Hello! Tomorrow is the first day of the 28-day transition to raw, again. Again. Again. Again. I keep doing this, and keep feeling like I'm starting and giving up, starting and giving up, but actually I'm getting closer and closer each time to making my very own 'normal' be the healthiest that it can possibly be.
Each time I do the raw cleanse - well, each time I start a raw cleanse and give up after a few days - I learn more about myself and I learn more ways to behave to make the clease work better for myself.
My helpful diet habit this time, and the thing I'm planning to focus on most, is to eat cut-up vegies as snacks if I get hungry bewteen meals. Seriously, I eat all the time and I'm so over it! It's a really uncomfortable compulsion and I'm just ready to let it go! Hopefully by just snacking on vegies I can wean myself off the unhelpful things I snack on. Often they're raw, but still make me feel glugged up, like date and coconut rolls for example. I can eat about 10 of those at once if I don;t watch myself! It's the old 'making myself feel pampered by eating treats' trick.
Tomorrow morning it's orange juice for breakfast and onwards from there. I'm looking forward to it! It's nice not to have to think about what to prepare. I've shopped for the first couple of days' ingredients, so I'm all set to go.
I've been riding my bike more regularly, in rpreparation for a big ride and a return to racing later in the year, but for the exercise component of this 4 week cleanse I'm planning to alternate between Koya's workout and Jules's yoga video every day. A nice way to do something for myself before I go to bed each night!
For the happiness component of this cleanse I'm going to start meditating. Every day! Meditating! I'll see how it goes and how I feel it helps me.
Until tomorrow!
