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Time to start over.  It is almost 100 days until my birthday and I want to celebrate as a better me.  I have been considering my goals and what I would like to accomplish.  I am posting them here so I can get everything ready.   Eating plan: Eggs & overnight oats for breakfast Jarred salad for lunch Divided plate plan for dinner (1/4 starch, 1/4 protein, and 1/2 non-carb vegetables) Daily workouts-right now my knee hurts so I will work up my time as I can tolerate it due to the pain.  Drink enough water-6 glasses Read for school or for fun daily (I will graduate school during this challenge). Progress Pictures daily. (Took this from some else's challenge--feels a bit awkward but I will try.) Come Follow Me daily-this is family scripture study.  Here is a link Dejunking 1-100-This will include the house and the storage building.  I may end up dejunking areas or boxes instead of counting objects.   Something creative e

Being in my comfort zone is like being in a warm blanket while wearing my favorite jeans and a t-shirt that I love, while reading a good book or watching a favorite TV show.  I might not be accomplishing anything that will change the world but for that moment I am content.  In that moment the world seems predictable and calm. Change on the other hand takes me out of my comfort zone.  I don't know what will happen next and it is about as comfortable as jumping off a cliff into a river.  I am not a jump off anything into water kind of person.  I prefer to use the ladder to get into a pool and I walk carefully into lakes and rivers.  Once I am in the water I love it, but jumping is just not my thing-maybe I should work on that sometime.  Change is scary on many levels and for many reasons.  I am not sure why.  If we are on this earth to learn, grow and understand then it seems that I (or we) should embrace change even seek it out.  I try to seek it out but then I have a very u

Last week was a bit of a struggle and I did not accomplish my goals.   My excuse or reason is that I did not feel well.   I woke up today not feeling good about that; however, today is a new day and I am the boss of me.   This is the long way of saying that I can start again today.   I only tried the hula hoop a few times.   Exercise is an important part of my current journey.   I really want to succeed but the hula hoop is such a difficult thing for me to accomplish.   I was really hoping that I would get it.   I am not sure what made me think that I could do it.   It is not like I ever got that hoop to work as a child.   I did promise myself that I would show up for an entire month so I will do that.   I am kind of hitting the reset again and starting my 30-day count over.   I will also be including 10 minutes of biking after each meal Monday through Saturday.   I will give myself a pass for any meals not eaten at home.    I do not often eat out so that should not be a problem.  

This is not a journey of perfection today.  I let the organizational component get the better of me and I forgot to do the hula hoop.  I also forgot to take a picture of the salad.  I guess I will work on the hoop again tomorrow.  This is a bigger challenge than I thought.  I practiced a bit from today's  video    about throwing the hoop in a straight line.  I have never been able to hoop before so I think I will practice this a bit more tomorrow.   This 7 day challenge may take longer.  Since part of this journey is finding the win, I cannot end this post without saying that I got some of the clothes that needed to be sorted finished by person and even some that are no longer wanted ready to go.  My trip may be slow but, I can do this. 

This is the beginning of my blog.   I hope that it will be a series of at least 12 thirty-day challenges.   My first challenge is to do three things: eat a salad every day, hula hoop every day and declutter my house every day.   I will skip these activities on Sunday because that is a day reserved for family and worship.        It is kind of scary to open a blog and put my goals out into the world in such a public way.   I am hopeful that this will inspire others to take steps towards their goals and keep me on track to achieving mine.   I am hopeful for a positive outcome, but at the very least if I make this public I will show up and do the work that I have set out to do.   I am responsible for the actions that I take, even though I cannot control the outcome.        For myself, I dream of having my blood sugar under control.   This involves making good choices in how I eat and taking proper medication.   I hope that having a salad daily will move me in the right direction.