Monthly Archives: January 2006

Just 4 Today: January 27, 2006


Posted by katiebird

Just 4 Today, I will not feel overwhelmed by all my various projects and my insecurities about being able to do them.

I will do 3 sets of circuits around the library building (yesterday I did 2 sets) — doing that really seems to help my concentration.

And Just 4 Today, I’ll brag a bit about the webpage (fully developed site coming soon) I finished yesterday for Nancy Pickard Mysteries (you’ll find a link to the site in the sidebar under Authors). She now has an official website!

[UPDATE] The blog, Enemy of the State belonging to our very own Ductape Fatwa has been honored with a 2005 Koufax Awards nomination for Most Deserving of Wider Recognition. If you have a chance today stop by Enemy of the State and read a rant or two.


Positive changes


Posted by katiebird

Since I learned I had high blood pressure back in mid-November, I’ve been making a concerted effort to get my health house in order. A couple decades of little to no exercise and not paying a whole lot of attention to what I eat (although I was probably the most conscientious denizen of FAR Manor even then, which isn’t saying much) finally caught up to me. Fortunately, I didn’t find it difficult to do the things I have to, perhaps because I intended to (eventually) do them anyway.

Just as the years up to that point took their toll, the weeks since then are now starting to show results. I’ve lost 14 pounds (233 to 219 so far) — although I’m still trying to figure out where they came from in the first place. But weight isn’t the important thing. It’s too easy to focus on weight, especially since exercise often replaces fat weight with muscle weight; it’s just that it’s a convenient metric as easy to see as stepping on the scales. IMHO, obsessing about weight probably kills more diets than anything else… with the possible exception of assuming the whole thing is going to be an exercise in misery from the get-go. Continue reading →


The Commitment (Day 11) & Just 4 Today – Together


Posted by katiebird

Thanks to howieinseattle at the Booman Tribune for this quote from Rude Pundit which has a timely question for some of the senators (and could be modified to work for all of them) when you make your pleas today for an Alito filibuster:

So here’s the question that the Rude Pundit has for Senators Daniel Akaka, Max Baucus, Joe Biden, Robert Byrd, Kent Conrad, Tom Harkin, Jim Jeffords, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Frank Lautenberg, Patrick Leahy, Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Barbara Mikulski, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller, and Paul Sarbanes, who were there then and are there now: Do you wish you had filibustered Clarence Thomas now? Do you wish you had done everything you could even against the slim majority that supported Thomas?

Maybe it’s just me. But, I’m regetting all the calls I didn’t make when we were facing the Thomas confirmation. I was finishing up my degree and assumed that someone else would do it.

[Update] Phone and Fax Numbers (From JanetStrange at the BoomanTribune)

(Just today, I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds — But, Just 4 Today – Well, who should a Kansas girl write to today? Roberts? Brownback?)


Just 4 Today: January 25, 2006


Posted by katiebird

Just 4 Today, I’m going to make a list of the things I need to do. And look at it now and then through the day to remind myself to do some of it. I forgot to pick up my medication on the way home last night (even though I did remember to call in the prescription) and I’ve got to pick it up tonight (now this reminder will be staring at me all day, even if I don’t get that list done!).


Eat 4 Today – The Commitment (Day 10)


Posted by katiebird

I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. Just Today.k And I’m going to try this for a year.

The other thing I do everyday is weigh myself. I know that weight loss doesn’t happen at a steady rate and that some days I will actually weigh a little more than the day before.a And then suddenly after not any progress for a week or more, I’ll seem to lose 2 or even 3 pounds over night (which from what we are learning about sleep, might actually be happening).

Something about having a regular relationship with the scale helps start my day with a focus that helps my commitment.

I know this goes against almost all diet advice. Most books and experts don’t want people weighing themselves more than once a week.n But I’m not weighing myself to see huge (or even any) weight losses every day. For me, it’s another measurement like checking my bloodsugar or serving my food with measuring cups._ I’m just checking. And I don’t think it hurts anyone if I do.
Have you found little routines that help you stay on track with your commitment?