Monthly Habit Preparation
First off, one more reminder to submit your health tips articles by April 30. I’m running this as a blog carnival, so I’ll do a post with links to everyone’s submissions. Please submit yours and pass the word along as well.
I’m also prepping for my May monthly habit — exercising daily. My goal is to [...]
The right and wrong
I’ve struggled a lot lately with my eating and exercise. Most of that I can attribute to stress and simple getting out of the habits that I’d been trying to form. However, all isn’t lost!
What I’m doing right
No seconds. This has been huge for me, and I credit this one habit with keeping my [...]
Habit Update, part 2
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I wanted to take a moment and update how my habit building for this month is going. My goal was to give up sweets while I’m at work AND to start weighing every day.
In the last two weeks, I’ve had sweets at work once. Not bad.
I’m weighing about every other day. I’m not [...]
Habit Update
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I wanted to work on two new habits: weighing every day and avoiding sweets at work.
While I haven’t been entirely successful, I have done better lately. I’m weighing more often, but I’m still not in the habit of doing it every day.
As for the sweets, I fell off [...]
Improving Habits
I need to get back on track developing my habits, so I’m going to bring back the monthly habits post here on the blog.
For this month, I want to do two things.
start weighing again daily
stop eating sweets at work
Unfortunately, I’ve gotten back into the habit of eating sweets with lunch and/or from the vending machine. [...]
Update
Work has been hectic, so my blogging schedule is way off track. You’ll probably see some shorter posts for the next few days until things slow down again.
Packing lunch daily is going well. I’m experimenting with different stir-fry recipes, so it’s going well so far. I’m getting used to not eating out, so that’s a [...]
Exercise update
As I mentioned the other day, this month, I’ve committed to building the exercise habit.
So, here’s my update so far.
Yesterday, I did some shopping. Yep, I know that’s a stretch, but give me a break. It was my first day.
Today, I spent over an hour painiting trim. We have an older home with [...]
September Habit
I thought I’d bring back the monthly habit posts here. For one thing, I think a lot of my recent weight loss success has been due to creating (and maintaining) a no-seconds habit.
As I mentioned in that earlier post, I haven’t had much luck building the exercise habit lately. So, in September my goal is [...]
Temptation!
Okay, I did it. I made it more than half the month, I made it through eating out, candy jars at work and at home. Did I cheat then? Nope.
I broke down and ate two Dove sugar free chocolates. (sigh) My chocolate cravings came back full-force today, and I have to say these really helped. [...]
This Month’s Habit: Progress Report?
So, if you’re working on giving up sweets this month, how’s it going?
I’ve been able to maintain my goal, but it’s difficult. I can’t say that I haven’t had cravings for sweets; I have! I’m using artificial sweetener in my tea, and a banana in my cereal adds enough sweetness that I don’t miss can [...]