Day 6.
Day 6 brought a bit of a reality check, not so much with the food that I had been eating, but just with myself in general. The feature image for today is the stress levels during the day for day 6. Sadly enough to say, this is a regular day for me, where there are few blue lines in comparison to the orange that seems to skyrocket up to the top of the graph. These frequent stress levels cause my body battery to drain rapidly during the day, where I am left at fifteen percent or lower by the time four o’clock runs around. This is not so much due to my actual day-to-day job, but more the way that I process information. I continuously overthink and overanalyze everything that I am doing, and will reach back days before about something I may have said that upset someone, or put judgement on me. This is my brain’s issue; however, I speak out about it because I know that I am not the only one, and there are millions of people out there who experience this daily, like I do, it’s draining and exhausting. My therapist even confirmed that with how my thoughts and emotions are processed every day, it makes sense that I feel utterly drained by the time I get home. This is why I have always worked out early in the morning, sometimes before farmer’s even get up, because I know that it won’t happen in the afternoon.
This is something that I have been working with, and make self-improvements with, for some time now. I know that I need to work a little bit more on me, which ironically this experiment has allowed me to do. I have said in previous posts that I feel more energized when I get home, and less irritable, even though my battery is still drained from the amount of stress that I put in my thoughts and emotions every day. I think that because I am putting more focus on me, with carefully choosing the foods that I actually want in my body, it is just enough focus that I am able to recenter myself when I get home. There is still a lot of improvement that needs to happen towards my mental health; however, day 6 has allowed me to realize that I have finally started to put myself first.
The meals this week were fantastic, there were even some that were a bit of a throw together, which sometimes can end terribly, but luckily they didn’t. I am still dreaming about the lasagna, I might make it again this coming week. The bloating has remained down, I haven’t had to take an indigestion pill once this week, which is almost an outright first since I got the pills. I tried to drink a little coffee, and it didn’t seem to have an impact too much on my gut, but I always try and be careful when it comes to caffeine and me, because as much as I love a good latte, caffeine does give me the shakes if I am not eating something with it.
At the end of the night I felt good, but tired. Doing a full five days of workouts, hasn’t happened for a long time, usually I take a break in between. I am content with the workouts, so content that I am still debating whether I want to jump into a workout this morning on my last day of day 7. Usually on Saturday I try and get a good workout in, but I am wondering if my body might need the rest today, focus on my brain health, and then pick it back up tomorrow morning before I go for breakfast? It is still an ongoing discussion with myself. The reality that I had enough energy to wake up every morning before 5:00am, that’s huge. The nights before my body would let me know when it was time to go to bed, so I was getting the appropriate amount of sleep in order to fulfill the workouts, with the highest energy possible.
Today is the last day of this vegetarian diet, tomorrow morning I will be taking my measurements, weight, etc., in order to write a magazine article in our Teagal Magazine, that recaps that seven days, with added research from a variety of articles to help support and explain the process my body went through his week.
If you want to read this recap, you will have to download the magazine on Monday!