Weekend Highlights
Lunch at Mesa Grill on Friday, Friday night Dinner at Jesse (I even went to minyan first - it was nice to be there after such a long break), Lunch at Harry and Sally's, Walking home with Sean and Kim and Scotty - it was a beautiful day, playing on trampoline and swings with Jamie, beach (I love the beach!!!! - reading and walking and drinking iced coffee- so relaxing) with Joao, exercising with Meg and Will. There was also a fair amount of sleeping, watching TV and reading the paper and a novel (A Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus) - so it was relaxing. Now I really have to focus on making this week productive. If I can be productive enough I may be able to justify driving Harry and Sally's car cross country with Lilah. I have processing for my new job tomorrow and I have to ask them when I will be starting. If it is not for a couple of weeks and I can really get work done over the next couple of days, I may be able to do this. It would be really nice to do something fun this summer and this is something that Lilah and I have been talking about for a long time.
I've been pretty good about my food choices and about exercising. I take days off from exercising and I go out with my friends- making changes that will be sustainable. I am tempted to go to extremes and I am trying not to do that. Of course I get frustrated at times at the pace of weight loss this way. Obviously I can get much faster result with lemonade or cookie diet or another fad. But I am really trying to commit to healthier, fitter, maintainable lifestyle. It's hard not to get obsessive but I am really trying to do it differently this time. I am trying to be balanced about everything in my life while still pursuing my goals- some days I do it better than others.
Time to start focusing on the goals again- I think (because T2GT told me) that I need to make smaller, more acheivable daily goals that I can complete so that I am not overwhelmed and merely moving slowly towards some large goal like getting PhD- i need a concrete task that I can complete today that is a step in that direction. If I want to get there I think this is the way I have to do it. I just have to focus, remind myself that I can do it and stop procrastinating because I dont know how to write an introduction to a paper- I have to learn at some point.
I've been pretty good about my food choices and about exercising. I take days off from exercising and I go out with my friends- making changes that will be sustainable. I am tempted to go to extremes and I am trying not to do that. Of course I get frustrated at times at the pace of weight loss this way. Obviously I can get much faster result with lemonade or cookie diet or another fad. But I am really trying to commit to healthier, fitter, maintainable lifestyle. It's hard not to get obsessive but I am really trying to do it differently this time. I am trying to be balanced about everything in my life while still pursuing my goals- some days I do it better than others.
Time to start focusing on the goals again- I think (because T2GT told me) that I need to make smaller, more acheivable daily goals that I can complete so that I am not overwhelmed and merely moving slowly towards some large goal like getting PhD- i need a concrete task that I can complete today that is a step in that direction. If I want to get there I think this is the way I have to do it. I just have to focus, remind myself that I can do it and stop procrastinating because I dont know how to write an introduction to a paper- I have to learn at some point.
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