Doctors hate her for this one simple trick

A month since I posted? Whoops!

I have been keeping up with walking, cycling, and trying to tap. I am no Ann Miller, but I like to think I’m less bad than when I started?

Anyway, here’s a little chart showing my weight change over the past year. It’s a comfort to see it all laid out—a consistent downward trend, as long as I keep tracking! Other things I think help: remembering vitamins, eating meat every day for iron, getting good sleep, and therapy. Where my feelings are at makes a huge difference in how I take care of myself. I don’t sleep well when I’m anxious. And if I don’t go to bed on time, I’ll eat junk food. 

I guess that’s my number one heath thing: sleep. Without good sleep, everything else falls apart—I feel anxious, I don’t exercise, and I eat junk. 

But they’re all interconnected. I sleep better when I exercise and do my therapy homework. I eat better when I do those things, too. But I can’t/don’t do them if I haven’t been getting good sleep.

Or maybe my number one thing is vitamins. If I don’t take my vitamins and iron, I am ravenous. And especially without iron, I get restless legs, which keeps me up. 

I guess maybe everything is my number one? I guess I should abandon the idea of a “number one” altogether!

There is no one. There is only all, interconnected.

November reset

I hit my goal weight on my goal day! Yay me! And then Hallowe’en happened, with its stress over costume-making, lack of sleep, and abundance of candy. So I’m in reset mode, to get my healthy habits back on track (especially sleep!). Thank goodness as well for the end of daylight savings, so mornings aren’t quite as grim as they were.

So far, so good. After a week, I’m back to where I was. Biggest thing I think has been tap. My instructor suggested using a metronome instead of music—to be able to fine-tune the tempo—and it also allows me to focus more on the rhythm without getting distracted by the melody. I have been practising so much more, feel like I might be making progress (at least I know what mistakes I am making and why, now), and I definitely feel the difference in my lower body—both in how the muscles feel, and how my clothes fit. It really does not take much to make a difference, and it is so much fun!