About Goals

So someone says lifestyle and let's face it that is incredibly more difficult than just popping a few pills everyday so I must say I was pretty overwhelmed. I met with a dietician and she layed out what I was supposed to be doing and honestly I just wanted to crawl in a hole and forget about it.

I am really an immediate gratification kind of person like a lot of other people and doing a lot of work today to prevent something from happening 5-10 years from now was going to take a lot of convincing. The depression is an immediate problem but for those of you that know anything about depression making any change is like moving a mountain so when I saw how far away I was from optimal everything seemed impossible.

I must say though that hiring the dietician was smart and she is great to work with. We took the "optimal lifestyle" goal and broke it down into small chunks so that I could move towards it over time. Of course there is always the temptation to set a deadline but I didn't this time just decided to trust the universe, do my best and see what happens.

So how far off am I and what am I in for. The goals fell into two categories diet and exercise. I knew right off that exercise was going to be the most challenging because honestly I'm a book worm so I honestly don't find getting off my butt very appealing. Basically I don't exercise at all now and my goal is to work up to 1 hour of moderate exercise/day.

As for the food I must be honest. Currently I eat junk and my eating habits are pretty sporadic. I skip breakfast, snack over the keyboard during the day and then gorge on dinner. Dinner is always the big meal mostly because my husband cooks it so really there is zero effort involved in eating it. SO basically I need to completely overhaul my eating habits and start over.

I really hate grains but really they are key to mood and cholesterol reduction so I've got to make a point of finding some that are appealing and learning to like them. And I'm sure it won't come as any surprise but I do like fat. Not just saturated fat but all fats. Peanuts, avocatos, etc. etc. etc.

Now healthy fats are wonderful but of course we all know that eating too many of them is hazardous on the waistline.

The one saving grace though is that I'm not overweight so I'm not facing dieting on top of everything else which is a relief. The only challenge though which the dietician warned me about was changing my eating habits and not gaining weight. I must say that I love my figure right now and the one thing that could for sure derail everything is me starting to gain some weight. In fact I'd be lying if I didn't say it was a big fear of mine.

So in a nutshell probably nothing too profound. You will be healthier if you improve your diet and start exercising. Now just to start doing it.

Stay tuned for day 1 of the rest of my life.