Came to an interesting,
almost important, realization this morning. Wanted to help Beloved Hubby with a
side job he was finishing in the garage, so I hurried through my usual medicine
regimen. The VA has me on HealthCheck, a device that monitors and sends my data
- blood sugar, blood pressure, oxygen, and weight readings - to my doctors
every day. It gets annoying sometimes, but it helps, so. . . Anyway, I was actually happy about today’s
weight, it was a bit lower than it had been. Until the device helpfully told me
I’d gained a pound and an ounce. I started to get upset, but I decided to
continue feeling positive about being X weight, instead of being upset about
being X+1. In fact, if I was OK with my weight, it was entirely possible I’d
eat less to maintain it, instead of stupidly rebelling and either over-eating
junk or just plain eating anything not nailed down or on fire out of
frustration. Which, I’m embarrassed to say, happens fairly frequently. We’ll
see how that works. I’m constantly amazed at how a simple viewpoint or attitude
adjustment changes my enjoyment of life.
I also figured out – finally
! – that, instead of being vaguely upset at not being able to eat, or more
often, drink, the occasional sugar-craving I get, for fear of making my
readings spike and having to give m’self more shots every day, if I saw it as
‘saving’ the calories for something more enjoyable later, I wasn’t so wound up
over it. And half the time, I forgot to splurge later ! Now I just have to keep
the positive thoughts coming.
Liberated a couple of
nice-looking screws from Beloved’s storage bins and finally got a doll case
re-hung. It fell about two months ago, and I kept thinking ‘Before this month
is over, I’m gonna do something about that case.‘. At least I won’t be taking
that thought to 2016 with me !
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