Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff

October 16, 2012 by

This week I’ve learnt not to sweat the small stuff.

I had a lot of goals I wanted to accomplish this year, however not all of them were completed. It feels like time has passed by so quickly. Disappointing feelings started to sink into my mind as I realized I hadn’t made certain goals a reality.

So what could I do to turn these negative feelings around? The worst thing to do is so allow the negative feelings to take over our minds. I accepted the fact that I hadn’t accomplished the bigger goals I had hoped to.

* Dinner last night was a simple broccoli slaw stir-fry; made with broccoli slaw, tempeh, nutritional yeast, sunflower seed butter coconut oil, cumin, zucchini and leftover millet. *

Allow yourself to feel upset and frustrated, and then work on turning those feelings around. Let go and release the negative energy. Don’t become too involved in them. Begin looking at other areas in life, and realize how much progress you’ve made in other ways.

For me, I’ve come a long way from where I was in the past and I’m proud of that. Accepting where we are in life right now and celebrating the place we are in, at this moment. The small things aren’t worth the stress, anxiety, and disappointment we can make ourselves feel. It’s a small thing and doesn’t need to take over our lives and thoughts. Don’t let negativity rule your mind.

* A pumpkin spice bar I later coated in my favourite raw cashew butter *

Also make sure these are goals you do want to accomplish. Sometimes our goals change and that is not a bad thing. If you are dreading completing something, its probably not right for you. Goals should get you excited and energized! It still takes hard work to complete them, but that’s the beauty of a goal. It can be anything your heart desires. Not something you think you “should do“.

Maybe the time isn’t right for those other goals we have planned, but its never too late for those things to happen. Its important for us to accept where we are in life right now. Celebrate where we are while we are moving toward where we would like to go.

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Assess our goals and allow us to accept the things we didn’t get to accomplish. It’s important to pick ourselves back up and take the next steps so we can accomplish goals that are important to us.

Its okay to not complete every goal you had intentions of completing. Just make sure to keep your head held high and realize that despite the fact not everything happened the way you thought it would, you are a fabulous and beautiful person just the way you are.

What are some of your goals?

Do you have any tricks to get yourself out of a negative funk?

Do you tend to sweat the small stuff?

Hope your having a fabulous day with your fabulous self!

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Challenging Fears

June 26, 2012 by

Hello, bloggies! Happy Tuesday to you all!

Hopefully your Monday was swell.

I actually enjoyed a breakfast this morning out of my usual routine, pancakes.

Allow me to introduce you to my new found breakfast love. Well, for today anyways…

*Banana coconut pancakes with a side of greek yogurt and almond butter*

I am always hesitate to switch things up, because its convenient and a routine to just go back to the same old favourite. These were so good though. Mmm…

My daily routine is pretty boring, basic, and never changes. When you go through the day to day motions of life, nothing will change. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Why do I keep doing the same things over, while expecting things to change? It will simply not happen. Things were going well in life, but they remain the same. I want a different outcome, something to spark my passions and move me forward.

I don’t want to live through life being good enough, or float through life thinking I could always do something I love more, and get disappointed with the fact I’m not living to my full potential. I want to be excited about life again, feel passion about something. Feel the excitement of starting up a new routine.

*homemade peppermint hot chocolate, a little out of season, but delicious non the less*

It is scary to break from routine, what will happen if I do this differently? What happens if I go for my goal and I fail at it? Or I don’t like it as much as I think I will? Maybe this will make me realize my passion is not in what I think it is, but what’s the harm in trying? Nothing, the only thing worse than trying is not trying, out of fear. It won’t come easy, but life isn’t always easy.

I want to let go of the fear I have of making my dreams come true. When’s the last time I made a change where it really allowed me to live and follow my passions. To be honest, its been a long time. Fear overtakes my mind, and in return I don’t do anything to accomplish my goals. That is going to change.

*roasted brussels sprouts and asparagus with a homemade turkey burger loaded in nutritional yeast*

Challenge yourself. Break out of that comfort zone. Start small and move your way on up to more challenging things. It’s amazing at what a small change can do for my confidence and self-esteem.

I’m off to get the day started. Hope you all have a good one!

When’s the last time you changed up your routine? Or challenged yourself to a new venture?

xox,
Lisa

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Goals and adjusting exercise

June 5, 2012 by

Bonjour beauties! Happy Tuesday!

Hoping your Monday was super fab.

One of my favourite bloggers, Jenny, who’s blog I’ve been reading…I’m pretty sure since she started her blog, has come up with an awesome idea, Going for the Goal. Jenny is incredibly motivating and an inspirational blogger, whom I adore. I love that there is a community here that can relate and help each other succeed in accomplishing our goals and life dreams.

I always have a list of things I want to accomplish, but never express them to anyone and don’t make the steps I need to make to ensure these goals get completed. I want to be accountable for goals I create for myself. So here I go.

This month I’d love to reevaluate my relationship with exercise (I will explain in more detail below), create new recipes for the blog, and even make other people’s recipes and share the one’s I enjoy. I want to keep challenging myself in making progress with my eating disorder, and to get out of my comfort zone.

My goal for this year is to figure out my future a bit more, I either want to take a personal training certification course, or a nutrition course, I know I want to help people in either one of these areas, I just haven’t decided 100% which one. I also would like to make progress in creating new friendships with people and expand my social circle. And of course the biggest goal for the year will be to finally kick this ED to the curb. Live a life free without it, and in general live life to the fullest.

*carrot cake granola with greek yogurt and topped with lots of blueberries after*

Now for more detail on adjusting my exercise plans…

The past few weeks have gone by and I haven’t quite felt like myself. I mean I wake up everyday and instantly feel like my mind is clouded and I can’t 100% apply myself to daily activities. I felt like I was mentally clouded, like I  had no clarity in my brain. You know that feeling when you are lethargic, tired, and just a generalyl feeling “off”.

When I remember days in my past, I can barely recall how I even lived at the worst of my eating disorder, because everyday I woke up feeling this way. These feelings get me frustrated, I mean I eat a normal intake, I exercise, I have gained weight, so why do I feel this way almost constantly.

Once I eat something, I do feel a tad better, but about an hour or so after, it seems my blood sugar plummets, and I get back to feeling “foggy” and unclear. After years of not listening to my body, I have a hard time at understanding what it needs to heal properly.

*smoothie with banana, 1/2 avocado, 1 tablespoon chocolate protein powder + coconut flour, pinch of xanthan + guar gum*

I feel that since I have a hard time listening to it, these symptoms are shouting to my body that something is still not right. I decided a while ago to up my intake. And shocker, nothing changed, no weight increase, but also my symptoms stayed the same, so what else needs to change?

I want to live my life to the fullest, I don’t want to live a life sort-of recovered, or living a life of a functioning anorexic. That would entail just floating through life, and not giving any purpose to the world. I need to remember this disorder is lying to me to protect itself.

Anyways, after upping my intake and still having these symptoms, I needed to take a step back and realize what else needs to change, and that is to give my body rest. I have become so accustomed to exercising everyday. This is not a bad thing, but for me I was doing it in an unhealthy way, I am viewing exercise as a way to burn calories and not to benefit my body.

*overnight voluminous oats with chia seeds, hemp seeds, pumpkin, and topped with a peanut flour ball*

I strive to be able to live when I was in elementary school. I was free, unconsumed by thoughts of calories and weight. I wasn’t afraid to look silly, I lived every moment to the fullest. I was such a happy, carefree girl and I want to be content with myself.

I decided I need to take a full week off exercise and give my mind a bit of a reset. Its essential that I realize I do not need exercise to thrive in life and to live. I am very anxious in this decision. It has been 4 days now, and I’m already getting antsy, but I can feel my symptoms subsiding a little bit. I know plenty of other people have had success in decreasing their exercise intensity, so I am hoping it will do the same for me.

Sorry this was super long, props to you if you made it through!

What are your goals this month? Or do you not usually set any?

Enjoy the day!

xox,
Lisa

Of Interest:
This article on over-exercise. This was an eye opener for me!

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