Week in Review
It’s been a mixed bag this week on the “Flabby Forty-nine to a Fit Fifty” exercise program. I lost another pound and I finally got my goals and motivations posted. I fell off the wagon on my hydration program – too many sodas in place of water. That will change this week. I just started back today on my original core exercise program. It took longer than I thought for the nerve pain to settle down, but it’s fine now, and I’m back on track.
This week’s goals:
1) Do the original core exercise program ONLY. Do not push, do not add any extras. One week of the easy version, and then I’ll try adding in a tiny bit more. I set myself back trying to do more than those little old femoral nerves were ready for.
2) Get back on track with my pre-emptive water consumption. This is especially important as I will soon be in Phoenix. I want to have this habit firmly established.
3) Do my daily goal review and visualization to keep my motivation high and my focus clear.
And, I’ve got a blog post entered in the “Very Public Diet” blog carnival to put a little more pressure on to keep practicing what I preach.
Hi Ariel,
If you want to firm up your commitment to drinking more water, read either or both of the books by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj: “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” and/or “Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty!”
To chase away a soda urge on those hot Arizona days: try adding to high quality sparkling water a dash of Santa Cruz organic lemon or lime juice along with a dash of maple syrup.
Thanks for the great tips, Barry!
The soda habit is one that I have been trying to break for a long, long time. I’ve been “abstinent” for as long as a couple of years, but always fall back “off the wagon” at some point. I am definitely going to try your sparkling water elixir. And, hopefully, your comment will help others stop consuming empty calories and unhealthy chemicals too. Cheers!
I agree Ariel, the amount of sugar in regular soda and the toxic chemicals in some regular sodas and all diet sodas is an incredible burden on the body.
I’m old enough to remember when Coke was in 6.5oz glass bottles and was an occasional treat. I now encounter individuals who drink 6, 7 and up 20oz bottles of soda or diet soda a day. They are destroying their health.
I remember that, too! As a teenager working on a dairy, it was a big treat to get off the tractor and pull a cold bottle out of the cooler. Interestingly enough, that size sufficed. No one ever dreamed that there would be such a thing as convenience stores pushing mega-drinks. Out in these parts, Circle K markets 44 oz. (even 64 oz.!) drinks to parched Arizonans.
It makes me wonder at the biological basis of this. Probably some quirk of primordial primate genetics – eating refined sugar seems to create an ever amplifying feedback loop that takes a lot awareness and determination to overcome. As omnivores, we didn’t lose our ability to sense sweetness the way cats did, instead we inherited our fruitarian forebears attraction to the most intense dose of sugars we could find!
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