If You Could Change One Thing

It would have to be the exercise thing for me. I really do need to do more exercising, but then it would cut into my reading time.

Oh dear.  Where to begin.

I suspect the one thing I should change is the habit of going to my emails with my first cup of tea instead of going straight to the book.  Somewhere, over the last couple of years, I've become an internet junkie and it's providing a perfect distraction from the absolutely focus that writing requires.

Every night I tell myself that tomorrow I'll go straight to the hut at the bottom of the garden and work until breakfast.  No emails until lunch. 

Every morning I fall from the straight and narrow.  But if only I had a little willpower, that's the thing I'd change.

 Liz

This is a hard one as I've already cut my coffe and started to exercise more. I had a heart scare and woke up to the fact I'm not getting any younger. So I guess I need to exercise even more. I'd say cut the ice cream out but I love ice cream and hey I still need a few vices.

I write every day, but I rarely meet my word count goals. I would like to write and meet my goals. I need to exercise too, but thats harder for me. I am dieting and I have lost 20 lbs so I have changed a little bit.

Squeeeee! I'm a hero. I'm a hero. I'm a hero. (Does that make me a sandwich in Philadelphia?)

Ok Jennie- A hero is also called a sub, or a grinder depending upon where you live, but it's still a sandwich. Generally starts with italian or french bread or something similar ( like the Subway sandwich chain makes their own 12 inch bread loaves) the bread can be a 24 inch loaf too and cut into two 12's

Then some condiment is spread, could be butter, mayo mustard etc followed by meats, cheese  and greens, tomatoes, oil and vinegar, peppers etc  could be changed any way you like it, each region has it's own version depending on what is easily available. I've eaten a lot of tuna heroes, meat ball subs etc.

a New Orleans po'boy  when done on a long loaf of bread is a version of a hero. So is a big phillie cheese steak  anything can be a hero. New England I think calls them grinders and some others call them submarine sandwiches for long.

I already started. I started cutting back on my coke consumption, to one a day. Well, one 12 ounce can a day.  I had to narrow it down to one 12 ounce can, rather than one 2 liter bottle.

If I am in a restaurant, it is one glass.  If it is a fast food place then it is the smallest cup.

By the end of the year, I want to cut out all soft drinks completely.  I have heard it said that you could loose a lot of weight just by cutting back by 100 callories a day.  That just about equals a can of Coke (or any soft drink).

Mostly I try to drink the Coke in the morning, for the caffine ( cant stand the taste of coffe).  Then I drink a non cafiene soda like  Sprite or Squirt. Or I drin Ice'd tea.  Eventually I want to just do water.

There is always those little 8 ounce cans of Coke.  But a 6 pack almost costs the as much as the 12 ouunce.

Good morning, all....caffeine withdrawal is painful! aspirin works well to help you through it because it has caffeine in it...what have you replaced it with? something healthy, I hope...green tea is good.

when I went to a nutritionist to learn how to handle the fibro she put me on a pretty strict diet where I literally felt the fat melt off...nothing white (potatoes, rice, bread). Replace with sweet potatoes, brown rice, whole grains, No sugar, except in my coffee in the am (1 cup per day), three meals a day with a snack of fruit and nuts (about 5) in between meals and before bed...lots of water (which cleans the system)...lean meats, and more than I had ever consumed...organic when able. No sugar, controlled good fats, OH and one treat a week on Sat or Sunday of any thing I chose but after cleaning your system, you really don't want the sugar. It makes you feel awful after eating it... no soda or juice (unless I wanted to squeeze it myself...mostly processed sugar...

I was never really hungry because the fruit and nuts regulates your sugar...no crashes, lots of energy all day long...problem was no one else in fam was willing ot do the same and being human, I fell into grabbing the junk again when in a hurry but I managed it for six months and flet better than in a long  time...actually went down to a size eight (lean and mean) it does work.

Remember: Sugar is addictive! even a little will lead back to wanting more, and more, and more. Same with soda

Jennie, what a fab thread! 

my biggest/hardest change to date: 

March 4, 2008 my girls and I were hit by a drunk driver head on who was on the wrong side of a divided highway.  Afterwards I was TERRIFIED to drive.  TERRIFIED to sit in anything smaller than a minivan and TERRIFIED to drive with my little girls.  So, each week, I focused on one.  Extremely hard!  But I did it and though I'm still dealing with the fear, I feel proud that I'm finally swapping fear for freedom! 

I'd love to say I'm changing couch sitting with excersise, but still too sore plus being 8mths VERY preggers, I'm gonna let that one slide.

Awesome idea to change the caramel slice with carob!  Hope that's going well.  Hmmmm.  A change in my diet... that's got me thinking!