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Breakfast: Baked Chicken Breast
Lunch: Baked Chicken Breast
Dinner: Taco Salad (seasoned Turkey taco meat, lettuce, baby spinach, cheese, greek yogurt, taco sauce)

Gym: 1.7 Miles, 1.7 Total

Clean: 20/10 X2

Here I go again! My goal is to do this for 60 days, because by then (according to The Guy On The Radio Who Was Selling A Book About Accomplishing Goals) it will be *habbit*.

The guy on the radio hooked me with this line, and will be my tag line for all these Diet posts: "The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago. The second best time is RIGHT NOW".

Not sure why that has so much inspiration for me, but it does. It really, really does :)

The Gym, as always, will be keeping track of how far I walk/cycle/elliptical in miles to try and see if I can virtually "walk to Disneyland" :)

The cleaning is a new system that

khristle introduced me to through UnF*ck Your Habitat, an excellent blog for people who have trouble cleaning stuff like I do. They propose that when you clean, limit yourself to either 20-minute bursts with a 10-minute break between them, or 45-minute bursts with 15-minute breaks. This really helps overcome the overwhelming sens of "Oh crap where do I even start???" crush that usually keeps me from cleaning. With a 20 or 45 minute burst of cleaning I can just kind of flit around the house doing whatever is in my path and then take a break and look around to see what still needs to be done.

As long as I do at least 1 45/15 or 2 20/10's, I feel like I've accomplished something each day :)

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I have been using the timed work/break strategy for a number of years. What I usually do is pretend I'm Mr. Scott on the Enterprise and in 20 minutes the Klingons are going to blow the ship up unless I can repair the engines by putting every isolinear chip (dish) into the computer core (dishwasher) and get the engines back online. If I get done 5 minutes early I also get the weapons back online and get the satisfaction of blowing the Klingons up. If I fail the Enterprise is doomed.

"Fall seven times, get up eight."

I did 1.010 miles on the elliptical today :0)

This sounds like an excellent plan to me. What are your specific food goals? Keep in mind that the hungrier you let yourself get, the more you'll want to abuse portions later. Its best to stick to six small portions a day, to keep metabolism active & cravings in check. I keep a binder and plan all of my meals, chores, and workouts way ahead. And I keep a daily journal of my foods, activity, symptoms, progress, a motivational quote, and something that Im grateful for, every day. It works for me until it doesnt, and then I roll around in that for a bit before I jump back up. I spend five minutes picking up each room every day, and devote one day a week to "thoroughly" cleaning a different area (Wed/Living Room, Thurs/Dining Room, Fri/Kitchen, etc.), and a daily list that my daughter helps with (dishes, laundry). When I get into the flow of things, this is brilliant. As a matter of fact, look up, "happiness, flow." Thats motivation right there. I think I have a neat collection of quotes on my pinterest (maybe scroll down to the more health-related quotes - Ive been on an emotional roller coaster these past few months)...
http://pinterest.com/CGrace76/inspirational-quotes/
And sometimes new recipes get you out of that rut too ...
http://pinterest.com/CGrace76/i-3-food/

You sound like youre on the right path! Keep it up & good luck.

(Make it to Yosemite, and we'll drive you the rest of the way to Disneyland ;0)

Edited 2013-05-30 20:25 (UTC)

Yosemite to Disneyland... hmmmmm :)

My dietary goal is the only one that ever "worked" for me, low-carb. I was a minor celebrity in the last Atkins Explosion, after all :) And even though I had done it *wrong* back then (all meat and cheese and aspartame), this time I'm taking a much more realistic approach that includes a TON of spinach, squash and other low-carb veggies.

Cleaning the way you described has NEVER worked for me, mainly because I am a pack-rat and a completionist. I can't look at the stack of stuff in the the garage and say "Well I'll just work at it for 5 minutes" because 5 minutes just piques my interest in any job and then I get overwhelmed (yeah I know). This 20/10 thing is really good for me, though...

You have to do what works for you. I got sick of our "stuff" and threw most of it out a couple years ago. Best thing Ive ever done. Im right there with you on the low-carb issues. I remained on the Atkins induction for four months straight & lost 70lbs. I felt great. But as soon as I reintroduced carbs, I went nuts, gained 90 back, and became insulin resistant. Lesson learned, as it sounds like you have too. Its taken me three years to knock out 50lbs (60 before cancer), but its been well worth the wait because Ive established real lifestyle changes. At least youre working at it. Thats half the battle, no matter what GI Joe says. Keep it up & keep us posted!

Edited 2013-05-30 22:11 (UTC)

UFYH is a pretty cool site. It isn't the unrealistic Martha Stewart of cleaning and organization. I already do the UFYMorning stuff when I can. Sometimes I goof off online and lose track of time and suddenly it's bedtime and I'm tired and I don't do it. But when I do, my morning is sooooo much smoother.

I even cook up a batch of (my special diet version) breakfast sausage for the week and keep it in a container in the fridge so I have something to take a few bites of in the morning. I don't eat much of an early breakfast. I have a little protein in the form of sausage, and sometimes an egg if I feel like cooking one up AND the kitchen is reasonably clean AND I have the time. :D

Another thing I've done to keep things from getting Fd up is to carry around a basket with me whenever I move around the house. I look for things which don't belong where they are. They go into the basket. When I enter a new room, I check the basket to see if I have items which belong in that room and put them away. Keeps things from getting too cluttered without much effort. I don't go out of my way to pick things up or put them away, but it's amazing just how much gets done with the basket method.

Oh, and the 5-minutes method. I make myself do "just five minutes" of stuff, and usually by the time the five minutes is up, I've accomplished a lot and I'm motivated to keep going for another 10 minutes or so. And if I'm really truly not up to it, by the end of five minutes I know it, so I just wrap up what I'm doing and stop.

"The Gym, as always, will be keeping track of how far I walk/cycle/elliptical in miles to try and see if I can virtually "walk to Disneyland" :)"

Oh, shit, I can't even tell you how much I love that. I think I'll buy a new pedometer and see how quickly I can virtually walk to Tombstone, or Virginia City, or Bodie.

I know, right? And don't get discouraged when you've been working out for a solid week only to find that you've barely made it to your regular grocery store :P

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