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Goal revaluation, action plan setting and to do list made and completed, it was a great day today J.

Reg is feeling a bit better on the antiinflamitories I bought from the chemist yesterday and I love my new easy care, short, but long enough to still look feminine, hair cut. 
Reg and I had a great day together, Reg taking it easy, here in the lounge room with the garden view.  I went and dug the clay bank on the far side of the road between the poplar trees and scooped some of the great leaf mold out of the road side gutters, and dug this and manure into the clay bank then planted peas and beans in the freshly prepared bed, watered then mulched the bed with straw.

Then our daughter Leanne came to visitJ, second time this week, great to see her and wonderful seeing Reg can’t get out easily for us to visit the family, ourselves, at the moment. 

After she left and Reg was resting, I popped out to gym and was so pleased that the weight resistance work continues to get easier. I skipped all the aerobic workout, not wanting to be away too long, not yet, not till Reg is feeling consistently a little better. 

There was a steady fresh rain shower once I got home, and I was delighted, this will get our new crop of veggies off to a great start.

I am feeling so much more positive today, my slump of the previous days is over,  though my couple of days of excessive eating beyond my calorie needs will take  more than a couple of days to wear off, though I never ever felt guilty J for eating according to my emotional desires for a change, as I rarely do emotionally eat these days. It’s just something I need to make sure does not become a habit if I am worried. If I felt it was a problem long term I would seek more assistance with this, there are some great books and programs to help people with emotional eating issues.

To make up for overeating for a few day, I don’t want to rush off into a low calorie diet nor take a slimming pill .  I am learning to strive to stay 'balanced', living healthy, no extremes of binging nor dieting, just healthy lifestyle which can include checking my calorie count to achieve healthy levels of weight loss, if I am overweight. I did recheck what would be the recommended calorie intake for my weight and height if I was aiming to lose between 1 kilo and 500 gram per week (a safe amount for most overweight people), using the charts at Spark People and I again filled in a food diary of what I have eaten today and noted I was within my calorie allowance with a little still to spare.

Where I went off the rails, on my over eating days was by snacking in the evening.  Knowing the evening was my ‘weak’ period, on my overeating days, I will make a fresh garden salad now and a low calorie jelly that I will have with a little low fat natural yogurt, which I love. :-), so I have bulky, but low calorie foods in the fridge if I feel  I want to snack tonight and I will drink a couple of extra glasses of water and cups of tea with skim milk added and find some very interesting work to do, to focus my mind on. 

I’ll also do some goal setting to get my head into focus so I can see that my current short term weight release goal is achievable by Christmas and take a look at those jeans I’m wanting to wear by Christmas, to increase my awareness of why I am not going to snack on high calorie foods this evening.

Observation: - Three days of evening emotional eating.

Corrections Tool: - Do what can be done to relieve the source of the stress. Make positive actions to continue to maintain healthy eating, quantity management and healthy physical activity.  Focus again on the goal and why I want it. Reevaluate the action plan; make sure it is believable and achievable. Plan the ‘to do list’ and then do it. 


I have postponed my follow up post to yesterday's 'the pip' blog post, until tomorrow when I will post about how I use a skill I learned as an artist, to help overcome moments of indecision and generally know when it's OK to leave my to do list, undone, and take a rest.
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Tonight I relaxed with a rose from my garden a small canvas and my oil paints, and a bowl of home grown salad vegetables and a cup of tea, as my snack nibbles.  The art work isn’t finished and photographs badly due to light reflecting off the wet paint, but it was a great evening of creative expression and escapism :-),  Bedtime now. xxx
Follow up, the following morning.
After I had finished painting last night, I cleaned away all evidence that I had been painting, and cleaned myself up, then headed to bed.  Reg woke and asked me 'Why I was wearing an apron'.  I told him 'I had been painting'.   He said, 'That's good', and he did sound so genuinely pleased :-).  I think that his reading my blog has helped him get in touch with my need to be creative :-).
Today I will set up more of my painting area and this time I'll not be packing it away before I go to bed at night, my painting area, will remain permanently set up, and I plan to paint every day, now as well as write. 

Yesterday I proved I could fit in, carer duties, gardening, gym, home, writing, painting and lol, I even found time to blow wave my hair, walk the dog, and plan to eat well with consideration to my future well being, not just the instant gratification of now.
The painting is certainly no masterpiece, but the day, in review, was FANTASTIC.
 


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Jadey link
10/22/2009 6:06am

The colours in that painting are so gorgeous! I love that kind of style. I have seen it before with the beach and sunset I think and it's just gorgeous.

I always THINK I want to plant a veggie garden. But I can't stand to be near the garden so go figure. Th two don't work together. But there's this romantic ideals in my head of fresh fruit and veggies.

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Kathy Shell link
10/25/2009 2:20pm

Thank you Jadey :-).

I must meet you, lol, I just can't imagine anyone not longing to be near a garden, lol, we have so much in common and yet so different, lol, as you said, 'go figure' :-). My first veggie garden when i was a young mum, was a total disaster, I did not understand the need to pre prepare the ground, vegetables are hungry plants and resent competition from weeds, I did not know any of this.

Well looking at my garden now and thinking how disastrous my first veggie patch was, lol, there is hope for me to yet achieve 64 kilo. The parallel will be to do my preparation :-), and not allow too much to compete for attention on my action plan and do do list.

You and I Jadey :-), heading for goal :-). xxxx

Chersa Kathy

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