Sharing Our Spoons Week #2

May 15, 2012

Sharing Our Spoons Week #2

May 15, 2012 By Jamee 10 Comments

I cannot believe its week #2 of Sharing Our Spoons! I’m not sure about anyone else but the past week has seemed to both fly by and last forever! That ever happen to anyone else?

Here were my goals for the week:

Physical: cut back to 1 soda a day. Some people drink coffee, I would like a coke. Then its water.
Mental/Emotional: Start journaling. I need a place where I can write completely unfiltered.
Spiritual: Start a new devotional book – All I Need is Jesus & A Good Pair of Jeans
Something fun: Get my nails done! My anxiety has really done a number on my nails so I’m treating myself to a manicure!
BONUS: Get back into climbing shape by starting the pushups challenge and walking a minimum of 3x week.

How I did:

Eh. Not too proud of week 1. Its always my nature to beat myself up for it but the purpose of the group is to be able to say “Ok, I didn’t reach my goals this week but this a new week and I have the CHOICE to make this week different.” So I’m totally game for kicking butt the next 7 days & here’s my game plan:

I found this on pinterest but of course it links to nowhere so if anyone knows the original source, please let me know! Definitely plan on using this method to help goal #1!

To get a jumpstart on goals #2 & #3, I got a pretty journal to start writing in and have put my book next to my bed! Twitter will be turned off and my phone put down when I climb into bed until both my reading and journaling are done!

I actually did #4! I didn’t get them professionally done between the shuffling back and forth to the doctor on my lunch breaks but I did take some time this weekend to do an at-home mani & pedi!

I also downloaded the pushup challenge app to keep me going!

How was your week? Be sure to link up your post! To chat throughout the week, use the hashtag #sos! Also something to consider for the future – weekly chat session? Yes/no/maybe?

Filed Under: chronic illness, health

May 8, 2012

Sharing Our Spoons Week #1

May 8, 2012 By Jamee 10 Comments

“Sharing Our Spoons” will be a weekly link-up where you are able to find support and encouragement to focus on your entire health. Not just physical but all of you. For this link-up you will be able to choose holistic goals to help you achieve optimal health. The five goals include:

Physical: could be weight loss or exercise related or it could be goals like eating more veggies or cutting soda
Mental/Emotional: take a day to be alone, write a letter, paint, etc
Spiritual: start a new devotional book, commit a certain amount of time a day for prayer/meditation
Something fun: Take time to treat yourself – maybe a pedicure or Starbucks (if you don’t typically splurge for specialty coffee)
BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone a week – try something new, sign up for a class you maybe have been putting off.

Welcome to our first week of Sharing Our Spoons! So excited to be linking up this week with our first set of goals! Draw up your post with your initial set of goals and link your post up using the linky tool! Next week, we will share how we did with our goals for the week as well as change any goals as needed! Cannot wait to visit all your posts!

My Goals:

Physical: cut back to 1 soda a day. Some people drink coffee, I would like a coke. Then its water.
Mental/Emotional: Start journaling. I need a place where I can write completely unfiltered.
Spiritual: Start a new devotional book – All I Need is Jesus & A Good Pair of Jeans
Something fun: Get my nails done! My anxiety has really done a number on my nails so I’m treating myself to a manicure!
BONUS: One thing to get you out of your comfort zone a week. I love climbing and I miss it. Its been seven years since I climbed regularly and I’ve just figured I never would climb again but I’ve decided, daggonit, that I can and will climb. Our local Y has an indoor climbing wall (and the university is getting ready to install one as well) and it will be much more feasible for me to be able to climb inside. I’m not talking crazy hard routes where I have to hang from 2 fingers or anything – I’m not in complete denial! LOL! But I want to build up my physical activity to where in a month I would feel comfortable giving a beginner’s route a shot! So this week I’m going to try to walk at least 3 times this week and start the push-ups challenge!

Last Week’s Winners:

Premade Blog Template – Mamie
Fingerless Gloves by CC Almon – Untypically Jia
Pitter Pat Gift Certificate – Anna

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May 4, 2012

Fresh Start

May 4, 2012 By Jamee 5 Comments

My marathon of bowel preps is now over. Thank you Jesus! It definitely wasn’t my first rodeo as I’ve definitely known how to survive a bowel prep but being that a colonoscopy wasn’t waiting at the end made it quite different.

I would like to know who gets hired to write the labels for bowel prep kits. My BFF Mamie and I were joking on Twitter about some of the descriptions. This week’s bottle read “sparkling saline laxative” as if using the word “sparkling” would make it easier to drink. Mamie’s favorite was the brand “Go-Litely” which should have been retitled, “Go-all-day-and-all-nightly.” I think the one that really takes the cake are the barium shakes you have to drink before CT scan or upper GI which kindly read, “Pleasantly Flavored.” Whoever the jerk is that wrote that I would LOVE to treat him or her to three or four bottles and see how pleasant they find it.

But I digress.

Lately its been no secret that I haven’t been happy with my body. I busted tail in 2010 to lose close to 40 pounds. I was so proud of myself and definitely felt confident about my body for the first time in a long time.

Then 2011 happened.

It was not a good year. Pain seemed to escalate throughout the year regardless of any type of intervention we tried. Surgery did not even provide relief as we would have hoped and let’s not get started on the megace treatment.

Between the pain, inactivity, and treatments, it kills me to say that all of the weight I lost is now back and its a struggle to not hate myself for it.

So with this week’s cleanse, I’ve decided to make something positive out of it and use this as an opportunity to have a fresh start and start to make better choices about what I put in my body. The timing of the kickoff of Sharing Our Spoons is great as I’m really looking forward to having the accountability and support of some amazing ladies on this journey to regain control of my body or maybe re-lose would be the better way to think.

Either way, I’m ready to go. I just signed up for a six-month meal planning service to help me plan healthy, gluten-free and kid-friendly meals in advance instead of showing up at the house every day after work and having John and I ask each other, “What do you want to do for dinner?’ Menu planning will commence tonight and grocery shopping will take place this weekend to help us get off on the right foot!

I feel super-charged already just putting this all in writing! Who’s with me?

*P.S. The giveaways associated with the Sharing Our Spoons kick-off will run through the weekend & winners will be drawn Monday so be sure to check it out!*

Filed Under: chronic illness, health Tagged With: celiac, chronic illness, self care, self-esteem, Sharing Our Spoons