I have no idea if this is going to work but I had the genius idea of taking another stab at this epic need for weight loss by exercising 20 minutes every day. I have a stationary bike that I bought a few years ago set up in my music studio (the only real place for me to put it at the moment, but it works out) and I’ve been hopping on it every evening for the last two weeks. Coincidentally, I simultaneously started working another job part time that is a little more physically demanding than most of my posts have been. I don’t know if my weight loss is due to the regular exercise or running around the store at closing but I have managed to drop a few pounds. We’ll see if this trend continues!
My plan, of course, is to eventually add on to the amount of time I’m exercising so that I can one day do an hour every day without feeling filled with fear and loathing. I thought that 20 minutes was easy enough to find during the course of even the busiest of days (although, I’ve found there is an exception or two) and I usually knock it out right after dinner so I have time to wind down before my old lady bedtime.
Something else I’ve been doing, or trying to do, is replace my sodas with coffee. I realized at some point recently that my addiction to soda is two-fold and that, if I could at least kick my reliance on refined sugar, I could tackle the caffeine addiction later and then maybe beat it for good. Coffee only has a couple of calories per mug and I’ve found so far that, when I have the chance to make a pot before leaving for the day, I don’t have any impure thoughts about Coke until late in the afternoon. If I had a coffee pot at my studio, I might even be able to chase those desires away. It is frequently said of addiction programs that, if someone comes in to therapy hooked on crack, heroin, cigarettes, pot and alcohol and completes the program only addicted to crack, heroin, cigarettes and pot that that there is progress and should be celebrated (or at least touted at every possible opportunity on grant applications). So I believe I’ve found the key to kicking my crack habit and couldn’t be happier. The heroin will just have to wait.
Another thing I decided to try, by pure internet time-wasting happenstance, is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). Really, I couldn’t think of a better way to keep from tackling the piles of work that have built up since I started this new job than taking 2 hours to read and digest the free manual. The exercises themselves take only a few minutes and are so strange that I relish the first opportunity I have to try them in public. I decided to address this soda addiction first, through the series of tapping acupuncture points and repetitions. Being a well-bred skeptic, I’m reserving judgment until later, but am not too proud to give it a whirl.
If all else fails, I might just have to turn to speed.
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