A couple of things happened this week. #1. It’s official I no longer wait tables anymore. The restaurant is open for limited seating and I am not there after 18 years. I now can strictly focus on my health and wellness business that I’ve been running for seven years, while I worked full time. I have some thoughts about what we did to get to that point financially aka another blog post, but for now, cheers to new beginnings, chapters ending, and progress!
#2 Monday, I started the 75 Hard challenge. It’s a mental challenge with physical challenge aspects and total lifestyle change.
With that being said, I now am tracking my calories and staying within them and no alcohol or sweets. I have been tracking with the Lose It app for months, but I usually go over my daily allowance. Very rarely is the day where I don’t. Well, until now. I’m on Day 3 of the challenge and I have stuck to it every day.
As I said above, I struggle with eating too much and the wrong foods. I love food. For real, love it and I love trying new dishes, new restaurants. Legit when we travel I usually plan around where we are eating. Can’t miss a fabulous meal!
This time around, I made sure I planned and set myself for success from the very beginning, which is now. I forgot to add, with this challenge, any screw-ups start the challenge over at day 1 (have a drink, day 1. forget to do a workout, day 1). Nevermind, that you are on day 56, you’re back to day 1.
So, I wanted to make sure I was good to begin. Here are the 3 things I did:
I threw out any sweets that I only eat. Anything that Rick would eat, I left. Because we have totally different tastes, I am not as tempted by his faves.
I researched recipes that were healthy, but still satisfied the delicious factor. Check out my food board on Pinterest here.
Parmesan Roasted Carrots and Zucchini3. I made snacks and easy to grab veggies. Not full-on meal prep. But, just the kind of thing you can eat when you just need something, but would normally go for a treat, just cause. I get my veggies from my local grocery store and also from Imperfect Foods and I loaded up, not just a few.
These are my top 3 that I knew I needed to do to start off right. Out of sight, out of mind on the sweets and make healthy food more accessible.
What tips have you found to help you when you are tweaking your nutrition? I’d love to hear about it below. I mean I have 72 more days of strict eating. Help a sister out!
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Happy Monday! Well, Happy rainy Monday here! It feels good to start a new week because last week just felt weird. I don't know about you, but I felt off the past, I don't know, 2 weeks, it seems.
So, I tried some different things to help me get out of my funk. I am a full believer in if you aren’t happy, it’s time to change something.
Although, right now in this unprecedented and uncertain time (to quote all the bullshit commercials out there, look, Dominos or Consumers Energy, I’m not looking for you to support me. Fuck.), it’s not the easiest thing to change what you aren’t happy about.
Here are the things I did and can control:
I wrote, but I didn’t publish anything. Why, because I needed to get my thoughts out there, but they didn’t feel like I wanted them to, so I kept them to myself. Hey, news flash, everyone: not everything you think has to come out of your mouth.
I made and ate food that I haven’t had in years. I made a freaking meatloaf and you know what it was damn, good. Like super good. With homemade mashed potatoes and corn on the cob. I made sure that day, I had plenty of calories left, so this would fit right into my calorie count. Try something new or something you haven’t had in years. Now is a great time to bust out of a rut.
I put myself on a personal challenge, part physical, part mental. I am using the Miracle Morning’s SAVERS (check it out here), making sure I get enough sleep (I still need to work on that), drinking a ton of water, adding in supplements, additional exercise and tracking my food. It allows me to have a focus all day. I’m using a habit tracking to help me remember all of the things. And, truth be told, I haven’t been 100% every day, nor do I expect myself to, I know myself and to quote Parks and Rec “treat yo self” is my motto. I’m still in the middle of the challenge, so I don’t know the results or what exactly I think of this.
I did a workout one day that I normally would avoid and frankly, kinda hate. I did a HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workout. I do not like to breathe heavy, I think it's that asthmatic in me. High intensity will do just that. But, it broke up the workouts for the week and made me appreciate the workouts I do love.
This is not the perfect fix to everything in my life going on right now, but it’s things I can control and feel good about. Right now, trying to feel good and happy for myself is what I can do.
