The season is about fun and being with people. Don’t sabotage your health and weight goals. Pick 3-5 hacks that work for you. Results are about taking action.
Eat before you go. Don’t go hungry.
Tell your party mate what your plan is for the night.
Be well hydrated before going to the party and continue drinking water throughout the night.
Decide how many drinks you’re going to have. Be honest with yourself. If you’re going to have 3 say it. It’s better to say the truth than to feel bad because you said 1 and had more.
Plan your breakfast and lunch and your breakfast for the next day. Have a plan! Fail to plan, plan to fail.
Exercise before you go. Endorphin’s do wonderful things for our choices in life.
Survey the buffet before you put food on your plate.
Use a small plate and break the buffet down into courses; salad, entrée & dessert.
If it ain’t good don’t eat it.
Eat off a plate as much as possible.
If you have many parties these next 2 weeks. Pick and choose which ones you will eat and drink more at. Not all parties or crowds are the same.
I’ve been thinking about stress management and what are the ways I lower my stress. Here’s my list of the top 7 important ones. The list will change. Everything changes and being open and accepting it makes it easy to adapt when need be and it lowers stress.
Here’s my Top 7 Priorities:
1. Eat healthy! Because it makes me feel better and have more energy. Moderation is important as well as not being deprived. When I eat well, I live well and feel well. For me it starts with eating healthy. I don’t have aches and pains because of the food I eat either physically or mentally. This allows me to have the capacity for more love for myself and others.
2: Stress management! I take time to journal everyday in the morning and at night. In the morning I write 5 gratitude, 5 affirmations, a letter to my future self and a letter from my future self to me. I allow about 1/2 hour to do this. At night, I journal again anything that bothered me during the day and what I accomplished. The evening writing takes about 15 minutes. With the mental chatter on paper and out of my head, I can fall asleep much easier and stay asleep. Insomnia comes in 2 forms, falling a sleep and staying a sleep. Journaling helps with both of these. It’s important to quiet the monkey mind. The brain switches gears and does the job of sleeping, dreaming healing the body. Also, the negative voices become positive voices and I am able to see another solution to the problem.
3: Working out / Moving More! It doesn’t matter so much what I do as long as I do it. I’ve also learned that it takes about 15 minutes for the body to get warmed up and added blood circulation makes me feel better I want to be happy. The release of endorphins makes me happy. For me that’s the name of the game. Plus a lot of what I do in the form of exercise feels like playing. I have a playful spirit. I always want to go out and play. If you want to make a play date to go for a walk, ride a bike, go for a run, go out dancing, play running bases, I’m your girl.
4: Family! I love mine and enjoy spending time with them. My parents taught us to go out of your way for family and friends and to have a generous spirit.
5: Seeing More Possibilities (SMP)!Because I take good care of myself, I am able to be fully present for my business, family and friends. It takes a lot of work, energy, faith and networking to start a new business. But it’s been my dream to work for myself as a life coach. I believe in living our dreams and I am excited to share this one with you.
6: Friends!It was hard not include friends with family since most of my friends are like family. I separated it out because I’ve had to learn that SMP comes before socializing with my friends. It’s been fun working part time and having the freedom to play during the day, but my focus has shifted.
7: Chores!It has always been last on my list. There’s always time to do the laundry, clean the bathroom, go grocery shopping.
Think Big By: Jim Rennert
The beauty of knowing where I stand with my priorities is that it keeps my life in balance. It helps me to practice self-love and kindness. Those 2 attributes help me to be happy, grounded and available for my family, friends, clients. I also get to Think Big.
I challenge you to write out a list of your top priorities and why. I wonder what you’ll learn about yourself. Please feel free to share them with me in the comments section.
Today, April 30, 2017, is my mother, Rosalind Krivit’s yahrzeit. She passed away in 2010. I am still getting used to her not being here and not being able to share my life with her.
Death is hard for those that are left behind. I’m sad and I miss her so much that my heart aches. There are tears behind my big blue eyes. It feels as if they are running down my insides. I am managing these overwhelming feelings by having an inner dialogue with my inner self. It’s important to create space to hear that part of me that misses her mommy. I long to go over to her apartment and cook together, play cards or go down to the lower east side of Manhattan to Economy Candy, so Rosalind can stock up on hard sucking candies. She would purchase 6 months worth of candy at a time. There are a 101 things I long to do with my mother. The more I allow myself to feel my feelings I can cope with the loss. It’s when I deny my truth that I feel depressed. At the same time I need to remember the gifts she gave both me and my brother, Ira. There were so many.
There is one story I want to share with you. It’s about her open heart open house philosophy. In February, 1953, my mother was having a couple over to her apartment for a Saturday night dinner. Her friend ( I wish I remembered her name – oh well), called a few hours before she was to arrive with her boyfriend and asked if she could bring a friend to dinner, his name was Bill Krivit. My mother, like her mother Ida Sribnick said “of course there’s always room for 1 more at the table.”
The 4 of them ate, drank and laughed the night away. When Bill left with the other couple he exclaimed, “I’m going to marry that girl.” They were married on June 23, 1953, 5 months after they met.
My parents always loved to be with family and friends. The more the merrier. People stopped by the house all the time. Family would come for a visit and it turned into weekend guests. It didn’t matter if they lived several towns away or several states away. We always had sleep overs. Ira had a trundle bed and the children would sleep head to toe. It was a fun happy home to grow up in.
The family is much smaller and there aren’t as many simhkes (parties) as there used to be. It’s ok. I have to accept life on life’s terms. Tonight I’ll honor my mother by being happy and spending time with my brother & husband, Joel.
“Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
