Today I am really tired. I didn’t go to bed until after midnight mostly because I just had a lot on my mind. There is just so much going on and it has been a real challenge to quiet my mind and get sleep. My oldest daughter, 7, started track practices yesterday so I am also trying to adjust to our newest schedule. Track practices are 3 times a week at 6 – 7:30PM. She is also participating in softball and will have softball practice at least one day a week. Don’t forget about Girl Scouts because we are signed up for that too. Girl Scouts is twice a month on Friday’s and sometimes there are field trips on the weekend. Softball games are going to be on Saturday and Track Meets on Sunday. I am not sure what I was thinking about signing her up for all of this stuff but I just don’t want her sitting around watching TV and this is usually what happens when I don’t make an effort to keep her really busy.
Although thinking about all of this stuff overwhelms me I am going to make the most of my time outdoors at both track and softball practices. I am hoping this will be an opportunity to finally get an exercise routine going. It has been a long time since I exercised consistently and I miss it. I will run a few miles on the track while Chey is practicing. I will probably start out walking though, as I am in no shape to run right now. Exercise is not something that I have talked about much here on Yeast Free Living but it is a very important part of the candida diet. Exercise is an important part of any healthy lifestyle.
I know the opportunity to exercise will be beneficial to my overall health and therefore positively impact my candida diet program but I am really worried about this new hectic schedule compromising the progress I have made in terms of eating on the candida diet. In the past when I was pressed for time like so many of us are, I resorted to fast, processed and sugar laden foods. I do not want to end up in that place again feeling like crap and dragging myself through each day because I am not eating right. I am just afraid that the candida diet will be too time consuming to maintain as I am trying to juggle these new activities with Chey. So what can I do to ensure that I will stay on the candida diet when things become really hectic? I believe that effective candida diet menu planning and preparing and freezing a lot of candida diet friendly meals is going to be the key to sticking to the candida diet during this hectic time. I am going to take a look around for some recipes that might work for this purpose. I haven’t done chili yet and I think that chili might be a great thing to freeze and reheat in small portions. I realize that it will be challenging to stick to the candida diet during this time but I am ready to tackle this challenge head on. I know how important it is to my health that I do not revert back to eating poorly so I have to make this happen. Wish me luck!
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