song of the road

Before coming to what’s on my mind today, let me sum up today. Foodwise it was about okay. Had protein shake as breakfast, chapatis and a couple of veg curries as lunch, pineapple and a couple of grilled sandwiches were dinner. had a diet coke somewhere in between. Workwise it was crazy again. Also I kept feeling blah. Lots of tension there. Nothing end-of-life but just gathering up. But then I am better than how I was last year. So chin up and hang on.

What I am trying to figure out is how to focus on weight loss. My main focus is work these days. I am doing reasonably well there. At least I am consistently and with discipline plugging on day after day. Hopefully intelligently too. But when it comes to an effort on weight loss, I keep losing steam every 3 days. On one hand, I think I am not too good in having two major focus areas at once. When I had to study hard to do well in a fiercely competitive entrance test to get in engineering college, I did nothing on the alternative study path I was trying to keep open. When I was in love a couple of times, I did neglect my work both times to a good extent. Now that I am working, looks like I can almost not diet and work out. But that is not how it should be. Everyone is taking care of family, their own self, work and then lose weight.

I am planning to use almost all free minutes this week to figure out how to do this. How do I bring the focus back? Do I do some kind of a remembering exercise every morning to set the tone? May be reading or reminding me of something on the way to work. Podcasts perhaps! Let me think. I need to stay on the path for a while for anything to happen. When I lost weight last time, the rapport I shared with my trainer was an anchor that kept me rooted. Need something else this time.

The ideas that occur to me top of the head

1. Listen to one fitness/weight loss podcast every morning

2. Read one fitness or weight loss article in the morning

3. Try to work out an eating and working out plan for a week or for a day?

4. Set up a screensaver at work laptop which can act as a reminder to my goal of weight loss

5. Break the bigger goal in to smaller sizable goals and plan accordingly

Anything else occurs to you? What has worked for you. Any help most welcome.

Planning to add one positive thing that happened on a day or in very recent past here. Anything that made me happier. This is a small part of a project to become generally more happy. Will be making the list of 100 things that make me happy with round.

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Positive note

Remember Mr. V. He is a peer who is a big competitor in the work place. He is joining my team now. I kept on having visions that my team members will be happier and more relieved to see him joining us. That did not seem to be the case when I announced this today. They were a bit curious and nothing more. It does sound a bit weird but I genuinely like everyone in my team (except one or two whom I like a little less) and am a bit jealous about their affection.

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