Emelie's journey to more energy, and a more balanced life

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Hi all,

This is a weightloss forum, and eventhough I do have a weigthtloss goal, I want my focus to be the actions, rather than the outcome. I have previosuly weigted less than now, but it was a struggle, and I never reached the balance I was aiming for. My weightloss goal is 56kg. I am currently at 66.1 (at least I was about a week ago). I don't want to weigh myself daily (which I used to). I don't want to count calories, and I don't want food and excercise to control my entire life.

Instead I want to eat healthily, and treat myself once or twice a week maybe. I want to be able to eat and then forget about food until I am hungry again. I want to have more energy, and just be more healthy in general. Want to get back to my old fitness level, where I ran half maratons and rode several horses a day, and just was very very active. I love that! I am vegetarian, my default diet will be healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner + a fruit or something small for an afternoon snack. + The odd treat here and there, WITHOUT guilt, and without going overboard.

I don't want this to be a diet. I want to find a way to eat and excercise that I can do for the rest of my life. A way that is natural for me and let's me think about other things 99% of the time. I'll also need to work on my sleep, as I know I feel like sh*t when I don't take the sleep seriously, like now.

I'll be checking in here daily to write a quick summary of the day. Bedtime, food, excercise+ three scales from 1 to 10, of how happy I feel, my energy levels, and to what extent I was able to NOT think to much about my eating, weight and excercise but rather use my brain for more important things.

Thanks for checking in! :)
 
Hi Emelie and welcome to the forum!
Emelie said:
I don't want this to be a diet. I want to find a way to eat and excercise that I can do for the rest of my life. A way that is natural for me and let's me think about other things 99% of the time.
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That sounds like an excellent plan. I look forward to seeing you progress.
 
Hi, Emelie & welcome. It does sound like a very good plan. Finding that balance where we don't obsess over food/diet & just eat healthily is a very good idea. I'm trying to do just that.
 
Thanks for your encourageing words both! :)

Super quick update today:

Bedtime last night: 01:36 (not good, but it's my starting point)
Happiness: 6.5
Energy levels: 9 :D
Time spent thinking non-food/weight related thoughts: 5
 
A good start Emelie :)
I won't do a Nana nag about the importance of a good sleep, because it's something I am not getting at the moment.
Here's to better habits!
 
Energy levels did start off great! :D

I have not been in as a good place in the last few days though. I am going through a lot of change outside of what I am writing in this forum (long story short I have resigned from my job, leaving in about three weeks, with the aim of relocating without having another job lined up). So that is sometimes causing me some stress (eating). I used to have really bad binges that made me feel really bad, but that has definitely calmed down. I still overeat big time sometimes, but it's not as bad at all as it used to be. I am realising I need to think about this before I start to establish my new habits. I have watched some very insightful videos on youtube on the subject, and based on this, I will start implementing three things to make the journey to where I want to go easier and more sustainable:

1. Incorporate "unhealthy" foods in the plan. Not just allowing myself, but actually planning on eating it. A very good tip I heard was to eat your binge foods when you do not feel upset. In my case it would basically be eating bread and chocolate when I am feeling really great and have momentum. Not much but a little bit. I think this would be really good for me. To be honest, I don't like about myself that I apparently enjoy these foods, but I guess it is time to live in reality and rather have a little bit of it, as opposed to sh*tloads...
2. Implement 30 min cool off time when I feel upset and want to eat. Use the time to identify/name 5 feelings + 2 thoughts. Once I have done this, I am "ok" to give in. At least I have given myself some time to tune in with how I am feeling and what my thoughts are. I am a massive emotional eater, and any time I have an unpleasant feeling I turn to food...
3. Asking myself if something will nourish me, emotionally, spiritually or physically. Sometimes it can be the right thing to have something small to make yourself feel better, but if I decide to do it after asking myself if something will nourish me I am being a lot more mindful about it.

Other than this I need to start using my polar loop again. It hasn't been charged in probably almost a year. Nothing wrong with it, but got myself a new computer with only USB c ports, so will go out tomorrow to get an adapter so I can charge it again.

Speaking of excercise, I want to start off each day by walking for half an hour, and for now run 5K twice a week + go to the gym 3 times a week. I used to run half marathons and have always loved running, but since having an accident, breaking my foot about a year ago I have not been able to run consistently. Getting back to my former running shape, and being able to enjoy running again is one of my primary goals.

I will also start setting goals for myself. And not weight goals (like I used to), but rather days I was able to stick to the above. First goal is to be able to do 7 days straight. I want to reward myself somehow, but I will have to think about what that could be.

Today's stats:

Bedtime last night: 23:58 (slowly getting earlier)
Happiness: 4
Energy levels: 2...
Time spent thinking non-food/weight related thoughts: 2

Not a great day in other words...
 
"Not a great day in other words..."
Maybe not, but an excellent plan.
I like the saying "Fail to plan & you plan to fail". We all need a plan.
You can do this :)
 
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