Status 1-29-15*

GRATITUDE AND EXPECTIONS – yesterday quite a few BCs sent me super supportive and great audio messages for show 100. I was SO thrilled and excited it more than made up for the fact that another exodus from my blog subscription occurred. Gosh Laurie, how many times will it take before you let that zing of rejection pass by? It does no good to dwell on folk who move on.

See that? Many took time to EXPLICITLY tell me how much they value the show, the blog, and ME, and what goes in my head at night? That 1, count ’em 1 person decided to end their blog subscription to compulsiveovereatingdiary.com.

Sigh

I guess I still need to work on this, because logically, I understand about fit and needs and that I CANNOT be a fit for everyone all of the time. It makes no sense to even nurse these wild-young-eyed expectations. But who says I ever claimed to make sense?

Because YESTERDAY WAS GREAT! Hear that Laurie, my gal? G-R-E-A-T! Mark and I had a wonderful experience in the downtown salon getting our hair done. My roots are hid, my streaks are in, my eyebrows tamed, my locks blown out à la Jennifer Aniston, and I look as good as money can buy! I also have a twinkle in my eye and a spring in my step. Salons are a wonderful respite from everyday cares. Following that, off to a lunch at our favorite salad bar in Pasadena, an afternoon watching the classic movie, “It Happened One Night” and then an evening spent at my writing group where I had a blast and wrote a darn good story! Top ALL of that off with the BCs sending me love messages all day and WTF? I obsess with a lone person who either decided to move on or made a technical mistake with his or her blog subscriptions?

This is what Alen would call time for a PERFECTIONIST INTERVENTION! You see, I had an ALMOST perfect, lovey dovey, “See they REALLY love me” kind of day. And I am secretly PISSED that blog reader X decided to pick my golden rainbow unicorn tra-la tra-la day to exit stage right!

That’s better, I just had a good laugh with my inner Eeyore. 🙂

Sometimes we just need to admit our feelings, examine them and find a way to appreciate our inner toddlers in order to give them a hug and move on.

To you, HUGS and believe me, above rant aside, I truly appreciate and FEEL all of the love and care you’ve sent the last several days. I wrote what I did because I LITERALLY could not believe myself about the gnat of bother getting in my head in the midst of such affection. xoxoxox

PS If you wish to sign up for email notification of blog postings and shows going live (not these status reports) enter your email where it says: “SUBSCRIBE TO POSTS VIA EMAIL”. This blog subscription widget is located to the right on computers and on some tablets, and below the posts on smart phones and on other types of tablets.

PSS, some BCs have asked me the difference between blog postings and status pages. Blog postings are where I develop a complete topic triggered by my status thoughts. Status thoughts are how my day went, what’s on my agenda, and how my body feels today – and not much editing or thought goes into them. That’s why I don’t clog up your email with them. 🙂

Today

WALK, TALK, FLOCK – Ha! couldn’t resist me some rhyme time. Actually, I’m off to Descanso today, then therapy session, then this evening I meet up with my voice acting pals, acquaintances and yet to be met friends at the social meetup.

Show 100

Feb 3 will be the one year anniversary of the start of the show, and it will ALSO be day 100. Please call the bravery hotline or send some audio with your good wishes or jokes or stories or songs to help me celebrate this milestone. Both my VO acting coach David and my director Marc have agreed to interviews to help me celebrate. And I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I REALLY hope you can find a way to be part of this milestone show too! BTW, I need anything you wish to do, by Feb. 1, 2015 at the latest so I can write the show before I record Feb. 3. Earlier makes my life easier too. 🙂

Fionna has sent a new version of the Brave Companions Song that is FANTASTIC, and I’d LOVE YOU to be part of its debut.

All you need is to call or send audio and saying 3 things:

1. Your first name
2. Your State or Country or General direction
3. One reason why you are brave

Example: I’m Mark from California and I’m brave for posting a comment on day 98

How about you?

Please feel free to comment on MY statuses or add YOUR OWN thoughts, feelings, challenges, rants and raves on these pages too. That was one of the original purposes of why I posted on FB. I thought BCs might like to share about THEIR days. So if you have thoughts and feelings you’d like to share with the group, go ahead and put them here with your comments.

*Daily statuses are not part of the blog’s email notification. When you enter your email under where it says SUBSCRIBE TO POSTS VIA EMAIL, you will be notified of regular blog posts and when podcast episodes are released. I didn’t want to clog your inbox with my daily statuses. However, the automatic publicize feature will inform you on my show FB page, my AdventureLaurie twitter account, google+ on its show page, and Tumblr.

Body Balance

BB (Body Balance) number 7 Sleep: 5 hours undivided. Pretty good, but could have used a few more hours. Up late due to writing group, but body likes to wake up at the same time regardless. Tummy/Gut: balanced, yay! Hungry within one hour of waking, usual small breakfast satisfied. Energy: Moderate. Mood: Rueful, yet happy.

BB is my personal criteria, and I don’t think too hard about it. I ask myself at the keyboard, what is my BB? A number between 1-10, including halves, pops into my head. I write it in my post Then I figure out why it is higher or lower and gently make note.

If you are interested these are my measures.

1. Sleep. Quality and Amount.
2. Tummy/Gut – If I ate what my body asked for, usually above and below the belly button feel balanced. Ate too much, below the belly button feels more full. Ate too little, the reverse.
3. Am I hungry within 1 hour of waking? I have found that I feel best if I am hungry within 1 hour of waking. This tends to make my eating day even and not heavy on food in the evening. But I don’t eat if not hungry unless I’m about to ride or hike. I’ve learned I need to fuel these morning activities, or I’ll bonk.
4. What is my energy level? Subjective, but telling.
5. A quick look at my mood.

The Bravery Coach

TheBraveryCoach daily tweet is a morning mediation on how I either did, or can incorporate an aspect of bravery into my day. It is cheerful. It is esteem building. Those who want to follow these on Twitter may, by searching for the hashtag #bravery or by seeing my profile:

Daily Bravery Tweets via TheBraveryCoach on Twitter

Status 1-28-15*

PAYING ATTENTION AND SYNCRONICITY – I expected another rainy day where I would get some exercise puddle stomping, but instead I was greeted with blue skies and starkly white perfectly puffy clouds as I trudged my way up the hills of my neighborhood. No boots required. I was listening to Alen’s latest episode on confidence, with Trish Blackwell, when I stopped to take a photo of said puffy clouds for Instagram.

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As I held my phone, I felt the vibration that heralds an email. Now normally, I DON’T check emails on my walks, I try to be a bit more Zen, but something told me to look. It was a message from Alen for show 100. Wow! That was so cool. I immediately emailed back telling him I was listening to his show on my walk, and he said he felt the psychic connection 😉 (We tease each other that way, as we really have built a big sis, little bro, kind of friendship over this year). It made me smile.

Sometimes, even when you feel alone, if you pay attention, you can experience connection in unexpected ways.

I also had fun singing and interviewing my teacher, Viki, for show 100. She has a great story of persistence and bravery that allowed her to go from working in corporate America to working full time doing what she loves. I’m excited to share it with you.

During singing lesson I had an epiphany. One reason I forget to breathe, or have a hard time feeling where I’m at during singing, is that my BODY is literally my instrument. How you move air, where it goes, the shape of your mouth, what you imagine, it all goes into the sound that you make. And as someone who has had disordered eating issues, I’m used to NOT PAYING ATTENTION to my body. Instead, I consult my diet sheet, or consult my HEAD for what should I eat or if I should exercise etc. I never thought, ‘Hey, Body, are you hungry? Want to move? Are you tired? How’re you doing today?” NO! I ignored my body and treated it as an enemy. Damn, body, WHY ARE YOUR LEGS SO BIG? Your tummy is sticking out! Oh don’t be seen in the photo, hide. etc. WHY are you frickin’ HUNGRY AGAIN?!

Anyway, this year of learning to LISTEN to my body, to treat it with the respect it deserves, to appreciate that my body *is* me – at least in this life, whatever you believe. I move, breathe, love, and experience the world paired with this amazing instrument right now – is WHY I can finally sing! It is why I can finally carry a tune. Because I am paying attention.

Wow!

Today

BEAUTY AND WRITING – Mark and I are off to the swanky salon to get our hair done. This will be a long session for me, as I need the works. It takes longer and longer and costs more and more to look less and less the same 😉

BUT I enjoy going and being pampered. And I’m not yet to the place where I want to see my salt and pepper in the mirror. Though someday, I will. Right now, I like the connection of going to a place I’ve gone for years. I started when I worked in downtown and got trims on my lunch hour – prior to needing any highlights, let alone a full dye job. Then when I retired, I liked coming back downtown now and again. When Mark retired, I got a kick out of HIS getting his hair done in the salon too. And now, it is something we do. We go to the salon and after we look good for a day, we go have lunch.

This evening, back to writing group to let myself write stories outside of myself. To allow new characters to be born into the world with their own cares, joys and explorations. To be a creator is a marvelous thing. And to have friends to create and share with is even better.

Show 100

I know I’ve said this a few times, and I mentioned it in Day 99’s podcast, but will leave it here in case this is the way some BCs will discover it.

Feb 3 will be the one year anniversary of the start of the show, and it will ALSO be day 100. Please call the bravery hotline or send some audio with your good wishes or jokes or stories or songs to help me celebrate this milestone. Both my VO acting coach David and my director Marc have agreed to interviews to help me celebrate. And I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I REALLY hope you can find a way to be part of this milestone show too! BTW, I need anything you wish to do, by Feb. 1, 2015 at the latest so I can write the show before I record Feb. 3. Earlier makes my life easier too. 🙂

Fionna has sent a new version of the Brave Companions Song that is FANTASTIC, and I’d LOVE YOU to be part of its debut.

All you need is to call or send audio and saying 3 things:

1. Your first name
2. Your State or Country or General direction
3. One reason why you are brave

Example: I’m Mark from California and I’m brave for posting a comment on day 98

How about you?

Please feel free to comment on MY statuses or add YOUR OWN thoughts, feelings, challenges, rants and raves on these pages too. That was one of the original purposes of why I posted on FB. I thought BCs might like to share about THEIR days. So if you have thoughts and feelings you’d like to share with the group, go ahead and put them here with your comments.

*Daily statuses are not part of the blog’s email notification. When you enter your email under where it says SUBSCRIBE TO POSTS VIA EMAIL, you will be notified of regular blog posts and when podcast episodes are released. I didn’t want to clog your inbox with my daily statuses. However, the automatic publicize feature will inform you on my show FB page, my AdventureLaurie twitter account, google+ on its show page, and Tumblr.

Body Balance

BB (Body Balance) number 7.5 Sleep: 7 hours divided in 2 ( good first 4.5, ok last 2.5) I feel rested but not energetic. Tummy/Gut: Gut a bit more full. Means I ate a bit more than needed last night. Hungry within two hours of waking, will have usual small breakfast. Energy: Moderate Mood: Calm.

BB is my personal criteria, and I don’t think too hard about it. I ask myself at the keyboard, what is my BB? A number between 1-10, including halves, pops into my head. I write it in my post Then I figure out why it is higher or lower and gently make note.

If you are interested these are my measures.

1. Sleep. Quality and Amount.
2. Tummy/Gut – If I ate what my body asked for, usually above and below the belly button feel balanced. Ate too much, below the belly button feels more full. Ate too little, the reverse.
3. Am I hungry within 1 hour of waking? I have found that I feel best if I am hungry within 1 hour of waking. This tends to make my eating day even and not heavy on food in the evening. But I don’t eat if not hungry unless I’m about to ride or hike. I’ve learned I need to fuel these morning activities, or I’ll bonk.
4. What is my energy level? Subjective, but telling.
5. A quick look at my mood.

The Bravery Coach

TheBraveryCoach daily tweet is a morning mediation on how I either did, or can incorporate an aspect of bravery into my day. It is cheerful. It is esteem building. Those who want to follow these on Twitter may, by searching for the hashtag #bravery or by seeing my profile:

Daily Bravery Tweets via TheBraveryCoach on Twitter

Status 1-27-15*

RAINY DAY EDITING – actually is quite soothing. Tiger the Cat and I spent a lazy day getting the audio file for day 99 produced and the show notes ready to publish. I thought about exercising, but just didn’t feel like it. It was a day for wrapping up in blankets and drinking tea and letting the weather be outside and me in.

Started getting some audio from BCs for show 100! Yay! Please, call or record and become part of the bravery song. Fionna has sent a new version that is FANTASTIC, and I’d LOVE YOU to be part of its debut.

All you need is to say 3 things:

1. Your first name
2. Your State or Country or General direction
3. One reason why you are brave

Example: I’m Mark from California and I’m brave for posting a comment on day 98

It was a peaceful, non-stressed day, which is GREAT because this is going to be a very busy week for me. Interviews, social groups, hair cuts in downtown, loads of driving, loads of interacting. I’m glad I got the rest.

Show 100

I know I’ve said this a few times, and I mentioned it in Day 99’s podcast, but will leave it here in case this is the way some BCs will discover it.

Feb 3 will be the one year anniversary of the start of the show, and it will ALSO be day 100. Please call the bravery hotline or send some audio with your good wishes or jokes or stories or songs to help me celebrate this milestone. Both my VO acting coach David and my director Marc have agreed to interviews to help me celebrate. And I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I REALLY hope you can find a way to be part of this milestone show too! BTW, I need anything you wish to do, by Feb. 1, 2015 at the latest so I can write the show before I record Feb. 3. Earlier makes my life easier too. 🙂

Today

SINGING IN THE RAIN! Not really, but I WILL be puddle stomping today for a little exercise and stress-busting, and I’ll be practicing and having my singing lesson today. Afterwards, Viki, my teacher will say a few words for show 100. I’m very exited to share some more of the awesome folks who have been shaping my bravery with you.

Umbrella at the ready, waterproof gear, a song in my heart… Off to see the wizard and have some watery adventures.

How about you?

Please feel free to comment on MY statuses or add YOUR OWN thoughts, feelings, challenges, rants and raves on these pages too. That was one of the original purposes of why I posted on FB. I thought BCs might like to share about THEIR days. So if you have thoughts and feelings you’d like to share with the group, go ahead and put them here with your comments.

*Daily statuses are not part of the blog’s email notification. When you enter your email under where it says SUBSCRIBE TO POSTS VIA EMAIL, you will be notified of regular blog posts and when podcast episodes are released. I didn’t want to clog your inbox with my daily statuses. However, the automatic publicize feature will inform you on my show FB page, my AdventureLaurie twitter account, google+ on its show page, and Tumblr.

Body Balance

BB (Body Balance) number 8 Sleep: 8 hours divided in 3( ok first 4, restless next 2, great last 2) I feel pretty rested considering. Tummy/Gut: Playing very nice, and feels balanced. Hungry within two hours of waking, and feel I need something more substantial than normal. Will go the egg and toast route. Energy: High Moderate Mood: Quirky.

BB is my personal criteria, and I don’t think too hard about it. I ask myself at the keyboard, what is my BB? A number between 1-10, including halves, pops into my head. I write it in my post Then I figure out why it is higher or lower and gently make note.

If you are interested these are my measures.

1. Sleep. Quality and Amount.
2. Tummy/Gut – If I ate what my body asked for, usually above and below the belly button feel balanced. Ate too much, below the belly button feels more full. Ate too little, the reverse.
3. Am I hungry within 1 hour of waking? I have found that I feel best if I am hungry within 1 hour of waking. This tends to make my eating day even and not heavy on food in the evening. But I don’t eat if not hungry unless I’m about to ride or hike. I’ve learned I need to fuel these morning activities, or I’ll bonk.
4. What is my energy level? Subjective, but telling.
5. A quick look at my mood.

The Bravery Coach

TheBraveryCoach daily tweet is a morning mediation on how I either did, or can incorporate an aspect of bravery into my day. It is cheerful. It is esteem building. Those who want to follow these on Twitter may, by searching for the hashtag #bravery or by seeing my profile:

Daily Bravery Tweets via TheBraveryCoach on Twitter

Status 1-26-15*

ENJOYED MY HIKE – Honestly, I was SO tempted to skulk around, watching junk TV yesterday, because the prior day of voice acting took a lot out of me emotionally. BUT the predicted rainy/stormy weather is here today, and I knew yesterday IF I wanted to get Day 99 recorded from the mountain it was now or never! So on with the boots, off with the excuses and up to the next to upper Zen Spot with my fresh picked tangerines, my recorder and a new mood.

I’m so glad I went. It was hot hiking, but I’ve had worse. And the next to top Zen spot is very shady with a nice bench and a spectacular view. Hard to give into depression when all of glorious nature is laid out as a wondrous tapestry before you. I feel like ‘Queen of the World’ from the mountain – like ANYTHING is possible, and yet I feel calm and peaceful. Never manic, never depressed. It’s as if above my normal altitude in the world I’m above my cares.

Day 99 is overall, a much more positively toned show than 98, which is probably a good thing. But, each day, each show, is 100% how I actually feel at the time of recording, so I’m glad to know, I obviously felt more upbeat inside.

Show 100

I know I said this yesterday, and I mentioned it in Day 99’s podcast, but will leave it here in case this is the way some BCs will discover it.

Feb 3 will be the one year anniversary of the start of the show, and it will ALSO be day 100. Please call the bravery hotline or send some audio with your good wishes or jokes or stories or songs to help me celebrate this milestone. Both my VO acting coach David and my director Marc have agreed to interviews to help me celebrate. And I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I REALLY hope you can find a way to be part of this milestone show too! BTW, I need anything you wish to do, by Feb. 1, 2015 at the latest so I can write the show before I record Feb. 3. Earlier makes my life easier too. 🙂

Today

EDITING Day 99 – I hope to release this episode today or tomorrow. It will have to be enough until show 100, as that one will take me loads of planning, writing, interviewing etc. But it’s what I want to do to celebrate that I stuck with it for an entire year. In any podcast 100 episodes is an amazing achievement, and I’m proud of myself for reaching it. I want to give myself the experience of letting pride and joy sink in, and not discount it with all my negative mind might like to throw at me. Whatever bumps, bruises, disappointments – I did something remarkable. I told in live, real time, my story of being deep in an eating disorder for 50 years, how I coped, and the change in focus that helped me through to the other side of it. My god, it is an actual audio documentary! I had no idea when I began how meaningful this year would be to me, nor how important my meeting you BCs would be. I had no clue that I would cease being scared and would bravely begin my life, for the first time, based on what I wanted and what I felt, vs. what I percieved would be pleasing to the world.

As those who have read and listened the whole year know, my outlook really changed. Lately, I’ve been feeling despair, that what I had to say had no value, and doesn’t ‘fit’ or ‘resonate’ any more. But that was me looking at the daily picture. Day by day I can be depressed, whiny, bitchy, sad, happy, crazy… I don’t have the usual success of pounds lost or sizes down to measure. I only have my life to examine.

And if I think of it, why did I WANT to lose weight and be thinner? To fit in and have a happier life.

My goodness, after reviewing the body of work lately, of listening to bits from my entire year, I realize, I only need to fit into my OWN life. And I don’t have to wait to be thinner. My life is happier today than it was one year ago.

How about you?

Please feel free to comment on MY statuses or add YOUR OWN thoughts, feelings, challenges, rants and raves on these pages too. That was one of the original purposes of why I posted on FB. I thought BCs might like to share about THEIR days. So if you have thoughts and feelings you’d like to share with the group, go ahead and put them here with your comments.

*Daily statuses are not part of the blog’s email notification. When you enter your email under where it says SUBSCRIBE TO POSTS VIA EMAIL, you will be notified of regular blog posts and when podcast episodes are released. I didn’t want to clog your inbox with my daily statuses. However, the automatic publicize feature will inform you on my show FB page, my AdventureLaurie twitter account, google+ on its show page, and Tumblr.

Body Balance

BB (Body Balance) number 9 Sleep: 8 hours divided (really great first half, ok second) Sleep is such a primary factor in the rest of the day. Really aids in IE to have enough sleep. Tired and hungry get so mixed up for me. Tummy/Gut: Playing very nice, and feels balanced. Hungry within one hour of waking, and regular breakfast satisfied. Energy: High Moderate Mood: Purposeful.

BB is my personal criteria, and I don’t think too hard about it. I ask myself at the keyboard, what is my BB? A number between 1-10, including halves, pops into my head. I write it in my post Then I figure out why it is higher or lower and gently make note.

If you are interested these are my measures.

1. Sleep. Quality and Amount.
2. Tummy/Gut – If I ate what my body asked for, usually above and below the belly button feel balanced. Ate too much, below the belly button feels more full. Ate too little, the reverse.
3. Am I hungry within 1 hour of waking? I have found that I feel best if I am hungry within 1 hour of waking. This tends to make my eating day even and not heavy on food in the evening. But I don’t eat if not hungry unless I’m about to ride or hike. I’ve learned I need to fuel these morning activities, or I’ll bonk.
4. What is my energy level? Subjective, but telling.
5. A quick look at my mood.

The Bravery Coach

TheBraveryCoach daily tweet is a morning mediation on how I either did, or can incorporate an aspect of bravery into my day. It is cheerful. It is esteem building. Those who want to follow these on Twitter may, by searching for the hashtag #bravery or by seeing my profile:

Daily Bravery Tweets via TheBraveryCoach on Twitter

Status 1-25-15*

PROUD OF MY BRAVERY – Voice Acting was challenging as I had limited sleep the night before due to the Santa Ana winds rattling my cage all night, and the emotional demons rolling around in my head didn’t help. But as wrote yesterday, come what may, I intended to focus on the moment and to also tell myself, no matter what feedback I might get in the booth, “Thanks for helping me get used to pressure”. This technique was intended to calm me down so I could listen to the feedback and learn, and to also keep me from totally hyperventilating and thus losing my needed breath control for the next take.

Hooray! I did well and Marc, my director actually praised my acting in the spot. I’m happy, because my voice acting coach, David, did a great job prepping me for this one and I was proud of the attempt. Not only was I proud because I received positive feedback as well as what to improve, but that I faced a whoppin’ big fear. “Booth fright” was growing for me. And what is strange about that is I NEVER have stage fright when public speaking, as many do. Of course, in that case I’m just being myself (my stage self anyway).

The other great thing about focusing, TRULY focusing on the moment, is you don’t have time for depression. Your mind likes to devote itself to one track. Even multi-tasking is just changing focus very rapidly. So to focus each moment on what is most important at THAT time (in my case, the skills and techniques required for nailing a voice acting spot) kept me off the “depression” train for awhile. A nice relief, that.

Depression doesn’t just “poof away”, but you can do things to help yourself. And going ahead with my coaching and lessons was one thing I did to help myself.

Thanks BCs

Also, I was overwhelmed with love and gratitude to see the support in your comments and emails of my pondering a decision about the show, whatever that may be. It really made me feel good, AND your empathy helped me to take the pressure off of myself.
No worries, COD won’t go “poof”. If it changes or ends, you will get plenty of notice. I’m still in the early thought process right now and will follow my therapist’s advice not to make any decision until I’m free of depression’s grip once more.

Show 100

Feb 3 will be the one year anniversary of the start of the show, and it will ALSO be day 100. Please call the bravery hotline or send some audio with your good wishes or jokes or stories or songs to help me celebrate this milestone. Both my VO acting coach David and my director Marc have agreed to interviews to help me celebrate. And I have a few more tricks up my sleeve. I REALLY hope you can find a way to be part of this milestone show too!

Today

HIKING OR RECORDING – I may hike and record day 99 or go to the park for a stroll and some time on the podcast rock. I’m hoping to get Day 99 out this week so I can concentrate on show 100. We are also expecting stormy rain early in the week, and it’s sunny today. Doh! Can’t veg with junk TV and procrastinate. Kind of a good thing, that. In this moment, what do I want to concentrate on? Day 99.

How about you?

Please feel free to comment on MY statuses or add YOUR OWN thoughts, feelings, challenges, rants and raves on these pages too. That was one of the original purposes of why I posted on FB. I thought BCs might like to share about THEIR days. So if you have thoughts and feelings you’d like to share with the group, go ahead and put them here with your comments.

*Daily statuses are not part of the blog’s email notification. When you enter your email under where it says SUBSCRIBE TO POSTS VIA EMAIL, you will be notified of regular blog posts and when podcast episodes are released. I didn’t want to clog your inbox with my daily statuses. However, the automatic publicize feature will inform you on my show FB page, my AdventureLaurie twitter account, google+ on its show page, and Tumblr.

Body Balance

BB (Body Balance) number 8 Sleep: 8 hours divided (decent both parts). Tummy/Gut: Gut only slightly full. Didn’t eat much yesterday, as I cannot do voice work on a full tummy. BUT I did have a good dinner when I came home. Not Hungry within one hour of waking, but will have a hiking breakfast before I go. Energy: High Moderate Mood: upbeat.

BB is my personal criteria, and I don’t think too hard about it. I ask myself at the keyboard, what is my BB? A number between 1-10, including halves, pops into my head. I write it in my post Then I figure out why it is higher or lower and gently make note.

If you are interested these are my measures.

1. Sleep. Quality and Amount.
2. Tummy/Gut – If I ate what my body asked for, usually above and below the belly button feel balanced. Ate too much, below the belly button feels more full. Ate too little, the reverse.
3. Am I hungry within 1 hour of waking? I have found that I feel best if I am hungry within 1 hour of waking. This tends to make my eating day even and not heavy on food in the evening. But I don’t eat if not hungry unless I’m about to ride or hike. I’ve learned I need to fuel these morning activities, or I’ll bonk.
4. What is my energy level? Subjective, but telling.
5. A quick look at my mood.

The Bravery Coach

TheBraveryCoach daily tweet is a morning mediation on how I either did, or can incorporate an aspect of bravery into my day. It is cheerful. It is esteem building. Those who want to follow these on Twitter may, by searching for the hashtag #bravery or by seeing my profile:

Daily Bravery Tweets via TheBraveryCoach on Twitter