looking forward to vacation! No work until 7/12!
I loved golf, had fun running and ate pretty well. I finished my lessons and played twice. Two 9 hole par 3. I did ok. Not great, but not horrible. I know with more practice I'll be much better, but it was fun! I'm doing my best to reach out to other people and develope more friendships. Its hard for me to make connections with people. I have many superficial relationships but I'm trying hard to develop more real relationships and friendships.
So my goals for July?
1. Fitness/health goals:
Run 3 miles 3 times a week for 2 weeks.
Golf at least 3 times
make decisions on ADD treatment
Make an eye doctor apt.
take a yoga class
Other:
Only weigh myself on July 2nd and 12th.
Make plans outside of meetup to spend time with a friend on the south shore.
Get along with my family down the Cape. No blow outs.
Lots of goals but I think I can do it all... nothing unreasonable or unobtainable! :)
1. I had a ton of stress. I didn't act out against others when I was stressed, so that's an improvement I guess. I know if I can say one way I handled it well. I just handled it.
2. I ran 3 miles twice in a week, so I got close to my goal. I still did 6 mils in a week, right? :)
3. I didn't weigh myself at all. I was 143 on May 30th and today I was 144.4. (my plan is to weigh myself on July 12th when I'm back from vacation and again on August 2nd)
4. I don't know if any situations came up that I thought about wanting control. So I can't say this one matters this month.
So... that was June. What else looking back? I was officially diagnosed with ADD. Not that my rambelings didn't already give that one away! We'll see what happens when I hear more from my doctors. But I do love the book I bought about ADD my doctor recommended! Delivered from Distraction. SO good!
Crap with work was out of control and I almost walked out of the buildig more than once! My stress level is out of control! I'm really looking forward to vacation! No work until 7/12!
I loved golf, had fun running and ate pretty well. I finished my lessons and played twice. Two 9 hole par 3. I did ok. Not great, but not horrible. I know with more practice I'll be much better, but it was fun! I'm doing my best to reach out to other people and develope more friendships. Its hard for me to make connections with people. I have many superficial relationships but I'm trying hard to develop more real relationships and friendships.
So my goals for July?
1. Fitness/health goals:
Run 3 miles 3 times a week for 2 weeks.
Golf at least 3 times
make decisions on ADD treatment
Make an eye doctor apt.
take a yoga class
Other:
Only weigh myself on July 2nd and 12th.
Make plans outside of meetup to spend time with a friend on the south shore.
Get along with my family down the Cape. No blow outs.
Lots of goals but I think I can do it all... nothing unreasonable or unobtainable! :)
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