Monday, February 12, 2007

February Challenge - Day 12 for Michelle

Egads ... I can't believe we're almost halfway through the month!!!

I've been in a bit of a funk lately, ever since I decided not to pursue my Biggest Loser Season 4 auditions, and really wanna just kick myself in the butt for letting myself sink into a low period. I know, everyone is entitled to feeling down every now and again, but I've wasted 12 days of doing nothing. I think Morgan or Cory blogged about this last month ... how the way you can tell if someone is going to succeed is not how they are when they're accomplishing goals, but how they behave when faced with a plateau or down period or bad mood or challenge, etc .... a true winner will just stick their head down and keep on going. Me on the other hand, I stopped full in my tracks and wasted time feeling sorry for myself. What a loser, eh?

So, I'm back, whether I want to or not, I'm back and I'm going to give it 100%. I'm officially in Week 2 of Dr. Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health. Now there's one bright shiny moment of goodness during my weeklong pity party - I've been following his plan and sticking to my goal of following his program.

Week 2 brought the following changes into my lifestyle:

• Test my drinking/tap water and research a water-purifying system for my home. Completed, but saving $$ to implement the system in my home. I have a private well, and the results came back very good, everything was in normal range. I was told that my water is actually better than the city water in my town.
• Continue to eat fish once a week and broccoli twice. Completed
• Increase my consumption of whole grains, and try a new food item made from soybeans. Completed - this is something that I've already been working on, but am making an effort to do more.
• Buy some Japanese or Chinese green tea, and substitute it for some or all of my coffee/soda/caffienated beverages. Again, already completed/something I already do.
• Increase my daily walk to fifteen minutes. I'm completely slacking here, will do better!
• Visit a park or other favorite spot in nature. Spend as much time as you can there, doing nothing in particular, just feeling the energy of the place. Not completed, it's been colder than heck here, not exactly good "park" weather. But I will try to figure someplace indoors that I can do this.
• Try a one-day "news fast". Do not read, watch, or listen to any news for a day. Not completed, I'm a news junkie and am reading the news on the net all day long. Will attempt to do this tomorrow!
• Continue with Breath Observation for five minutes a day and add a second breathing exercise. In progress, this is one that I really like, reminds me of my self-hypnosis, and I really like meditating/relaxing this way.
• Start taking one capsule a day of mixed carotenes (25,000 IU of beta-carotene with related compounds including alpha-cartoene, lutein, and lycopene) with breakfast. Completed/in progress.

The changes Dr. Weil's has suggested so far have been fairly easy to accomplish and integrate into my lifestyle. I've made an appointment with a naturopathic doctor for Thursday, and hope she can give me further guidance and support to my more holistic and organic lifestyle. I particuarly hope she can help me to heal my "fatty liver", and detox all the processed junk and toxins from my body.

In any case, I'm happy to be back and am putting a stop to my pity party immediately! I can't wait to catch up on all your blogs and see how you're doing :)

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