One Day Until...

Well here we are, just one day from starting my organic adventure.  Coming off a long weekend (and tons of unhealthy decisions) I am ready to start on the healthy path of organics!  Since June 1^st falls on a Wednesday, that only gives me 2 ½ days on WG30 until the weekend starts.  I am becoming aware that weekends are going to be another hurdle for me to clear.  My weekends are usually busy and away from home.  I am often at barrel races, sometimes Friday – Sunday!  If I’m not doing that all weekend I will join the boys in fishing or day road trips.  I really need to have my ducks in a row on this planning meals thing for both week days and weekends. 

I can’t be stuck in the middle of Puget Sound and have forgotten my WG salad mix with organic raspberry vinaigrette, while the boys eat bbq potato chips and hoagie roll sandwiches’ with licorice and beer for desert (licorice for son and beer for husband, just thought’s I’d clear that up).  Or what if I’m on my horse and getting ready to race on an empty stomach because I didn’t come prepared!  I don’t do well with no food (have you seen Mommy Dearest?)  Is it too late to renege on the whole WG30 thing?  I guess this is why I am blogging it, so I have to follow through and be accountable…plus I probably provide you with some comic relief with my sorry butt!  Chocolate time!  It is my calming down food you know.

As said before, I would love your thoughts, comments, hints, and recipes at any time!  Hope you had a wonderful, safe Memorial Day weekend.  Wish me luck tomorrow (and the following 29 days!) 

~Beth

How am I Going to do This?

Days until WG30 starts: 7

Here is what I have come up with so far…I am a bit nervous.  Don’t get me wrong, I am very excited for being a healthier me, but a little scared to go through a change.  I know there are those out there that live the organic lifestyle already and this is second nature to them, but it’s not to me…yet.  I guess this is where I need to start planning.  Hmmmm, where’s that chocolate, it’s’ my thinking food.  Besides, I only have 7 more days to eat it! 

Should I started by breaking it down week by week? Maybe that will help reduce the “scariness” of it all.  Okay then, first week: 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches, and 7 dinners, that’s all I have to do.  Wholly schnikies, that’s 21 meals, and that’s just 1/4^th of it! 

Hey wait!  I do it anyway, just not necessarily planned out in a healthy manner (breakfast = mocha & cereal, lunch = salad or sandwich & chocolate, dinner = whatever I can make or grab with some nutritional value on the way out the door to my son’s sporting activity, oh yeah, and chocolate. 

Here’s the current day in the life of Beth:
6:30 a.m. – hit snooze because I just got to bed (see 3:00 a.m. entry)
7:20 – wake up frantically because I hear my son coming down the stairs and I should have had my stuff done already (shower, get ready, his lunch made, let dogs out and feed horses)
7:30 – 8:12 – get son breakfast ready, make his lunch (which is the 1 meal I take the most thought in, making sure he has a sandwich [99% of the time it’s a PB & J {organic or no sugar added jelly} on whole grain bread], drink [low sugar], veggie, fruit, dairy, and a napkin, not that he ever uses one!)
8:15 – his bus comes
9:00 – get to work (did I mention it’s the best job ever?) J
2:00 – close the office up
2:30 - get home from work, grab a snack (typically unhealthy), and ride horse
3:55 – son gets home
4:00 – inside to do homework/start & eat dinner
5:00  - leave for son’s sporting event
7:15ish – home & son to bed (which awesome husband does)
8:00 9:30 – snack feverishly insensibly
9:32 – feel really guilty about eating so much crap food…won’t do it tomorrow! (but does)
11:00 – fall asleep on couch because if I wait 2 hours to fall asleep after I eat I won’t gain weight right?
3:00 a.m. – sheepishly crawl into bed so I don’t wake husband since he asked nicely (twice) to go to bed with him at 10
Repeat

I need to set myself up for success, so off I go to create 21 meals for next week!  Yowza!

~Beth

Countdown!

I am doing a Willie Green’s 30 Day Organic diet “WG30” which will involve 30 days of eating nothing but organic, with an emphasis on Willie Green’s Organic Farm produce and other local items.  Why am I doing such a thing?  I consider myself fairly normal but I don’t live by an organic creed or work my shopping list around local natural foods, and think it's time to.  I just celebrated my 36^th birthday and woke up with sore knees and not much motivation to do anything outside the daily grind.

The goal in doing WG30 is to feel better about myself and create an easy, healthier way of life.  Let me just clarify something here, this is not a lose 10” in 10 days thing for me, and quite honestly I can be live with being a size 10 if I felt good about myself.  But I don’t.  They say it takes 30 days to create a habit so I am giving myself from June 1^st to June 30^th to create this healthy habit.

Next step: present to boss (owner of Willie Green’s Organic Farm).  When I presented this idea to Jeff he instantly liked it and asked if I was ready to blog the frankness about the process.  “Of course” I replied with enthusiasm.  Wait, am I a “blogger”?  Then visions of the before picture for the amazing before and after reveal on June 30^th floated across my mind, then I thought about noting my weight and moods, eating habits, and vices for all to see…breathe, you can do this Beth…where’s my chocolate…OMG!  Can I have chocolate while on this?  I’m pretty sure I need chocolate to survive, it’s my survival food!

So after more thought (and more chocolate) I figured there’s no better way to create something like this than with you (yes, you) and your assistance in the WG30 development.  Just imagine, when I’m giving my interview on the Today Show I will mention “with the support of the local WG30 family (that’s you) I accomplished my goal of being queen of the world”.

With just 9 days until June 1^st I guess I should get on the ball with meal planning and such!  Your thoughts, comments, hints, and recipes are much appreciated at any time!

Wish me luck (and access to organic, local chocolate) and talk to you soon!