CHANGING MY WAYS

I realize that this post reads like a New Years post but....

I need to make some changes.

Life changes, not just resolutions.

I need to figure out how much sleep I need to be getting at night and I need to start getting it.

I need to start eating healthier and stop all the sugar and fast food.

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I'm exhausted and I feel dizzy a lot of the time and it's because I'm running on empty and filling my tank with junk.

I have too many projects going at once that I'm ending up failing at them all.

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And... one of my busiest times of the year at work is just days away.

I need to figure out a schedule that fits MY life.

I have a friend who gets up at 4 each morning and gets breakfast for her husband as he heads off to work.

Then she washes up the dishes and tidies the house. She says she can't stand to come home to a dirty house.

She's always pulled together and dresses stylishly.

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She budgets her money carefully.

She plans out a menu plan for a MONTH in advance and shops and hunts down bargains.

She holds down a very creative but also very physical job and even puts in overtime.

She meets a group of retired people she knows for breakfast once a week

and she meets me for breakfast every other week

and she goes to her parents home one day a week before work and cleans their house.
She runs errands for them and takes them to the doctors for appointments and such.

She plans and prepares everyone's birthday/anniversary/holiday party

and most nights she goes to bed by 8.

Time management.

She's got it down pat.

It's true that she doesn't have any pets now

and she doesn't have any Art projects going

and she's doesn't get on the computer hardly EVER...

So, OK. We have different priorities but

she's working it out

and I'm just burning out.

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So...

I need to get some sleep now

so that I can figure this out with a clear head.

Figure out a sleep schedule

A schedule to work on things that are important to me

Figure out a money budget

and start eating right and prepare ahead....

And....just to start feeling good again and

Happy.

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Wish me Luck!

xo

HEALTH UPDATE - PART ONE

So I stopped eating junk on Monday night March 5th 2012
after my visit to the doctor.
I had been feeling like crap. My joints were aching.
I was always feeling tired and dizzy.
I read up on the statin I was taking and all these problems can many times be the side effects.
That and the fact that I had gained so much weight and am now menopausal.
My "numbers" were not good. And it showed that I was
pre-diabetic.
So I came home that night and grabbed a big trash bag.
I filled it with almost everything in my frig and in the cupboards.
Since then I haven't cheated once. I'm not eating any saturated or trans fat and NO cholesterol except for the cholesterol found in fish and chicken.
I'm not on a diet, die-it....
I'm eating to live.
So last Tuesday morning before my birthday I had my blood drawn for tests.
The next day, being my birthday I went to lunch with my sister and one of my nieces. Since I had done the blood tests, I decided to order whatever I wanted.
I had chicken salad on rye and bean salad and a bite of my niece's muffin. When I went home, I only had berries and non-fat yogurt for dinner.
Then the next day I realized that I still had a gift certificate to Starbucks so at lunch time I went and got a
Large Mocha Frappuccino.
It was very good but as I was finishing it I thought...

What The HELL am I doing?!!!!

That was Thursday.
Saturday I worked in the morning. It was crazy busy. I had a full boarding kennel. Lots of dogs were going home and more coming in. I had to do a lot of rearranging and squeeze in one more dog that wasn't on the schedule.

I had to keep running up front to get the incoming dogs and I would pass the employee lounge.
I could see the box of donuts sitting in there, on the counter.
When I got to the front office, all the girls were munching on donuts and rolls.
After the clinic closed and when I was by myself finishing up,
I had to walk through the lounge to the restroom.
On my way back out my eyes were drawn to the box.
I went up to the box and opened it.
I looked at the frosted little things.

I closed the box.
Nope, not doing it.
I have my doctors appointment in a few days, I'm excited to see what my "numbers" are.
I'm feeling much better though I am exhausted.
But I think that exhaustion is due to the fact that I am not getting enough sleep
and I am working in 100 plus degree heat every day.
Wish me Luck!