When I get fast food, I don’t eat the fries until I get home.
I wake up and before I get out of bed, I put on some TENS pads and shock my back for some minutes before I do a set of stretches. I’m 42 and I have an active job lifting stuff, if I don’t stretch every morning I’m going to have a very bad rest of the week.
Reading
Daily reminder on al devices to think of three things for which I’m grateful every day. I’ll do today’s list now:
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Despite the terrible heatwave in California, I now live in a place with AC for the first time in two decades (uncommon in the Bay Area)
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My current work is so chill that I can be on Lemmy most of the day between calls
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My partner genuinely loves our (my) kitties and takes great care of them with me
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Make and bring my lunch to work every day. It takes planning and discipline, but over a year, saves me about $12/day, or $3,130 a year.
Dragging myself out of my house to deal with this maddening existence called life, despite every fiber of my being telling me to stay home and avoid all you annoying flesh-bags that just do everything you can to irritate me.
That and I read daily.
I clean up when I’m done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I’m not a cleaning freak or anything, it’s just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.
Doing many small tasks is easier than doing a large one. Kinda like the inverse of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn’t, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.
I’m a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. “Keep the tools sharp” goes for everything, even a diaper supply.
This is the way! I never understood people waiting for the dishes to pile up before cleaning them. I’d just be more demotivated to actually clean them up.
Handtool woodworking, especially if you tackle the hard stuff. I resaw 50% of my stock, by hand, then smooth, by hand. Just in the last 3-4 months when I started taking it seriously, I lost 20 pounds, with basically few dietary changes. It also keeps me so preoccupied I don’t think about eating lol.
Im not sure if it counts as a habit, but i never eat fast food
If that doesnt count: i always wash my hands before touching food
Same, as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized I don’t need to eat so much anymore
Meal prepping my lunch and breakfast for the week. Makes it so I don’t eat junk food or if I do it’s rationed in such away it’s premeasered. But chicken and salads everyday this way and I mix up my proteins. Least over steak go great with A1 sauce. Pulled pork with BBQ sauce on a salad to die for.
Just easy for me to pull it out and now exactly what I am eating
Any tips on how to avoid salad getting soggy? I have to meal prep most of my food and soggy veggies are my nemesis.
Put the dressing in another jar. I use small mason jars. I have some glass Pyrex with a snug lid I just pour the dressing on at lunch time and then shake the shit out of it
I’m paranoid about losing my wallet and other daily carry stuff, so I haven’t. Been carrying stuff for like 30 years. Never lost a wallet, cell phone,pocket knife, or keys. Couple close calls.
Me too. Often when I leave a grocery store or my home I check all my everyday carries. But I still lost my wallet last month. Forgot in on a car roof when I fled from attacking wasps. It flew somewhere and I lost some cards.
I quit coffee earlier this year and traded coffee for water. I now drink about 2 gallons of water a day and my teeth have never looked better
Probably exercise. Lifelong habit of exercise. Different sorts at different times but never nothing, always something on purpose to strengthen & keep flexible, most days of the week.
Night cream and sunscreen since my early 20s too, I do not look how I expected to at this age, nice surprise that was.
I’ve been really good with taking my medication first thing these days. I also walk during my lunch hour, and use that time to listen to audio books. Sometimes I don’t wanna walk, but I still want to know what happens next, so I go for that walk.
When I feel bad emotionally, I clean. I do the nastiest, most unpleasant jobs; since I’m gonna be miserable no matter what, I might as well get some use out of it.
There’s definitely something to this. I tend to get a lot of chores done before my weekly floor disassociation time.
I think I might try this. It sounds useful in so many ways.
Stealing this
That’s interesting. I wonder if I can trick myself into doing stuff like that as a form of punishment. Generally I find myself unable to move so I just stare into space. Sometimes I have a hard time even moving my arms and legs to drive home from work. Or to get out of the car once I’ve parked out front. How do you manage to start?
It’s a practice. It’s about bringing your focus back to the present moment. When you’re sitting in your car your head is probably swimming in the world of what happens when you step out. But you’re not out yet, you’re in your car. Breathe and remind yourself of that.
Think of it like restarting your computer when it freezes. You’ve overwhelmed your system, it’s easier to reset than try resolve the issue through direct control.
I don’t force myself to start right away. After years of “well I guess I might as well” I now more-or-less automatically start washing dishes, doing laundry, and tackling yardwork when my mood dips. I still need to make the conscious choice to tackle bigger jobs like mucking out the basement or turnjng the compost.
That’s kinda genius.
Do you feel that getting the worst jobs done also helps to boost your mood, because that awful thing you didn’t want to do is now done?
Not in that way, but:
A) my environment is usually nicer afterwards, which improves mood, and
2] if I was miserable due to fighting with my partner, seeing me do chores usually improves her mood, facilitating reconciliation
I am sorry you are fighting with your partner. Have a heart ❤️ that means nothing to you.
Perfectionism, I always strive to make whatever I create or do as close to perfect as possible!
