Weekly Update

Day 11

I am happy to announce that I am still soda free for almost two weeks AND I have been able to get a good breakfast in every morning this week. I definitely think breakfast will be a much bigger challenge for me to continue past this week. I have made a point to keep it up, mostly for the blog, and am getting a little worried that I might fall short once the weekly goal has changed.

Due to my fear on that, I have decided that once a week I will give an update on all my past goals and how they are going and challenges that I may be facing. The important thing about falling off the wagon is making sure they you get back on it quickly! That is usually where my issues arise. I tend to slip just a little and instead of recovering and letting that be a one- time incident, I keep going down the path of destruction and end up, well, where I am now, frustrated and confused on where I went wrong.

My first week goal was a pretty easy one; don’t drink soda of any kind. I have maintained that goal, but it hasn’t always been easy. As I have mentioned, I was never an extreme soda drinker, but I usually had on 16 ounce bottle of some sort of diet soda for lunch most days. I figured that drinking so little soda in a day; it shouldn’t be that hard right? WRONG! Currently, I am experience pretty intense headaches right around lunch time and my suspicion is the culprit is the caffeine that my body is craving. I typically start my day with coffee and skim milk with a pack of Splenda (and that is one thing I won’t be giving up, I still have to function) but I never realized how much my body was depending on the mid afternoon caffeine that I was giving it in the form of diet soda. The good news is that with two Aleve and time, the headaches are becoming weaker. I know that they will eventually stop, but it has made me wonder about my headaches in the past. Typically I would pass them off as just a headache but I am starting to see now that some bad habits could be causing me “pain.” I put pain in quotes because it isn’t debilitating, just annoying but never the less it is pain. I am proud of myself for not giving in to the temptation for soda, even when I realized the culprit for my daily lunch headaches. Once I get past these headaches I don’t see any huge obstacles coming my way. The only real issue I can see is going somewhere that only soda is being served. In this day and age, I don’t see that being a huge problem, but if it occurs, I will just have to take it on at that time.

My week two goal, as you have read, is to eat a healthy breakfast every morning. As I mentioned earlier, this is definitely something that I can see falling. The lack of wanting to wake up and make breakfast some days is going to really get me, but I am going to work hard to make this happen, no matter what! Even if the option is dry cereal or a breakfast bar of some sort, there is no excuse anymore to skip breakfast or fall into the unhealthy trap again. I think that continuing to blog about this will make me more accountable for keeping up the good breakfast habit, but I want to be realistic. There are going to be times that I just don’t commit to a good breakfast. I just need to let that be a one day occurrence and fix the issue the next day.

This will be the last post this week because we are going to a wedding this weekend, which screams unhealthy. I will give a full report on Monday!

This is the exact kettle bell that I bought!

Next week is going to be all about…….kettle bells!! I just bought my very own kettle bell because I have heard they are a great workout. The only problem is, I really don’t know how to use it. So I am going to look up all the different ways to use the kettle bell and my goal will be to do the exercises I find three times a week. As I go through this journey, this isn’t a goal I intend on keeping. I am going to be learning a lot of different exercise, but I want to keep the kettle bells in the rotation.