Walk & Talk

Exercise + Friend Time = Winning Combination

My friend M and I have gotten in the a nice habit of scheduling monthly get togethers that often involve exercise. Invite a friend to walk with you outside or next to you on a treadmill it’s a great way to stay connected and catch up while moving your body and burning calories.

I’m always looking for more walk and talk buddies as I’ve dubbed it, so if your in the area let me know!

Decluttering

I’m in a Winter Decluttering Facebook group and we had a challenge this week to declutter paperwork. I chose my files including papers and mailed tucked in various places around the house.

I condensed a lot of old/historical stuff into the green bin with labeled folders.

The smaller front maroon file with labeled sections is for active files. The bigger red file behind it is empty now!

I have all the cards held in a file folder – still need to figure out a permanent home for them. The pile on the right is TRASH, esp tons on envelopes from items filed away!

Lots of fun stuff in here, but going through some items were tough, like coming across my Dad’s death certificate and equality upsetting paperwork related to him.

However having done this project in 90 minutes while listening to a podcast was very fulfilling!

Get Those Zzzs

Sleep is the 4th aspect of getting on track.

6-8 hours a night is a must for your body.

I had some chronic sleep issues due to high stress and my workaholism (more on that in a future post). I was running off no sleep and felt like garbage. I spent a year working on my workaholic sobriety and starting to notice my phone was becoming a replacement addiction, especially in bed at night.

Since September I charge my phone across the room/in another room and its done wonders for my sleep.

I decided to start 2019 by taking off my Fitbit at night. I was also become too addicting to my sleep analysis. So much so that if I work up feeling well rested and refreshed, but the saw results that didn’t exactly mirror that I would not let myself feel as rested or refreshed.

I have issues I know, a whole giant mountain of them, but this is really the year about putting it all out there.

Getting more sleep each night in a must as well as understanding more about sleep hygiene.

Good Eats

The notion “abs are made in the kitchen and not the gym” is scientific truth. You cannot out run junkfood it’s not possible.

Food is fuel and I have learned a lot about nutrition over the years especially in the last 12 months on the new freestyle program by weight watchers. I’m not here to sell anybody on weight watchers and most of the stuff that has helped me successfully lose weight was food I was eating anyway when I was eating healthy.

Here are a few collages of 75% of my diet broken down into categories.

In the coming days I’ll share a log of what I eat in a day, as well as some of my favorite recipes and Instagram accounts related to cooking.