One day, I will

I thought I'd set this up as a way for anyone and everyone to put their goals out there, for themselves, and others to see. As a reminder, motivation, or even to inspire others who may find they want the same. However, try to list things your new and healthier lifestyle will bring you in particular whether your weight goals are loss, maintainance, gain, or whether you're trying to straighten other health and life issues and need that reminder there. List as many as you like, to this one:

One day, I will...

Next, having personally realised lately how important it is to be honest and accountable in things, having confessed that I have relapsed in the past few months, give yourself promises of five things you will never again do to hurt yourself. Emotionally, physically, or whatever else. I say five because I'd like to keep this generally positive. :]

I promise myself I will never again...

Lastly, still on that theme of honesty, list one thing:

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...

I'll post mine shortly, but I thought this might help those of you who want some reminders of motivation whatever your goals. I think I will probably print mine out when I am done writing it out, too, to carry with me.

One day, I will...
See my sister get married (because I know she will).
Start a family.
Have a child.
Get my anemia done, treated, sorted, stable and not fluctuating so much that I am always dropping in energy and mood.
Build up healthy muscle and manage a good relationship with exercise.
Learn to dance.
Learn to knit.
Start painting again.
Visit the US and Canada.
Find someone who loves me for every last little bit of me, flaws and all, beyond myself.
Learn to do the above myself.
Get something published.
Get through Uni and into an amazing field of work.
That, or start my own Shakeaway up because I freaking love my current job too.
Be rid of my anorexia for good.

I promise myself I will never again...
Spend countless hours exercising to a point of exhaustion, tears, or of wandering around aimlessly for hours around my neighbourhood just to burn calories.
Give my heart to someone that should not hold it.
Stay quiet when someone is doing wrong by me particularly when my health is involved.
Call myself fat.
Starve.

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...
I once stopped taking a medication because of its caloric content.

Good idea!

One day, I will:

Go back to Australia and see the rest of the country.
Have my entire body covered in tattoos.
Know what to say to my high school coach, who is the reason I am here right now, and I will be able to thank him.
Find the right person for me.
Get into grad school.
Graduate from said grad school with my PH. D.
Forgive you, but that day is not today.
Forgive myself, and that starts today.

I promise I will never again:

Base my self-worth on the image in the mirror or compare myself to people I know I do not want to be.
Have my heart broken.
Believe that the Hollywood ideal is any sort of real.
Be this broke.
Live in upstate New York.

I am somewhat embarassed to admit:

I used to bite my toenails as a kid. Now, I've somewhat lost that flexibility.

One day, I will:

Run a half marathon
Learn the guitar
Graduate, get into Uni, and find a career path I can enjoy
Make money
Be, feel, and look super healthy
Stop being a master procastinator
Make the best of life and learn to enjoy it
Get rid of my binging issue
Learn a martial art
Learn to skate and snowboard
Learn to cook properly
Travel though all of Japan

I promise I will never again:

Eat to the point of extreme pain
Make a big life desicion based on what another person thinks is best for me
Beat myself up over my failure

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit

I used to steal money whenever it wouldnt be too obvious...=[

One day, I will:

Run the Chicago half-marathon
Be 100% happy with my body
Have big calves that I love (run, run, run)
Read one book a month that is not for a class
Live outside of Wisconsin
Travel every European country
Travel every state in the U.S.
Camp outside with only the stars above me
Learn to knit
Have an inspirational tattoo
Have a career that I love

I promise I will never again:

Call myself fat
Miss an opportunity to be with friends
Worry about what people think of me
Let certain people affect my mood

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit:

I love being fitter than my roommate--it pushes me to be my best

One day I will..

• Look at food and just see as what it is.. Food. Not something to cling onto, not something that's my enemy, not something that is my best friend when I'm upset.. Just something for me to enjoy in order to have energy and live.
• Go to college & graduate to become an ESL teacher.
• Learn a new language.
• Travel to many places overseas.
• Learn to cook & shop for myself.
• Eat what's good for me and what I'd like to eat, not just what's conveniant and doesn't take longer then 2 minutes to prepare.
• Do work first, play later.
• Find a nice Theravada temple to receive lessons and guidance from.
• Go to a buddhist retreat that lasts a couple of weeks.
• Be able to draw lovely portraits & in color!
• Find my own "art style". 
• Find love. If not with someone else, but in myself.
• Volunteer and help as many people as I possibly can before I die.

I promise I will never again..

• Sit down and let my actions run me into depression.
• Underestimate my abilities, or anyone else's.
• Eat to the point that I feel like puking.
• Kill a living thing under a bad intention.
• Say the words "I hate you" to anyone. 

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit..

• I am jealous and envious of my best friend; She has a job, I don't.. She's outgoing and can make friends with anyone, I can't. These things sometimes irritate me and depress me, even though I know there's qualities I have that she doesn't and may never attain.
• I used to go eat bowls of ice cream, and then exercise for two or so hours because I thought if I didn't, I would never lose any weight.
• I would get moody when people touched foods I wanted to binge on.
• A lot of the time when I say I'm studying, I'm actually just browsing forums and reading shoujo manga. My parents say I'm so very "responsible" because I study and take care of myself so much. (LOL, much?) 
• I want to be leaner/faster/stronger/smarter/more responsible then my brothers and any of my friends. It'd bug me otherwise.

One day, I will...

• - Play for an A-League Hockey Team
  
• - Break my stick in half with a slapshot
• - Have a 35" waist
• - Go to the Monaco Grand Prix
• - Have a 4.0 GPA
• - Join the Air/National Guard
• - Bicycle for more than 10 miles at a time
  

I promise myself I will never again...

• - Eat to comfort myself
• - Dwell on the regrets of the past
• - Tell myself I am unworthy or incapable of anything.
• - Let **** think they can push me around.
• - Call myself a failure.
  

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...

• - The only reason I can't bike for more than 10 miles is because it hurts me...down there.. too much.

Kaybug: A lot of the time when I say I'm studying, I'm actually just browsing forums and reading shoujo manga. My parents say I'm so very "responsible" because I study and take care of myself so much. (LOL, much?) - replace "manga" with "webcomics and Postsecret" and I've done this too >>

Original Post by lalabanana:

Kaybug: A lot of the time when I say I'm studying, I'm actually just browsing forums and reading shoujo manga. My parents say I'm so very "responsible" because I study and take care of myself so much. (LOL, much?) - replace "manga" with "webcomics and Postsecret" and I've done this too >>

ah me too. webcomes, manga, and postsecret! (and cc forums)

*hangs head in shame*

One day I will...
feel comfortable in the nude.
find a well-defined, lean physique reflected in the mirror.
find my Catherine Earnshaw (or Dagny Taggart).
have a diverse, rich and strong investment portfolio.
have made/saved enough money to treat my mother and her best friend to retirement abroad.
have ground-breaking work peer-reviewed and published in a reputable scientific journal.
have worked in an archive, a library, a mortuary, a museum, and a research firm.
learn to play the piano.
learn to play the violin.
own a hearse.
run a six minute mile!
sing in (cover)band.
take up Fencing.

I promise myself I will never again...
allow myself to wallow in self-pity for prolonged periods of time.
binge to "cope with" (evade) unresolved emotional baggage.
eat out of boredom.
go without food as a way of "making up" for a "bad" day.
think of myself as grotesque, morbidly obese, or unsightly.

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...
I have yet to kiss a girl, be in a relationship, much less have sex.
I admire my body in the mirror for a couple of minutes while the shower warms up.

One Day I will...

• fall in love
• grow old with them
• have kids
• have a healthy lifestyle
• travel the world
• stop procrastinating
• find something to strive for
• become a runner!
• become more aware of the world around me
• have my ideal body :)
• help each and every one of the people I love just as much as they have helped me

• have an eating disorder (never, never, never)
• be unreasonably jealous
• be selfish
• let someone hurt me
• feel sorry for myself
• think its "okay" to eat bad foods when I'm down 

• I read and watch manga and anime - none of my friends do
• I've never been asked out on a date/been the object of a crush
• COMPLETELY embarrassed to have had an ED... but accepting

One Day I will...
Get into a job that i always aspired
Buy a beautiful house
Feel good to see myself in mirror
Find someone who will love me for what i'm
Have kids
Have a vacation in Switzerland
Spend some considerable time in charity works
Write a book and get it published
Spend most of my free time with friends i adore
I promise myself I will never again...
Take an emotional decision
Be selfish
Be pushed by somebody emotionally
Think myself unworthy
I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...
I lie when the situation calls for

One day I will...

• Have babies with my husband
• Have a job I love
• Write a novel
• Have something I wrote published (short story, poem, book, whatever)
• Feel enthused, not apathetic, about my life every day
• Learn more languages
• Get my nose pierced
• Get a tattoo
• Maintain my goal weight
• Do more archaeology

I promise myself I will never again...

• Eat just because i'm bored
• Bite my nails
• Sit around doing nothing when I know there are things I need/want to do
• Lie about things I have/have not done just to avoid confrontation
• Allow selfishness on my part to cause an argument with my husband

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...

• There have been (many) days in the past where I have eaten cheese with every meal (in large quantities)

One day I will...

Be proud of myself for a change.

Know what its like to have a healthy athletic body.

Find love and start a family.

Be a much better father to my children than mine was to me.

Work hard, succeed, and be content with it.

I promise myself I will never again...

Smoke.

Feel ashamed of myself or my body.

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...

I've lost over 60 pounds so far, but the more I lose the fatter I feel. I guess its because there's not that much left to go, so instead of seeing the progress I just see what remains.

I may be the loneliest person alive. I can't stand to be at home or away from people. I simply must be around people almost all the time. I was a big introvert for most of my life, and now I guess I'm trying to hurry up and make up for lost time. I wish I could meet a thousand new people a day.

Great idea for a post topic ms. lalabanana. Good luck to everyone with your goals.

One day I will...

- Go to Europe

- Get married

- Reach my goal weight

- Love my body for what it is, and what it allows me to do

- Run for fun, instead of to "work out"

- Stop worrying about taking care of everyone else, and take care of me

- Realize it's okay to not be perfect, to not be a Stepford wife

I promise I will never again...

- Eat to make myself feel better emotionally

- Cry when I try on something and it looks horrible

- Blame myself for his failings

I am somewhat embarassed to admit...

- I still blame myself for her death... for not being there to stop it.

One day, I will...

*Visit a foreign country, any country!

*Get a Harley-Davidson motorcycle

*^ and cruise all over the US!

*Finish the book I started writing years ago

*Become more organized/tidy

*Use the many cookbooks I've bought, rather than just look at the pictures

*Brush up on my Spanish and possibly take Russian, such a lovely language

*Learn more about biology/anatomy/physiology/astronomy/etc...

*Accept that my thighs always have and always will be larger than most womens', regardless of how much I try to starve and exercise - it's in my genes

*Learn as much as I can about nutrition and how to properly take care of and love myself

*Watch and buy as much anime as I can!!!

*Cosplay without feeling like a loser

I promise I will never again...

*Judge others based on appearances/first meeting, it takes more than that to know a person

*Starve myself

*Over-exercise myself to the point that I'm constantly in pain

*Count every calorie I put into my mouth

*Try to live up to unreal standards of appearance

*Go a day without telling someone I love them

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit...

*I have cut myself a couple times.  Luckily I saw how pointless it was, in that the scar only reminded me of why I was depressed to begin with.

*Almost everything makes me gassy, lol  :P

*I play World of Warcraft.  Luckily, I have learned that moderation is key.

*Not so much embarrassed to admit, but feel weird admitting that I welcome arachnids into my home.  I have 11 tarantulas and 1 scorpion and I love them as if they were cuddly rabbits.

One day I will...

Get married and start a family
Love my job
Feel sexy in a swimsuit
Finish reading the books on my list
Travel outside the US
Learn how to play Magic

I promise myself I will never again...

Criticize myself based on my weight. (Okay, I probably will, but I'm making a serious effort to be more kind to myself)

I am somewhat embarassed to admit...

I still sleep with my baby blanket. It reminds me of living at home with my mom and waking up next to my kitty.
I also sing to myself when I'm home alone or in the shower

One day I will...

once again have a healthy relationship with food

learn to trust others

fall in love

love my body

learn how to play the piano

eat a piece of fatty cheesecake without feeling guilty

change the world

I promise myself I will never again....

deprive myself of food as a means of comfort

deny my emotions and keep them bottled inside

hide who I am to make others happy

resort to physically and emotionally abusing myself because I don't feel worthy of being loved

I am somewhat embarassed to admit....

sometimes I get really gassy at night and I toot a little much

I feel like i get butt sweat more than other people...lol

Antagonist: I have yet to kiss a girl, be in a relationship, much less have sex.

Remember, there's no rush. :] And if I may say so, personally, I admire the guys who choose to take their time. Nothing at all to be ashamed of.

One day I will

• Get married
• Run a half-marathon and/or sprint tri
• Get a job that I love
• Travel more
• Become more thoughtful of others
• Stop being so judgemental of myself

I promise myself I will never again

• Numb myself with food or alcohol
• Run from my problems
• Let small things get to me
• Waste money/food

I am somewhat embarrased to admit:

• I used to steal everything in high school...clothes, money, food..you name it
• I had a substance abuse problem in high school/college
• I'm too lazy to shower sometimes but I feel better once I do
• Binging is very embarrasing to admit

One day I will:

Go to China

Go to Africa

visit the last 15 states in the US I haven't been to.

learn to speak Spanish well enough to hold a conversation without the other person being very patient with me.

Finish reading Thomas Pogge's book

get another degree

get to work on time for 2 days in a row (starting slow here)

get in the habit of exercising enough so that I'm sure I've exercised plenty most week

exercise in the morning... maybe

get in the habit of emptying the cat litter more regularly

I promise myself I will never again

Live in upstate New York.  That is if I ever leave.  I thought it was funny someone else put that on their list, so I just had to copy.