I’m currently on week 3 of the Body + Soul Challenge, but
honestly, I’ve lost a lot my motivation to keep going. I’m supposed to be doing
the following:
- Shunning
saturated fats
- Satisfying
my sweet tooth with fruit
- Curbing
salt cravings by using herbs and spices
- Surviving
a midafternoon slump without coffee or soda
- Opting for
stir-frying and steaming cooking methods
- Rating my
hunger before, during and after each meal
- Slowing
down while eating
- Sitting
at a table and turning my attention to my food
- Pumping
iron
- Doing more
physical activity
- Meditating
for 15 minutes a day
- Journaling
I’m doing
pretty good with all the food goals, except that I’ve been eating coffee cake
for breakfast for the past three days. You can’t make coffee cake and not eat
it. That’s just stupid {and torturous}. I can’t just drop all my baking goals
for this challenge. I’ve been making smoothies or green juice each morning just
like Martha and it definitely helps to keep me full and energized during the
morning. I don’t drink coffee and unfortunately I gave up drinking soda at the
end of August {I miss it, especially when I’m walking down the soda aisle in
the grocery store}. Here’s a scary fact – before the end of August when I
decided diet sodas weren’t good for me, I hadn’t gone a day without soda since
I was in elementary school. When I was a kid, I refused to drink water, even
when I was sick. I would only drink Kool-Aid, juice and soda. That is thousands
and thousands of days where I drank soda. I wonder what my insides look like.
I didn’t
even try to rate my hunger or sit at a table to turn my attention to my food. I
could have been rating my hunger, but I forgot. I do have other things going on
in my life besides a Body and Soul Challenge. And I’m not prioritizing sitting
at a dining room table until 1) I get a dining room table and 2) I have kids.
Martha’s just going to have to deal with this, because if I didn’t eat in front
of the television, I wouldn’t have time to watch her show. I have slowed down
while eating, even though I don’t enjoy it, because my food gets cold if I try
to make a hot meal last 20 minutes.
I haven’t
been able to do any of the fitness goals, because my back is still hurt from doing
freakin yoga last week. I’m still taking muscle relaxers and anti-inflammatory
medications and hoping that I can avoid a costly trip to the doctor. One reason
it’s taking me so long to heal is every time I go from the living room to the
kitchen {which is 30+ times a day} I have to lift my leg over a baby gate. I
can’t work the baby gate to open and close it {don’t make fun – my husband can
barely do it} and that would be too risky anyways, because the puppies (which
are about 35 pounds at three months old) will run by me and eat the curtains
before I can get them back into the kitchen.
I made
a serious attempt at meditating, but my muscle relaxers make me drowsy, so each
time I put in the meditation CD and try to follow it, I fall asleep. I didn’t
try meditating today, because I didn’t have the time for a nap. I consider this
blog to me journal outlet, so I think I’ve got that one covered.
So far, I would give
myself a C. I’ve put in enough effort to pass comfortably, but not enough to
get what I would consider a good grade.