New Year's resolutions...what are they good for?

[Toonces]

Got any?

I have a few minor lifestyle adjustments I'm hoping to make, and make stick, starting tomorrow.  Well, the day after tomorrow.

First, I really would like to start working out in the morning before work.  I've experimented with this a few times, and it never works because I absolutely hate getting up in the morning.  But everything I've read says that working out first thing in the morning is one of the best things you can do for yourself.  I do know that I miss a lot of workouts because I postpone my workout until after work, and I'll get home and be too tired/lazy to actually do it.  So, I'd like to try, again, to do the morning thing.  My understanding is that if I can gut it out for about 3 weeks it will become habitual and become easier.  We'll see about that.

Second, it's time to start thinning out all the stuff I've acquired but is just taking up space.  Board games, I'm looking at you.  I must have at least a dozen board games that have been sitting in shrink for more than 3 years.  And I can't remember the last board game I actually played.  I'm just not a board gamer...time for them to go.

Finally, an almost impossible task, I'd like to limit my adult beverage consumption to one night a week. Ideally I'll be able to merge this with resolution 1; it's going to be hard to get up at 0500 to crank out a couple miles on the treadmill if I've been drinking wine and playing CK2 all night long.  I don't hold out a lot of hope for success, but it's a goal to strive for.

So how about it?  Any changes in your life coming up, or are resolutions for losers?    L:-)

[mirth]

or are resolutions for losers?    L:-)

you already answered that question :P

[Toonces]

Just for that, you don't get any board games!   >:(

8)

[Toonces]

I'm waiting for Brant to post up one of those super motivational thought things he usually puts up this time of year.

[mirth]

Just for that, you don't get any board games!   >:(

8)

Heh. I can definitely help you with that part of your resolution. My retirement plan is to live in a house built from my game collection.

[mirth]

I'm waiting for Brant to post up one of those super motivational thought things he usually puts up this time of year.

"Listening to Marilyn Manson and drinking a gallon of bleach"

[Toonces]

I've been carting around these board games for years.  Some of them a lot of years.  And I never play them. 

I have this stupid idea that some day I'm going to retire, and then I'm going to spend my days in my man cave finally playing that copy of Pacific War solo.  Let's be honest, though.  That's just not going to happen.  I know it, you know it. 

[mirth]

I have this stupid idea that some day I'm going to retire, and then I'm going to spend my days in my man cave finally playing that copy of Pacific War solo.  Let's be honest, though.  That's just not going to happen.  I know it, you know it. 

[Greybriar]

New Year's resolutions...what are they good for?

To break?  ;)

That's why I haven't made any New Year's resolutions yet.

[airboy]

I resolve to continue my good habits.

1] Save the max I can for retirement.
2] Go to the gym regularly.
3] Support my wife's pending weight loss nightmare.  She is a stress eater and being parent for her nephew for 2.66 years and the death and decline of her parents was hard on her.
4] Do a good job in my classes.
5] Play lots of games.

and the one that will only be disclosed when I get it
6] Buy a really cool car

[bayonetbrant]

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[bayonetbrant]

though this year I'll settle for:  get a job

[Barthheart]

Mine matches with Toonces' pretty well.

My dog, who's 15, now has to get up at 5 am to pee so I want to stay up and get some exercise in instead of shambling back to bed. It's only an hour early for me but man it's hard some times.

Doc says I need to cut back on my alcohol intake as it's some how affecting my HDL levels. So, no booze at all during the week and only a beer or glass of wine or 2 on Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun. This ones gonna be hard to keep.

Finish the multitude of home reno projects I have going. Finish the wine closet, finish the laundry room, finish the basement trim, finish painting the upstairs trim, finish the toilet room in the basement etc etc....

If I can start and partially accomplish any of this I'll be happy.

[trailrunner]

First, I really would like to start working out in the morning before work.  I've experimented with this a few times, and it never works because I absolutely hate getting up in the morning.  But everything I've read says that working out first thing in the morning is one of the best things you can do for yourself.  I do know that I miss a lot of workouts because I postpone my workout until after work, and I'll get home and be too tired/lazy to actually do it.  So, I'd like to try, again, to do the morning thing.  My understanding is that if I can gut it out for about 3 weeks it will become habitual and become easier.  We'll see about that.

Even though I'm very much a morning person, I used to mostly be a lunch and evening workout person.  I never liked running in the morning, although I did like swimming in the morning, and I did that regularly.  After I changed jobs about 10 years ago, I started missing a lot of my lunch workouts, so I switched to morning workouts.  It took a while to adjust.  I changed jobs about a year ago and thought I'd go back to lunchtime workouts, but once again, I was missing too many, so lately I've gone back to running in the morning.

Second, it's time to start thinning out all the stuff I've acquired but is just taking up space.  Board games, I'm looking at you.  I must have at least a dozen board games that have been sitting in shrink for more than 3 years.  And I can't remember the last board game I actually played.  I'm just not a board gamer...time for them to go.

When I got back into he hobby a couple of years ago, I bought all the SL modules on ebay.  Then I figured out there was something called ASL and that is superseded SL.  I was just thinking this morning that I'll never play SL, so I may as well unload them.  Or maybe I'll make some big art project out of them -- maybe a mosaic with all the counters?

Finally, an almost impossible task, I'd like to limit my adult beverage consumption to one night a week. Ideally I'll be able to merge this with resolution 1; it's going to be hard to get up at 0500 to crank out a couple miles on the treadmill if I've been drinking wine and playing CK2 all night long.  I don't hold out a lot of hope for success, but it's a goal to strive for.

I stopped drinking altogether about 15 years ago.  I saw what it did to my father, and didn't want to go down that path.  Plus it's nice not having to worry about a designated driver, or waking up feeling like junk after a fun night.  But giving up drinking completely is a little extreme for most people.

I don't have any specific resolutions, but I do have some goals for 2018.  Finish some landscaping projects, finish some remodeling, do yoga more often, do some gravel rides, play ASL face to face.

[airboy]

My dog, who's 15, now has to get up at 5 am to pee so I want to stay up and get some exercise in instead of shambling back to bed. It's only an hour early for me but man it's hard some times.

Doc says I need to cut back on my alcohol intake as it's some how affecting my HDL levels. So, no booze at all during the week and only a beer or glass of wine or 2 on Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun. This ones gonna be hard to keep.

We have two ancient dogs (14 and 17?) and one is deaf, almost blind, and incontinent.  I feel your pain.

I don't understand the HDL - Alcohol connection.  Alcohol usually lowers HDL mildly.  Docs don't prescribe moderate alcohol consumption because some become alcoholics which is very bad compared to high HDL.

Are you on any of the statins?  I had to go on them when I was 30 because I had the cholesterol of a 450 pound couch potato.  We've met, so you know it was due to genetics.  If you HDL is high, there are a lot of treatments for it.  High HDL is associated with heart disease, so paying attention to this can be important.  I'm not that kind of Dr., but I've had a genetic predisposition to very high generic cholesterol and extremely high HDL which was easily taken care of with ordinary statins.

Sorry to ramble on, but I had heart surgery at 53 with 90%+ blockage and I was on the drugs for almost 25 years at that point.  It strikes close to home.