According to the 6 Changes website, accountability is extremely important in changing habits.
Leo Babauta says on the website: "Two steps in the 6 Changes method are extremely crucial, even if many people will be tempted to skip them:
1. Commit as publicly as possible to creating each new habit.
2. Log your progress daily, and very publicly."
So, here I am...publicly stating that my first of six changes is going to be to cut out everything from my diet that contains high fructose corn syrup in all of its shapes, forms and hidden other names. I plan for this to be a forever change in my life, not a quick fix thing to my weight problem. I will start this on Monday January 25, 2010.
Normally, I would say that I would start this tomorrow or on this coming Monday, which would be the 18th, but Mr. Babauta says we should wait at least one week and maybe more to build anticipation. So, I picked the 25th.
This means that I will be cooking much more, rather than eating frozen, canned, processed, restaurant or take out foods. I'll be reading labels on everything. It's amazing the amount of items corn syrup is in. Things you would never have thought would have it, do indeed have it. I know this much from food allergy testing I went through a couple of years ago. I dropped weight without trying, during that testing also. So much, so quickly that I thought I was ill. And I truly think it was because of cutting out the corn syrup. I may be wrong. I may not lose weight this time like I did last time. We'll just have to wait and see. I do know that soft drinks have corn syrup in them though and cutting those out (again!) will be a healthy improvement. Once I start this, I'll be reporting my progress daily.
Showing posts with label 50 things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 50 things. Show all posts
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday Self Portraits
Fridays seem to be the day that I take my self portraits. So far, this is not an enjoyable exercise for me -- as you can see by the photos and the quality of them. I decided the only way that I would ever get any better at this is if I share them with you. The bottom one was taken last Friday, 1/8 and the top one was taken a few minutes ago. Today is my oldest granddaughter's 9th birthday. Someday, she may be glad to have even this dark, crappy photo of me. 
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
My Goals for my Year or 50 Things
New Year's Day for everyone in the world is, of course, January 1st. I have my own New Year's day, as each of us does really, and that is the day of my birth. My own personal New Year's day is January 7th. Last year I had a list of 49 things that I wanted to do before my 50th birthday. I didn't accomplish them all, but that's OK. It was something to strive for and I did more than I thought I had, when I just went back and looked at it. So, I'm happy. I'm going to make a list of 50 Things for this year. Some may be repeats. Some will be new. Some will get done and some won't. Such is life.
1. Take the beaded/wire cross class
2. Get new business cards
3. Get my hair cut -- * still in need of this
4. Take a workshop with Sally Jean *signed up for a workshop on 5/1-2-- did not get to take this workshop due to the death of my daughter-in-law M and my need to help out with the kids
5. Take a workshop with Nina Bagley Not going to happen this year
6. Have the whole family here for Thanksgiving Still planning on this, just need to clean and invite them all.
7. De-clutter the house **started!
8. Sell unwanted items on ebay *started first auction ends 1/8
9. Pay for a soldier's meal anonymously
10. Start a savings account for each of my grandchildren
11. Start teaching (quilting) again Did this, but stopped after the death of M
12. work The Artist's Way book
13. Sell 25 pieces/things from my etsy shop
14. Lose weight haven't done one thing toward this, but still need to.
15. Stop drinking soft drinks I don't have any in the house and plan on tomorrow 10/7 being my first day without them.
16. Go to a hunted hotel with my mother and sister -- Sister passed away on April 7th, won't be possible now
17. Have that "birthday" weekend with my friend Catherine (and Beth if she wants to come!) * this did not happen, hubby was unemployed on my birthday or had just been hired, but still no extra money. Don't remember which it was now.
18. Trim that tree by the drive way
19. Buy some picnic tables for the yard
20. Write Mrs. Burns a letter *completed in July, 2010
21. Go see Mrs. Burns probably will not do this in this year
22. Complete Angie's quilt
23. Make door hangers for S and R I have these started, but don't even want to do them now
24. See the Craig Ferguson Show in person not going to happen this year
25. Go to the Keith Urban concert (if he comes to Dallas or Houston this year) if he came to TX, I wasn't aware of it because of all that was going on in my life
26. Go to the Texas Rangers opening day game -- was in CA helping with the kids after M's death so this didn't happen
27. Plant trees to celebrate the births of my grandchildren
28. Go see the grandchildren -- got to do this, but not exactly in the way I had planned
29. Go see Beth
30. Figure out 5 new types of things to put in my etsy shop
31. Save money
32. Put a quilt in the Dallas quilt show *mailed the form in 1/6, now to wait to see if it makes it in time and if there is room -- there was, it's completed
33. Go to the last Texas Rangers home game of the year * didn't get to do this, JT's birthday was the day before and I was in OK, maybe next year.
34. Get totally off effexor I've cut down and I'm happy with that for now
35. Get a camera that has a macro lens
36. make a self portrait quilt
37. make that summer quilt I've been wanting
38. take an art class with Margie Woods Brown of Language of the Soul not this year
39. learn to knit a scarf -- knitting it, just need to finish it up, I have completed a couple of small things
40. ride a Harley
41. take weekly photos of myself (hopefully as I lose weight) (2/52) -- oops, forgot all about this one
42. commission a painting of Elly with Charmaine * I've commissioned it, should be done in a little while -- not in a hurry for it.
43. Go to the House of Blues for the Gospel Brunch not yet
44. make myself an Anglican rosary that is long enough to wear
45. make myself a lariat necklace from my African Christmas beads
46. Get my featherweight repaired
47. Start saving and planning for that trip to Alaska
48. redo the downstairs bathroom -- tub resurfaced, new toilet and sink, new wallpaper or paint
49. Go to Santa Fe for Christmas, hopefully with the kids
50. Do at least one thing a month that scares the hell out of me.
updated on 10/6/2010
1. Take the beaded/wire cross class
2. Get new business cards
3. Get my hair cut -- * still in need of this
4. Take a workshop with Sally Jean *signed up for a workshop on 5/1-2-- did not get to take this workshop due to the death of my daughter-in-law M and my need to help out with the kids
5. Take a workshop with Nina Bagley Not going to happen this year
6. Have the whole family here for Thanksgiving Still planning on this, just need to clean and invite them all.
7. De-clutter the house **started!
8. Sell unwanted items on ebay *started first auction ends 1/8
9. Pay for a soldier's meal anonymously
10. Start a savings account for each of my grandchildren
11. Start teaching (quilting) again Did this, but stopped after the death of M
12. work The Artist's Way book
13. Sell 25 pieces/things from my etsy shop
14. Lose weight haven't done one thing toward this, but still need to.
15. Stop drinking soft drinks I don't have any in the house and plan on tomorrow 10/7 being my first day without them.
16. Go to a hunted hotel with my mother and sister -- Sister passed away on April 7th, won't be possible now
17. Have that "birthday" weekend with my friend Catherine (and Beth if she wants to come!) * this did not happen, hubby was unemployed on my birthday or had just been hired, but still no extra money. Don't remember which it was now.
18. Trim that tree by the drive way
19. Buy some picnic tables for the yard
20. Write Mrs. Burns a letter *completed in July, 2010
21. Go see Mrs. Burns probably will not do this in this year
22. Complete Angie's quilt
23. Make door hangers for S and R I have these started, but don't even want to do them now
24. See the Craig Ferguson Show in person not going to happen this year
25. Go to the Keith Urban concert (if he comes to Dallas or Houston this year) if he came to TX, I wasn't aware of it because of all that was going on in my life
26. Go to the Texas Rangers opening day game -- was in CA helping with the kids after M's death so this didn't happen
27. Plant trees to celebrate the births of my grandchildren
28. Go see the grandchildren -- got to do this, but not exactly in the way I had planned
29. Go see Beth
30. Figure out 5 new types of things to put in my etsy shop
31. Save money
32. Put a quilt in the Dallas quilt show *mailed the form in 1/6, now to wait to see if it makes it in time and if there is room -- there was, it's completed
33. Go to the last Texas Rangers home game of the year * didn't get to do this, JT's birthday was the day before and I was in OK, maybe next year.
34. Get totally off effexor I've cut down and I'm happy with that for now
35. Get a camera that has a macro lens
36. make a self portrait quilt
37. make that summer quilt I've been wanting
38. take an art class with Margie Woods Brown of Language of the Soul not this year
39. learn to knit a scarf -- knitting it, just need to finish it up, I have completed a couple of small things
40. ride a Harley
41. take weekly photos of myself (hopefully as I lose weight) (2/52) -- oops, forgot all about this one
42. commission a painting of Elly with Charmaine * I've commissioned it, should be done in a little while -- not in a hurry for it.
43. Go to the House of Blues for the Gospel Brunch not yet
44. make myself an Anglican rosary that is long enough to wear
45. make myself a lariat necklace from my African Christmas beads
46. Get my featherweight repaired
47. Start saving and planning for that trip to Alaska
48. redo the downstairs bathroom -- tub resurfaced, new toilet and sink, new wallpaper or paint
49. Go to Santa Fe for Christmas, hopefully with the kids
50. Do at least one thing a month that scares the hell out of me.
updated on 10/6/2010
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