We are now in the 3rd week of January! How many of you are still on track with your goals?!
I'm so hoping you're all still persevering and haven't fallen into the usual rut and given up completely for the next 11.5 months until the next new year rolls around!
I understand the January blues completely and that times can be trying, but I've chosen to embrace those challenges as you can't grow and learn without facing those challenges through to the end. And Believe me I've had some rocks in my road this past week!
The first week of January went as planned, I was feeling great. Everything was being ticked off my To-Do lists. I was keeping up with my new diet regime and drinking so much water! I don't know what went quite south but my mood wasn't great in the second week and I was just constantly tired and didn't want to do much.
I met with a friend for food before going to my dentist appointment one day and I ordered my food with an image in mind of what it would be like, some chicken with wedges and onion rings, typical pub grub kinda food. The monstrosity that I was served was a pure carb overload without a healthy section in sight.
At the time I thought nothing of it and just ate what I could. But after eating relatively healthy for a couple of weeks, I felt so sluggish, weak and sleepy a few hours of eating this meal. It was unreal to feel the effects of the processed foods on my body when I'd gone so long without eating such foods. I'm thinking this was the cause of my sluggish nature for the rest of the week.
When it came to my dentist appointment, I wasn't in the chair 5 minutes before I was told I could sit up again and I thought everything went great cause it was a hell of a quick check. However I was told I had to go back in 9 months for another check up to see if I would have to have ALL of my wisdom teeth taken out at the hospital! This, I am praying is not going to happen as my teeth are impacted and not exactly sure how much time id need to take off work or how I'll even eat! For now I'm doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't come to that!
Fast forward later that night, trying to stay on my healthy game, I'm making Buddha bowl type salads for work! I love roasted butternut squash on my salads and went ahead and cut up chunks and bunged it in the oven. after 20 minutes, I went to check on it only to find my oven was blowing cold air... I could take the tray out wit my bare hand! Great, now my Cooker was on its way out! Something I cant quite afford to replace at this moment in time!
Despite what I saw at first to be life screwing me over, I decided to change my mindset and perspective on everything and to look at things in a positive light. At the end of the day, we need to start embracing those hurdles in life as they hold the most value to our personal growth!
I have now consciously experienced the effects of processed foods on my body and it has spurred me on to keep nourishing my body with the right foods.
I'm doing what I can to prevent my teeth being extracted by brushing (with an electric toothbrush), flossing and washing out my mouth with hot salt water to prevent any future inflammation.
When it comes to my cooker, I'm staying positive and creative as my grill and hobs still work, so its not quite a dire situation yet and I know that if I can keep it up until my finances are right, I can still feed Jodie and myself without spending on any take outs.
These may just be minor bumps in the road to some people, and you might possibly be going through worse, but I truly believe that if you keep a positive and proactive mindset, things will fall into place just as they should. There is no reason to stress, as there is nothing you can do between the time something goes wrong and when you are able to get it sorted as worrying is just a waste of your energy. As long as you keep being proactive on fixing the problem, it will all come together and get sorted.
Whenever you face a challenge and your instant reaction is to curse a few words under your breath or start panicking, take a deep breath and think of the positives and take positive action to get over that particular hurdle. Even if you've had a naughty weekend cheating on your diet, restart the next day with the intention to get back on it. Do not allow a bad day or weekend to get in the way of your goals.
Remember, We are only in chapter 1 of 2018, we have another 11 to smash through to reach our goals!