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Health: To do
Change Eating Habits
Change exercise habits
Reduce Pain
Improve Allergies
Learn to Relax
Control Mood
Change Eating Habits
- Get rid of unhealthful things around house
- Modify South Beach Diet recipes for my income level
- Plan several weekly rotations of meals and snacks
- Schedule weekly grocery-buying and food preparation times
- Make list of healthful alternative bought lunches in case I can't prepare one
- Keep a paper food journal
- Keep an online food journal
Change exercise habits
- Schedule long walks with fun destinations in mind 2x/week
- Phase in bike-riding 1 mile 2x/week
Reduce Pain
- Find exercises for strengthening back, knees, and neck
- Schedule the above exercises for completion as many mornings as possible
- Get referral to podiatrist
- Make appointment
- Go to appointment
Improve Allergies
- Wash all chair coverings
- Wash curtains
- Buy hypoallergenic duvet cover
- Buy two more hypoallergenic pillow covers
- Schedule cleanings of carpet, curtains, bedding, and coverings
Learn to Relax
- Plan several weekly rotations of short yoga routines
- One a few minutes in duration for mornings
- Several half-hour ones for 2x/week
- One a few minutes in duration for mornings
- Schedule regular playings of body scan tape
- Schedule regular hot baths
- Schedule regular writing of self-affirmations
- Use lavender scents
- Use night scent every night
- Try a new meditation technique monthly
Control Mood
- Schedule times 2x/week to write positive self-talk
- Schedule a time at the end of a month to turn the best ones into a tape to which to listen to for the next month
- Make a list of non-food treats to give self for accomplishing a good general mood on a difficult day
- Keep them handy!