Hey. Sorry for the quiet day yesterday. I was otherwise engaged with – now, what was I doing yesterday? Nope, can’t remember. Oh well. I’m here now.
The “body is a temple” challenge is going rather well. Today I have been tempted to eat nutritionally bankrupt food, but fairly easily managed to resist as I was reminded how much decent food is out there and how much nicer it actually is than the crap you get from takeaways. It was just tiredness that tried to lead me down that bad path. I dread to think what I’m going to be like on Friday when I have 10 sessions and 2 meetings booked. 15 hr day, anyone? Nobody wave a Toblerone in my eyeline that day, okay?
(in case you don’t know me, this is not a picture of me, just so you know. It is merely a pictorial representation of what could happen…)
I included this one just because of the sheer size of the Toblerone – I mean, it’s practically half the size of the girl!
Anyway…
Randomly, I was drawn to browsing the Hotel Chocolat website today. I’m not sure why. I must have been taken with an idle fantasy that I was in a position to make use of this wonderful resource of chocolate delights. I did read a research study once which suggested that those who spend time imagining consuming many pieces of “candy” (the study was clearly American) ate less of the real thing when given the chance. Apparently this is due to “habituation” – repeated exposure to a food dampening the desire to eat more of it. So, they suggest that we spend a few minutes really imagining eating the food we crave or that we are going to eat so that we will then eat less. It goes against the grain somewhat as we would naturally try not to think about the foods we are not meant to eat in an effort not to want them, but it may be worth a try. And this was obviously what I was doing on the Hotel Chocolat website. Reinforcing my resolve to not eat stuff like that. Obviously.
I meditated today. Properly, with the use of a guided meditation, not just freestyling like I have been. I have been meditating – trying to fit it in first thing after I wake up and last thing before I go to sleep – using my affirmation technique, and it seems to be working as I am drawing to me the things that I am affirming in quite a funky and synchronistic manner. And I find myself the possessor of a quiet, calm mind. The guided meditation I followed suggested I focus my attention on imagining a hot air balloon carrying away all my problems and worries. I found I had very little to put in the basket. Result!
Tomorrow I have a day off – except for one session and a hour on a spin bike (part of a comic relief challenge to keep the spin bike going from 7am to 7pm) – which is needed as I could do with being less tired. A piano lesson is scheduled which will be the first time I’ve played in 2 weeks. *gasp* Don’t tell my piano tutor that…
And I am tempted to get my sticks out for a walk in the morning. Let’s see whether the people of Moseley can handle sticks…
p.s. if you like the blog and read it regularly, you can always subscribe to it – that way, it’ll email you when there’s a new post out, save you having to check a hundred times a day. Just a thought…
