Completion time - finishing my Reset and beginning healthy transition

Completion of the Reset…

I’ll admit the last three days I was not perfect. Maybe I need just a little imperfection thrown in for good measure. As an artist, I might not have the most pristine canvas because the world is full of twists and turns, flubs, uncontrollable moments.

I got tired of waiting to see movies because I couldn’t eat popcorn. Who sees movies without something to munch on? So, I went to see Fifty Shades Freed.

While the movie was not even slightly entertaining – Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson felt bored with each other. The writing was crap. Locations uninspiring, or was it just me projecting? Whatever the case maybe, I ate a small popcorn.

I also had 5 sips of beer at the curling club during a social moment after a game– which I immediately regretted when I woke up at 3am with stomach cramps and a headache. So maybe I wouldn’t do that one again. Imperfect and stupid are two different things.

New states of consciousness

I am beginning to prefer a state of consciousness in my social activities and find myself quite able to be social without a drink in hand. If you think you can’t be social without a drink in hand – do the Ultimate Reset and check yourself. No seriously - you can do it.

Maybe alcohol will become less important as time goes on. I haven’t tried wine again, a perennial favorite of mine. I’ll let you know how that goes. I bought two bottles of nice red wine before I started the reset…they are still sitting there for the “right time.”

Transitioning from the reset

Technically we have three weeks of transition in which you go from vegan diet back to meat-eating, if you want. Maybe less meat overall and a healthier approach. It is a little tricky with the 21-day container system because that program limits your veggie counts and ups your protein, most of which comes from dairy and meat.

It is recommended you don’t add back in any alcohol, sugar or soda (which is sugar). We can bring the grains and beans back in on Week 2 post reset. After my experience with five sips of beer, I am disinclined to try beer again any time soon.

Outlook appears rosy

In the last 24 hours, I focused intently on the job situation and finances. I successfully maintained my Debtors Anonymous program since January and have not incurred any further debt.

January, I began using the EveryDollar app to record each and every expense. In addition, I use my banking spreadsheets to keep an accurate check register and monitor monthly expense to income.

Recently, I heard about another app called YNAB. It is a paid service and has more tools such as finance management courses and a different system for allotting income. I may try it down the road. Right now, this system I created using the DA tools is working just fine.

Within the last 24 hours of my reset, I was contacted by two different recruiters who have positions available in the Twin Cities metro. The last agency I used has slowed down so I had been eager to work with others. Recognizing that I found a new place to live for April with less than 48 hours of searching, I requested of the Universe in meditation that my job search be “as easy.” And boom…

All that pain and suffering from a year and half of T3 therapy in which I released all those faulty core beliefs may be paying off, finally. No, there is no QUICK FIX folks. Everyone must put the work in, I am afraid -whether with diet and exercise or the mind.

All in all – I am looking forward to my transition. I am doing the 60-day PIYO program and started today. We’ll see what kind of ‘after’ photos I get in the next couple months. In the meantime, I am just amazed at the progress I continue to make with my intentions for a Healthy 2018.

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Week 3 begins, reflections after the detox

Starting week 3 of Beachbody's Ultimate Reset, I was struck by how far I had come in just 14 days.

The rhythm of grocery shopping and prep days was down. I knew how to plan to get all done and what I needed to complete the tasks. I enjoyed the changes happening in my body. I felt confident in my strength with the rigors of the program.

Meal prep choices set me up for success

I chose to make all the meals at once in the space of a few days (necessitating some late nights). This choice required some long days of cooking that may not be available to everyone. Cooking like that is super intense, tiring and labor intensive.

Still, having my meals ready to go through the week, made it easy to comply. I had zero excuses when it came to eating because the meal was already made and just needed heating or eating. Perhaps, a better option for some would be a hybrid of the two options:

• Prep in the moment at each meal

• Prep all at once on a cook day

Work schedules and other difficulties

Working at the restaurant presented some unique challenges this time around. The schedules often intersected and conflicted with the supplementation process. My breaks (if I had them) didn't correspond to eating times. I had to be creative taking my meals to work, and sometimes grabbing bites in the back when I could.

I became comfortable bringing jugs of mineralized water to work, my Shakeo snack and my tubs of salad. If I had a soup or warm meal to bring, I found a way to heat it in advance and keep it warm enough until I had time to eat.

What this process led me to was a certain adaptability and flow with the unique journey I was taking this time around. Rather than letting those perceived limitations derail my Reset, I used them as springboards to find creative solutions. I feel that this learning will apply to other areas of my life also.

Financial health tied to the process

Many people know I worked hard in the last year on my subconscious patterns and beliefs related to self-worth, money and finances. This reset seemed much more grounded in new more healthy belief systems and archetypes, as a result.

My marketing contract job concluded early in the process – right before I was set to begin the three week cleanse. Rather than let that halt the process, I doubled-down on planning and strategies to enable me to obtain the necessary groceries and supplies. I used my fears and any shame that materialized as a a catalyst for shifts within my psyche.

I saw the change in circumstance, as an opportunity to generate creative solutions from a new place and practice my intuition and self-care skills. I applied my marketing, business and social media know-how to my own creative structures. I practiced being in allowance of the process as it was, not how I wished it could be.

The reset will conclude for me on Friday March 9. However, the lessons and habits will continue as I move onto a different program in the Beachbody arsenal. In the meantime, I will continue to challenge myself to stay alcohol and caffeine-free and eat all of the prepped meals I made. Life sure is interesting these days. I look forward to seeing where this journey takes me.

If you want to know more about Beachbody, its products or want to catch up – go to my Beachbody website: or reach out personally. I am a Independant Beachbody Coach and any opinions presented here about the products are my own. I am not compensated for these writings or use of the products. Hope to hear from you soon! Beachbody Website

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Ultimate Reset week 1 and the call of spirit to live a more conscious life

Week 1 of the Beachbody Ultimate Reset is almost in the bag. In fact, today I am heading out to get groceries for Week 2 so I can meal prep. So how was the experience so far?

The first three or four days, my energy and emotions were all over the place, as predicted by the program materials. While I had done the reset twice before, it is easy to forget what happens in the first few days of detoxing the body.

Some of the symptoms included:

• Overall sluggishness

• Tired and needing extra sleep

• Muscle aches

• Moody/mood swings and going over old territory

I attribute these symptoms to the old energy leaving my body as the clean eating and supplement regimen began its work. I just allowed these feelings to come and go. I witnessed the mind's desire to attribute these feelings to something. It wanted to regurgitate the past failures and choices or spiral out of control. I gently let the thoughts go as best I could or used energy clearing tools.

I also went to yoga class. While Vinyasa flow yoga was more aggressive than recommended during the three weeks of Ultimate Reset, I used the class as an opportunity to be present. I also only went as far as I felt I could physically, and took breaks on some poses.

Day 6

I still have some trouble getting up in the morning. Sometimes, it is not so much the getting up as the pushing myself to do ANYTHING. My body is much more in flow at this stage of the Reset. Plus it is a 7 year for me (numerology) and so my general experience is more of an internal spiritual process. Go.Go Go is not the natural mode of operation.

So as it turns out, Day 6 was interesting because MIMA, the marketing organization I volunteer for was having an early morning event in Minneapolis. While I didn't get there on time, I felt the need to reconnect in person with the people I know there. I was correct about this – I reconnected with several individuals and felt pulled back into the grounded nature of of my career-building after several weeks of being off-keel.

My healing journey

Mindful eating. Reconnecting with my body. Feeling in sync with how my inner life and outer appearance/physical expresses itself. It may be challenging – such as when I have to get to my job at the movie theater restaurant. Work an eight hour shift. I somehow take my supplements on schedule, drink distilled water and eat the pre-prepared food in the midst of hamburgers and pizzas.

I walk past the bars where my friends hang out and I consciously recognize my feelings of “just one glass of wine would be great.” While I get in my car to go and eat a meal I preppared from The Reset, I can witness how using those glasses of wine and noisy environments to check-out is a strategy I commonly use.

Nevertheless, disconnected and used as a crutch, it becomes a habit. In those bars, with a couple glasses of wine, we are checked-out of our physical awareness, we are unconsciously choosing our intake. We are often avoiding the call of Spirit – the one in which our true feelings and motivations are being felt, heard and acted upon. What is the real reason we want to avoid those messages? Probably because the action they require of us is perceived by the ego as “too hard.”

Acknowledgment of Week 1

What Day 6 brings as we end Week 1, is an acknowledgment of just how far I have come mentally and emotionally in 2018. How far I have come in just one week! And I look forward to continuing the journey today as I head out to the (probably) multiple grocery stores to stock up and meal prep for Week 2.

If you want to know more about Beachbody, its products or want to catch up – go to my Beachbody website: or reach out personally. I am a Independant Beachbody Coach and any opinions presented here about the products are my own. I am not compensated for these writings or use of the products. Hope to hear from you soon! Beachbody Website

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