A Year of 21s - Roxanne

It is New Years Eve.
The day before New Years Resolutions take effect.
And as I find myself thinking about the year ahead I have to admit this: There are two things I want above all else for my self this year.
1. I want to lose weight and become an all around healthier person.
2. I want to start dating the boy of my dreams.

I'm not really sure what to do about number 2, but I feel like if I can sort out number one, then number two will simply fall in to place. . . . or it will become the resolution I write a plan for next year. But this year I'm working on problem number one.

As most of you know - I have been trying to beat food addiction and bad habits, and lose weight for almost a decade. And the truth is - I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of half heartedly fighting this battle and losing.
And the reason I keep losing I think is this : I STOPPED BELIEVING I COULD WIN!!
So this year I'm giving up my all or nothing approach that has brought me so much failure, and I have written up a plan that has me working on instituting a new, small good habit every 21 days.
The reason I picked 21 is because it's commonly accepted that it takes 21 days to establish a habit.

Here are my planned phases. There is obviously some room for switching the order through the year, but I think this will be the way it plays out:

Phase 1- Jan 1-21 - Everything I eat needs to be eaten sitting at a table
Phase 2- Jan 22 - Feb 11 - Do not eat anything after 7pm
Phase 3 - Feb 12 - Mar 4 - Write everything I eat down
Phase 4 - Mar 5 - 25 - Drink 1/2 my weight in ounces of water per day
Phase 5 - Mar 26 - Apr 15 - 10 minutes of Bible and prayer everyday
Phase 6 - Apr 16 - May 6 - Only eat when you are hungry
Phase 7 - May 7 - 27 -No watching TV during the week
Phase 8 - May 28 - June 17 - 20 minutes of 'cardio' daily
Phase 9 - June 18 - July 8 - Blogilates everyday!
Phase 10 - July 9 - 29 - 20 minutes of Bible and prayer everyday
Phase 11 - July 30 - Aug 19 - Stretching/yoga every day
Phase 12 - Aug 20 - Sept 10 - No sugar/junk food
Phase 13 - Sept 11 - Oct 2 - Flexi-dairy-tarian
Phase 14 - Oct 3 - 23 - Replace most carbs with vegetables at dinners

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210lbs #BOOM

Finally!
I feel like I've been fighting for this milestone for so long!
Some days I would get so close, but today I finally reached it.

Now on to 205lbs. :)

Also, I'm thinking of becoming Flexitarian.
As of late I have been reading a lot about Vegetarian or Vegan and how these plant based life styles improve not only our health, but also the health of the planet. These books and articles also talk about how some of the meat and dairy industries are following inhumane practices - and trust me, if they're true, it's disturbing. However, a fully vegan life style is not plausible at this moment, but I think I could handle being flexitarian could be possible. This is the concept that you eat vegan or vegetarian most of the time, but still allow yourself to eat meat some of the time. Some people do certain days of the week, however, with my family, I think I will have more success eating vegan for breakfast and lunch and normal at supper.

Any thoughts on veganism, flexitarianism or the food industry? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

-Roxanne

360

Day 360

-Eat When Hungry
Still doing alright, but I did use food to get rid of a tired headache this afternoon. I know it's bad , , , I just don't know what to do with a job schedule that is so sporadic - I need structure! and routine. . . .

- Eat Healthy
Fail! Today was the day I took my brother out for his birthday. We ate like 8 year olds - enough said.

-Exercise
I'm still struggling with motivation. Somebody help me!

Day 362

The count down continues.
I wonder how much will change in a year. I suppose this blog will help me see huh?
Anyway,

-Eat When Hungry
I've decided that this point is my main attack. I realize that eating healthy foods and exercise are incredibly important because I want to be healthy on the inside. But trying to attack all three with the same veracity is exhausting with my current lifestyle, and I know that the truth is that with my main goal being to lose weight only eating when my body is actually asking for food is pretty much the most effective way. Today I did fairly well on this point.

-Eating Healthy
Again, today was good. However, the past two days I have eaten too much sugar - I need to continue to watch this as I am working on breaking a sugar addiction.

- Exercise
Usually I'm all gungho about blogilates, but I'm having a hard time finding my motivation. I just did a short dance video work out today.

Day 365

Hello Blogosphere.
Even though I feel like crap I am on here writing because yesterday I became sick of my life as it is and plan to change in the next 365 days.
Part of that is being accountable and writing on this blog everyday. So here I am.

Eat When Hungry
- well, didn't really do awesome at this today I also didn't due bad. Feeling ill always makes it hard for me to distinguish when I'm hungry or not as sometimes my headaches seem to be lack of sugar related.
Sugar addictions - apparently, so I'm trying not to feed to cycle, but if you told me a chocolate bar would kick this headache I would be all over that right about now.

Eat Healthy

- F- - I helped out at a pot luck and Beth was in charge of dinner.

Work Out -
- I do blogilates and Sunday is her rest day which I am thankful for because this head ache is absolutely killer.

The Terry Fox Run pt 2 :)

Well. Our family officially participated in our first cause run together!!
And we loved it. Everyone had a great time, and we're already planning to participate again next year - as well as hopefully attending one of the 5k colour runs.
The opening ceremony was especially touching for my mom - who is herself a cancer survivor - and whose father passed away due to cancer.
Please continue to support cancer research, while finding other ways (such as becoming a blood doner - blood.ca) to become an everyday hero.

Cheers!
-Roxanne

The Terry Fox Run

Hello Blogosphere!

So - my family and I are participating in the Terry Fox Run this Sunday, and we would love it if you helped us reach our goal of $50 (or more!!) raised toward cancer cure research!
To do so please visit this page : http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=2097686&langPref=en-CA and donate toward our team!

Thank you world - Here's to the hope of a future without the devastated effects of cancer!

- Roxanne