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Phase 2

I gave up soda for Lent.  After failing about 20 times, I picked myself up for the 21st time...and didn't fall again.  Today is 3 weeks since I've had a soda. Yay me. So I'm considering that Phase 1 of "my year to get healthy".  Phase 2 will begin the day after Easter; it's 3-fold and will last for three weeks:

1) Drink more water. Surprisingly, even though all I drink now is water, I still don't drink enough.  I've found that I drink more when I'm eating.  And when I'm not eating, if I keep the water in a bottle with a sports cap on it, I drink more than if it's in a bottle with a regular cap or in a cup.  Weird, but it works for me.

2) Cut out sweets.  I think pastries will be my downfall, but I'm going to try my best.  I noticed when I cut out soda, that my intake of other sweets and sugars (and not the healthy kind from fruit) increased. I don't normally eat sweets (I heart carbs), so I was surprised when I actually wanted cake and ice cream and "oh look, there's a cheese danish for sale right beside the cash register, i think I'll buy it."  When I no longer crave them, I'll allow myself to have some occasionally.

3) Cut down on fast food and begin cooking more.  This is to prepare me for phase 3 when I completely cut out fast food.  But first I have to get back into the habit of meal planning and cooking every night and taking my lunch to work with me.

Okay, so we'll see how phase 2 does.  It goes from April 5-April 25.

The first daffodil's of the season

Here's a picture of the first daffodils I've seen this season.  They've appeared after an incredibly long cold spell and TWO snows.  The temp has been comfortable for only about a week, so they must have just recently shown up.  I think it's fitting I saw them today (3/7).

Health Goal #1…no soda

My first health goal for the year was to give up soda. I needed a starting point, so I decided to give up soda for Lent. "But, Susanne, you're not Catholic." Quite true, but I thought it would be a great time to start. I did well for a couple days, but this has been much harder than I thought. It's not the physical addiction that's been a problem. I would argue that I'm not addicted because I don't' drink that much soda, but…. The hard part for me as been the mental addiction: The habit of ordering a soda with my lunch or when I go out for dinner. It's second nature and I don't' think about it. Half-way through I realize "I'm not supposed to be drinking soda". Unless I'm focused and uberaware, I order it. So although I really WANT a soda around 2:00pm (*yawn*) giving up soda (although I haven't given it up yet since I've fallen off the wagon several times), hasn't been that difficult physically. it's the mental habit that I need to break. I did really well today. Tomorrow it starts over again.