Day 1.
Everything has to start somewhere.
While there’s clearly a part of me that thinks New Year’s Resolutions are always doomed to fail there’s another part that’s excited at this chance to hit the reset button.
Though, it’s not so much a New Year’s Resolution as a challenge. Those are different things right?
So I’m going to eat healthily for the whole month*. Mostly because I’ve eaten a lot of things I wouldn’t have over the Xmas period, which I am actually ok with. I didn’t think I would be truth be told but I caught up with family and friends and ate a lot of chocolate and drank more then I have done for the last 2 or 3 months and it was lovely. Partly though I just want to get back in a healthier rhythm, cutting out processed food, sugar, alcohol will help me do that.
For me the challenge is the way to do it. It worked when I didn’t eat sweet stuff for 2 weeks because the kids in my class bet me too and even in that case it wasn’t like they could hold me to it but it was enough of a spur to resist sweets in the staffroom or something sweet in the supermarket. So I got through day one. Plan to do a big shop tomorrow and keep things on track.
There’s a big long list of other things that I’m going to try and do too, I’d quite like to start doing yoga or pilates regularly, go to the cinema more, make sure I get plenty of sleep, meditate regularly.
It’s funny, I thought today was going to go badly. I don’t like feeling like I’ve not done anything which I need to stop doing but also I think that I need to simply start doing something when I catch myself in that thought and moment.
(I just made a written list of 10 things I could do instead)
Except I did achieve a few things. I bought a new diary with a gift voucher, fancied Kristen W in Bridesmaids (it’s the curls), watched a bit more of Dexter (upto ep 6 and feel like the steam is running out…, watched Sherlock and loved it, drank some nice tea, tidied my room, was undecided on cooking with ghee, didn’t eat any of the chocolate I have left. Not so bad really.
*Except I was going to do 30 days but it turns out that my Crossfit affiliate is doing a 40 day challenge starting in 2 weeks. So I might end up doing it for 6 weeks… Maybe!
*It occurs to me that I don’t really have any particular goals but I don’t feel like I need them – as I work through it, I know I’ll get fitter, stronger, most likely a little bit leaner. It doesn’t feel like it’s the challenge, I already know I can do it if I want to. I think that it’s because it feels like the right thing to do.
January 1, 2012