When I last wrote about this I was finding exercise a breeze, loving vitamin D and SAD lights but massively sabotaging myself by eating lots of chocolate and drinking lots of fizzy drinks at work.
I was also failing miserably at getting my repeat presciptions filled and therefore letting my health slide back as a result of that. I was also using shower stuff that disagreed with my skin, exacerbating stuff there and using shampoo that made my hair and head unhappy. I was very much in a two steps forward, two steps back scenario.
Which brings us to now. I have now completed my second full week of no snacks or fizzy drinks at work, and it is really making a difference. Instead I go for a walk, drink water and rest. The change is a small one but I can feel that it will have lots of good long term benefits (no more sugar crashes at my desk, weight loss, money saving) and it seems to have really helped my mood too, but some of that might be the change in weather. We'll see if I keep it up, but I have gone about six months in the past where I managed it before I fell back into the trap of doing it once and then every day.
I think I wasn't really honest with myself about how bad it had got. I was having chocolate every time I had a hard day, and Spring Term is pretty much all hard days! This meant that on particularly hard days I would eat a chocolate bar, some fizzy pop AND a sharing bag of chocolates, or a muffin, or a cake. It all mounts up pretty quickly.
From this week I'm getting some greens in and making my own packed lunches. More money saving and more control than ever before. I'm really enjoying it.
I've changed all the products I was not using that should and am back on my regular prescription which has been amazingly valuable. I've also started early on the anti-histamines to help prepare for summer hayfever season. I've kept up the vitamin D but wonderfully no longer need the SAD light and wake up alarm.
The last two weeks have been very high stress so there has been very little sleeping done, but I feel like I'm getting my balance back on that.
And now I have recovered from my burns and blisters I am back on the exercise wagon. It feels so good to me moving again and feeling strong. In and amongst the busy/sleepy/stressed I've been feeling more in control again, feeling more content and feeling more like me and that was always the main goal of all of this.
How are you getting on with any health goals you set yourself for 2013?
