I’m back

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I’m back - a little earlier than planned. One hundred days from today is my birthday - January 4 - so I’m starting a 100-day plan. Mostly the same tasks I had before I took a break: doing behavior mod, some food restrictions, exercise, and walking. I’m also going to be tracking self-care tasks - simple stuff like doing neck stretches in the shower and making sure I use the face lotion my dermatologist recommended. I’m not going to list all of them every day but there are 26 of them so I’ll do a score for them each day. I’m almost embarrassed by how basic some of them are but it’s as if over the last few years I’ve neglected myself not just in terms of food, weight, and exercise but in terms of everything.

As I’ve discussed before, I’ve also neglected my home so I’m going to be tracking whether I do paperwork and house cleaning. These are organizational tasks that seem to tie into my struggles with food and weight. Finally, I’ll be tracking whether I’m doing my homework - I’m taking an Italian class and I think making sure I give enough time to that is important because it’s a cumulative kind of thing. Housework and paperwork are very circular - they have to be done over and over - whereas learning something new means making clear progress.

It’s good to be back and I’ll be catching up on other blogs over the next few days.

See you in a month

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I’m taking September off from the Internet. I’ve shut down comments on this blog.

See you in October. Have a great month.

Thrashing badly

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Yesterday was a pretty good day but today I’m totally uninterested in Behavior Mod, food restrictions, exercise, and walking. I’ve also decided to change how I’m reporting in - I actually logged in to do my Final Score and Goal Post entries last night and was just too tired to mess with them. So here’s what I’m doing from now on.

My goals are the same every day so I’ve put them into a page cleverly called “Daily Goals”. Sometime during each day I’ll check in at 3 Fat Chicks and do a Final Score page that details how well I met those goals the previous day - no more doing this last thing before bed.

I think these changes make sense but I also know I’m kind of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I’m obsessing over the reporting stuff and letting the actual doing slide. In fact, I suspect I’m obsessing over the reporting stuff because I’m letting the actual doing slide. The one thing I’m absolutely clinging to is my commitment to check in here every day even when I’ve totally fallen by the wayside. That means I can’t just let everything go and imagine some airy-fairy future where I’ll start taking care of myself; instead I have to face up every day to the fact that I’m not doing what I said I wanted to.

I’m going to do two very small things this afternoon that should help: boil some eggs for breakfast and make iced tea. Keep your fingers crossed these are the start of my getting back on track.

Not around

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Updated Friday evening: I’m back but not ready to settle down at the computer quite yet. I’ll check in tomorrow.

I’m going to be away from a computer until late Thursday. I’ll check in on Friday. I hope everyone has a great week.

Grumpy

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I feel like the least sociable of the Seven Dwarves this evening so I’m going to shut down the computer and watch the Yankees cream the Red Sox.

I’m doing well Behavior Mod wise which is good. I’ll report in tomorrow morning if time permits, otherwise later in the day.

Phase 6

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I’ve completed seven days at Phase 5 so today I moved to Phase 6. I’ve modified my “Behavior Mod” page to explain what this Phase involves.

Unprivacy

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Okay, back to being seen by search engines. As soon as I went private I fell off the list of recently updated 3fc blogs.

Happy medium, what’s needed here is a happy medium

Privacy

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In the past few days I’ve gotten trackbacks from a couple of websites outside 3 Fat Chicks. I don’t know why - maybe they’re just automated sites that pick up everything with some keywords and post trackbacks in hopes of increasing their traffic.

Anyhow, it’s kind of creepy so I changed my Privacy settings to allow normal visitors but not be seen by search engines. If anyone notices this causing any problems, please let me know.

Thanks.

Starting Over

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I had high hopes when I started this months ago and then fell by the wayside. So I deleted all previous posts and I’m going to start over with a different approach. I explain this new approach in the “What I’m Doing” page at the top of the blog.