2022 Week 21/52: Media Representation of POC Protagonists & Promiscuous Girls

Hi Everyone! How was your week 21/52? 😃

2022 Personal Goals

✅ Goal #1: Manage my binge eating disorder. Every day, I will track my calories to eat between 1200 to 1700 calories a day. I will record what I eat and post it to this blog to help me better understand what causes me to binge eat.

Eating 1500 Calories a Day: Week 21/52

✅ Goal #2: Write consistently. 5 to 7 days a week, I will read and follow My 2022 Writing Manifesto.

❌ Goal #3: Maintain my mental health. 5 to 7 days a week, I will sing three positive songs and sleep before 11:30 PM.

I missed sleeping before 11:30 PM 3 days this week.

✅ Goal #4: Maintain my physical health. 5 to 7 days a week, I will meditate for 2 minutes, practice 25 minutes of yoga, and do 10 minutes of weight lifting or cardio.

✅ Goal #5: Read books to gain knowledge and new perspectives. 5 to 7 days a week, I will read for 30 minutes and I will write down my favorite passage/what I learned on this blog.

This past week, I greatly enjoyed reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic & City of Girls, and Glennon Doyle’s Untamed.

I’ve longed to write a novel about promiscuous girls whose lives are not necessarily destroyed by their sexual desires.

Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

✅ Goal #6: Become more organized. 5 to 7 days a week, I will spend 10 to 30 minutes organizing.

✅ Goal #7: Become more physically active. Every week, I will do 1 physical activity like hiking, table tennis, swimming, etc.

I forgot to take a picture but I speed walked for 1 hour this week.

✅ Goal #8: Improve my listening skills: Every week, I will listen to one podcast or TED talk, and write down what I learned in 1 to 5 sentences.

This past week I listened to Design Matters: Dylan Marron, Conversations with People Who Hate Me

From this podcast, I learned that in the 558-minute Lord of the Rings Trilogy, there were only 46-second of dialogue spoken by people of color. And that was mostly due to the movies being produced in the 2001 to 2003 time period. It wouldn’t happen today but a lot of our protagonists in media are still white.

✅ Goal #9: Emulate Krista Tippet’s (Winner of the National Humanities Medal, Peabody Awards, Webby Awards) way of speaking. Every week, I will listen to Debbie Millman interviewing Krista Tippet and record a passage of Krista’s that I want to emulate.

❌ Goal #10: Remember my late father through cooking. Every week, I will post one recipe to this blog to remember him.

I realize that every week that I’m struggling more than usual with my eating disorder, I don’t want to think or write about food.

Week 21/52 Goal Summary

✅ Goals completed: 8

❌ Goals not completed: 2

This week’s completion percentage: 80%

Dear readers, how was your progression towards your 2022 goals? 😃