It's a Start!

[mrdreamjeans]

These are all changes in my life instituted on January 1st, 2018.

Avoiding potato chips and tortilla chips.

Weaning myself from sodas, especially those with caffeine, a primary trigger for my type of kidney stones. When I'm tempted, drink water!

Switched to using Kosher Sea Salt instead of regular table salt. (I am aware I need iodine.)

I have cooked most meals at home for several days. I can better control what I put in my body this way.

I have studied for my property and casualty licenses for 3.5 hours a day this week. I must complete the 40 credit course online before I can begin my part time work with StateFarm.

I have continued to use my local library instead of purchasing hard back books.

I am exercising at least 3 times a week.

I met with my case manager at Health Partners today to determine health goals for the year:

Goal 1: Meet with a nutritionist and create a plan focusing on gut health; examine how what I eat makes me feel; get to the source of my daily fatigue.

Goal 2: Lose 30 lbs in 2018.

Goal 3: Improve my financial health and stability.

I can do it!

Goal 1: Step 1: I have an appointment with a nutritionist in February at HealthPartners Riverside Clinic. I will continue the changes I've already made unless she suggests otherwise.

Goal 3: Step 1: I have taken one of my two credit cards out of my wallet and put it away, reducing temptation to use it on the fly.

Comments

[billeyler]

So positive! I'm inspired!

[apparentparadox]

You might look into the style of "diet" where you limit your eating to only certain hours of the day and have a long period of time where you don't eat.

Regardless of any other benefit (some claim that your body will go into ketosis naturally during that time), it has helped me to really change the way I think about food and hunger. Before, I used to think that I was starving when I got up in the morning, but now that I wait until 9 or 10AM before eating my first meal, I've realized that those signals were not really "I'm starving", but more "hey, let's eat". I've learned that those signals don't actually get any stronger as I wait a couple of hours before actually eating, so they weren't really "you need food now" signals. Also, I'm much better about not eating dessert right after dinner, and then when it comes around time that I would normally eat a dessert, I can better decide whether I *really* would enjoy that dessert, or if it's just a habit, and frequently I decide that I'm really still full from dinner and so should skip the dessert.

[mrdreamjeans]

Thanks, Bill! I appreciate your support!

[mrdreamjeans]

It's my habit to eat breakfast between 9-10am, lunch about 1pm and dinner before 7pm (though this gets fudged a bit). I seldom eat dessert right after a meal. Sometimes, it is the meal. When I eat out, I never purchase dessert. I have so little expendable income, I spent most of my time deciding how to make it through each month.

I plan to continue with the changes I implemented until the nutritionist endorses or makes suggestions that make more sense to me than others.

Way off topic ... Did you receive my Christmas card? I wasn't certain I had the correct address.

HUGS!

[apparentparadox]

At least the watching your diet and watching your expenses are working in the same direction when it comes to dessert out. That should make it easier to turn things down.

Yep, I got the card. I'll send you more info separately.