And what a summer it has been! It is funny how long it can take to true lily unwind and decompress and I am so thankful to have been able to take an extended amount of time off. Time off always helps me keep my priorities straight and refocus on what is important...family, friends, health. Thank you to all of you for helping to remind me of how lucky I am.
I have been so very impressed by all of you and your focus on health and activity this summer! It has been inspiring to me and been very motivating to be among a larger family that is focused on their health. It has certainly made me feel accountable in ways that I have not felt before...Thank You!
In terms of my goals, in July I had set 2 goals. First to eat at least 5 fruits/veggies a day prior to other lesser snack foods. I was fairly successful on this and it really did help my studying...well that and dark chocolate. The second goal was to spend some time each day reflecting...that was a big failure. A lesson to me on why setting more than one goal can back fire. It was to much to keep track of and reflecting actually takes way more energy than I anticipated. It is hard to actually be conscious and aware rather than just living on autopilot so to speak.
I didn't set any formal goals or blog in August but in hindsight this was probably a good thing as I really tried to limit my outside contact with technology...less email, less Internet etc. It has actually made a huge difference and I hope I can continue to set some technology boundaries once I return to work.
So now onto September. I have decided to go set the goal of obtaining enough daily calcium in my diet...something I don't usually get enough of since I don't like the taste of milk, am only so-so on yogurt and am somewhat lactose intolerant. For me the suggested daily intake is a approximately 1000 mg/day. I need to step it up!
So now it is your turn...what inspired you over the summer, did you make and/or meet any goals, any new goals for September 's challenge, any good and healthy end-of-summer recipes to share? Post it all in comments or send me a longer post and I'll put it up on the blog.
