Stress and weight gain, to me, they seem to go together. I haven’t been checking out my weight for a while now. After the long episode of struggle at work, I realized that I am a little chubbier. Weighing myself, it is no surprise that I am heavier by 2 kgs since the last I checked. Good grief…
It’s time to keep record of what I eat everyday. That way I know how much I’ve been eating and at the same time keep me from over eating (eating more than I need). Though it seems like I’ve worked a lot these days, the stress that accompanied my work last month had it’s toll on my body.
Well, it is still not too late. I hope I can lose the extra weight of within a week or two.
I’ve already found a center where I can take up a childcare management course, which I will be signing up by end of this month or early next month. I really am not sure how I can manage it. Even though it would only be a 70 hour course. Luckily, I’ve found one that offers an distance learning. So just like reading ITIL Books pdf, most of the materials will be provided in pdf form.
So far, 2012 has proven to be a very busy year for me.
Up to a couple of weeks back, I usually meditate before I go off to sleep at night. Due to some extra stressful events at work, I could not do this. With my move to the new place, I would try to get back to the routine.
Before I learnt to meditate, I tried self hypnosis. For more than a month I listened to audio tapes that help with hypnotism. I must confess I had quite a bad social anxiety until a year ago. I could not go on a bus feeling anxious, I’d rather stay in the house for weeks. A year later, I’m going out with friends and meeting new people, plan meetings as well. Not a weekend is spent only at home.
Though I don’t feel the social anxiety most of the time these days, but there are still other issues that I would like to deal with. I’m going to try self hypnotism again. I believe that if it works the first time, it should work the second.
They say, no one can make you feel low without your permission. If you decide to be happy, to be positive, you can do it. I have to admit that there are times when I can really do it, but there are times that it can be a little difficult to keep on being positive and happy. That’s when one needs to take extra measures to keep on being positive about life – watch comedies and laugh, wear funny shirts and see how people smile looking at your shirt etc.
But despite the struggle so far, I’m glad and thankful I came out of all the challenges that life has thrown to me in one piece.
Lifting up toddlers all day long isn’t such a nice exercise after sometime. My back feels a little uncomfortable and aches a little right now. So much so, I am thinking of getting one of those back supports. Those are not only for back injuries but also to prevent injuries to happen by giving the back a proper support – especially when you do a lot of heavy lifting in a day.
Well, working with toddlers, is not easy to avoid lifting them up especially when you need to diaper change them or playing with them. I still love what I do.
No matter how one loves his or her job, there would still be tough days. At the moment I’m going through tough times at work and in need of a stress reliever. (I’m a lot determined now than other times that I need to save money as much as I can, buy ngc gold eagle or some stock or investment property and stop working. A nice dream at least to have) But till then I need to find a way to deal with stress, so I found this interesting video on youtube on how to make a balloon stress reliever at home.
Don’t know how good it would be as a stress reliever, but it looks fun and easy to make, so why not?
Some people recommended me to sleep on the floor. Well, not exactly to sleep on the hard cold floor, but on a slim mattress laid down on the floor. For better posture and sleep. I’m much interested for the second reason. Well, I tried it sometimes and I did feel that I slept sounder. So after 2-3 weeks of waking up in the middle of the night and having a hard time sleeping, I decided to check out Ikea for a nice slim mattress.
Tried lying down on a few mattresses in the mattress section, made a decision, jot down the isle number, and went down to the pallet racks downstairs to collect the mattress. That was a week ago. After a week of trying it, did I sleep sounder. Well to me, yes. I don’t know whether it was really because of sleeping on the floor or because of something else. But heck it worked for me and I hope it would continue to work for me.
I have been a coffee drinker for years and years. In fact I would be drinking nothing else other than coffee most days. So much so,
when ever I have dry skin, or break outs, my partner would suggest me to cut down on my coffee intake. Saying that it could be the reason for my skin problems. To no avail, I’d rather find other solutions rather than stop drinking coffee. I was drinking 6-7 cups a day. To me coffee was like a duracell procell battery to keep me going all day.
However, after an illness I had a couple of weeks back and not having the usual daily caffeine intake, I decided that it was the time to reduce my coffee consumption. I know that though there are many studies suggesting that coffee can be good for health in many aspects. However, I also believe to much of anything is not good. Even the good stuff.
So I started drinking black tea instead. There caffeine in black tea, enough to perhaps curb the urge to drink coffee. For the first time in years I only drank tea for more than a week. Soon I will be moving to green or herbal tea instead. After not drinking for more than a week now, one big change I notice is how easy it is for me to fall asleep at night and I don’t get agitated easily as before.
I still love coffee and would happily drink a cup or two a week. But I will be careful not to fall back to the previous 6-7 cups a day.
Snow and windchill had no mercy for my dryness prone skin. Everyday I have to slab on tonnes of moisturizing cream to prevent itchiness and also pain due scratching. Not to mention the flaky look when I apply foundation.
I can’t afford premium moisturizing product like natura bisse or adovia but at least I do make my own moisturizing mask out of honey and lemon juice. Well, I’d say that it doesn’t work as perfectly as the above mentioned products but it left my skin smooth for a short while.
Despite all that I still suffer from dry skin. Well, perhaps in the end I can just blame it on my genetics.
a day for me. That is according to my trusty OMRON pedometer. Staying indoors when the weather is bad really did take its toll on my mood and my body.
when ever I have dry skin, or break outs, my partner would suggest me to cut down on my coffee intake. Saying that it could be the reason for my skin problems. To no avail, I’d rather find other solutions rather than stop drinking coffee. I was drinking 6-7 cups a day. To me coffee was like a 
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