Day 1:
Woke at to a beautiful sunny day at 6:45am. Yoga helped me start off a great day! Ate healthy all day! Went food shopping and picked up food that will enhance my new way of eating. After Zumba, I had a protein drink which to my surprise was delicious! After Zumba every week I am always hungry. I eat dinner before teaching to avoid feeling faint during class. I do not like eating a full meal before I go to bed. The thought of food sitting in my stomach is not appetizing. Speaking with a few people who are work out buffs the suggestion of healthy snacks and a protein drink after Zumba came up. So that is exactly what I did! Protein drink and strawberry’s! YUM! While having my snack I decided to unwind and watch some tv. Thought this was a great opportunity to spend my 1 hour away from my phone. That was harder than I thought! Every five to ten minutes I was looking for my phone on the table and then remembering it was my one hour away from it. This is going to take some getting use to! I ended the day with some meditation. I have never felt better!
Day 2:
Could not be happier with all the healthy food I bought yesterday. Fixed myself a fruit salad big enough (or so I thought) to get me through my morning snack and my afternoon snack. Well guess what. Fruit is not filling at all! Lunch couldn’t come soon enough and when it did I was still hungry! One of the perks at my job is every so often when a meeting lets out the left over food will be brought into our kitchen. Well today was one of those days! Around 2:30pm I started to feel sluggish and needed a pick me up. I strolled on to the kitchen where I layed eyes on delicious chocolate chip cookies! As I am putting a couple on my plate I remembered! Though I am changing my eating habits this rule especially applys to when I am at work! To help me with this cleansing journey, I gave up eating junk food during the work day for Lent. (Far too often do my pink coach wallet and I take a stroll down to the vending machine for some indulgences). My wonderful and supportive co-workers told me to, “stop being a girl”, “you get a 1 hour grace period per day during lent”, and “cookies are considered lunch”. I grabbed the plate and walked back to my desk. Starring at the cookies I thought, “I can’t do this!” and so I gave the plate of cookies to my co-worker who gladly accepted and devoured the plate in front of me. Not only did I have the strength to say ‘no’ to the cookies I also spent two hours away from my phone today! Overall today was challenging and tempting but I got through it!
Day 3:
Slept through the alarm. Ran a little late leaving for work this morning and to make matters worse there has been flooding due to all the rain we have been having. As I sat in bump to bump traffic (that’s what my great aunt calls it lol) looking at the time I started to get antsy and stress that I wasn’t going to make it to work on time. I contacted my co-worker letting her know I would be a little late, did some deep breathing and realized I have no control over the situation I am in. Stressing about it is not going to make the traffic magically disappear it is only going to put me on edge for the rest of the day. Who wants to be like that on a Friday? A Friday that is a Pay-Day no less! (Woot Woot!) I popped in some CD’s for my zumba class and was inspired to choreograph which will hopefully be this weekend.
Day 4:
Woke up and headed to a Zumba marathon! It was a lot of fun! What was not fun was getting hungry during the class when I just had breakfast! After the 75 minute cardio work out and gulping down a bottle of water went home and made myself a baby spinach omelet. I also had a granola bar and put some protein powder in my OJ. Yes, I was pretty pleased with myself. Awesome work out and healthy lunch, what could be better? This is becoming easier than I thought.
Day 5:
Well losing the one hour of sleep definitely threw me off! Thanks Day Light Savings Time! I woke up later than I wanted to and felt overwhelmed over the time crunch I had to choreograph new routines. Well I pushed my anxiety aside, deep breath inhale positive energy, exhale stress and anxiety. Accomplished exactly what I wanted to and then ran off to the studio where the competitive dancers were putting on a showcase. The dancers were inspirational! Seeing such beauty in body expression and emotion reminded me how dance has been my outlet of expressing myself since I was a little girl. I felt so blessed and fortunate that I still have dance to lean back on when I am having a stressful day or just a bad day…Now a days I get to choreograph my own emotion and experiences and get to watch my students take on the routine as there own. It is touching when my students take on routines that I give them and interpret them as their own. This weekend I have fed my soul.
Day 6:
It is definitely easier to eat healthy when the food is right there in front of you. There are still a lot of snacks in my house that I try not to indulge in too often. Before I was inspired to ReVamp my life, if I had an apple and a donut in front of me I would not hesitate to pick up the donut and be on my way. During my 12 hour days it is so easy to go get pizza or Mc D’s because I am on the go from one job to the next or from work to school. I guess my 12 hour days will be most challenging, to eat junk or not to eat junk.
Day 7:
Spending time away from my phone is not so bad anymore. Time passes by and I don’t even notice. Healthy food is not as easy to pack in the mornings for my day. Maybe that is why there is obesity in America. It’s easy to just throw a frozen lunch in your bag, and how easy is it to go get fast food during lunch? Buying lunch can be expensive when you add it all up week by week. Dollar menu at Mc D’s OR healthy lunch that costs $10 bucks?! That is a no brainer for the 20-something who realized she isn’t close to what she thought she would be making at this day and age.
All in all week 1 was a success! I am not feeling as stressed and overwhelmed. It’s amazing how just a few small changes in your everyday life can make an impact.
