the dread pirate known as introductions
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resolvingThis is a chance to get to know each other and share our resolutions that we're going to start in the new year, as well as any ongoing resolutions we may have.
Remember the community guidelines, although it's fine that if for this post and the next one, you bring up resolutions that you're not sure how to frame in terms of duration or exact endpoint. Secondly, I would encourage everyone to take a look at this, on how to set good goals for yourself.
The goal here is to set goals that are perhaps difficult for yourself, but ultimately achievable, and on your own terms.
Questions!
Name:
About You: Anything you'd like to share about you, and perhaps your motivations.
Three things you'd like to change about yourself: We all tend to have a very long list here, but what are the top three things that could be different?
Resolutions that you've made in the past: Ways to expand: Have the failed? Succeeded? What's worked, what hasn't? What would you do again? Etc.
Resolutions that you're making this year:
Resolution: The basic goal, in broad terms.
Plan: Your steps in achieving this.
Keeping track: Are you going to write on your personal journal? Use a website, a notebook? Let us know.
Endgoal: This will be successful if. If you have a broad range of definitions for success, please choose a precise goal in that range as well.
&c.: Anything else
Code!
Remember the community guidelines, although it's fine that if for this post and the next one, you bring up resolutions that you're not sure how to frame in terms of duration or exact endpoint. Secondly, I would encourage everyone to take a look at this, on how to set good goals for yourself.
The goal here is to set goals that are perhaps difficult for yourself, but ultimately achievable, and on your own terms.
Questions!
Name:
About You: Anything you'd like to share about you, and perhaps your motivations.
Three things you'd like to change about yourself: We all tend to have a very long list here, but what are the top three things that could be different?
Resolutions that you've made in the past: Ways to expand: Have the failed? Succeeded? What's worked, what hasn't? What would you do again? Etc.
Resolutions that you're making this year:
Resolution: The basic goal, in broad terms.
Plan: Your steps in achieving this.
Keeping track: Are you going to write on your personal journal? Use a website, a notebook? Let us know.
Endgoal: This will be successful if. If you have a broad range of definitions for success, please choose a precise goal in that range as well.
&c.: Anything else
Code!
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Date: 2010-12-29 10:39 am (UTC)About You: 37 years old, adopted Essex Girl, one autistic son of 14 living with a wonderful foster family. Confirmed sci-fi addict (see icon) and cross-stitch crazy. Epileptic with unexplained gastric issues, full of water retention, a busty babe but also overweight. I also suffer from tendonitis and often walk with a stick. I've allowed my disabilities to scare me out of doing anything that means getting off the sofa, in case I seize or get sick. It's becoming a phobia that I need help shaking off.
Three things you'd like to change about yourself: I need to fight with my body to allow my stomach to accept food in spite of possible rejection.
I'd like to find myself in a position where I can start swimming and generally exercising without vomiting from the exertion afterwards.
I'd like to lose about three stone in weight.
Resolutions that you've made in the past: I resolved to give up smoking on my son's birthday last year. I was so successful that I didn't need to complete my course of patches and haven't smoked since.
Resolutions that you're making this year:
Resolution: to get myself back to the energetic, athletic woman that I once was.
Plan: Drink more water and less alcohol, don't shy away from meals in fear, practice gentle yoga.
Keeping track: See a nurse at my surgery once a week, to check my weight and view my food diary (already arranged). Recieve advice from her about further exercises I can try as my fitness improves.
Endgoal: Get my health, fitness and confidence back by the end of 2011.
&c.: Anything else: I'm hoping that this comm will help me to meet people who share what I'm going through. Hopefully someone can suggest remedies for the vomiting so that I can start enjoying food again without worrying that it might not stay down.
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Date: 2011-01-01 01:09 am (UTC)I'm very impressed that you quit smoking so quickly. (I smoke half a pack a day and someone will probably be prying them out of my cold, dead fingers.)
I don't have the gastric issues you have, but I do know what it's like to have gastrointestinal issues. I'm sorry your disability has maneuvered you into a state of not wanting to exercise at all—I know what that's like, although in my case it's emotional/mental problems, not physical.