New Habit/Routine Accountability

Just make sure to drink plenty of water! It might make you constipated.

Have you read some of the things they are saying about Metformin? It is cheap, has been around a long time and they even think it may hold some promise in extending your longetivy. So I am glad you are on it. Might ask my doc for it the next time I happen to go.
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OK. Just "exercised" now. I am so out of shape that I have to start with 5 minutes on the bike one day, 6 minutes the next...

I was doing good, until yesterday and today.

So, my new habit makes me improving a lot, but I realize it worn me up. After calculating, I wake up every 5AM to 10 PM+. I have very little rest. Combined with stressing over a job problem and bad weather, I end up getting cold yesterday.

I'm getting better now, not fully recovered yet but at least I able to eat or think clearly again. I skip some of my habits until next week, then I need to devise a plan for good habit without make me sick.

Hi, I only want to say hello, so that you know I'm OK. I'm still struggling to make my routines work the way I want, but I am still doing progress (one step at a time).

Send good wishes to all of you!

I will be back later!

Same here. I'm trying every day regardless of success. I'm really mad because I managed to do a lot yesterday, but pulled a muscle in my hip/groin area, walking?!, and it hurts so much. I had planned to do a real workout today but it might not happen.

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OK, well, instead of working out just now, I ate some frozen Indian food, but it was a hot meal, "prepared" by me, in my own house, and I made the rice from scratch ; ), so I can't complain. I also walked to and from work, which was no big deal back in NYC, but here feels like a big accomplishment.

OK I am new to this. I am going to start simple since I have been struggling with this for years and want so badly to be successful. This is even part of my goals with T. My sleep habits are horrible and I am exhausted ALL OF THE TIME.

Goal 1: Make it through one day this next week without taking a nap. (If successful my goal will move up to 2 days next week)

Goal 2: Get up at 6 am each day.

Really pissed off that I haven't been to the sports centre since Tuesday. I went sprawling going for a wide ball when I was hitting a tennis ball against the wall ( I think i'm rafa nadal haha). It didn't show itself till I woke up weds and ,ouch, it was was so painful. I think it's called turf toe. As walking there is all part of the regime i'm doubly pissed. Hopefully Monday i'll see how it goes. They phoned yesterday and I signed up for another years membership which works out at less than £5 a week for all the classes, the gym and the pool. Pretty good deal. Hope you all stick to your intentions and have a great weekend.

Ouch. I sympathise.

OK! I just rode the stationary bike for 30 min. I didn't break much of a sweat, but it's a start. 30 minutes daily should be enough to see some cardiovascular benefit if I really make it count.

I'm back from a week rest. Admittedly, I still do drawing a few times at my resting time.

I decided to draw every 2 days on working days. I would not push myself anymore if I were tired from work. Instead, I'm going to train harder over the weekend, 3 hours or more.

OK. Let's try ths again. Last time I had a lot of success on the stationary bike, I was watching episodes of Big Love, so maybe Star Trek: TNG will help get the job done this time. As far as weight-bearing exercise goes, I've been "good" about walking to and from work, now that it's a little cooler outside.

I have had some busy weeks. Sorry I haven't been in here. But now I'm here. I feel tired and frightened. Am really scared to fall deeper and deeper into depression. For tomorrow I will try restart my old routines. I hope it is possible to just jump into them. Wish me luck!

PS. It feels good to be here again - safe harbor!

I have been busy working on a writing project. I have gotten an amazing amount done during October. It will be completed prior to a surgery I am having on my finger (self harm with a cleaver almost 2 years ago ) on Tuesday. I will follow this thread (hugs) but may not be able to type.

To morrow I will continue to try to make my morning-routines go on autopilot (jump into them the way I remebered them - it worked this morning).

The best hopes for myself and everyone else here!

'I didn't do well for a few past weeks.

10 PM Phone restriction: I need to contact my other friends to discuss a 'problem' with group call. Unfortunately, we're all free after 9. I'm going to break this rule until the problem solved.

Drawing & Squat: I was lazy, that's all. I still do it twice or 3 times per week.

I add some new habits:
Learning English: I want to improve my English (I'm not native English speaker).
Note: if you see any bad grammar, tenses, etc in this or my other posts, you can help me by pointing it out.
Pet Turtle Care: I want to spend more time with her, when I'm still able.

More food posts...

My best wishes

I'm slightly improving than my last post. I can sleep below 10PM again. I'm doing badly in squats. I'm just re-starting again .

I should look at my health now. So, I keep switching between English learning and drawing. If I'm ok, I would drawing. If I'm too tired from work, I would listening to English podcast instead. So far, I'm doing good on this one.

Why haven't I come across this thread so far? Really great idea.

I've always had problems sticking to a routine too. Often I just end up procrastinating on one thing on my schedule and thereby mess up my entire day and don't get anything done.

I'm trying to get back to sticking to a schedule at the moment. I hope I can make some progress and get order in my life again.

Not doing too well today. Yesterday I had to do a lot of chores and didn't find the time to do anything productive. I was planning to get up at 8 AM, do some productive stuff in the morning and visit a museum in the afternoon.
But for some reason, I couldn't sleep and woke up much too late, at noon. Now I haven't got anything done and it's already the afternoon.

Rather frustrated right now. Why do I have to be like this?

Presently I am suffering from mild depression with anxiety attacks and intermittent anger outbursts.

My goals for the next 2-3 weeks would be:

1)I plan not to sleep for more than 7-8hrs at night. I generally fall asleep by 12am, so I can plan to get up by 7:30am every morn.
2)Force myself out of the house at least 2-3times every week.
3)I have been avoiding cleaning my room and the house. So force myself to clean at least a little bit every day. Maybe keep half an hour for cleaning every day.
4)Exercise : 15mins + 15mins of aerobics and breathing exercises and 20mins + 20mins of walking every day.
5)Follow a healthy diet. No overeating.

Hope I'll get your support in this like last time.

Okay, I haven't been able to do anything with routines...and I think my OCD is the reason why.

Seriously, I have barely done anything except sleep the past 2 weeks. In fact, I can barely distinguish the days of the past two weeks because they've just run by so fast and I've slept through them. I feel like I'm in a living coma.

So I'm trying to start a new routine today and I've done a lot of thinking about how to design it to build it up to make it successful, so I'm hoping this will work.

I have until 10am to get myself up and ready. At 10am I'm going for a brisk 2 mile walk with my dogs and then I will do some calisthenics and stretching. Then I will clean up and go to the library for a couple of hours to get some work done, since I seem to have trouble accomplishing work at home.

Then I will come home and to a sort of trade off thing doing 15 minutes of cleaning up then 15 minutes of whatever. And I'll do that off and on for a little while until it's time for the dog park.

I've done a lot of experimenting and analyzing my behaviors and I think this routine will work.

Will let you know tomorrow how I managed.

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