You see when we're speaking health and the workplace, the environment you're in affects your well being. The environment I'm in is not helpful with red and grey walls, dust bunnies accumulating and meanwhile everyone around you coming in with pneumonia, bronchitis and your basic cold and flu. It's depressing and stressful, you get paid minimum wage to do twice the amount of work with 6-9 hour shifts, five days a week sitting on our butts all day. Then they wonder why so many of us call in ill and so many of us have further health problems with our weight, our heart, other infections. Some of us eat unhealthy because that's all we have around us is a pizza place, subs, a quick run to the Tim Horton's or another fast food outlet and some of us don't eat at all because we're making ends meet, smoke and don't have time to even pack a lunch.
I try to pack a healthy lunch and this week I have made effort to purchase some fruits and veggies and some other healthy snacks like nuts and seeds and whole meats and cheese. I can't not eat but I can't eat junk food as much as I have either. I have seen results not just with eating healthier but also cutting out large amounts of sugar. I now cold steep tea and bring that to work rather than the aspartame filled crystal drinks and drops. I add my own sugar and control it. I now can finally bend over and put my shoes on without being out of breath and I can do up my jacket without it being a super tight fit. I can only hope that my efforts continue to see results. I have also successfully, minus one week of being sick, completed 5 weeks of 1 day a week of a 20-30 minute workout. I also walk every day I go to work, minus a few times of being offered a ride here and there but that's when I've done more stretches and tried to put stretching in as a daily routine in the morning.
I am also going to begin putting in a morning exercise routine with the help of my sister and pinterest of course. I have found Pinterest to be quite the tool with a lot of things including healthy ideas, and not so healthy ones but everyone has to go off the road a little bit or else what is life!? We can't cut everything out just because it's supposedly bad for us. One minute they tell you salt is bad the next it isn't. Too much water is bad for you even apparently. So remember too much of a good thing is also not good for you.
I am also working on trying to do some bath and body items and using all more natural items like coconut oil and the like and I made samples for my step mom. All of which seemed successful and so I may build on this. Even healthier items in the home such as using soy candles is better than regular wax, and using recycled clothes etc. and re-purposing items is a good choice because it helps the environment avoid some waste. So old clothes and such can be used as rags or as pillows or other items for the home or new clothes out of the old. I am thinking I could build a business out of this.
My self esteem, also a health issue, has become an issue. There are days that I look back into the past and I hear the good things from my professors and now in the present from some of my managers and colleagues however I also hear the bad from those that have put me down and told me I'm no good and couldn't ever succeed. Some parts of this makes me more determined to make it no matter how long it takes and no matter how hard it is. Other days though I have my moments of crying and feeling like I'm broken and like I just can't do it. Those are the dark days. There is however a light at the end of the tunnel even when the lights go out temporarily or flicker.
Anyway that is all the update I have for now. Things are going on track thus far and I just have to continue going forward. I will try to keep further updates each month as promised. To everyone who reads, I hope you have had a good April and if you have any suggestions feel free to comment. I am always looking for more info and suggestions on topics. :) Have a Happy May!
