Off Week, Day 2

I am not on the 21DF 3 week schedule this week. I am taking a one week respite, but funny enough I am still doing the schedule. It's pretty nice that it's the same every week. You can jump in and out of the 3 week schedule as you like. I say I am not doing it because I am not really tracking or counting this week into anything other than my normal life. I am still eating as clean as I can, as I have been this whole time, and I am still doing the workouts with yoga daily. As it really stands this it not a week off of anything other than not being on a "plan".

I have started up my men's and women's clean eating groups and funny as it sounds, I should have just done them together. I really only planned on doing the men's group, but when I stirred up the ire of some of the women, I felt it should have been both, so I did it. The hardest thing is doing the men's meal plan which is larger than the women's which I have done. Adding in the necessary foods to bump up the calorie count by say 500 calories per day was the real challenge. So that is the only challenge, and while I have been doing this every day, I haven't been thinking to formulate a true meal plan. I can go into the kitchen and grab some stuff and eat it and know about what I am doing. I then plug it into myfitnesspal and yeah I was about right, but being responsible for making up a meal plan and shopping list for others is a bit intimidating. I can't wait to get it all posted up on Friday and then the daily meal plans.

I hope everyone gets what they want out of it personally. It's a hard thing to shake the sugars which is the most addictive thing in our diet, even more so than caffeine and tobacco. My goal is to show others that it can be done for a day and then a week. If they can do it for a week, maybe they will stick with it for a month. If that happens, why not forever. We all have issues and hard times and mistakes etc... but we all have the same ability to correct that mistake and move on. I hope that others will see that as well and continue to make better choices both during this challenge and beyond.

The 21DF workouts really challenge my abs. I am also doing an ab challenge this month so couple the two together, and I am getting really sore in the abs this month. I like the 30 day challenge group, but I find I am having more issues with time lately and wanting my body to rest properly is key for making any progress. If you don't you end up like a hamster in a wheel, running and running never getting anywhere. No one wants to be that hamster.