Thursday, January 6, 2011

100 Day Salad Challenge

The 100 Day Salad Challenge

The 100 Day Salad Challenge is my personal vegetable eating marathon. It will represent a marathon to me. For 100 days I will eat fresh salad is my main course for dinner. I will either top the salad with protien like tuna, beans, veggie pattys, tofu, chicken or have a side dish like baked chicken, fish, brocolli, sweet potatos, white potato, greens, or string beans. I will continue to eat my protien bars, fruit and yogurt for breakfast and lunch while on the challenge. (The bars will be consumed until I am 200lbs, then I will converte to fruit, yogurt and nuts only).

My focus is on spiritual healing so that I may have physical healing.

CLM

Day 1 of the recharge!

It has taken me three days to start the recharge challenge. My mind is under a great deal of stress. I will have to meditate and pray as much as possible. I feel nervous about my future. I can see anxiousness spreading. I have a strong craving for pizza and chocolate. I will do as much as possible to feed my spirit today so that I can say no to the urge. I have completed my first two hour walk. I have four more walks to complete the sixth week of my challenge. After this week I will have offically broken through my challenge breaking point. I will continue the last 13 days of my recharge and then I will enter a 100 day salad challenge!

CLM

The Purpose of Walking

The purpose of walking is not to exercise!
The purpose of walking is not to lose weight!
The purpose of walking is for spiritual, physical, mental and emotional wellness!
The purpose of walking is for healing.
I need to walk daily to celebrate life and movement.
I need to walk slowly and tune into my mind and body.
My walk is my meditation.
Each time I walk it is to reaffirm my commitment to natural healing!
Walking is no longer a race for fitness, it is how I meditate!

CLM

Monday, January 3, 2011

Future Plans!

I will keep all my plans to two week intervals so I can monitor and review my progress. I will continue this ten week jump start program that I started and then from now on I will record on a two week chart, that I will file in a binder.

I am thinking about doing a version of the slim fast or special k challenge until I can reach a goal weight of at least 200lbs. I am thinking I may need the structure. My plan will be two protien bars, yogurt and fruit for snacks and one healthy meal.

Meal Ideas:

1. Chicken, broccoli and white potato

2. Fish, string beans and white potato

3. Chicken soup (home made)

4. Beans, rice and greens

5. ground turkey, black beans and salad

6. Salad with fish or chicken, tuna or veggie burger.

I may also do a whole food challenge.

Fresh fruit and nuts for breakfast, a salad for lunch and beans and rice with greens for dinner. (The salad would need some protein like ground turkey and black beans. I may call this my healthy as a horse challenge. I may have chicken or fish with the day time salad.

CLM

My recharge Plan!

For two weeks I will do the recharge plan to get back on track!

1. Walk for two hours every day for 14 days!

2. Drink only water or tea with no sugar or honey!

3. Eat an energy bar for breakfast and one for lunch!

4. Have fresh fruit and yogurt for snacks!

5. Have chicken soup for dinner!

6. No eating after dinner!

7. Have a bath and meditation daily!

CLM

Do the recharge plan any time you are on a plateau or are feeling week, when you have no plan and when you need to get results quick!

If you have been off track for a long time and you lack discipline it may be necessary to do the jump stat plan.

Jump start.

Breakfast: Fruit and toast

Lunch: Turkey sandwhich, yougurt and nuts

Dinner: Chicken soup

Walk 1 hour!

Please note: If you can't walk because it is raining you will need to do the bike for 2 hours!

CLM

What it takes to win!

Now I am five weeks into my journey with five more weeks to go. This is the half-way mark between failure and success. It is wasy to have false confidence from the vicotry I have had. This is the time I need to renew my focus and tighten up all areas that I have fallen short in and identify things that will help me continue toward success.

Things that have worked:

1. Writing in my journal ( record what I ate, pre plan meals, record feelings)

2. Reading Inspirational material

3. Texting a friend my progress who is also losing weight

4. Writing on my blog

5. Keeping a spiritual focus

6. Daily 30 minute walks

7. Drinking water

8. Drinking tea

9. Not eating late at night

10. Eating more protein

11. Eating yougurt

12. Eating three meals per day

13. Having a detailed plan

Areas where I fail short:

1. When I was out of town I stopped journalling. I need to journal even if it means taking my journal to the bathroom to do it!

2. I had a lack of a plan for extended out of town stay. I need to atleast have two healthy meals and some healthy snacks around at all times. ( Energy bars, yogurt, fruit-cups and lean cuizines or soups!)

3. I gave into the pressure and ate what others ate. I need to stand up for myself and eat the foods on my plan no matter what others are eating. Social eating cause you to eat (potato salad, mac and cheese, bread, white bread, crosiants, ice cream, cake, cookies, soda, fried chicken, breaded chicken, french fries, pizza) I ate all these things in the two weeks plus sweet coffee drinks!

4. I did not exercise at all.

What I need to do to get back on track:

1. Go on a two week recharge plan

2. Purchase a jump rope for go any where exercise.

CLM

Five Week Update! Getting to the goal!

" S U C C E S S", Thats the way you spell sucess!

It has been five weeks since I started my journey and it has been incrediable! I have lost 7lbs and dropped one dress size since I have started this journey!

Here are the challenges I have faced on this journey:

1. I had to start the journey while living at my grandmothers house. This was difficult, because I had to really focus on sticking to my eating plan, keeping my journal while my family ate all kinds of foods.

What workerd : writing in my journal daily, eating the same foods daily (yogurt, chicken soup and turkey sandwhiches)

Bonus: I also took daily walks in the neighborhood!

2. I went out of town to Texas for two weeks. This was really hard, because I was at the mercy of my host and had limited food options. I did not exercise at all. I failed to journal these weeks!

What worked:choosing the healthy foods possible, like picking chichen and taking the skin off, eating taco salad without cheese, and only having 2 slices of pizza. I also did a lot of emotional work which kept me from over eating!

Biggest Challenge:

Being attacked by my Aunt who did not like my health plan. I overcame it by praying and writing in my journal.

CLM