Christmas hangover? Shake It Off!!!

So Christmas festivities are over and today I have had a “hangover”, not the alcoholic kind because I don’t drink, but mentally I felt the effects of my hedonistic attitude to food that I have had for the past two days, when for the past few months I have been eating clean. I had a headache, a weird throbbing tension like pain in my neck, I was in a foul mood and had feelings of anxiety about all the work I have to do before going back to work. You may not be aware of it but food has the same effect on you as drugs legal or not. I speak from my own experience and not in a professional capacity. I know that there are certain foods that I can eat and they completely change my mood, but sometimes I just want and feel that I need that “hit”. I have had so much self-control for the past few months and then Christmas comes and I completely fall off the wagon, it didn’t help that I was hosting family on Christmas and Boxing Day!

Let me give you an example of a “good” food that has a bad effect on me, OATS – yes OATS. I undertook a Metabolic Typing test my results were analysed by Leah Salmon ‘The Naturally You Coach’. The test allowed me to become aware of how food had an effect on me physically and mentally. Oats, something I had been eating for breakfast for years actually made me sleepy and not so alert in the mornings.  Having this kind of awareness and just taking note how I feel after I’ve eaten something allowed me to become acutely aware of what foods should and shouldn’t be in my daily diet. At the time of taking the test I wasn’t mentally ready and didn’t even have the will power to change my diet (even though I knew it was for he best). Today though, having realized how much crap I had eaten over the Christmas period (and it wasn’t even that much) I knew I had to do something. I made sure I had my shake and doubled up on my premium capsules. Dinner was fish, sweet potato with bean salad and some spinach and it was LOVELY. Eating clean really isn’t the hard when you have the right ingredients already in the cupboard or fridge, at first I used to meal plan and on occasion still do, but really all you need to do is shop right so your kitchen is always full of the right foods.

Mission Shake It Off: My 2017 mission is to be the fittest, healthiest and happiest I’ve ever been, to have mental clarity and have no regrets. How? 

• I'm going to carry on taking my shakes and fruit, veg and berry capsules
• take time out for me
• take a moment each day to be thankful
• really focus on my business opportunity
• get fully qualified in in Teaching Exercise, Movement and Dance to Adults and in Fitness Instructing Exercise to Music

What are you action points for Mission Shake It Off? Do you have a plan to achieve them?