Saturday, October 5, 2013

Whole Life Challenge

I am half way through the Whole Life Challenge now.  It has been good so far and I haven't lost any points.  The Life Challenge portion changes every two weeks.  The first 2 weeks, I had to drink 60 oz water every day.  Tea counted and coffee did not.  After the first day, I did OK with that challenge and have managed to stay on track with it pretty much.  I have switched drinking coffee to drinking tea (mostly herbal tea so no caffeine), but still don't drink a huge amount of water.  The second 2 weeks was sleeping at least 7 hours a day.  This was so much harder because I usually sleep 6 to 6 1/2 hours during the week.  I set my Fitbit alarm so that it went off at 4:30 rather than 4, but I still had two days where I had to take a nap to get my 7 hours in.  Doubt I can keep that up for long.
The challenge has now changed to 10 mins reflection/meditating/writing a journal-basically taking 10 mins to reflect on yourself.  Whatever you do on day 1 should be done for the next 2 weeks.  I thought "oh this will be easier because I usually write in my blog anyway".  Well, here I am on Saturday night writing a journal entry at 8:30 pm.  The WLC doesn't expect too much of a commitment from you-10 mins exercise, 10 mins mobility and now 10 mins reflection.  That's only 30 mins each day. Easy, right????  Actually, not that easy at all.
We spend so much time each day running around like crazy.  I got up at 7 am, ran to the Kolache Factory to get breakfast for Ben and Maggie, took a shower, took Ben to gymnastics, walked in the Rock Hill parade with Maggie, picked Ben up from gymnastics, took him to Xavier's, took towels and dry clothes to Sam at Maggie's soccer game, went to 2 stores, came home and picked up Sam and Maggie, went to 5 stores, made pizza for dinner and 2 clafoutis.  I have also made all the beds, done 5 loads of laundry and cleaned up a little in the house.  So, then it comes to 7:30 and I realize I still have to do mobility and a blog entry.  Half-way through the blog entry, I realize that I haven't taken a supplement today....
So, now I will be writing a reflection each day and hopefully it will fulfill my "mindfulness" obligation.  Wonder when I will run out of things to say

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