Healthy Living Since 2010

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All right. I’ve got goals and I need a plan, so here goes:

64 oz of water per day

Exercise, of some sort, every day (this includes playing my Wii, walking, swimming, jogging, running, and whatever else)

Limited grain carbohydrates- 3 per week (eating corn and potatoes for starch) 

Minimally processed foods (tofu, olive oil, almond milk, soy sauces, and others)

Fresh fruit, veggies, nuts, and raisins

I’ll be reevaluating in two weeks.

Seven of the pounds I lost from juicing have come back. *Sad face* I expected them to come back, but I didn’t want them to come back. Ah well. I’m still on track to reach my December goal of 20 pounds lost. I’m going to weigh on December 29th, which is the day before my birthday. 

In other news, I signed up for a 5K on December 10th. I think that’s near the end of my 21-day exercise challenge, which is actually great timing. I’ve not jogged three miles in a long time, so I have to get my game right. I’ll be jogging on the treadmill tomorrow and I’m going to try for three miles. If I can consistently jog three miles on the treadmill, then I’m going to hit the street. I’ve jogged two miles on the street, but I haven’t done three. 

Next year, I’m doing a 5K in March and I plan to do a half-marathon next year also. I think I’ll plan for a 10K in the summer and then a half-marathon by my birthday. 

Also, my 2012 goals are to reach a perfect size 10, a happy weight, and a healthy BMI. 

Go, 2012!

And took a walk… 

I jogged a little, but I wasn’t really feeling it, so I walked. I love my walks around the neighborhood. It’s so calm and peaceful. Then I came back home and made a salad with pears, blueberries, cashews, almonds, raisins, and my orange vinaigrette. 

For lunch, I’ll be having miso soup, a homemade spring roll, and a few pieces of an avocado roll. 

Going to dinner with a friend at a Vietnamese place, and I’m not sure what I’ll be having yet. 

I’m thinking about making stir fry tomorrow, so I can eat that until I leave town on Wednesday. 

Apparently, I have to lose 34 pounds to be within the healthy BMI range. Since I have seven months before I want to be finished, I guess that’s possible. 

I’m taking my time and developing an exercise schedule, so that will help a lot. Right now, I’m doing 21 days of exercise and I’m enjoying that. Tomorrow, I’m jogging around the neighborhood before church. Slow and steady will win this race. I still have three pounds to lose before year end. When I weigh on Wednesday, I’ll see if anything changed after my juice fast ended. I usually weigh on Thursdays, but I’ll be in DC. 

Today is officially the last day of my juice fast. *Breathes sigh of relief* I’m still deciding how to break my fast, but I’m thinking about miso soup and a really big salad with pears, raspberries, nuts, and an orange vinaigrette.

I’ve truly learned a lot over these thirty days, and I’m grateful for the experience.

I doubt I’ll ever fast this long again, but I do appreciate what I’ve gained.

Fasting really does open the mind and heart. When food is no longer important, so many other things begin to manifest themselves.

I might do a more comprehensive reflection tomorrow, but I think this will do for today.

So after tomorrow, I will be celebrating the end of my thirty days of juicing. I will probably also be celebrating being under 200 pounds for the first time in my adult life. 

My issue is that I’m trying to figure out how to celebrate health-consciously. I don’t want to go back to bad habits, so I’m kind of scared. I used to celebrate with food, but that isn’t my life anymore. Anytime something good happened, i.e. birthdays, promotions, grad school acceptance, we would all pile into our cars and go to Chili’s or Applebee’s or Logan’s or the Waffle House (ghetto hibachi El-Oh-El), but now that I try not to think of food as a reward, how do I celebrate? 

I’ve been planning to make sushi on Friday to culminate the end of my fasting, but I don’t think I want to do that anymore. The sushi rice I ordered is white, and I try not to eat white rice very often, but the food is five pounds. Maybe I’ll leave off making sushi until I find some brown rice. I’m thinking that I’ll actually make some soup or something instead of the meal I’d planned, because it now seems counterproductive to my goals. 

I don’t know. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this… 

So I currently have three challenges going on:

1. 30 days of juice fasting

2. 21 days of exercise

3. 20 pound loss by the end of the year, of which I have lost thirteen. 

I have one day left on juice fasting, eighteen days of exercising, and of course, seven pounds. I’m trying to make the seven pounds eight pounds because that will put me exactly twenty pounds from my goal weight. 

Apparently, I do well with challenges, because they support my hella stubbornness. 

Let’s see how I feel when December rolls around, because I hope to have accomplished all my current challenge goals by then.