willowraven's Journal

Part 4) Weekly Obstacle Busting & Strategizing!!! (this is worth 100 points and is the same each week).  Please share your obstacle and strategy with the group :)

• Each week, pick at least 1 obstacle that has prevented you from succeeding in the past, and
• Create your own strategy to bust that obstacle!!! In your own words, describe how you will replace or change that behaviour or pattern that sabotages you! 
• Share with the group and post your obstacle and strategy here for your 100 points
• If you are ambitious or on a roll, feel free to tackle a 2nd or 3rd obstacle!  Sometimes *epiphanies* come in waves!  ;)

Ok, since I missed Weeks 1, 2 and 3, I'm making up and doing all of them in this post. 


Week 1 Obstacle

Obstacle:  I find that I sometimes get bored with my food choices, which leads to boredom with my "diet" and lifestyle change, and that makes me want to cheat.

Strategy:  To avoid boredom, I plan on trying different foods, or re-try foods that I might have not liked years ago (since tastebuds can change).  I am going to look for - and use - recipes from various sources that are healthy, low-calorie, low-fat, (etc) and also use more spices and herbs, and try using new ones as well.  I am also bringing in more grains and 'plant-based' items to my diet, in an attempt to make my overall diet healthier, and have more low-energy dense foods to keep my calories down and my stomach full.


Week 2 Obstacle

Obstacle:  I find that sometimes I just don't 'feel like' exercising.  I would just rather laze around and do nothing.

Strategy:  To remind myself of my goals, and what I am trying to accomplish, I hung a pair of shorts on the ourside of my closet door so that it is something physical that I see each day when I get up.  If I want to be able to fit in those shorts I am going to have to exercise and eat right!  The other way is to be in the exercise challenge here at CC, as I want to try and keep up and participate with the others.  I want to at least do the best I can for the challenge.


Week 3 Obstacle

Obstacle:  When I have a major disappointment (like the scale earlier this week) I get so frustrated and figure 'whats the use' and just want to give up.

Strategy:  Allow myself to feel the feelings, and then think out, rationally, what is really going on.  For example, once I got past that first day, and I went through the 'renewed' sense of committment, and got in 12 waters yesterday, and working on passing 8 waters today, I realized that I had not been doing well with my water at all during the last 2 weeks, so most likely most - or all - of the 10 lbs I "gained" was possibly water/fluid retention, especially since I got on the scale this AM (3 times, to make sure) and they all said the same thing:  396.8.  4 lbs in 2 days?  And I was in the bathroom almost every hour yesterday, peeing - and again today and tonite.  So I am going to give myself a few days getting back on the water and see if that's part of the problem.  However the strategy is to not get so upset that I am ready to quit, like I have done NUMEROUS times in the past.  Quitting is not going to help me.  Learning about the experience, will.