(to-do) On a grey Monday morning...

It was a good, snowy Sunday, but it's turned into a grey, rainy Monday. I'm in training all day, but I still have things to do. I'm putting my list up here so I don't forget it.

To-Do today:

-balance checkbook
-Call Dr. D's office about the referral
-LJ update: nutritionist
-LJ update: Snow contest
-Call Dr. C's office and reschedule dentist appt
-Start working on those damn briefs!
-Start notes for Sekrit Project
-Update Christmas Card list
-Find pirate fabric for Frenya's gift
-Make a grocery list for tonight
-Make a list of cookie recipes for my cookie baking day
-Dinner plans for the week

I think that's it. *daunted look* We'll see how much I can get done - I think the calls might wait until tomorrow.

(weight) First visit with the nutritionist

(x-posted to writersweighin)

So Wednesday afternoon, right before Thanksgiving, I met with Dr. L for the first time. It was an interesting meeting...she isn't at all like the other nutritionist I was referred to a few years ago. We spent 2 hours talking about what has worked for me in the past and what hasn't, what I'm looking for and what I'm willing to do. It was rather revealing, and I thought I'd share.

Believe it or not, I was a skinny kid, and I didn't really gain a ton of weight until I went to college. I was an active kid, and so we realized that for me, exercise is a key to losing weight and keeping it off. But at the same time, I won't do exercise for the sake of exercise - I'm just not motivated enough, believe it or not. It has to be fun. And I won't always make the time to do it. *guilty look*

Another interesting thing is that I HATE being told that a certain food or group of foods are "off-limits" - that will just make me crave them, and then I'll snap and binge. And I hate eating exactly the same thing all the time. I need variety. Luckily, I love to cook, and Dr. L is willing to work with me on this. She's already talking cookbooks!

Her big question to me was "What are you looking for as an outcome?"

My answer was, "I want to be healthy." Honestly, I don't care about what the scale says (and Dr. L said to throw my scale out, actually) - I just want to be able to do everything that I want to do. I want to be able to fence again. I want to be able to hike all day and be delightfully sore at the end of it. I want to be able to bike. I want to be able to run around all day.

I want to be able to run again one day. Right now, my doctors say that with my knee, I'll never run again. I don't believe that. I won't believe that. I will run again.

I will.

We're not meeting again until after the holidays, so I have a homework assignment to work on this December. Each week, I have to do one good thing for myself, and one good thing for myself that gets my body moving. This past week, my "good for myself" thing was spending all Sunday playing WoW. My "good for myself thing that got my body moving" was going shopping with Donna on Black Friday. We did a bunch of walking that morning, and that was good.

Other than that, at this point, I'm not doing anything "diet-like." No counting calories. No forbidden foods. No food journals. Just listen to my body and realize that when I'm not hungry, I shouldn't eat. That's it.

I haven't thrown my scale away yet, but I did only step on it once - Saturday morning, when I got up. And I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that, with the massive Thanksgiving feast we'd had...

That I was down 2 lbs from Wednesday.

WOOT!!!

More later.

(silliness) From magicnoire

It's December 1, so I can post this!

Step One
Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun to medium to really big. The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.


Step Two
Surf around your friends list (or friends of friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Once a wish has been granted, it will be crossed off the list.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.


The Wishlist
1. Donate blood (please. Because I can't.)
2. Recommendations for romance or YA novels (I prefer paranormal or historical)
3. Christmas cards!
4. Donate to the World Wildlife Foundation or the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation or Share Our Strength
5. New band recommendations/Mix CDs - I prefer female vocals, and I like to be able to understand the lyrics (IE, I'm not a big punk or hiphop fan, but I do like folk and alternative. Just no songs where all they do is scream.)
6. A gift certificate to Adagio Tea
7. Socks! I love funky socks.
8. Pens and journals or blank cards/stationary
9. Tea cups
10. Time on World of Warcraft

Note: Used items are always fine & welcome.
Note #2: If required, email/PM me for my snail mail addy.

(christmas) Cookie Poll...

Because one of the "good for me" things I'm going to do is take a Saturday and go nuts baking cookies, I thought I'd see what kinds of cookies you guys are craving.

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