My Challenges

I've blogged about a lot of professional organizing issues. I'm going to make a change here and talk a bit about my current challenges to hopefully spark a conversation.

This past March and April I had to have four back surgeries, due to complications over an initial surgery for a herniated disk from a car accident. The driver hit me head-on and my car was totaled and I was so lucky to only have minor injuries, instead of ending up flying down the canyon and ending in a fiery blaze.

As a professional organizer, my work is very physical. There was no way in heck I was going to throw in the towel and not be physical anymore. My back surgeries didn't stop me from being physical, and now I have to be so careful to strengthen my back in the healthiest way.

When I first came back home after spending almost a month in ICU, I could hardly walk. I never felt so weak. I had to start by getting my strength back. I started walking and went back to the gym (Anytime Fitness) where I had Carl (owner/trainer) revise my weekly workout to accommodate my new challenges with my lower back. He modified my workout, and I started out slow.

Unfortunately, I also gained some weight from not being able to workout for the past 3+ months. My work was cut-out for me. I had to change the way I eat. Portion control is a huge issue that I deal with. I have to specifically cut down on the amount of food I put on my plate. Also, my husband George has been studying a lot of different health sites, especially those that deal with healthy food combining.

Here's an easy definition: food combining is no singular diet, but a lasting new form of nourishment, with a small but important change of your nutritional habit.

How Food Combining works:
You can eat what you want.
You can eat how much you want.
You can combine food but never protein and carbohydrate.

Currently my challenge is to work-out on a daily basis. Today I wasn't able to go to my gym, so I worked out at home with my big workout ball, doing exercises on my yoga mat, using the ball for doing core exercises. I also took Louie for a walk, with was refreshing after a much needed rain here in Austin. I didn't do so well with the kind of food I ate today, but tomorrow I will strive to eat only healthy things and stick to the food combining rules.

This time of year will be a good challenge to drop weigh. Let's see what I can do in this department. Tomorrow's another day.