Week One...

Here is a wrap-up of my First Week of Change!

Day One: Started the 21 Day Elimination Diet.  I have cut out Eggs, Gluten, Dairy, Corn, and Soy, and I have never eaten Peanuts or Artificial Sweeteners - and I am cutting out Sugar (eeks!)
Day Two: I learned a little bit about Marketing
Day Three: I cleaned out my inboxes of UNread messages.... all 1247 of them! (Junk thrown in with good stuff...) I also UNsubscribed to many things I signed up for...that was liberating.
Day Four: I treated myself to a massage and it was more relaxation than therapeutic, but felt nice all the same.
Day Five: I purchased guitar music. I am not a fan of guitar, but my husband is, so got some CDs that will hopefully inspire us to actually learn to play ours!
Day Six: I don't want to do anything that Scares me again!  I ended up in the ER - good news is, all of my tests came back fine - bad news...they have no idea what's wrong with me.  So...no more "Scare" things!
Day Seven: I bought Quinoa... it's a step... Maybe next week I will actually cook it.  Oh, and I bought Brussel Sprouts...I think those scare me more than the Quinoa!

What I learned about myself this past week:

 Well, going on an Elimination Diet is more difficult than it sounds, and I don't eat a few of the things to begin with.  I think on Sunday I finally stopped having cravings! I also have found it a bit difficult to find new things to do, learn and try.  I am looking forward to being more proactive next week.

challenge...

30 Days of Change!

 I was looking at High Existence.com website today and saw this 30 Days of Fear Challenge... and it got me to think.  What a neat thing to do - challenge yourself for 30 days to do things you normally wouldn't haven't or do those things you need to do!  However, I didn't like the title, so I changed it to "30 Days of Change!"  I am already embarking on a huge change at the moment, so thought that I would challenge myself to do just that!

You must do at least one of the following each day (not all three):

• Something that makes you scared (a little or a lot)...
• Something you’ve been putting off.
• Something you’ve never done before.
• Learn Something new! 
• Something to Pamper Yourself!

In my book blogging world, I sign up for challenges to help me read different types of books.  Why not do something that for my real-world life - the one I live outside of books.  Yes, I must come out from the stories I read and interface with the real world.  What a perfect thing to do!

So, I starting my 30 Days of Change TODAY! I have started a 21 Day elimination diet wherein I remove 7 high Food Intolerance foods, based on The Virgin Diet (no, you don't turn back into a virgin, nor do you throw virgins into an angry volcano...and hopefully won't have to worry about Unicorns talking your ear off!). Today, and for the next 20 days, I will not eat anything with: Eggs, Corn, Gluten, Soy, Peanuts, Artificial Sweeteners, and Dairy.  The hardest part will be the eggs and the corn.  I have been dancing with dairy and gluten for the past several months, but always make an excuse to eat just a little.  Not for the next 21 days!

I will do a weekly check-in on how I've done for the past week.  I plan on doing many things that I have put off doing, especially for my schooling and business (to be!) and I will try to do a few things I have never done before, as well as a thing or two that I fear (like getting rid of eggs and corn for 21 days!)

Join me if you'd like!  Challenge yourself to CHANGE! Let's do this together and see where it takes us!