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We’re pivoting this week on the well path! From focusing on hunger to balancing our hormones, from guilt to autonomy, and from taking responsibility to cuddling up to others. It was a happy way to focus the week!

The truth is that at the start of last week, I was feeling like I didn’t know how many more little jobs I could fit into my day. I wrote out a whole morning and evening routine to try to help me stay on top of it!

Before we get into the week, I have a soup update. I was prepping my kids’ lunches yesterday morning and found a frozen soup container of the corn chowder I made way back in week 1. I had totally forgotten I made extra, and I could not have been more excited. Does this mean I’m internalizing these habits?

New this week

A little forlorn about it, but I’m replacing my evening mug of green tea + sleepytime tea with hot lemon water as the book directed. I’m not thrilled about this, and I started bargaining with myself already. Like, what difference does it make if it has a little teabag in it? But, I’m doing it the way it’s written. In two weeks, if I don’t feel like there’s a benefit to the lemon specifically, I’ll resume my tea. But the plan has been right about plenty of things so far!

Hormones:

the book directs you to pick five people in your life to only have positive interactions with. My husband and three kids were no-brainers here. Then I also called one of my brothers twice this week. This was nice! I feel socially exhausted a lot of the time, moreso during the school year. Thinking about some of these interactions as solely an opportunity to build or strengthen a relationship is nice.

There’s so much pressure in a lot of interactions to plan something or speed the kids along or figure out dinner for the millionth time… I can’t say there was none of that. But everything felt better with lighter interactions mixed in.

Sex:

on a related note! She also directs you to add one orgasm to your week! I’m not going to get real detailed on this. But I will say that a lot of us in long relationships know that feeling of not being opposed to sex at any given moment, just feeling that it’s going to be a lot of work to get started at that moment. And a little push to do more of something that will make you happy and bring you closer is not a bad thing.

I was also supposed to add a long walk of approximately 5 miles this week, but I didn’t get to it.

Struggle points

The weekly stuff has been tough! I spent a lot of time out of the house this week and managed to miss both my cold shower and my long walk. I think it’s easier for me to stay accountable to myself for something that has to get done daily. It’s easy to delay something that could just as easily be done the next day, especially if it’s going to be time-consuming or uncomfortable.

(5 miles is going to take a lot of time!)

I also didn’t follow directions on the exercise portion — I did work out three times as directed, but I didn’t do the endurance she directs. I’m going to try to get it in next week. But I just didn’t make time for this effort and didn’t want to cancel any of my existing classes to make it happen.

Going well lately

I’m sleeping pretty well! I’m not doing great making time for the no-screens hour before bed. I was religious about that before I started this blog! But…now i have this blog and no other time to work on it.

Some of the food rules are going pretty well and others are not. Breakfast and lunch have been on point! Dinner has been 50-50; we’ve been doing a lot of playdates that run through dinner. And then, how often have we gotten ice cream? I couldn’t say. But, um, a lot. But the summers are so short and my kids are growing so fast! I’m okay with where we’re at with this right now.

I will say that I think the hunger schedule has been great for me. I rarely feel hungry other than those set mealtimes anymore. And this week has been a little unpredictable (yesterday I missed my lunch and didn’t get my dinner until 2 hours after mealtime) but I’ve been able to deal.

So I’m now more than 2/3 of the way through the well path! This has been such a great experiment and I am already ready to suggest it to others. This week upcoming: more breathing, more eye contact, more orgasms, and scheduling meals around workouts.