New Challenge

Okay, so I didn't quite finish my last challenge, but I will say, I wasn't seeing the results I was hoping for while doing it, so I think I just felt defeated and gave up.

And got busy.  It's a little tricky to keep up with the soup making every day when life gets crazy.

And, well, it's gotten *really* crazy in the past few weeks.

We have a major life change coming up in the next few months. No, not a new pregnancy. (I knew you were thinking it. ;) )  So, with major stress comes major bad choices for me. Especially when it comes to food since I'm so very prone to use food as a coping mechanism. 

So, I need a new challenge. Something that will keep me excited about making good health choices as well as give me some motivation to stay away from being lazy which always leads to falling back into bad habits.

Thing is, I'm just unsure what the challenge should look like. 

I know, beyond a doubt, that my primary issue is that I need to form and build new, healthy habits.  But, building habits is hard. And, well, which ones do I start with first? Which ones are the key habits that are the foundation to the others that are messing me up? This is where I feel stuck.

Last week a friend joined me in working on tweaking two bad habits I've developed. Coffee and snacking.  I see these as pivotal to other poor habits I've got going on.

And, well, I didn't do so well at breaking the habit. But, I guess I could at least feel good about making progress.

1.  I did drink a lot LESS coffee this past week than I have been, replacing it with hot herbal tea and water.
2.  I did have LESS snacks between meals this week than I have before.
3.  I did choose better snacks, which was my goal, if I couldn't skip the snack altogether.

Okay, so instead of feeling like a failure, I'm going to call it progress.  But I'm also going to give myself a kick in the pants so I will get my head in the game and work harder on doing this the right way.

In the meantime, I'm going to make sure I'm sticking to Dr. F's 6 week plan for eating. 

For me, that typically looks like this:

Breakfast: Breakfast salad
Lunch: Head of romaine topped with other raw veggies and/or cooked legumes and a nut-based dressing
Dinner: salad, cooked veggies, starch or grain, fruit for dessert

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