PS-Sweet Detox Done

14 days of no sweets really wasn't bad. I finished last Sunday. It's all about breaking the cycle. Tomorrow is Halloween...definitely an evil holiday in so many sweet ways. I'm probably going to...one day....just need to give up sweets all together because it wasn't so bad and I didn't have the option. Options are what gets me.

100% Try

Excuses don't matter. They really just don't.

Excuses aren't going to get us where we need/want to go. There will always be obstacles. There will be emotionally draining days. Change the focus from finding a way out (excuse) to how can I jump over this hurdle. How can I make this work? I guarantee if we change our internal dialogue to something positive and avoid all negative self talk excuses will be gone and we'll be on our way to victory.

Try 100% this week on just one little thing. I'm going to try 100% this week to not eat anything after 7:30pm. What's your's going to be?

Pilates Anyone?

I LOVE Pilates! My good trainer friend, Kim, teaches Pilates on Wednesday night at 6pm at Pinnacle. It’s a pay as you go class, $7/class. Think about trying it out as Pilates is one of the best ways I know to whittle away at the midsection...it's why I implement it into each of my classes in some form or another!

Sweets-B-Gone: Day 10

10 days clean. Check.

Is it easier for me because I'm a trainer? No.

Times I wanted to quit my silly 14 day detox. Around 10.

Evil Sweets that tempted me:
-Donuts (go figure) while passing through a town I normally indulge in at the small bakery where the donuts are divine.
-Tonight when hubby had m&m's on the counter. Decided to put them in a cabinet where I could not see them anymore.
-Last week on a date with hubby. We like sweets together.
-Afternoons seem to be a trigger. I seem to be hungry and my body wants a carb no matter the form.
-The first two days of the detox were (and always are the worst). It didn't really matter what kind of sweet, it just wanted something because it was used to being spoiled in that sort of way.

4 more days left. I can do it and so can each set of eyes that are reading these words.

Sweets are a drug. They are and have been my drug of choice. Viewing them that way helps me see what's actually happening. There's absolutely no nutritional value to that type of crap. Break the cycle. Break the cycle.

Stop Trying. Start Doing.

I kept hearing this last week in different forms and from different places.

"Trying is like knowing you're going to fail."

I thought this was interesting and from what I've seen in my short life, it's so incredibly true.

When we try, sometimes it's just that and when any little obstacle gets in our way we cease trying. Look at the statements and notice how powerfully different they are:

-I'm going to try to start exercising.
(it's almost like we're just saying the words knowing it's not going to happen)

-I'm going to make a plan and no matter what I'm going to stick with it and start exercising regularly. (this statement is full of promise because it's got strategy and intent)

Take an afternoon for yourself. Have a vision meeting about you.
1. Go to a quiet place where it's just you and your planner. Somewhere peaceful that's going to be filled with little distraction.
2. Where are you now and where do you want to go? Make a list of things you want to see happen within the next year.
3. Now figure out how you can get there. Put time into the things that are importatnt. I think you are important and taking an afternoon to organize your thoughts and feelings is a huge giant step in the right direction.

This is it!

I'm fed up with myself. The sweet-a-week thing has basically gone out the window. I'm fed up enough that I'm doing a detox of sweets. No sweets for 14 days. This actually works really well for me because when I get them out of my system, I don't want them nearly as bad. So, I'm publishing this to make it official, no sweets for the next 14 days and then back to one sweet per week...perfectly until the end of the year. Anyone interested in venturing this with me? It's always so much more fun to share this with other brave souls.

Shut out the Noise

Get past the noise. When things get uncomfortable, noise happens. I was in a class the other night where we were doing some difficult exercises. We were holding a certain position for quite some time when I noticed noise enter my thinking. It was loud and uncomfortable and all I wanted was for it to stop. My response was a quick shift for instant relief and for what I thought a better feeling. I am sure the instructor noticed my constant "relief" motions to the exercises because she addressed the whole class to what I was doing/feeling. I kept giving in to the noise, or the hard exercises. Instead of battling them head on and getting through the...well it was pure pain, I gave up. There is no way I can gain strength or even an appreciation for what I'm doing if I continue to stop working through the noise.

There's always going to be noise whether it's in the form of a difficult exercise, a crying kid, a demanding husband, a co-worker that always brings your favorite dessert or a huge mortgage payment. Whatever the form, we live in a noisy world.

Fact!

Here's the fact...
"People who worked out more than 100 days throughout the year had a 30 percent reduction in sick days." Training, Feb 2008

Here's my addition....
I've gone over a year (knock on wood) without being sick at all. Haven't even had a tiny cold. My thought, who needs a flu vaccine if they have a healthy immune system already? Go out and by some chewable vitamin C. That's been my trick for over a year. 500mg a day faithfully and 1000mg per day if I feel like something's coming on. It's not any technical advice, just something that's worked for me. I think it's pretty awesome considering my husband is in and out of doctor's every single day and I'm in germ infested gyms most days of the week. Even when my hubby got sick last year, I didn't I just upped my vitamin C dosage when he was feeling bad.

Happy winter months ahead!!

PS-I'm sure I've just doomed myself by bragging about how I haven't been sick in the past year. Goodness I hope not but isn't that how it typically works out?!