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Resolutions for 2010
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on January 03 2010 03:23 AM
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We are now 2-3 days into the New Year (depending on where you are) and it's an age-old tradition to make resolutions for the upcoming year. According to some statistics I've read in various news articles, as many as 70% of Americans make new year's resolutions, but less than 10% of them actually keep their resolutions and see them through. (I know, I know - numbers numbers, blah blah blah.)
Anyway, I thought we could start a thread about our own resolutions for 2010. What changes are you making in your life in 2010, and do you think you'll be able to stick to them? Do you have a "resolution buddy" who's helping support you in your quest for self-improvement? Or are you one of those people who doesn't bother with resolutions?
My new year's resolutions are as follows:
- Get a diagnosis for this mystery illness I've had since last July. This isn't exactly something in my control, so I guess it's less of a resolution and more of a prayer.
- Eat more healthy foods. I am usually pretty good at this but I have a serious lack of fresh fruits and vegetables in my diet, and I need to work on that.
- Exercise more. I have a gym membership that I barely ever use, and I need to start using it enough to make it worth the monthly fee. It's not like I need to lose weight, but exercise is great for your entire body and is also a good stress buster, and Lord knows I need to bust some stress.
- Gain back all 20lbs that I lost last year due to my aforementioned mystery illness. I dropped a significant amount of weight (for me, since I did not weigh a lot to begin with) and I really want to gain it all back, and then some. I know that's unusual to hear people say but I am a very tall, thin person and the more weight I can carry, the better I look.
That is all I have on my list right now. I read somewhere that you should focus on no more than four resolutions for the year so that you don't overwhelm yourself, and I think those are a few good ones for me. How about you guys?
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| Nissa |
Posted on January 03 2010 03:59 AM
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I'm not really into resolutions, but I'm with you on the need to eat more fresh fruits and veggies. I get cravings for them this time of year (maybe because I can't just go into my back yard and pick them like I can in the summer?) but I'm not very good at eating them. Junk food is so much more conviniant. |
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| teecobug |
Posted on January 03 2010 04:00 AM
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i COMPLEATLY spaced the resolutions... last time i tryd... and failed. XD
hope everyone else is luckyer than me... 
cant say much, drawing an "i am NOT emo" picture because iv had to say it so much. aperently wearing a cloak EVERYWHERE is for emo people. 
hugs!
teeco
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| Mohinga |
Posted on January 03 2010 09:32 AM
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I don't do New Year resolutions as a rule, but I know there are going to be some changes in 2010.
For one, I will be starting sewing classes as well as French next week and am looking forward to letting off some creative steam.
I have also been enrolled in a job application session once a week.
This means that for the first time in my life, I will be allowed to tell people about my dyscalculia when applying for a job.
Other than that, I'll just have to wait and see where fate takes me..
I'm a violin so stop trying to make me sound like a piano!!
Dyscalculia doesn't bother me as much as all the nasty accessories that came with it |
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| elena532 |
Posted on January 03 2010 02:32 PM
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for 2010
_ get diagnosed with Dyscalulia
_ get diagnosed with Marfans syndrom
- get diagnosed with scoliosis
-get mental health cheaked out
- improve in art
-Gain some weight
- dont kill anyone.
Don't annoy me, I am running out of places to hid the bodies |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on January 03 2010 04:03 PM
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Elena - YES! You may be the only other person on the planet who can commiserate with needing to gain weight instead of losing it. You are officially my weight-gaining buddy now. 
Getting mental health checked out is a good one too... I finally got that done the right way last year, now I'm working on making the best out of what I have and improving my symptoms to the absolute best of my ability. For me that is going to involve a combination of meds and therapy... for some people, just therapy works. I wish I was one of those people but it became increasingly apparent throughout the last year that I am not going to be one of those people who can live a normal, functional life without medication. I am learning how to be okay with that.
Mohinga - I bet that will be such a liberating feeling, to be able to tell people flat out that you have dyscalculia and not worry about it. The sewing and French classes sound neat too. My mom had me enrolled in sewing "camps" from the time I was about 6 until I was 13, when I finally told her enough was enough and I hated sewing. She gave up and let me quit, but I guess I should be happy she made me do all those years of sewing because now I know if something needs to be hemmed or repaired, I can do it.
Teeco - Forget them, if you like your cloak then wear it! And maybe the "I'm not Emo" drawing will come in handy too.
Nissa - It is sooo much easier to eat junk food, that's what makes eating fresh so hard. I can much more easily dig into a box of crackers or rip open a "granola bar". (I put quotes there because the granola bars I like are filled with chocolate chips and then dunked in a chocolate coating... not exactly the image of health.) I've found that by buying something that doesn't oxidize like a cantaloupe, strawberries, pineapple, etc. and cutting it up ahead of time, I make myself a lot more likely to eat the fruit because it's already been prepared. All I have to do is take a fork and eat the chopped pieces of fruit straight out of the tupperware container.
I also remember now that I resolved to start going to church more often. I remembered that about five minutes ago, as it is Sunday morning and I just watched eleven o'clock come and go and realized that the church service I was thinking about attending starts at 11. Whoops. I guess next week will be the start of that one!
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| ert |
Posted on January 03 2010 07:24 PM
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I don't know if they're resolutions, but it's a plan for 2010.
- Learn to write 2010 instead of 2009
- Tell as many people as possible that dyscalculia exists
- Finish my bachelor in June
- MOVE OUT of this crappy flat
- Earn money in a temporary job
- Go to Los Angeles for as long as those earnt money will allow me
Plans and me don't go together though, so I dunno... |
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| twistedxkiss |
Posted on January 03 2010 07:28 PM
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My resolution every year is to find out what is going to make me happy and go do it, and I always do. I guess it's just about respecting myself enough to put in the time and effort to make myself happy, and not letting fear rule my life. Every year I get better and better at it, and become a better person as a result. |
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| Pauline |
Posted on January 04 2010 10:29 AM
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Finish David Copperfield and the other book I bought - make book reviews after I finish reading them.
Improve my study habits more - because it seems I'm getting a little bit tired with the skolliwol and all that cal.
Get some more sleep - though it's quite impossible. Yet, I need to try it.
Be more enthusiastic with things - in general, I'm not interested nor appealed to things and the society. And because of that, I'm not very motivated with life. So yeah, I need to get working on that.
Reduce the junk foods - OK. I always put this on my New Year's Res. but it always gets ignored. I hope it won't this year. |
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| elena532 |
Posted on January 04 2010 01:06 PM
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[quote]CheshireKat wrote:
Elena - YES! You may be the only other person on the planet who can commiserate with needing to gain weight instead of losing it. You are officially my weight-gaining buddy now.
Getting mental health checked out is a good one too... I finally got that done the right way last year, now I'm working on making the best out of what I have and improving my symptoms to the absolute best of my ability. For me that is going to involve a combination of meds and therapy... for some people, just therapy works. I wish I was one of those people but it became increasingly apparent throughout the last year that I am not going to be one of those people who can live a normal, functional life without medication. I am learning how to be okay with that.
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*high five weight gaining buddy* Im quite underweight for being 13yrs old and 5.8 stone.
I'm hoping my mental health is fine, but I dout that very much, lol.
Don't annoy me, I am running out of places to hid the bodies |
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| Kestrel6 |
Posted on January 04 2010 02:21 PM
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Foster more kittens and TNR more ferals.
Blessed are the PURR in heart! |
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| Kestrel6 |
Posted on January 04 2010 02:48 PM
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teecobug wrote:
i COMPLEATLY spaced the resolutions... last time i tryd... and failed. XD
hope everyone else is luckyer than me...
cant say much, drawing an "i am NOT emo" picture because iv had to say it so much. aperently wearing a cloak EVERYWHERE is for emo people.
hugs!
teeco
(disdainful sniff) I wear a cloak when the weather demands, and the fashion police can go take a flying jump through a rollin' doughnut.
Better yet, look astonished and say "But you didn't KNOW?? Cloaks are SO the latest thing now!" with a look like, what rock do you live under.
Blessed are the PURR in heart! |
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| teecobug |
Posted on January 04 2010 04:29 PM
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haha, elena, i am 90 pounds and 13. i am WAY skinny!
now that i think about it, i probably should gain weight...
cheshirekat,
thanks! no one gets why cloaks are so awesome anymore.... 
love light and hugs!
teeco
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on January 04 2010 05:16 PM
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Kestrel - I think that's a great idea, make that person think they've missed some vital fashion wave. "Didn't you know cloaks are THE 'it' item on the Milan runway this year? I guess you just don't keep up..." Not that I pay much attention to the fashion waves anyway... I watch and wave to them as they pass me by, LOL.
I wear what's comfortable and what I like, and if anyone else likes it that's fine, but if they don't then they can just go fly a kite. I live in sweatpants half the time, and I will go anywhere in them - the grocery store, the mall, whatever. Do I care if anyone stares? Absolutely not. I figure this way, if a guy comes over and starts chatting me up while I'm in line at the store, I know for SURE he's not doing it because I put any effort into making myself look good!
Elena - I had to do the math to figure out what 5.8 stone was in pounds... at 81.2 lbs you are very small! But how tall are you? Your height makes all the difference when it comes to weight. For example, if you were 5 feet tall and weighed 81 lbs it would be different if you were my height (5 feet, 8 inches) and weighed that little! My goal weight is 130 lbs. I used to be at 120 but I lost a significant amount over the past year as I've gotten sicker and sicker with this mystery illness that nobody can seem to diagnose, so now I have a lot of ground to cover as far as gaining it back.
Since you guys are both 13 and a little stressed about being underweight (like I was when I was 13) I will tell you this from experience - DON'T FREAK OUT ABOUT IT. Seriously, don't. If you are naturally thin then there is very little you can do about it. When I was 13 I could not break 100lbs to save my life, and I was about 5'5" at the time so I was very thin. It used to upset me because I just wanted to gain weight and look like everyone else, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't.
So I know how that feels, but I can tell you that you WILL gain the weight as you get older when your hormones kick in. I didn't start putting on "padding" until I was in my senior year of high school, and even at my heaviest weight on record (120lbs) I was still thin. If my family history is any indicator, then I probably always will be thin. And odds are that if you're that thin then you're just built that way and you'll have to learn to love it. You will eventually.
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on January 04 2010 11:38 PM
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Haha, I follow @digg_2000 on Twitter and this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip regarding New Year's resolutions came up:
http://img13.imag...wyearo.gif
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| LauraElizabeth |
Posted on January 05 2010 06:37 AM
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Resolutions scare me because I know that I usually do not fulfill them. But if I had to make them, they would be these:
1. Start running again so I can be happier and run the half marathon in the spring with Em and Young like I promised.
2. Find the courage to ask my mom about getting tested for dyscalculia.
3.Lose 30 pounds (140-110). Or at least 20. Now that I think about it, 20 would be better.
4. Be a more positive, secure person. |
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| elena532 |
Posted on January 06 2010 10:14 AM
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I ma 5 foot 8 at the moment,
Don't annoy me, I am running out of places to hid the bodies |
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on January 06 2010 01:41 PM
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When I was 13, I probably weighed very little also, seeing as how at moment I am in my 30's and weigh 105 <we have large vet scale at home for dogs>, and that I was a preemie baby. If one is naturally thin and light-boned, gaining weight < which does not necessarily mean fat - could mean muscle> can be challenging; also metabolism plays into it very much too. I have a fast metabolism and am active most of the day as well. Sometimes health food stores have registered dieticians or nutritionists on staff who you can speak with for reduced fee or free <mine does> - that might be an option to look into if anyone is interested. I think the big thing to try remember may be - if you want to change anything - do it for YOU - not for fashion, not for fads, not cuz "everyone else at school" is doing it. Do it for YOU, knowing that you love yourself anyway and that if you don't change anything, YOU are still a worthy person.
My husband and both LOVE berries - and at this time of year here they are out of season :-(
I have gotten so I don't really like junk food and if offered things like chips, cookies - I generally refuse. Occasionally when am out w/my folks and husband for our weekly meal together, I MAY get a dessert at the restaurant - but then I often split with everyone, and/or try a bit and take some home to have some more in morning - that way am more likely to use up the empty calories throughout the day. Often restaurant portions are WAY too big and so I may take home several days worth of food from one meal anyway. I focus on whole, plant-based foods only.
Yup- watch those "bars " - a lotta time the makers play on the publics' assumptions and just put "whole grain" on the front thinking that someone will look and and be like - oh, how healthy! - when in reality the shopper needs to read the ingredient panel.
Most of those meal/protein/granola bars are still full of refined ingredients - refined soy, refined sugars and/or honey and "bad fats" so they're not much better than a chocolate bar. And sometimes those bars have a huge number of calories that would be okay if you're going to be running a marathon or compete in weight competitions but for the average person, it's just too many calories from not-so-great-sources, for what you're eating, especially if one is going to have what is considered the SAD - Standard American Diet <regardless of actual location; it is making its way around the world> - later that day. |
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| FeatherQuill |
Posted on January 07 2010 01:12 PM
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I've never bothered with them I remember a primary school teacher once said is if you plan to do something start straight away otherwise it seems harder to do once the day comes to commit. |
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| Addy |
Posted on January 07 2010 09:34 PM
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So, my New Years' resolution for 2010 is appropriately dyscalculic: I resolve to improve my proprioception.
Yup. "Proprioception" (sometimes called "kinesthesia" or "kinesthetic knowledge") is the knowledge of what your body is doing and where your body is in space. Like a lot of dyscalculics, I suck at this, and I've developed a lot of RSI problems as a result.
I decided on this resolution after having a piano lesson with an old friend from middle school who's since gotten a DMA. His particular strength is technique, and he taught me some ergonomic techniques and gave me some tips for how to become more aware of my body. I realized that when I'm doing music, I stay so much in my head -- listening to the sounds I'm producing, evaluating them for expressivity -- that I completely cut my body out of the picture.
My friend demonstrated that using your body correctly improves expression dramatically ... so I've decided to spend this year becoming aware of my body and when it's telling me to stop.
Edited by Addy on January 07 2010 09:38 PM
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