Managing after Route to Management

(LighterLife Management – Month 1 Week1)
Stretching the concept of time. Feeling less compulsed to write every day. Feeling no less compulsed to plan my days and be conscious of what I’m eating, how I’m feeling, and where is it all leading to…
I do feel like I did earn a break from constantly analysing my thoughts, [...]

It’s the end and the beginning

(Lighter Life Route to Management – Week12 Day7)
This is REALLY it!! From tomorrow onwards I’m on my own. Which of course isn’t even remotely true, but surely I have to bring some drama into this!?!?!
I think I may be feeling too calm for my own good… is there such a thing? I don’t know. I [...]

Route to Management – Week 12

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week12 Day6)
This is it. I am ‘done’. I’m at the start of my life. I am so uncertain of what’s going to come next!!
Chocolate and cake
Seems almost irrelevant to talk about this, but let’s do it straight up because sweet things have been the trigger to try on this week. [...]

Coping strategies: share your worries

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week12 Day 4)
I couldn’t survive without my friends. They lift me up and bring me back down to earth, depending on what is needed.
So I’m in the middle of a job decision which has become huge in my mind. I’ve been mulling it over and over and OVER in my [...]

Living up and down on expectations

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week12 Day3)
I hate having expectations. They seem to do little else but mess up my head.
An old friend told me recently how he’s been observing a lot of colleagues around him getting stuck in a vicious circle of having to make more money just to keep up the life they’ve [...]

You seek and you shall find

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week12 Day2)
Answers. We all seek answers. It’s so difficult to know where to turn to get them. Sometimes we find them right in front of us, on our doorstep. And sometimes we have to take a leap of faith and go outside our comfort zone – and all neighbouring time [...]

Masterclass in avoidance

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week11 Day7)
You know that Thought Record that’s been way overdue for weeks now? About the job choice and how that’s messing with my head? Well, I have successfully avoided it yet another night.
First, I went shopping. Easy peacy. Went everywhere. Considered SEVERAL pairs of shoes. Bought 2 jackets and a [...]

Route to Management – Week 11

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week11 Day6)
It’s bread week and I haven’t mentioned bread. Curious, that. I’ve felt quite indifferent about bread.
Shopping for bread
I’ve spent a lot of time in various shops, staring at bread. Just staring. Really thinking about the options, trying to imagine the tastes, the textures, how I will feel about eating [...]

New behaviours

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week11 Day 4)
I’m noticing changes in the way I eat and drink. Not all of the time, but on the other hand I’m noticing changes in areas where I certainly wasn’t expecting any!
Keeping food in the fridge. I’m able to buy food, have some and leave the rest in the [...]

It’s in the head, not in the fridge

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week11 Day1)
To me, the whole point of LighterLife is learning to deal with what life throws at you without resorting to food. This is done whilst losing weight quickly, easing back into eating normal food, and developing a personal arsenal of different life management tools. I think I often falsely [...]