Do You Plant a Vegetable Garden?

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

This week's blog topic for A&I BSG Challenge, Week 3: "Do you plant a veggie garden? If so what do you plant?"

Nope, no planting of any vegetables. When we first moved to the high desert, I had concerns about the ground squirrels so we planted in above ground boxes with screen on the bottoms of the boxes. The soil wasn't very good so we mixed in other stuff to make it better. I was very happy with the planting and with seeing the plants starting to grow. Well, I should have been more worried about the grasshoppers. I remember the morning I went out and the 'hoppers had eaten my bean shoots right down to the dirt! As newbies there we knew about them, but had no idea as to the VOLUME. That was a banner year for grasshoppers and it pretty much took the wind out of my gardening sails. Even our chickens would get tired of eating grasshoppers. I would have been happy to plant some for them if they would have left some for us, but they are not very good sharers. Oh well, another been there, done that story. I do envy people who have the green thumb for gardening though.

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Casual Travelers: Question 6

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Do I need some motivation or advice?

I feel like I'm always on a slippery slope where motivation is concerned. Sometimes it just vanishes and I don't know why. Keeping track of my honest efforts streak on my calendar helps me keep on track, but the part of the streak I just added in this challenge is where I could use some help.

I added that I would track/log what I eat. Sometimes this is obviously easy, when it gives me the info right on the package, but sometimes I have absolutely NO clue. Like when you buy something that doesn't have a table or when you eat something that someone has cooked for you. This is where I've always fallen away from tracking in the past. What do you do?

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Casual Travelers: Question 5

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

How can I improve upon my efforts to establish a new habit of being more mindful and aware of my eating?

I think it would be helpful to complete the Mindful Eating Challenge when this 5% challenge is over. I'm certain there are many things I will learn there that will improve on my new habit.

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Casual Travelers: Question 4

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

How am I doing day by day on my new habit of being more mindful and aware of my eating?

Each day brings its own challenges, but having a plan in place makes being mindful easier. For example, now that I'm tracking/logging my food, I think before I take that handful of nuts or that granola bar. I bypass a lot of little tastes that I previously would have indulged in. It's helping me plan ahead as well. A day at a time.

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Casual Travelers: Question #3

Monday, March 04, 2013

What am I doing to encourage myself and keep on track with being more mindful of what I eat?

In the middle of January I started an Honest Efforts streak to help me remember to be completely honest with myself on what I was eating and to stop my increasingly creative rationalizations. I don't have to be perfect, just honest in my efforts to stay on track. Adding tracking as part of my honest efforts seems like a good fit. So, starting today, I will have to track what I eat in order to continue my streak.

And I find it encourages me to be able to mark on my calendar each day that I am successful and to see my streak number growing every day. Even as old as I am, I'm giving myself a sticker on the calendar every day I succeed.

I'm on Streak #3, Day 8, so you can see it's a work in progress.

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