21 day challenge

Okay, so I know most of you probably don't really understand the concept of what the 21 day challenge is, so let me briefly explain it to you. It takes a person typically 21 days to make or break a habit. Any habit. Pick one. You either stop one or you start one, or I suppose you could alter one.

My 21 day challenge: Initially I was thinking of doing a 21 day sugar free challenge. Sounds easy enough and I really want to start today, like right now. And then I realized that the lunch I brought to work would kill my 21 day challenge right from the start. I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, and no it's not natural peanut butter or jelly. It's the cheap Great Value kind from Walmart. So the 21 day sugar free challenge is out. I suppose I could start tomorrow, but I don't want to. Honestly, it's because I'll forget. Between work, school, studying and Crossfit my eating habits have been pretty much shit lately. I'm talking fast food, going out to eat for every meal, snacking at the un-health conscious vending machine at the office, etc. Needless to say I feel like shit through my workouts, I feel bad getting up in the morning, minute aches and pains are starting to come back and lastly, I really don't feel all too good on the inside, both physically and mentally. I'm foggy in both my head and my body. Before, I felt good inside and out when I was watching my food products, ensuring it was as primal as I could handle. (That means I ate grains, not always but sweet potatoes and as natural as possible tortillas, etc.) So this got me thinking about what I should do for my 21 day challenge:

21 days of no purchasing food.

I haven't made it to the grocery store in a few weeks, hence the tirade of fast food and vending machine monster. So tonight when I get home from school I will go to the grocery store. That will be the last time I purchase food for the next 21 days.

I'm seeing two advantages to this.

1. Most importantly, this will get me back to where I want, should and deserve to be in life, health and Crossfit.

2. It's like giving myself a little raise. :) I think I may even put $5-10 in my savings account every day that I would have spent on food. 5-10 is pretty small compared to what I'm actually spending, but I think it's a good number to work with.

I want to do this challenge because I need to know that food does not have control over my life unless I let it. When I'm tired and don't feel like cooking, it's easy to hit up the drive thru. I'd rather have someone else make my food when I'm exhausted and quite frankly I don't give a shit about the calories, sodium or by-products, i.e. pink goop that's in whatever the hell it was I was eating. I need to know that in order to succeed for my health I can not let my mental exhaustion run the control panel.


So, do you think I can do it? I think it's going to take a lot of dedication and probably some starvation on the days I get up at 5:30a for work and don't come home until after class at 9:30p and all I have to rely on is a 8" x 10" x 6" blue lunch box. :/ Think I may invest in a larger lunch box, maybe a cooler or a foam ice chest for the next 21 days... But at least I have a large supply of tupperware already at home. I can honestly say tupperware is one of Man's GREATEST creations.

Will take note of my weight, and measurements when I get home from class tonight and keep you update all along the way.