I was going to just do a post about the last week, but decided that I might as well wrap up the month as there are only a few days left.
It felt good to go back to the Tuesday night Weight Watchers meeting. There were a lot of familiar faces still there, and some new ones.
I think in general I am struggling with feeling as though I belong in my own life. That's the best way I can describe it. I know the person I want to be. I know who I am "meant" to be. I know the steps to take, the decisions to make, what I have to do to get there. And yet, I don't do any of it. So much of my thought processes are caught up in the effects of the CMV and worrying about how it might affect things or trying to tiptoe around things so that I avoid a flair up. Of course this means I'm not living, and therefore am not getting closer to where I want to be. To who I want to be.
I am mainly just struggling to figure out a path to balance in my life. I need to speak with and see my friends more often. I need to get enough sleep and eat in a healthy and yummy way. I need to continue being an engaged and productive person at work. And I need to figure out a way to do all of this with my limited stores of energy. BUT I am vowing to try to find a way to make it work instead of continuing to over-think it.
So, my stated goals for the rest of July were:
- Work on sleep schedule. Getting enough sleep has to go back to being a priority!
- Learn/re-learn how to plan meals a week at a time, paying attention to PP values
- Work exercise into weekly routine
- Figure out if going to Curves is in the budget
~ My sleep schedule is still messed up, possibly worse, but I've come up with a couple things to try. This includes trying to set up my router finally, which would allow me to watch Netflix/HULU in my room on my laptop instead of on my desktop (which is part of what keeps sucking me in to all hours).
~ I never really started on this. However, I discovered that a huge part of my struggle with this is coming up with things to pack and take for lunches and snacks during the week.
So... I started to do some research and try and figure out what might help me. What I started to realize is that I've become bored with food lately. This has been "helping" me to make poor food choices, as they seem more entertaining than anything else. A while back I started looking into the variety of Bento boxes out there as something fun to pack my lunch in, but it seemed like I would be spending a ton of time cutting things to fit than I could afford to be spending.
Jen at Prior Fat Girl has talked about the containers from Easy Lunchboxes that she uses and likes. I started to research them some, and my concern is that I like to pack saucy/liquidy foods and the containers do not seem to be the best option for those types of food.
As my research continued, I found the folks over at Laptop Lunches. Essentially it is a system of open and lidded containers that fit inside an outer container. They come in a variety of colors and the different types of containers can be configured in a variety of ways depending on what types of foods you are looking to pack in the overall box. When I first looked at it my thought was that "it is a build a bento!"
I placed an order for a kit and a variety of extra containers. I probably went overboard on the amount I ordered, but for the first time in a long time I was starting to get excited about planning meals, and not just for lunch, but for the whole day/week. I am hoping my order will arrive sometime next week so I can start having fun with it.
~ No exercise yet...
~ I crunched the numbers and determined that spending money on a gym type membership was not a good spending choice as I really do have a very large library of exercise DVDs, a small number of dumbbells and of course my Gazelle.
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