FUNKY5RED's Blogs
Journey or rest stop?
Thursday, January 02, 2014 8 comments Everyone, including myself, keeps referring to what we are going on as a journey. If that is the case, then I seem to be hanging out at the rest stop surrounded by the fog of self-doubt, rain of negativity, and thunder of laziness. I'm eating ... Read more
Renewing my commitment to myself
Friday, May 31, 2013 10 comments Recently, I have been eating all the wrong foods, snacking a lot, and just plain ignoring being healthy. I have been exercising, but not making a lot of effort at it. As a result, I have gained weight. What am I thinking? Am I even thinking ... Read more
Day 7 of healthy new habit
Friday, March 08, 2013 9 comments It is the end of the week of forming a healthy new habit. Of course, because it is a habit, it needs to continue past this week. I have learned a lot this week and it shows in the food I am preparing. It is more flavorful and satisfying. ... Read more
Day 6 of flavorful food habit
Thursday, March 07, 2013 6 comments The question for today is "Do you need some motivation or advice?" I am doing well this week, but know that all I need to do is ask for help when I am struggling. I have been receiving a lot of very helpful advice from people who responded... Read more
Day 5 of flavorful food habit
Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7 comments The question of the day is "What can you improve upon?". This refers to the 5% Challenge assignment this week of starting a healthy new habit. I am working on preparing more flavorful food instead of the grab and go type of meals I have been e... Read more
Day 4 of new healthy habit
Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8 comments The question for day 4 is "How are you doing day by day?" It is going fairly well, though not in the way I planned. I haven't been using all that many herbs and spices, except for pepper and small amounts of salt. What has happened is tha... Read more
Day 3 of new healthy habit
Monday, March 04, 2013 7 comments It's day three of my new habit of eating flavorful food. Today's question is: What are you doing to encourage yourself and keep on track? This is a more difficult question, because I haven't really thought about it. My mindset has been that ... Read more
Day 2 of healthy new habit plan
Sunday, March 03, 2013 7 comments Yesterday I said that I wanted to start the new habit of making more flavorful food. How will I go about doing this, you ask? My first step has been to clean out old spices and herbs from the pantry. Some of these were many years old and with... Read more
Working toward healthy new habit
Saturday, March 02, 2013 11 comments Part of this process for me is learning a new and healthy lifestyle that can be sustained over time. It means forming and maintained new habits. One habit that I would like to incorporate is taking the time to make flavorful, healthy food. I ... Read more
5% Challenge Commitment
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8 comments I have participated in several 5% Challenges and just kind of floated through them. The question is whether I am really challenging myself or just going through the motions and fooling myself into thinking just being a member is enough. So, th... Read more
I can do it staircase
Saturday, October 20, 2012 10 comments Someone posted this on Facebook and it really hit home for me. How far up the staircase do you go each day? ![]()
Berry picking
Sunday, June 10, 2012 7 comments Yesterday I went to the local produce farm and picked strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. It is unusual for all these berries to be ripe at the same time, but all the crops are out of whack this year. They are at least a month early. ... Read more
Never Quit Pledge - will you make the commitment, too?
Sunday, April 29, 2012 1 comments I saw the this pledge on a blog by sparkchantal, who copied it from egrammy, who copied it from debbieday, and it goes on and on... Will you continue the process and make the commitment, too? Never Quit Pledge : Today, I promi... Read more
Can I do this forever?
Friday, April 13, 2012 9 comments Is being healthy something I can do forever? After joining SP, there were a lot of articles and blogs to read, plus a lot of questions before getting started. I looked at what I was eating and how much I was exercising. It all seemed so hard ... Read more 1 2 3 4 5 Last Page » |
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