Nov 13
Eating…
Yes, one of those practical things. I’ve never been good at the practical things. I said to myself when I started this journey that I would try to eat well, try to take in some sun, go to bed before midnight and conquer one little task a day. It’s now midnight, and I’m not hungry, but I’ve only just realised that all I had to eat today was the other half of Caspar’s cheese and vegemite sandwich. I’m pretty sure that’s not healthy. I had two glasses of milk though. Does that count? I don’t think so.
I need to pay attention to the physical things. I need to have breakfast. I need to not stay here for another hour, just to write I don’t even know what, even though I want to. Because that would be no more balanced than today’s food intake. Errgh. I shall force myself to go to bed. And in the morning, I shall force myself to make having breakfast a priority. If that is the only task I conquer for the day it will be a job well done.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:25 am
Like me, you must be wildly intuitive, eh? I forget to eat, and am not very interested in food unless I go into a food phase.
Also, I tagged you for a silly meme because I want to know weird, random things about you.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Might sound silly but what works for me is to have a schedule, a to-do list, and write things down and tick them off. Yes, even things like *eat breakfast, *half hour in sun weeding garden (use a timer!), *go to bed by 11, and so forth.
On the other hand, mastering one habit at a time is a very efficient way to go. If you make yourself eat breakfast for a month, then it will be automatic and you can move on to adding in the next thing for the next month.
Also I find it helps to tie things in with what you know you will do. I’m sure you do feed Caspar breakfast, so you might make yours at the same time, for instance.
Some of these tricks I have learned from FlyLady: http://www.flylady.com - a wonderful mentor to me and over 445,000 others around the world.
November 14th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Rosemary, even writing the list seems daunting, but it mutates in my head. I should make it solid. (I still didn’t eat breakfast today.)
Eve, I am the same. I have been that way since I was a kid, going for weeks, sometimes months, completely disinterested in food, and then cycling into a voracious phase. Drove my mother crazy until she just gave up. I remember as a kid eagerly opening my lunch box only to find big, fat maggots in it. I was certain that I had packed it only the day before. I went home and cried because I thought people at school had played a cruel joke on me. My mother had a much better concept of when I packed it than I did.
But I’m like that with nearly everything in life. Social and productive for an age then just wanting to be alone and thinking. I wish a job existed that that way of functioning was compatible. Slow and steady, I am not.