Just like today is a new day, I want to have a new day, meaning, I want today to be different than my usual day.Today I want to focus on what I have, no matter how much I might have trivialized it in the past.Today I want to magnify what is good and I want to minimize what I have perceived as being bad.Everything is about getting back to basics in this new path.Strength Training, Walking and/or Swimming as a daily routine is fairly basic and repetitive.No one complains about being … [Read more...] about I want today to be different
Motivation
Starting Over
Starting Over , have you ever done that in your life? Somehow I feel like I have done that quite a bit. I would love to hear from anyone else who has had to start over in life.Starting over can apply to so many situations in life, of course in the most extreme example I think of the earthquake that is still wreaking havoc in Nepal. As of this writing, the death toll is over 4,000 and projected that it might reach as high as 10,000. Imagine what starting over must mean for a person whose home … [Read more...] about Starting Over
Progress Not Perfection
Getting Real Day 2 My own experiment with vegetables for 30 days Progress not Perfection.Today is my second day of attempting to keep it real when it comes to the food.As you know, I have put on approximately 25 pounds over the last 6 months and yesterday I wrote about how I want to stop that roller coaster once and for all.For me to do that, I have to accept that my physiology just does not process all foods equally and that I cannot subject myself to trying to be more … [Read more...] about Progress Not Perfection
Freedom from Fear of Obesity and Addiction to Food
Freedom from fear of and addiction to food and freedom from obesity. This is an appropriate time to speak about freedom from fear and freedom from addiction. Last night, after some consternation and self talk, I decided to suck it up and go to a Seder, a Passover meal, despite the emotions that I was feeling previously. I am glad that I did. The main reason is that it is important for people to continue to move on no matter what other people are thinking or saying about them. Probably that is … [Read more...] about Freedom from Fear of Obesity and Addiction to Food
How to Focus On Yourself and Heal Estrangements and Depression
How to focus on yourself, seriously? We know that to "Focus On Yourself", this might sound selfish, but I think as we go on here, we can all see that what might seem selfish at the outset, is actually a great benefit to those that we care about in the long run. Many years ago, I spent a lot of time writing about why I thought I was experiencing some very isolating situations, separations from very important people in my life. Recently, this last Monday, I had the good fortune to actually have a … [Read more...] about How to Focus On Yourself and Heal Estrangements and Depression