My Pride Scale.

Okay, assuming someone will read this that doesn't know anything about it, this is it from the top.

I have a mental deficiency where I can be going great but one little moment, one bad day instantly wipes all memory of the good and I go into "feeling a failure mode". For too long I would say I wish I could just look back at the last three months and be able to say I am proud of myself.

So I decided to combat the malfunction in my head. I would each night give myself a pride score with a short reason written next to it so that I can look back at any point and see the actual percentage of pride I have in any given time.

My scale is 1=not proud, 2=indifferent, 3=proud, 4=very proud and 5=very very proud.

The first week I was getting 3's and 4's mostly but I realised I needed to work out on paper what I would need to do to (generally) be able to go to bed proud of myself for doing all I could, it was pretty simple-

-drink 8 glasses of water per day
-get 20mins of exercise in per day
-eat within points and make the food the best quality fuel for your body that you have available.

I have increased parts of that, added extra when I needed that bit of push.

For this week to get a 5 I need to have:

-had 8 glasses of water and only have one glass of anything else (eg, tea or coffee) per day, all other fluid is from water.

- exercised at least 40mins per day on crossy, preferably at least 20mins of that after dinner and before bed.

-Pre-planned and eaten within calories (on calorie king- after a couple of weeks tracking both WW points and my calorie intake on cal-king, if I have been within my cals I have been within points, so I am just going to focus on cal-king for a bit as I can pay more attention to what nutrition I am getting. It tells me what percentage of fat, carbs and protein I am eating and it provides guidelines of what I should be aiming for right down to calcium intake.)

-Written in my diary each day to build determination that I will have a great weekend of being in control and doing what I need to do, not necessarily what i want to do. (I am visualising and meal planning in there, and writing about it each day keeps the fire burning.)

So that's what will score a 5, a little bit different but the basics are still there.

Not a terribly complex idea but it seems to be working, I can honestly say that one bad day does not maketh me a failure.

Cheers,
CJ