Getting Healthy

You know those people who are addicted to helping? Who will go out of their way to solve other people’s problems, but won’t touch their own? I think I’m one of them. In my everyday life I try to help people solve their health problems by telling them about the healthy living tools that I’ve [...]

Well, here we are, sitting at the steps of the second half of the second chapter. Things I have accomplished: I have worked out, in some way, every day. Because I am very easily bored, working out is really hard for me. I’ve tried gym memberships (I never go), yoga (okay for about 10 minutes, [...]

This week I began a course of Australian Bush Flower Essences. In a nutshell, Flower Essences are energetic preparations, made from flowers, that can be used to heal emotional and spiritual blocks. There is very little of the physical flower left in a Flower Essence, and only the flower’s vital energy remains (kind of like [...]

Hello again! Sorry that I’m late… The holidays are going to be a bit of a challenge as far as time, I think! I have time management issues when it comes to things I don’t control. For example, Thanksgiving. I don’t get to choose the date. This makes me uneasy. (Can we say “control freak“?) [...]

Is it possible to fall off the wagon before having really got on? Last Thursday I finished exams (YAY!). That evening I said to myself, “Gauri, tomorrow you will drink with your uni friends. After that, there will be no more junk food in your diet for two whole weeks.” Well, it was a nice [...]

My “Getting Healthy” Info 1. As of the beginning of this project, what are your height and weight? Unfortunately, I don’t own a scale, but at the end of the last chapter, I was about 185 lbs, down from… more. (This is the problem with not owning a scale!) My height is still 5’6″. 2. [...]

My “Getting Healthy” Info 1. As of the beginning of this project, what are your height and weight? Height: 165cm (5’4″) Weight: 60kg (132). This is what that looks like: 2. We all know that numbers never give us the big picture. When you think of your body – its size, shape, strength and health [...]

Well, I was a little too cocky coming into this, I think. I have a feeling that the time I spent putting it together gave me some kind of disillusion that it would be easy. As if I wouldn’t have to completely change my grocery shopping habits, the times that I ate, and – of [...]

I feel like I was just sitting here with you, yesterday, telling you about how I’d been messing up my food intake and being a little lazy on the workouts… Unfortunately, very little has changed. On top of that, I’m getting sick, I believe. I need to up my water intake, like, ASAP. We’re getting [...]