I'm contemplating. . .

[mellymell]

going to a nutritional consultant. I want to do this right and I don't feel like I can coach myself armed only with the book Food and Mood. Tasha, you've been a great inspiration. Any tips you can provide to someone just starting the process would be helpful and appreciated.

I looked in the phone book last night and found 3 or 4 consultants in town. One in particular has a focus on a natural approach, which sounds right up my alley. I think I'm going to call them and get some more information. I hope to decide by the end of the month and get the healing underway. I'm just tired of feeling unhealthy and I want to start now so that I can live out the rest of my life the way I really want to.

I've been sort of preparing for this all week. I've been making detailed lists of things that have to be in order before I begin any changes to my routine (e.g. adding daily exercise to my life, changing my diet, etc.). Number one on that list is to get our house put back together. If I keep going on it, I should be done with all of that by the end of the weekend. Then next week I can focus on gathering information and getting other things to fall into place in my life before I add more to it.

I started too many projects at once and now none of them are moving forward. Well, actually, this week they're really starting to and I'm getting a lot done by just not thinking about it and moving forward according to plan. I'm taking a tally of everything I'm in the middle of and figuring out how I need to go about things to get them all completed. Anything I've started, I want to get done or at least make significant progress on before I start anything else. It's time to teach myself how to follow through a plan to fruition. Up until now, I've only been able to come up with the plan and maybe get it started. Motivation is the keyword here and I'm not going to find it anywhere but within myself.

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i just

[baka-san.livejournal.com]

ordered some of that bio-c stuff that rob uses. i figured i'd mix it with pom wonderful to create some sort of frankenstein-monster of healthy drinks every morning.

also ordered some green tea from stashtea, since they have the loose stuff.

good stuff! (and that's a great site)

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

I think I've got the "what to drink/take if I'm feeling this way or that" stuff down, it's more the "how to build a balanced diet to get what you need from foods so that you're less likely to feel this way or that" and "how to exercise without killing yourself and while gaining muscle tone, burning fat and building flexibility" those I feel I need guidance on. Of the little I've read in Food and Mood, I've learned that certain foods build certain neurotransmitters and that's the sort of thing I'm wanting to learn. I know there are foods I get too much of and others I don't get enough of. I'm just not sure how to go about remedying that. I know Food and Mood will teach me all of this, but I'm feeling like I need someone to sort of hold my hand through it.

I guess a comparable situation would be if I were diagnosed with some sort of serious illness and I tried to just read a book and treat myself. I'm not feeling qualified and that's probably a good thing.

Re: good stuff! (and that's a great site)

[baka-san.livejournal.com]

ah, looking for preventative maintenance stuff...

the 3 months i lived at home after college, i lost about 30 pounds. i did push ups, crunches and situps twice a day, and jogged 1/2-1 mile a day. did that 4 days a week, i think. juice for breakfast. a typical lunch would be a banana and a carrot, or an apple and a carrot or something like that. ate whatever my mother cooked for supper. usually it was meat, potato, and some green vegetables of some sort, occasionally pasta or mexican (i got sick of barbecued chicken and sweet potatoes after a while, actually). i felt good physically the whole time (well, after 2 weeks of getting used to the reduced calorie intake, and increased exercise), and i think i did some of my better work at my dad's shop during that period. mentally, i was dealing with a mild, female-related depression, which is probably why i didn't mind not eating so much.

i think a really big thing is to stick with whatever you wind up deciding to go with. especially on the days that you don't feel like it. i think it's kinda like keeping your finances in order in that regard.

very true, on all counts

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

when Chris and I first started dating, and pretty much until about my second year here, I was eating really reasonably and would exercise at least 3 times a week (mostly hiking). After starting work, that got cut back to about once or twice a week, but the hikes got longer. I remember when we'd go out to eat, we'd eat about a 1/3rd of our meal and be stuffed. That just doesn't happen anymore. I ate a lot of fresh foods then, like you're talking about, and a lot of granola too for that matter. And yes, I feel I did better work at the time and was generally in a better mood.

Before I met Chris though, I was on the "junkie diet" as we affectionately called it. Think that says it all without explanation. So I guess the transition from eating next to nothing and exercising a lot to eating just what I needed to and exercising a good bit was easy at that time. I know once I get stuck to a plan, it'll be easy to keep in place. But like all things, it's just tough to get started. I think I'm ready at this point though.

[branflake.livejournal.com]

you know, we can do this together!!!

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

yes, we most certainly could!

you up for a quiet evening on Saturday night? I'm thinking any place by mine (it's still kind of a mess, but in a good way, a progress mess). I just want to have a few beers and relax for a night. I haven't done that in a long time.

[branflake.livejournal.com]

sounds great!!!!! my house is a disaster!!! but.... i got a new dog today and i would love for you to meet her!!!! her name is katie and she is a corgi husky mix... wierd hu??? she has the head of a husky and the body of a corgi... is is sooooo sweet!!!!

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

wow, that is weird. how does jezebel like her?