The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

This is yesterday’s contribution to my creative practice. I wrote today, but noting worth sharing. Can’t have a winner every day. I was going to do visual art today, but I woke up late and by the time I was up and rolling, the time when I am able to do visual art had passed. So later in the day I did some writing because there isn’t really a time of day that I am limited to when it comes to writing. At least I did something creative, even if it didn’t amount to anything. I did like yesterday’s poem though.

So I worked hard on my New Year’s resolutions this week and was successful at doing all of them every single day except yesterday. I did work towards some of my resolutions yesterday, but I missed exercise (which I was gutted about because I was on my 22nd day in a row of doing it so I broke my three week streak) and my panic attack coping strategies. I did do everything else though. My anxiety was pretty high yesterday because I didn’t do any of my relaxation strategies and missing exercise impacted it in a big way.

Overall though, the week has been really successful. I did something creative every single day, I followed my calorie goals and mostly ate one meal a day each day, I only had one, very minor panic attack and practiced my coping strategies 6 of the days, I started reading for relaxation (which is actually really hard for me to do), and I did social media all of the days.

I am down 5.2 pounds since January 28th. That’s definitely headed in the right direction and at this pace, I will fit my wedding dress by mid April. I’m keeping my goal mid-May though. I might not lose weight quite so quickly as I approach my goal. The next time I weigh myself will be February 28th. I’m trying to give it 2 weeks between weigh ins.