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Day Thirty-One: Where's the balance? What progress really looks like.

 Day Thirty-One: Where's the balance? What progress really looks like. I am currently on Day 3 of a 5 day intensive for an NLP certification. The information is great. The connections are lovely. The time it runs at...is during the day...in Australia! Which means it is wrapping up around 11pm each night, and starting at 2pm in the afternoon.  Also, I can't be off camera. I have to be in front of the device or camera for almost 10 hours a day. It made me realize that: - My sleep and sleep routine are so important to me. - My body highly dislikes being device-bound. - I do not hold info or function well past a certain point in learning or of the day. - I must at least nap at some point during 12 hour stretches. There is nothing balanced about this experience. And it's making me wish it was done already. PLUS, I don't know if I will be certified at the end of all this, as performance and being in face mode is highly valued during this process and I am sure I have nodded of...
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Day Twenty-Three: On the other side

 Day Twenty-Three: On the other side Well! That week of fasting was quite the journey. I had to just surrender to the process. I went from 175 to 162 on the scale and shifted a few inches. Now, what does that look like on the other side? Knowing that my glycogen stores in my muscles were depleted and I targeted inflammation, much of the "loss" in the numbers on the scale would reflect that. That's why it is not the only "measure" by which you would want to use for your progress. Water consumption has increased, workouts have regained, which means I will also be experiencing inflammation as a healing response to working out. Also, I have had a regular and smooth bowel movement yet, although stuff is still moving. Until the consistent flow of exercise is happening in a way that will move the needle, I am going to remain on track with how I am currently eating, which is in a 3 hour window mainly, and keeping things low carbs/keto.  It's good to be in this range...
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Day Sixteen: Harvesting from good habits

 Day Sixteen: Harvesting from good habits This week things took a bit of a shift. My hubby decided it was time to do our annual prolonged fast. Now, what he really said was something like, 'I think I am going to fast this week because I don't have anything going on. I'm tired of eating like crap'. Which I also knew meant... how come "we" haven't started our usual January reset yet?  In truth, I have attempted to "clean up" our diet as a family this year. And when I jumped in with friends on that diet program, there was a lot of clean eating going on. But he was in his own experience, journey, and habits, and I was navigating mine. The boys tend to eat in the middle. Well actually, this past year the youngest is brancing off on his own. So, the oldest and I eat similar and the hubby eats his wheaty foods and youngest is "exploring" right now LOL. So, I left it as HIS journey of fasting to navigate, so that he could clearly see that... a ...
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Day Fifteen: The stages of learning and how it can makes us feel like a newb

 Day Fifteen: The stages of learning and how it can makes us feel like a newb I sometimes imagine myself just navigating through my workouts or desired activities with more ease, strength, ability, and drive. Celebrating after a good, intense, and maybe even sweaty workout like it was euphoric and worth it. YUM! And then...after 2 sets, I am moreso counting DOWN to when I am finally done with doing the dang thing LOL. Back in 2008, I was a WARRIOR! I was just charging through my workouts! I knew they were WAY easier than the ones I was doing the year before and I felt like a powerhouse! I felt like I was hacking the system. I felt like I could EASILY add on more way and celebrate being able to challenge and grow my muscles how I wanted to.  AND I DID! My shape and tone was amazing. We will always be growing and changing.  And as we grow, we will be going through the stages of learning: Unconscious Incompentance - We don't know what we don't know Conscious Incompenten...
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Day Fourteen: Simplify your subscriptions

 Day Fourteen: Simplify your subscriptions What have you allowed yourself to subscribe to? Our stories, our beliefs. Our lastest Netflix binge watch, email lists and newletters, signed up to get that free thing and now our inbox has over 20K in unread messages from just the past year (or maybe that's just me). I have found that much of my stress has come from adopting too many "babies" in my life that require feeding and management. Too many task that have added to an already full "mental load"...and for the most part, don't "need" to be a the top of the list for action and attention. They are not priorities, especially if they are not more FULLY helping me to maintain and gain the momentum I desire to be experiencing in my life. With my food, my physical fitness, my mental wellness... And when there is more stress, there is more time that is required to be spent in stress management and recovery. Which is great, and it also doesn't have to flo...
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Day Thirteen: Create and connect; Familiar Spaces

 Day Thirteen: Create and connect; Familiar Spaces The key to consistency and habits is creating the familiar. Our brains love the familiar. Why? Familiar is predictable. And if we can predict an outcome of a behaviour or action, we are establishing both safety and a neuropathic . A neuropathway of sequences that makes the action more efficient for the brain to execute requires MUCH less energy to perform. And boom! You found your "ease" in the doing and it doesn't seem like or feel like "hard" work, or "work at all. It becomes effortless. In order to make something automatic (autonomous) and effortless in execution, we need to input over 100,000 reps of action into practicing it. Currently, the Jumpstart exercise program is laid out to perform the exrercises stretched out over 4 times during the day. Technically, it's enough exercising for one solid workout, but in branching it off into separate workouts throughout the day, you get 4 times as many inpu...
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Day Twelve: Back to Basics

 Day Twelve: Back to Basics I'm keeping it simple. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein Part of why you are possibly stuck in your life is because what "it" is...was made more complicated than it needed to be. Meanings, blame, stories, narratives, complicated "solutions" or problems in "sheep's clothing". Maintenance of my weight loss and fat loss success didn't have to be "hard". My health didn't need to take the turn it did. I could have much more easily kept in the habits that I had established and the momentum that was running in my life, INCLUDING my ankle injury, instead of walking away from everything in a very emotional time in my life. I honestly don't know what shifted in such a significant way for me, but it did. So now,....bring things back to basics. Get enough sleep, but not too much. Get enough movement, but not too much. Eat a balanced diet (which means HOW you c...
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