Day 18 Epic NSV

Breakfast ... there is something extra tasty about the combo of chocolate and cinnamon! Plus they say that cinnamon is a great metabolism booster!

Lunch leftovers to the rescue ... love that plain greek yogurt curbs the sour cream craving but packs a healthy punch of protien!

Dinner was a #NSV as one of my poor eating habits has always been that it’s too much trouble to cook just for myself so whenever my spouse travels (which is a lot specially in summer) than I tend to always go to the fast convenience food or get REALLY lazy and resort to Doritos and sour cream with salsa and call it dinner you know cause all food groups in there with protein and veggies and grains except I would eat the WHOLE tub of sour cream 😳

 I would also tend to binge watch chick flicks he doesn’t enjoy watching and mindlessly snack in movie snacks like popcorn and chocolate and drink my Baileys - I would literally go out and stock up on crap food I “needed” for my “me time” with challenge being that me time was often EVERY WEEKEND!

I really struggled my first challenge to break that bad habit but made strides with it each time making better choices - so its May and full swing reenacting seasons starting again and he’s off for 5 days and I used my Epic Life toolkit and I planned ahead to cook up proteins and have my veggies stocked and prepped and ready to go and tonight I whipped myself up Mini Chicken Fajitas with a side salad 💕 I am WORTH the trouble it takes - seriously it took 15 minutes to whip this together cause chicken was already cooked just needed to stir fry the veggies and reheat chicken and the mini corn tortillas

Move more Challenge ... putting the Cha Cha in challenge thank goodness for REST days cause my barking back was happy to only have to do a partial workout!

At the grocery store today that stupid autopilot brain if mine whose spent the past 15 years with the “me time” ritual ALMOST put some mini chocolates in the grocery cart for “movie time” they were in my hand before the other side of my brain said “hey you don’t need that crap to enjoy some me time put it back”

It takes a lot of mental effort to rewrite the brain to stop bad habits - I had gone into the store with my list and thought I was on fleck and next thing without even consciously thinking it the chocolates were in my hand!

Not this time brain not this time!!!

Thank you Epic Life 💕💕💕

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

Celebrate the Small Victories

My #NSV this 90 day challenge round is that while my body is doing it's winter resist to releasing any of its fat not matter what I do. This is a pattern that in my past experiences with trying to get back to my ideal body weight would cause me to throw up my hands in frustration and totally derail me from bothering to try. Instead I would drown my 'my body hates me' stinking thinking thoughts in a bag of Doritos and just totally go back to poor health habits that do nothing to help me in my goal!

This round I have kept at the plan and goal of moving more daily, going to the gym regularly and doing best to get back on plan when being ill or stressed or life has pushed me off momentarily! And while the scale has not moved much at all this challenge I was so excited when this month I went to Costco to try buying a size 18 bathing suit cause all the ladies at the pool were raving about them and their comfort and price point. So I figured I would give it a try and buy myself what I thought was going to be a 'goal' bathing suit to fit into for the END challenge!  So I had looked through all the size 18 selections as that is the largest size they come in (I have not shopped outside a plus size store in a decade) and I picked out a few that I liked cause at their price point I figured I get get a couple options to 'grow down into' and well I get home and try them on to see how grossly tight they were going to be to get a visual of my goal and well turns out I accidentally bought a size 16 and it FIT! The other size 18 I bought is actually too loose!

When I started this challenge in September 2018 I was wearing a size 3X bathing suit from Pennington that I paid over $100 for 'on sale' ... and 6 months into this Epic Life Challenge journey I fit into a size 16 bathing suit now and it cost me $19.95 .... so loosing weight, getting healthier and stronger AND I am saving money in the long run!

So for those who say 'eating healthy' is too expensive in my experience you actually SAVE money when you eat healthier because healthy food is more filling you buy less to get yourself full and satiated and you save money on your clothing section because with the exception of  normal size clothing is WAY cheaper than PLUS size clothing! 

So a great reminder that even though the scale might not be moving sticking to the plan still MATTERS because obviously while not 'loosing' pounds I am converting my abundance of fat to muscle which weights the same but muscle takes up weigh less space meaning smaller clothing!!!

Focus on those long term goals and do not let what appears to be short term set backs derail you! 

Take care

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life!