This weeks blog is a little longer but has lots of great info that I am sharing with you! Stick around to see the sweet pictures at the end.
On Lint of 2016, I decided to give up Donuts for the rest of the year. I know, for some people, this is not that big of a deal, you don't even like donuts. But if you know me, you know how much I LOVE donuts. They are my pleasure food, they can be my happy food, they can give me joy along with a massive sugar crash. When I ate donuts, I would eat a box of donuts, not one or two, it was more like eight or ten. Clearly this is super unhealthy and I needed to change that habit. I could feel my body ache after I would devour donuts and I would have terrible energy levels and sometimes even headaches after eating them. But I always came back to my excuse of, "Where else can you eat 4,000 calories for 99cents!?" I clearly have some issues there haha. I can say that I successfully finished off 2016 donut free. I did have a couple donuts on New Years Day but have been away from them since and am hoping to stay away and/or enjoy in very conservative moderation for all of 2017 and beyond!
You probably don't have the same problem with donuts that I do, but I think it is a pretty safe bet that we ALL have a food that is our go to comfort food, and the likely-hood that your comfort food is amazing for your health is probably pretty slim.(get it? ha) I want to challenge you to overcome that food, I want you to be able to eat it in moderation, or maybe not at all depending on what it is. My challenge is this:
Donut even think about it. I want to challenge you to go WITHOUT your comfort food for 56 days. Completely forget about it for a whole 2 months.
More and more research is showing the scary effects sugar has on our bodies, young and old and some are even calling it a "drug" to which I would say isn't so far fetched after I read this article below. Check it out and Let me know your thoughts on Sugar.
Reminder that The Whole Life Challenge starts January 21st
Just for a minute consider something…
Consider who you want to be on March 18th.
If you were at the very top of your health and well-being, what would you feel like? What would your family members and friends say about you? How much energy would you have?
So fast-forward and paint yourself a picture: What do you look like on March 18th?
That’s what the Whole Life Challenge will do for you when you join my team and make a commitment to replace a few bad lifestyle habits with good lifestyle habits. (You can learn more about the Whole Life Challenge by watching the video here.)
Once you watch the videos, you can join my team here: http://www.whole.lc/wlc1701/pt/kolbychallenge. For eight weeks, starting on January 21st and ending on March 18th, we’ll work on all the areas of our well-being—like nutrition, stretching,and exercise, for starters.
The Whole Life Challenge is basically a game that challenges us to “try on” a whole life of health and fitness for eight weeks. As a team, we can win points and lose points (hopefully we’ll win more than we lose). And the prize is … Well, it’s who you are on March 18th.
I will be doing little raffles throughout the challenge as well, fun little prizes never hurt anybody :)
I hope you’ll watch the videos and join my team. In fact, I WANT you on my team!
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbicemIo-Sk
To join my team: http://www.whole.lc/wlc1701/pt/kolbychallenge
Our Team’s name: WaterWODTraining
Sailing on Saturdays
This past weekend I got to participate in a sailing race from Marina Del Rey to the Malibu pier and back again. Conditions started off great with a little bit of sun and wind although we were expecting rain and cold. Coming in hot at the Malibu pier, the wind died and our race turned into a struggle to stay moving. In the end we had to retire from the race because we would not finish in the allotted time. When we retired, it was dark and there was no wind. Still having fun, we ended up towing another sailboat, who's engine went out, the 40 minute ride back to the marina under engine (with the motor running) Thankful that I get to continue to learn, and be awed by all the awesomeness that sailing is. Check out a few go pro photos below