200 Sit Ups Challenge -- Week 3

Doing Week 3, Day 3 of the 200 Sit Ups Challenge, I thought I would never make it through. But then when I got to the end, I just threw everything into it and just kept doing sit ups.

Doing ten, taking a breath, doing the next ten.

I did 200 sit ups today!

Okay, that was probably a crazy one-off. Nonetheless, I'm proud of myself. :D

Today is my first beach day of the year. I don't think I look any different, but maybe I will in three weeks when I'm done. Having a flat tummy is a nice bonus incentive. :)

Ikigai

Why do you wake up in the morning?

Why do you live your life?

For me, it's to grow, love and contribute. If I can do all three, it's a good day.

Running Report

Only made it twice this week to the gym. I ran 20 min each time at Level 6. (My friend Susan has decided to rename the arbitrary levels at the gym: Warp 6 instead of Level 6. I think that's AWESOME. :D )

First instinct: beat myself up about it. But why? What's what gonna get me? A hurt Nadia, that's what. And a hurt Nadia helps no one, not ever herself. Instead, let's figure out why I dropped from four times I week to twice.

Why? I've been staying up too late (out at events on weeknights) and researching raw this whole weekend (oh, the irony that my health research takes over the space of actually doing healthy behaviours).

So? Let's get to bed on time! 10:30 or bust!

Raw -- Apple/Banana/Flax Breakfast

(left)

1 tbsp soaked golden flaxed (overnight, then drained the next day)
1/2 banana
1 apple

BLEND

(right)

other half of the banana

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I love this breakfast -- way better than my usual packet of nuked oats and sugar. Only problem is that it takes forever to eat since bananas make me gaggy. Hm. Let's see if I can work on that.

Raw Food -- The Beginning

Yesterday, I went to Drive Organics, a grocery store on Commercial Drive that is dedicated to providing healthy food options. This is the haul of food I got. In the top right corner, that's golden flax seed in a bag and cayenne pepper.

I have to say that I've never had flax seed before, but it has extremely high Omega-3 levels which is GREAT for the skin. I take Omega-3 fish oil pills when my skin is really bad and it always seems to help. I'm excited to see if this will help.

Price: $25 (though $10 was just for the almonds)

Raw!

I decided today to go RAW!

...photos and more info tomorrow.