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“The concept of there being 1440 minutes in a day speaks to me in a way other time management concepts have not. For most of my adult life I was 40-50lbs. overweight, and I wavered between wanting to accept myself as I was and trying different weight loss methods. I was successful a few times, and even once kept myself in an "acceptable" for more than a year, before I gained it back. In the spring of 2009, after a two medical events (one challenging, the other a positive personal breakthrough), I decided to just write down everything I ate and track the calories - no judgement, just tracking. I noticed my eating patterns, I noticed where I was putting my calories, and I started to notice what I really felt about each type of food I ate. This awareness of what I had been doing out of habit and impulse gently lead me to evaluate my calories with a budgetary mindset, i.e., do I really like pasta enough that I want to spend 200 calories on it? Suddenly foods like potato chips, which I thought I loved, became much less interesting to me. Potato chips cake up in the grooves in my teeth; they leave a greasy feeling in my mouth; and, they only taste good for a few seconds. Amazingly enough I get much more pleasure and satisfaction from eating cottage cheese mixed with Pico de Gallo or even a hardboiled egg. I lost over 50lbs. in a year, just by paying attention, then seeing how many calories I needed in a day to be satisfied and healthy. Almost 7 years later, I am still keeping a food diary. I am not a typical time manager. My sense of flow can completely divorce me from any awareness of time passing, and that can be a wonderful thing; but it has clearly held me back in overall productivity when I have a specific goal in mind. Realizing that there are 1440 minutes in a day, and seeing those as a daily time budget, helps me to focus my time management thought process in a way that makes sense to me. Before tracking my calories, I felt deprived when I went on diets because I thought something outside myself was forcing food choices on me. After just observing and coming up with a natural calorie budget for myself, I felt liberated because every time I chose to eat something, I decided whether that food experience was worth that much of my calorie budget, and some days I go over budget, while others, I’m under. Thinking about a day as 1440 minutes frees my mind from resentments against perceived external drivers and reveals the truth that only I choose how I spend those minutes and only I know what is most important and satisfying to me!”
Anne deLain via ·
02/03/16
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