As the challenge continues, I am reminded that each day is a chance to make a better choice. I have also been thinking a lot about how much stress can physically harm our bodies.
This weekend I was faced with some additional stressors and didn't follow my diet the way that I had been. I let the stress derail me from the challenge. In fact, I was so stressed out that I didn't eat for almost a whole day. This is very contrary to eating healthy and only slows down metabolism! This one day threw me off for the next day and it took until Monday to kick myself back into gear. There is no excuse for this type of behavior but I learned a valuable lesson.
"Stress happens when the mind resists what is." This quote, by one of my favorite authors, Dan Millman, is completely profound in simplicity. Stress is a useless and harmful emotion. When challenges come our way, we must simply face them. Allowing our bodies to react physically only hurts us. While this is easier said then done, remembering this quote has helped me greatly over the years. Even recognizing that you are stressed and making harmful choices can stop you and bring you back.
While I will become derailed at some points, I can always climb back on! I believe the more quickly I can come to realize an outside circumstance that is affecting my health, the easier it will be to return to healthy choices. Please don't let too many hours pass by without getting healthy food choices into your body. This can be almost as damaging as overeating, in my opinion.
On a really exciting note...I discovered the power of KALE. At night when I am starving, and it is too late to eat dense foods, I have been eating kale, cooked in a small amount of olive oil and sea salt. I noticed having left it in the frying pan for a little too long makes this spinach-like vegetable taste almost like chips! I then learned that you can make kale chips, which I will attempt tonight! Future posts will describe this experience!
The other correction I need to make is that while I have been abstaining from coffee, I have been getting some caffeine. This has been coming in the form of SPARK, an energy drink by Advocare. This drink is loaded with vitamins and has 120 mg of caffeine.
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