Blogger Grace Boyle of Small Hands, Big Ideas describes what it's like to go through a 30-day cleanse.
I embarked on a 30-day food challenge. It was pretty strict. At a high level, I couldn't have:
That eliminates a lot of things we enjoy in our daily consumption of food. But ensures for a lot of clean eating, and it also promoted points for sleeping eight hours, five days a week of working out (I didn't always get five, but always worked out like I do anyway), and 10 minutes a day of meditation or some sort of quiet time without technology.
Today is the last day of the challenge, and I'm happy to say I stuck to — I'm most happy about the no booze and no sugar.
The biggest win for me was about forming new habits. There are a lot of two-week cleanses or 10-day challenges, and for me, I knew I needed to do a full 30 days. I feel like anyone could do anything for 30 days, and I needed to commit to it — all or nothing. No point to skimp here or there — might as well do it all the way. Besides a few little hiccups, or not being able to control what my food was cooked in or when I ate out, I was as strict as could be.
Although today is the last day, I'm not rushing off to get a bottle of wine and I will keep cooking more and probably eating like I have for the last 30 days (with some windows for fun). For now, I'm going to give myself a hug and relax a little though. 'Cause, I did it!