Accidentally Resolved

Last December, whilst awaiting for my scheduled operation, I stopped my smoking with in order to ensure no delays would materialize once I entered the hospital and have my preoperation clearance checks. The post operation found me in more pain and with even less mobility that I don't even want to think of standing up and smoking, much less going out of the house to smoke. At this point, I have reached my 3rd week nicotine free. The longest I've gone without smoking for nearly 19 years.

I also started to streamline my diet wherein I was mainly eating fruits and vegetables on most days, in fact I must have stopped my carbohydrate intake for nearly 3 weeks! Of course, I lost a pretty decent amount of weight and found myself fitting into many of my pants once again. I have started to take in some carbs lately, which is once again making some impact on my figure but nothing quite drastic as before. I am planning on religning my eating habits once more as soon as I can visit the local grocery.

One month after the surgery, I found myself with 2 new habits, both of which I have only halfheartedly made attempts to stick to. I am no big proponent to making new year's resolutions, I realize that keeping resolutions is easier if you don't break them up into an annual manner but instead a continuous process. I mean why wait for the end of the year, next month or even next week to begin when it easier to go now.

Another way to facilitate keeping on track with your goals will be to reduce, if not eliminate, the list. Instead go at the specific habits one a time starting with the most difficult one you have in keeping. My personal weaknesses are my smoking and eating habits, seconded by laziness and lack of focus. I've stood fast with smoking and managed to stand firm enough with eating. I still have yet to fully conquer succumbing to urges when I indulge with junk foods, though I have made a pretty decent headway against this. Both habits are orally fixated and by aligning to work on removing them, I am experiencing a greater level of success. Note, I didn't make any additional actions aside from sticking to these 2 for the meantime.

Another way I plan to make the changes more lasting is to keep a minimum timeframe before I add another change. While my 3rd action is to start exercising more regularly, I have not yet actively done anything here as I am busy making the change more stamped into my daily habits.

It's still a little early to give a definitive conclusion to the efficacy of the methods but I'm keeping the triumviarate of my philosophy and testing it to the max. I'm targetting at least 4 to 5 positive changes within me, or my body, this year.