I’ve been on a quest to lose weight for just over four years now. I have not been, ultimately, successful. Be it willpower, genetics, the pandemic, or just the way things are. So, I have switched tactics to focus on movement and mindful eating. The latter means I make a meal plan (almost) every week, and while I may not always stick to it, I am much more Aware of what I’m eating..
The former: movement, is the focus of this post.
I set a goal a couple months back, to get 25 minutes of Zone time on my Fitbit as many days a week as possible. I set up my food calendar with an extra spot for coloring in. Green for meeting the Goal, yellow for getting halfway there, and red for no activity.
This worked for a while, then life and vacation happened. I slid back. But my therapist and I had a plan to recapture motivation: a solid goal – twenty greens means I’m allowed to buy a Cantrip candle. They’re really cool, especially if you’re a gamer geek. But I was still only doing three days a week.
Here comes the reason for this to be posted Here.
He and I had a talk. We had discussed Him being part of my accountability, but we wanted to be careful about making our relationship/interactions dependent on my success. So that conversation had fizzled, other than me occasionally reporting if I got greens or not.
This time, though, he came with an idea. We would plan time together, but if I met my goals, the play would be more of what I like, and less of what I hate-like. Example: we’d plan a flogging, and if I was meeting my goals it would be more thuddy (my favorite), but if I wasn’t, it would be more stingy.
I started making a goal plan, which hasn’t started, yet. But I’ve already got four days in a row green (at 30+ Zone minutes, not just 25). Then yesterday happened, and I woke up stupid early from stress today. So now I’ve written three blog posts, and plan to probably be a lump. But four days in a row is a good start.
Accountability photo:
