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Melissa's Daily Check In
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:24 pm
by tziyonah
I'm starting back on NoS after a successful period this summer - and then letting things fall apart as I studied for the LSATs. I'm just trying to keep things together as I go through the stress of applying to law school. I'm hoping that trying to post each day will at least keep me honest with myself.
Wish me luck!
Re: Melissa's Daily Check In
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:24 pm
by tziyonah
Yesterday was day 1 - and reasonably successful. Dinner was a bit in stages (we made pancakes and then had veggies and cheese afterwards). Have to work on eating dinner at a single sitting.
Re: Melissa's Daily Check In
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:23 pm
by tziyonah
Tuesday another night of staged dinners which are quite hard. But I did go to aerobics in the morning.
Wednesday having a hard time sitting down to eat lunch - and ate very, very late.
Thursday am - back to aerobics class. So at least something is going right!
Anyone have any suggestions for making sitting down to meals a priority? Even just doing this vague tracking for a few days, I'm seeing that that's a problem.
Re: Melissa's Daily Check In
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:02 pm
by Kevin
With a really busy lifestyle, it's hard. Maybe try one meal at a time? Standardize breakfast, then standardize dinner if you can. Lunch may always be hard to pin down.
It's worthwhile making rituals around meals - like saying grace (even if you aren't religious, it's worth taking a few seconds to just be thankful for what you have), and then eat it mindfully.
tziyonah wrote:Tuesday another night of staged dinners which are quite hard. But I did go to aerobics in the morning.
Wednesday having a hard time sitting down to eat lunch - and ate very, very late.
Thursday am - back to aerobics class. So at least something is going right!
Anyone have any suggestions for making sitting down to meals a priority? Even just doing this vague tracking for a few days, I'm seeing that that's a problem.
Re: Melissa's Daily Check In
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:07 pm
by tziyonah
Kevin wrote:With a really busy lifestyle, it's hard. Maybe try one meal at a time? Standardize breakfast, then standardize dinner if you can. Lunch may always be hard to pin down.
It's worthwhile making rituals around meals - like saying grace (even if you aren't religious, it's worth taking a few seconds to just be thankful for what you have), and then eat it mindfully.
Thanks for the advice! I'm going to try the mindfulness idea!
Re: Melissa's Daily Check In
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:13 pm
by tziyonah
A bit more successful yesterday. I really appreciated Kevin's mindfulness comment - and I'm going to try and incorporate it in the coming days.
Now let's see how the lovely "s" days go.
Melissa