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I have to go over my items tonight in my goals list. Yes I have a lot of items but it’s because I have a lot of issues and they are all interlinked. I might have to make another adjustment. I am open to imperfection and can consolidate again if my current plan is too demanding. I have to make it work. Part of my goals is to start getting out so I will not feel so lonely and tempted to look for my substitutes for fighting loneliness. I will go over everything tonight and let you know what I come up with. My eating will be back on track tomorrow so that will help me feel better and give me the energy I need to continue.
I hope Lucy and others I have heard from post because I would like to hear how they are doing.
Anita I will go over my notes and goals and see if I can make them even easier for me to follow.
Can I just say how much this website has helped me and continues to help me. I really beeded to read the current article on the main page today. Believe me there have been so many that have helped me since I first started posting here and before. Thank you for all your inspirational words.
Anita I am doing ok. Please do not be too concerned with my description of the last few days because I am aware that I need to take care of myself, it’s just sometimes I get into these situations. I have not really had a good meal since Sunday because I ran out of money and have to wait until tomorrow to get paid. I had a gift card that was able to get me through the weekend and a little on Monday but I had to be careful what I ate because of what I have been avoiding. I was completely tapped by Monday and since Monday I have been living on an occasional vegetable with salad dressing and a couple of pretzels a day a customer brought in at my work. The last two nights I have been scrounging in my fridge for little stuff to eat here and there but nothing that could really be called breakfast lunch or dinner. I finally broke down and asked someone if I could have a little of their granola for breakfast tomorrow and they said of course. I didn’t tell them I have not really eaten in days. I akso like the fact that I am going to the grocery store tomorrow as I get paid tomorrow. Thank goodness because I am hungry. I had to eat a few small things that were not part of my diet but my calorie intake in the last few days have been extremely low so I still lost weight. I have also been walking to work and walking home. It’s takes an hour and a half both both ways which is to say I am walking 3 hours a day.
I know this is not healthy and I have to make sure I am fedproperly…I have just never been very good budgeting my money. I will get back on track with my healthy eating tomorrow.
I am really trying to embrace imperfection. I thought about how I was not taking proper care of myself and know that I have to focus on my goals and making them my daily gabits rather than thinking about the outcome.
Work is physically demanding. I often go home exhausted and my lack of eating this week is starting to take a toll on my energy. I love what I contribute to my work but I don’t love everything and obviously I do not make a lot of money.
I am on edge a little bit today because A. Ihaven’t had a good meal in 4 days and B. My PMDD is going on. I am an expert on how I think and feel when it happens so I have been taking a supplement that is suppose to help me balance my hormones.
Next Friday I start a very rare 10 day vacation! I so need it.
Lucy I do enjoy hearing from you but I wouldn’t want you to feel you have to post…especially if you are not up to it.
I have a hard time sometimes posting as well. When I go a few days without posting it is usually more than just work (although that is a major factor.)
Right now I am feeling a little edgy. I know when that time comes up. I will say for myself that I worked pretty hard on my first goal although I have to work on a few aspects of my first goal. It continues on to the next week though like I said and is a work in progress. The best thing I accomplished is changing my eating habits. I keep reminding myself of what is down this path if I go back to eating unhealthy and what could be down this other path if I eat to nourish my body.
I am missing something and I wish I could find a replacement for what I am missing besides food. I have been so good and trust me I have had several temptations thrown at me but it’s now or never for me. I am telling myself that to motivate myself. I have to do this.
I did get upset about a half an hour ago wondering where my soulmate is. That void in my life is getting to me right now. I have to hang on and be patient.
I have lost a few pounds alread just changing my eating, I started Yoga, meditation, walking more. One of my struggles has been drinking enough water…I have to work on that and carry into the new week along with everything else. My weeks of this program I started for myself begin on Thursdays. My second week is all about exercise so this should be interesting. I love to walk and hike on trails and I love swimming. I also love to ride a bike. So it’s exercise this week.
Like I said, love to hear from you but only if you are ready.
I am feeling so different than I did on May 1st when I created this thread. I am not suddenly cured of my loneliness and I am not 100 percent confidant that my feelings then won’t return but I feel so driven now. I have made an elaborate plan for life goals and how to approach them more involved than I have ever done before. Because I have so much to work on I feel I have to do it this way. So much ties into my feeling alone.
I have many goals in different areas but my first focus is eating well and sleeping well. Yes my ultimate goal is to do this to properly take care of my body but in my ultimate goal here to help with my loneliness it will help my self confidence to be happier with my body image. I have already made progress but do not want to be obsessed with constantly checking it. Part of me feeling attractive is my taking care of my body by eating foods that help me and drinking plenty of water.
I have written some affirmations for whenever my feelings start to spiral down so I have that. I also do have this forum and I believe this forum has really inspired me to be as driven as I am right now to do something about my problem.
As I am focusing on each goal I will not forget to be mindful of my thoughts on men and to change the way I think. Right now I am very optimistic and hopeful.
Lucy I am glad to hear someone say that they are inspired to keep trying and if what I write helps that along on any level that makes me happy.
Thank you Lucy. Right before I joined this forum I was very depressed and have had my ups and downs so I don’t know when I will be feeling optimistic or down. Right now I am very optimistic and it is on my list to soften my down periods so they don’t completely cloud my judgement.
A certain mantra upsets you or the idea of centering your feelings and letting go upsets you? I think I know what about it bothers you but I think even though it sounds detached the goal is to quiet the mind so I think we can make decisions with more clarity. I fortunality have had very pleasant feelings listening and repeating mantras. My emotions get to be too much when either my hormones kick in or I feel I am being treated as unimportant or as someone who just needs to be tolerated because she’s here. Of course I feel or think those thoughts more deeply other times than now. I think I have a real self esteem issue that like right now I can deal with and want to work on. Unfortunality also when my emotions get to be too much I tend to rant about everything I am feeling. There really isn’t anyone in my personal life I can do that with.Yes it is a very important part of my dream to have a relationship with a man and it is one of the reasons I want to change but my ultimate reason is I want to be the person I was meant to be when I was born and part of that is being open to love and acceptance and giving back to people I know and meet. One of my biggest problems in life is my extreme loneliness and I don’t want to be sad most of the time anymore but I have been feeling these things for years. I understand the importance of a person being happy with or without someone else but I want to experience a real connection with someone and have friends and have a family. That is what I dream of and also what I envy in others.
I felt I did love myself when I was younger but I was an extremely sensitive child and the get up and don’t cry environment amongst the often anger I experienced and saw between others growing up as well as the competitive school I went to where the strongest and happiest excelled…I felt abandoned. If you experienced pain of any kind in my family or the neighborhood your options seem to be to become more stoic and or use drugs to hide your pain. I fortunality did not turn to this growing up but I dealt with my undealt with pain by retreating from the anger in my family, from the other children who I felt just wanted to ridicule me and eventually not giving the rest of the world a chance because of these early experiences. Sadly both of my parents turned to alcohol or drugs as well as some of my mother’s siblings. I went to the library, museums or stayed in my room and imagined myself somewhere else, being someone else.
I do agree that people are attracted to people who are happy but also to people who show all human emotions in a healthy way. I think when one or two emotions take over our lives we seem less balanced to others. Like Anita and others have said we don’t feel an emotion all the time but people like me with the way I have allowed my life to go I often feel sadness and anger way too much but I never found a way to deal with it thinking if someone loved me and accepted me no matter what I would feel better. The problem is that people you never met before can’t really see the person you are inside and only experience what is on the surface.
I do think it is important to be yourself and we are ourselves under our pain which is why it might be good for us to let go and release it. We are always ourselves deep down.
Angela I totally respect your perspective. I really think we are the same people no matter what age we are and the struggle is not allowing our experiences to cover up our true selves. In my case I have let my experiences rule my life and only a handful of people are able to see the real me inside. I don’t even rocognize myself anymore and it often feels like this negative force has taken over my life and I am powerless over it. I have been waiting for someone to rescue me from it.
I respect your experiences the only difference is the length of time that they have affected our lives.Thank you for your empathy. I wish I was more embarrased by my situation because I had a family member once tell me that I really shouldn’t admit out loud that I have never had a relationship. I am way more secretive about it with aquatants and even a few friends. This is why I like posting on a public forum instead of people who know me. I often wish my family was more concerned when I was a teen staying in my room but I was firm and my grandfather who did try to get me help with a counselor eventually just let me do what I wanted. He was grieving his wife at the time and I don’t think he really knew what to do. The allowances he made for me didn’t really sit well with others in the family though. I just had a memory of my guidance counselor who I was in love with really expressing understanding for what I was going through. If everyone had been like him at that time I might have been less resistant to listening. I remember my female gym teacher stood there in the guidance counselors office and said she thought I was throwing a temper tantrum. Maybe I was. I had enough and felt powerless to bullying, to feeling used, to feeling that I was fated to be nothing special, being the recipient of verbal intimidation. Don’t know why that scene just popped in my head.
Angela I can relate to crying myself to sleep. I hope you do not do that as long as I have and hope you find what you want in your life. I feel for you and can relate to you and I agree, I believe that it won’t be forever for you or for me although I believe more in your ability.
I was raised Catholic and although I do find some things comforting there are many things I do not get and never did so when it comes to religion or belief rather I think it’s a very personal understanding that you come to. I am very open to hearing about all different perspectives when it comes to what someone believes. I approach it like those holistic flyers you see sometime that have different inspirational words and the flyer says take what you need. I do pray though for me personally but I am very open to all different beliefs
I have “friends” but I have difficulty maintaining a close relationship with anyone so I came to this forum for advice and an opportunity to communicate with people.
I absolutely should be doing the things I enjoy on the side but I don’t. I can only compare the reason I do not drive as to my views on living life. I won’t learn to drive because not everyone follows the rules. I won’t participate in a game if I know people might cheat. I do not want to be part of life with other human beings unless everyone is treated as equally valuable. I grew up with the thought that some are for reason just more valuable than others and no matter how well I behaved, no matter what grades I got, no matter how much love I could offer a person they will always see someone else as more valuable than I am. I don’t agree with that way of thinking. It’s just what has developed at a very early age. I literally decided one day in high school that I was going to my room and wanted to be left alone. My grandfather being the age he was compared me to Greta Garbo. Lol. I had heard of her name but I had to look her up in the library to see what he meant. When I was a teenager the library was my internet and it really was the only place that got me out of my room.
It is on my list of things to do though to get a better paying job hopefully in a stress free environment. Needless to say after losing my grandfather, the man basically taking care of me, I had to go into the cruel working world and it has proven to be a nightmare at times for me who really wanted to stay in my room and let me dream about the way I wish my life was. I was not spoiled or felt entitled is was my safety from the world even though I had enough to deal with at home from other people, not my grandfather. It’s wonderful that you take care of yourself and I as of yesterday will make a real effort to pay more attention to my looks. Getting in shape is part of that plan. I know it should be for myself but I think about how I can look and know it could help me in the relationship department or at least in the attraction department. If only I didn’t have to speak. lolI agree with you that there is someone out there for you and for me and taking baby steps to improving myself. I read somewhere recently that you can make all the long term goals you want but if you don’t change your daily habits you will get the same outcome you have always got. I hope and wish for you to find your special someone to share your life with. Thank you again.
Anita I have come up with a plan of some sort. It is starting out as the others did with many goals written but this time I added affirmations in the front of my binder to try to change my thought patterns. I know what to do intellectually, it’s my stubborn thoughts that I have been carrying around with me since I was a teen and then my emotions and sometimes my pmdd takes over and I go back to the beginning of feeling I need to do something.
I don’t know how to get around this because when any of the above kicks in I become incredibly negative and then all the obstacles come up. I don’t know how to participate in something unless everything is perfect. Like if I didn’t have financial woes I could pay for intensive personality makeover or physically be put back into shape.
I am feeling good about what I accomplished this weekend but know all too well my obstacles sure to come up: fear, hurt, loneliness, judging all by the comments of some. I wanted to share with you my feelings on some of the comments posted after some other online articles but not sure if it’s productive.
I also need to see some results rather quickly and become discouraged if I take away my coping methods and nothing comes of it. I have so many issues that are interlinked that I can not set aside even one of them.
I put myself on a more nutritional diet today and plan on walking back and forth to work, as well as some strength training and yoga this week. I want to do it for my health but it’s always in the back of my mind to acheive looking the way I onced looked. I know I am babbling now and even stopped writing about what I am afraid of in my goal settings.
I have a whole binder of things I need to focus on that I worked on this weekend as well as some physical work around the house maybe I am a little fatigued. I should post tomorrow after a bit of rest…
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