My Mindset Journal

 Yesterday (Day 14) turned out relatively okay.  I woke up with a bit more aches and pains than makes me comfortable, so then how I feel mentally goes downhill fast.  I stepped on the scale and it was up.  Another negative first thing in the morning.  It just sort of hung over me, with negative thoughts bombarding me.  I had a whole litany of things I was going to write about, analyze, dissect, etc.  Yet as the day progressed, the unhelpful thoughts settled down and I felt better. I went to my super duper expensive private pilates class and it was quite helpful, as usual.  Then later in the afternoon I sucked it up in the afternoon heat and took a 30 min walk, listening to a Pahla B podcast, about loving my menopausal body, came home to rest with a bowl of frozen watermelon and played the Sims.  Had a light dinner, and took my mom to a quilt guild meeting.   I never had the time to journal, though obviously I could have found the ti...

 Seriously, why does being calm and relaxed make someone want to munch?  I'm happily sitting outside on a rocking chair, trying to get far enough along in a new book to make night time reading easier, and then I get the munchies.  And I'm not even hungry.  I stopped reading and decided to do something else to keep me distracted.   I spent the morning looking for online journaling ideas, and decided it would be just as easy to write it as a blog.  So here I am, writing to distract myself from wanting to eat. I'm doing the Pahla B 5-0 program.  Journaling is the most important of the 5 steps and one of the more difficult ones for me to get my head around.  Today is 13 days and maybe finally it will kick in.   I can type much faster than I can write, and I sure as heck can think a lot faster than I can write or type, for that matter. Now I'm going to attempt to put my thoughts about quiet times, resting, afternoons, etc., into a journa...