This week has been awesome. I just wanted to do a little check-in with myself on where I stand on my commitments:
#1: I do tend to struggle with trying to stay positive all day because some of my pessimistic moments keep trying to shine through. Today I made a silly remark about the ledge giving way and my friend said, "You always expect the worse." I need to fix that! I don't want that being the way I'm viewed. Every morning I've sat down with my gratitude log and thought of what I was grateful for. Every morning I ask my six year old what she's grateful for. We're doing our best! I've just got to keep trying.
#2: I have done my Wii fit every night except one. I do all of the yoga poses, a couple of strength exercises, hula hooping, step aerobics, boxing and sometimes a couple of the balance games, too. Right now my workout is between 20-30 minutes and I'm huffing, puffing and shaky by the end but I'm not going to stop. I feel the stretch in my muscles and it is awesome! I've improved my score on every exercise so much already.
#3: I realized that trying to jump into a vegan raw food base was biting off more than I could chew. I need to ease my way into it. I've attempted to eat only vegetarian this week and have done really good at keeping up with that, aside from some salmon that I had. Today was really great. So far I'm most proud of how I worked it out today. I've only drank water. For breakfast I had some organic grapes and a banana. For lunch I had an AMAZING spinach, mozzarella and feta cheese crepe. I fell off the wagon a little with dinner - chicken flavored Top Ramen. I need to fit more food into our house that aligns with my goals. I've done awesome at keeping the unnatural sugars out of my diet. One slip with a chocolate chip cookie. I feel pretty awesome about how much I've been able to do. I'll probably do one more week of a vegetarian base and then try to ease into the vegan part of things. I'm pumping fruits and veggies into me though and I do feel pretty awesome.
#4: Aside from the last flavored water I've got on my nightstand that I'm working on finishing, I have obliterated plastic bottles from my day. I used to drink plastic water bottles every night and would use multiple compostible cups in a day to drink water at work. Last weekend I picked up my Kleen Kanteen and have used it all day, every day. And I love it. The water tastes so much better out of stainless steel than it does in a plastic bottle.
#5: The camera love is through the roof. I've started a Project 365 and have kept up with it every day. I'm finding it fun to take artsy pictures or capture the things I might not have thought to before. Having a camera back in my life is so awesome. Tonight my accessories I splurged on came in the mail. I've got the bowling bag camera case, DIY book, the seatbelt camera strap, the filters for my iPhone and I even bought a "how-to" digital camera book so that I can better maneuver how to use this thing without spending the cash on a class. I'm really, really enjoying my camera and hope this will last past just some random new year's urge. It would be awesome to get so into something that maybe it could become more than a hobby in the future.
#6: Nothing has come of my travel commitment yet but Heidi and I need to start planning!
#7: Still on track for moving out in August. I refuse to get deterred.
#8: Trying to take on a new way of eating and living has definitely opened doors to so many books I want to read. I have already finished one book! Michael Pollan's Food Rules was an awesome read and I'm already starting to try to adapt his rules into the decisions I make on things that have labels. Such a great book. I'm still working on Fast Food Nation, too. Tonight Pollan's other book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, came and I plan to start that when I finish FFN. I definitely find that I seem to read more often/easier when I buy an ebook so I can do it from my bed on my iPhone but I can't seem to bring myself to want to move exclusively to this format. I love having a TRUE book in my hands too much, even though I find it harder to force myself to make the time to curl up with one.
So that's where I sit with my commitments. I hope you've been managing to pull yours off, too!
#1: I do tend to struggle with trying to stay positive all day because some of my pessimistic moments keep trying to shine through. Today I made a silly remark about the ledge giving way and my friend said, "You always expect the worse." I need to fix that! I don't want that being the way I'm viewed. Every morning I've sat down with my gratitude log and thought of what I was grateful for. Every morning I ask my six year old what she's grateful for. We're doing our best! I've just got to keep trying.
#2: I have done my Wii fit every night except one. I do all of the yoga poses, a couple of strength exercises, hula hooping, step aerobics, boxing and sometimes a couple of the balance games, too. Right now my workout is between 20-30 minutes and I'm huffing, puffing and shaky by the end but I'm not going to stop. I feel the stretch in my muscles and it is awesome! I've improved my score on every exercise so much already.
#3: I realized that trying to jump into a vegan raw food base was biting off more than I could chew. I need to ease my way into it. I've attempted to eat only vegetarian this week and have done really good at keeping up with that, aside from some salmon that I had. Today was really great. So far I'm most proud of how I worked it out today. I've only drank water. For breakfast I had some organic grapes and a banana. For lunch I had an AMAZING spinach, mozzarella and feta cheese crepe. I fell off the wagon a little with dinner - chicken flavored Top Ramen. I need to fit more food into our house that aligns with my goals. I've done awesome at keeping the unnatural sugars out of my diet. One slip with a chocolate chip cookie. I feel pretty awesome about how much I've been able to do. I'll probably do one more week of a vegetarian base and then try to ease into the vegan part of things. I'm pumping fruits and veggies into me though and I do feel pretty awesome.
#4: Aside from the last flavored water I've got on my nightstand that I'm working on finishing, I have obliterated plastic bottles from my day. I used to drink plastic water bottles every night and would use multiple compostible cups in a day to drink water at work. Last weekend I picked up my Kleen Kanteen and have used it all day, every day. And I love it. The water tastes so much better out of stainless steel than it does in a plastic bottle.
#5: The camera love is through the roof. I've started a Project 365 and have kept up with it every day. I'm finding it fun to take artsy pictures or capture the things I might not have thought to before. Having a camera back in my life is so awesome. Tonight my accessories I splurged on came in the mail. I've got the bowling bag camera case, DIY book, the seatbelt camera strap, the filters for my iPhone and I even bought a "how-to" digital camera book so that I can better maneuver how to use this thing without spending the cash on a class. I'm really, really enjoying my camera and hope this will last past just some random new year's urge. It would be awesome to get so into something that maybe it could become more than a hobby in the future.
#6: Nothing has come of my travel commitment yet but Heidi and I need to start planning!
#7: Still on track for moving out in August. I refuse to get deterred.
#8: Trying to take on a new way of eating and living has definitely opened doors to so many books I want to read. I have already finished one book! Michael Pollan's Food Rules was an awesome read and I'm already starting to try to adapt his rules into the decisions I make on things that have labels. Such a great book. I'm still working on Fast Food Nation, too. Tonight Pollan's other book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, came and I plan to start that when I finish FFN. I definitely find that I seem to read more often/easier when I buy an ebook so I can do it from my bed on my iPhone but I can't seem to bring myself to want to move exclusively to this format. I love having a TRUE book in my hands too much, even though I find it harder to force myself to make the time to curl up with one.
So that's where I sit with my commitments. I hope you've been managing to pull yours off, too!
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