Sunday, 21st April 2013

Please do not leave advice or feedback.  Thank you.  Prayers welcome. 

Ideally I'd like to commit to longer than 21 days of exercise, but this
is a length of time I have satisfied on at least one prior occasion, so I
will start with what I know is possible for me to do.  The commitment
is thirty minutes of exercise before midnight of any of the following
format: running, jogging, a combination of running-walking-jogging,
swimming, walking, attending a fitness class (something that requires me
to leave the house), stationary biking, biking, dance class, aerobic
class, yoga, karate (or other martial arts).  I am doing this because:

1. I feel that running or exercise will force me to own up to other
   commitments in my life, because challenges in the running sphere force
   me to have other commitments in my life met so that I can exercise
   unimpeded and feel good that my investment in myself is going somewhere.
2. I want to feel good about myself when I go outside, and
3. I don't trust myself to exercise at the end of the day or at some
   point before midnight unless I make the commitment here to do it.  
4. I want to move forward with my running/jogging plan to be able to
   run/jog for 30 minutes at a time.  I want to run a marathon at the end
   of this year or January of next.  (I have always wanted to run the
   Honolulu Marathon; I don't even know if this is something I can do, but I
   want to do it.)  I have year after year pledging to do another marathon
   and have not, b/c I did not make headway on my running plan.
5. Being accountable to others by making a commitment here, helps me to be accountable to myself. 
6. The objective is to stick to the running plan by doing at least one
   training unit per day of the 28-week running plan I came up with, which
   is a slower version of the eight-week Rodale run/walk plan.  
7. practicicing being on time with this commitment, will assist me in being on time in other areas. 
8. It will also help me to practice willpower for other activities that require energy.
9. Exercise helps me to feel comfortable in what I am doing, b/c I am
   not constantly fidgeting at my desk or feeling like I SHOULD be
   running/swimming/walking or getting out in the sun or that I SHOULD have
   done those things last night.
10. Exericse helps me to avoid feelings of not  being adequate, because
    I have confidence in myself as a person interacting with others.
11. I want to build trust in myself by committing to something small
    that positively affects my whole life.  Since I'm making a promise here
    to do it, that's going to help me to keep my promise to myself so that I
    have faith in myself that at some point during the day I will exericse,
    instead of feeling like crap because I don't even trust myself to get
    to the gym or go on a walk.
12. Exercise makes everything tighter, which makes me feel more comfortable with myself and helps me to be able to live with myself.
13. I want to be able to wear the clothes in my closet, and throw out the ones that are not useful to me.

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Thus far I've done two of the training days in which I run for two minutes and walk for two minutes times 7, plus two minutes of walking.  I'm debating whether to walk or jog/walk again today.   I will have to see how I am feeling. I just wanted to give myself a pat on the back, b/c yesterday I did more than an hour of exercise in one day and I did not even expect it to be that way.  I don't want to hold myself to that, but I'm really proud of myself that I did the running yesterday.  The only thing is that I want to show up to the saturday meeting too.

Thank-you Mole for the great starter.

• readings
• tidy
• unpack
• laundry
• bank
• accounts
• filing 
• tca
• cooklunch and dinner
• call d, d, a
• do d files
• return email k
• ring re cc p
• write journal
• rs organise books
• start j f m
• rs
• letter bm
• put laundry away
• r ready to copy tomorow
• meeting 
• change apt a
• take m out m

I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.

I want to thank Mole for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting

2. Take shower

3. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting

4. Go to the 8 a.m. telephone OA meeting

5. Go to the 9 a.m. telephone DA meeting

6. Cook and eat breakfast

7. Get dressed

8. Go to my mom's apartment

9. Go to Family Dollar and purchase lightbulbs

10. Go grocery shopping

11. Skin and cut chicken

12. Do numbers

13. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone CLA activity line

14. Go to the 3:30 p.m. online PA meeting

15. Eat dinner

16. Clear tables

17. Go to the 6:45 p.m. telephone OA meeting

18. Go to the 7 p.m. online EA meeting

19. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting

20. Shred material

21. Test blood sugar twice

22. Go to the PA workshop at 9 p.m.

Thanks for letting me share