...how even the littlest change can make an amazing difference. I have had a 4 week break from exercising - mostly my nightly walk home from work - initially due to a bad back and then last week because I was feeling down. I started walking again yesterday as I don't ever want to get back out of the habit...and I was in a bad mood from work...and wella, by the time I finished the walk I felt so much better. Obviously the endorphins kicked in. I have never really noticed, or appreciated, before the difference this makes to the inner me and how much it can be a motivator to keep going.
Back into the old/new habits and on day two, doing just fine. My body can tell the difference between what I have been eating for the last 4 weeks and back to healthy choices and in the kitchen. Still not quite where I was but am cutting out the junk food and eating more vegetables again. Just cooking, getting back into that routine.
I think this will be called the second phase of my lifestyle change. Partially because I have been off the change for a month and partially because it will help as a mental spur to get me to my true first goal. I haven't been far off it for nearly 2 months now and I think may have gone backwards a little due to that mental block I have about this particular goal. I will break that block. It is important.
Have you ever noticed how one block, no matter how small, can be seemingly insurmountable? It is time to take this block...and to me it has been a huge block...and smash it to pieces.
Breaking the block ideas.
1. Back to logging my dietary intake again.
2. Back to logging my exercise again.
3. Back to blogging and discussing it with the 2 people I value the most through this process - my two closest friends: one with whom we are partaking this journey together and the other who is very healthy in mind and body and is happy for me to bounce my discoveries off and offers sage advice.
4. Back to not beating myself over the head for not being great but trying to do the best by myself on a daily basis.
5. Back to trying to be as organised as possible.
Hopefully, soon, I shall have big news and have broken through to my first goal. I will keep you posted.
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