6th Sunday

Feeling gross again. Perhaps it was the Del Taco for dinner? Perhaps it is my monthly cycle? Last week was a wash, mainly because it was my "week off" but also because it was that time. One awesome thing is that I survived and I did not take any pain killers but managed to make do the whole week.

One fabulous thing though. We went to a birthday party for a friend at a bar, and a new person I met asked me innocently enough, if I was pregnant. Holy S. I told her I was just fat, and she was like, no and she tried very sweetly to cover up and say nice things, but truth is, she thought I was pregnant. Great.

Well, so that's my week. Today we went for a long bike ride around town and loved it and really enjoyed it. I can see us doing that activity regularly and having fun with it.

So will continue the healthy lifestyle stuff. I want to add taking multivitamins daily as well as exercising 4 times a week one hour at a time. I am hoping the regular exercise won't make me overly hungry. Although the 5 servings of fruits and veggies should help cover that. Overall though I feel my increased activity has been a definitely healthy activity.

Weight, well I feel heavy and not feeling great. Goal is to stay the same or reduce my weight, ever so slowly. Below are my regular goals. Must keep this up. Also keeping the larger goal in mind and not give up.

Also alternatively, bought some skin care stuff from Philosophy brand at Macys. I think it will help the overall process. Skin care, personal care, health stuff should be good.

This coming week, family reunion time. Am hoping the family time will be a very increased healthy time and good for the body and soul. Til then :) Tah tah!

Nutrition

1 multivitamin per day

5 servings fruits & veggies

Drink 1 liter of water daily

Exercise

Stand at desk at work as long as possible

Exercise 4 times a week 1 hour each

Mind

Read 2 books this week

Personal care

New skin care products!

Heart

In the right place

Weight per Week

1 - 144 lbs

3 - 143 lbs

5 - 144 lbs

Blah

First Sunday healthy living post.

I was planning on being all motivated to start a new trend of exercise or diet, but then my own body's cycle kicked in and, well, I'm out of commission until about 5 days from now. There goes my week of starting off strong in my new active and healthy lifestyle.

Since I'll be feeling pretty worn out and tired the next few days, I suppose it's a good chance to work on my will power versus my physical capabilities. For example, instead of going 100% healthy, I thought maybe I should start eating oh, 70/30. Considering that today I probably eat about 80-90% bad, I can start by slowly increasing my healthy to 30% good, 70% bad. Just bought a bunch of veggies and fruits, and this is achievable for me right now. This way, there's pressure to eat some healthy, but not all and not too drastically.

As for physical exercise, honestly I probably really can't do much until next week. Sorta nice having one thing to focus on, just the diet ratio. Maybe try one new healthy habit a week to see if that works. So how about, just try to hit the 70/30 for healthy foods, and we'll see what I can do next week. I definitely should try to get more iron in the diet as it will probably help with the energy levels.

As of this morning, 144 lbs. With my healthier lifestyle, the pounds should trim off slowly. I'm trying to focus on the healthy lifestyle over the pounds, as I've never lost weight focusing on pounds. I lose weight when I focus on healthy lifestyle. Starting off slow - blah. But I'm hoping slow and steady wins the race.

Body, Mind & Soul - Sunday

I feel gross. I feel tired. I feel fat. I am run down and burnt out. These are all feelings I've had the past few weeks. I had a milestone birthday recently, and I didn't really feel like I had the energy to enjoy it. The past few weeks have been rough.

Anyway I've been doing some reflecting and I know I am not living up to my potential.

Today we were driving home and it occurred to me I might be anemic with that time of the month coming up and the exhaustion I've been feeling. So we grabbed some In and Out burgers, I got a double double for the first time, and it was good and I was more energetic but I also felt really gross. The grease, I can feel it, but I think the iron helped.

I think I need to reflect more. I need to change what I've been doing, slowly. I didn't get like this overnight. I saw my post from last year, Naked, and I've gained 10 pounds since then.

Real change has to start with the body, then mind, then soul, and maybe skip around a bit. So this is the first post of all 3 topics. I plan on writing and reflecting more on these topics.

So I think I'll start Sunday. Sundays I will post. That's only 52 Sundays in a year. We will see. I know I'm terrible with finishing and following through. I should use the blog post as a time to reflect on what I'm doing and what I want to do. To address my mind, body and soul the way I want to. To become the person I want to be, instead of someone else.

Plus, the sun is like the beginning of things. The light and the start of life. It's our closest star. I sort of want to treat this part of the blog like that. Let's give it a shot.

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