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Back with another week of the Well Path!

It’s not going perfectly, but I feel like I’m starting to hit a groove with it. The little changes are starting to add up, and I’m beginning to feel some of the positive feedback from the method.

Nailing it

I love dry brushing! I’ve written about it a zillion times in a zillion different places on this blog, but when it comes to actually being consistent….I do medium. But the well path has been holding me accountable to doing it every night, and that’s been great! It’s amazing how quickly you see visual improvements from it. For me, I have some looseness and texture on my thighs, and it responds so quickly to dry brushing. Of course, it isn’t permanent, and after a week or so without, you’re back where you started. But when you’re consistent, even just five days a week, the difference in appearance is huge.

Lemon water is also one that I got right every time this week. I’m beginning to look forward to it, and I am also drinking a little less coffee, which in my case was definitely a good thing.

Exercise and activity – I worked out five times last week (four classes and a run) and added activity to my lunch break and the time right after my kids go to bed. This last one has also been a great mental health break!

Breakfast has been super consistent — I’ve been doing yogurt and protein powder with fruit, wheat bran, and chopped nuts.

All of these things taken together are really improving things for me. My mood has been significantly more even, and it’s been easier to get right out of bed at the alarm lately.

Some wins, some losses

Hunger visualization – “not my train”

Reframing the hunger visualization has been going better for me than the one in the book. The one she suggests was just not resonating with me — I actually really struggle with the visual part of visualization! So if it’s something I’ve never actually seen before, it’s hard to imagine successfully. I grew up in New York, so instead I imagine a subway car coming in to the platform where I’m standing.

Sometimes, even if you’re standing at the right track, a train comes in that is not your train. It’s an express and you need a local, or it’s going to Queens when you need to go to downtown. So, you can be standing in exactly the right place, and the train is real — it’s just not your train. It’s not conveying a message to you about what your body actually needs.

So, I’m really feeling what I’m feeling; that feeling just isn’t telling me that I need nourishment. It’s telling me that I need a break, or a quiet walk, or a glass of water, or to call someone and chat. It’s not my train — it’s going somewhere else.

This has been a pretty helpful way to think about it. A lot of the time I invalidate my own feelings or push them down, so it’s helpful to have a system that acknowledges, hey, this is a feeling that’s happening in your body! It’s just not saying what you thought it was. So this is working quite a bit better.

Meals and stretching

Not going great! When I eat at home, I’m on the ball, but I ate three restaurant meals and two meals at someone’s house this week. This is great in other ways! Socially, my cup is full in a way it rarely is during the school year. But as far as food? Not a set of home runs.

And stretching has also been hit or miss! I’ve been trying to incorporate 15 minutes of yoga every evening, but there’s been a lot of stuff coming up. I know that the philosophy here is that things for yourself are as important as things for or with others, so I gotta do better here! I’ll keep pushing.

No dice

The pranayama breathing has been a failure every single morning this week too. I’ve been doing it in the evenings, so it’s not that it’s not happening at all. But I just can’t seem to drive it into my skull to do that breathing first thing.

I’ve given up on trying to get it done while still in bed the way we’re supposed to. Tonight, I’m going to stick a post-it that says “breathing” under the lemon I’m going to put in my water tomorrow morning. I feel confident that that will work and it will have to be good enough.

ANd screens were a failure this week because I have been doing so much blog work scheduled around our social events. As I’m typing this, it’s 9 PM and I usually go to sleep at 9:30. So a failure tonight. When I have been observing the no-screen hour, I’m sleeping well. I’ve also been doing great reducing my social media use with the Brick app.

Next week!

I love legs up the wall and I’m excited to get into that this week — I actually prefer to lie on the floor next to my bed with my calves lying on the bed, for some reason, so I’m sticking with that.

I’m going to have some different small stressors than usual this week: we’re visiting my parents! So different food, different schedule, and the stress of managing my kids in their house.