Roll Call 1-8

[RachelnLa]

Re: Roll Call 1-8

I could have written this mysef. I'm a list maker to the core! That brought me to Flylady to get my house organized. And it works - as long as you do it. What makes me do it? It's broken down into lists. Small lists. Do-able lists. Do that until a routine is established and then you can add to it. If the list gets too long I can feel myself slipping and not following through. If I do slip, it's easy to jump back in because my list is short and I don't feel as though I'm too far behind or there is still too much to do. After doing Flylady for 8 months I have a good routine established. Knowing that a messy house means a messy life.. and now I have a clean house it was time to look at my life (my body). What a mess!

Hey, I'm Rachel. I live in Lousiana and we lost our home to Hurricane Rita. I jumped back to Atkin to gain some control in my life and it worked. I was down 36 pounds and then life got really complicated with trying to rebuild, I got in a wreck which totalled my truck (not my fault) and I just gave up. The pressure was too much. I slipped, I flopped.. and I finally got tired of where I was once again.

I started reading the boards, planning meals, getting water in and added exercise. Some days it all falls together. Some days it doesn't. Hopefully I will establish a rountine and it will become second nature. I try to keep my meals simple and quick. Once that routine is established I will move on to adding things and broadening my recipes. For now this is giving me a routine. Control. So far it's working!

Before grocery shopping I plan my meals. All of them. I don't want to run out of food - that leaves me wide open to slipping. When I get hungry I look at my list of meals. It tells me what to eat. No thinking.. no dreaming.. no.. ahh.. I could have this or that. Nope. I'm still too green to be dreaming up recipes to try. I need routine.

My goals for the day are simply to do flylady routines, water, food, exercise.

So far so good

Morning everyone:

I am a big goaler however, i am a planner goaler if that makes sense. I love to plan, i love breaking things down and saying okay this fits in here and here, but i stink at follow-through and absolute concepts of obtaining, i need huge flexibility. Like when i clean my house for deep clean summer and winter cleaning, i sit down and literally write out what i have to do in each room (i.e., dust rungs on bed, clean out drawers 1, 2, 3 etc) very detailed, then i give myself an amount of time i have to have it finished (i.e., usually a week with 2 weekends involved). Then i usually do 20 minutes at a time and just start doing things on the list and crossing them off.

This is where my problem comes in for this way of life, for exercise you really need to get it in daily lol and eating right is the same and you have to be consistent, i am not a consistent follow-througher, i am a consistent planner though which is why i am great at starting over with plans.

So i am trying to convert myself into a followthrougher planner, and saying make a list and just do it lol doesn't work for me. So does anyone have any tips as to how they are or have become a follow througher and not just an awesome planner?

One of my great plans that i actually do follow through on because it doesn't require much as a follow through is my water capability, whenever i have to go pee lol i drink min. 1/2 of a 20 oz bottle and same when i am done. But beyond that i have a really hard time with following through.

[mitzimarie]

Re: Roll Call 1-8

Greetings, Fellow STACers

Late check in for me - I worked in the boutique today, and boy, am I glad to be home!

Food - great
Exercise - I haven't exercised today, yet... I find it hard to find the "oomph" to do it, on the days that I spend 7 hours on my feet. I'll do something, though... probably some pilates.

It looks like I have some fluid on my knee, or something... it is a little swollen, and I have a hard time squating (which I do a lot, at work). I don't remember stressing it in any way, and I've never had anything like this before... hope it just goes away.

Ok - time to go cook some dinner (my favorite thing to do - NOT!)

[Black_Barbie]

Re: Roll Call 1-8

Hello to all! I am working on setting my mini -goals. I had a great weekend and today is week 1 completed of Induction.... Yippy.