The first thing that comes to mind is eat. I seem to have this voracious appetite as of late. I don’t know why.
I pulled off the intermittent fasting thing for a few weeks and it did work but I probably would have been more successful with it if I hadn’t gorged myself with food during my eating window. It was like my body wanted to make up for all the NOT eating I did when I was fasting all evening, night and morning.
I realized a week ago I should do less mindless scrolling and so I set limits on my phone and it’s been working. One hour on all social media apps combined and then it locks me out of them. Well not actually locks me out, I can bypass if I want but for the most part I don’t.
When one of my kids gets frustrated about life and is going off, I’m always quick to remind them not to complain, compare or criticize yet I’m just as guilty. I need to practice what I preach. It’s funny how having kids just makes you a better person by default. I recall my Dad jokingly saying, when he did something that maybe didn’t set the best example, “do as I say not as I do”. Haven’t tried that one out on my kids, yet.
Lastly, I guess I could do less of criticizing my own appearance, specifically the lines on my face and the bags under my eyes. Shit’s getting really real around here when I look in the mirror these days. I know that it’s inevitable and unavoidable.
Yet it shocks me. How my face is changing, aging. I’m trying to do all the right things like drinking water, getting enough rest etc. I don’t smoke, rarely if ever drink. But it still keeps coming for me.
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