30 Chic Days – The Fourth Series: Day 5

I like to make the bed and lay my clothes out before showering.  It feels so luxurious.

It’s Day 5 of the 30 Chic Days series.  If you’ve just joined us, you can catch up from to Day 1 here.

I’m following a simple format, logging my day.  The goals are:

Awareness of what I’m doing each day

Where I am placing my focus, and

Remembering what I want to achieve.

Here’s what I will be reporting on each day for thirty days:

What I ate

What I wore

How I moved my body

What I read

My focus for the day

Day 5:

What I ate

2 x tea with trim milk first thing

Breakfast – two pieces of sourdough toast with butter and apricot converve, a soy milk latte (homemade)

Lunch – homemade chicken curry (Balti) with rice and vegetables, a coffee and apricot Frooze Ball.  I go through food phases sometimes.  I’m in a Frooze Ball phrase at the moment, as awful as the name is.  I think I will call them bliss balls.  I’m also in a coffee phase, drinking more coffee than tea at the moment, apart from 6am when I love to have two big mugs of tea if I have the time.  One mug barely hits the sides and I like it piping hot.

Afternoon tea – a mandarin

Dinner – Roast chicken with real gravy made by me in the pan, roast potato, carrot, onion and kumara (sweet potato), steamed cauliflower and broccoli.  Tea with trim milk, 2 squares of 72% cacao Dark Ghana chocolate (Whittakers).

What I wore

Two layered tops – the fine knit undertop is brown melange and was a gift (Bella Luxx), the black linen knit overtop is one I bought at Zara in Sydney last year and I’ve hardly worn it because I don’t know what to do with it.  It’s too low cut to wear by itself and I don’t often layer, so the cost per wear has been quite high for an inexpensive top.  With blue-wash Diesel jeans and Vans shoes.

How I moved

I went for a 45-minute walk after work.  I could have skipped it but I’d been sitting down a lot and would also be sitting down at home, either on the sofa or my office chair, so it was nice to get out.  The weather was mild and clear and I really enjoyed it.  With some good audio to listen to of course.

What I read

I read a bit of my favourite celebrity magazine after I got back from my walk – the UK edition of Hello.  I love this magazine so much (it has big glossy features of glamorous people and their homes) that I used to subscribe, but when it came time to renew for another year I didn’t.  Not so much for the money but because I find it really hard to let magazines go so they pile up and stress me out.  I get it out of the library each week now which is great because I have it for two weeks and then it has to go back.  No cost, no clutter.  Win/win.

My focus for the day

My focus for the day was keeping in mind my goals when I am tempted to snack.  Snacking used to be a pleasure and a habit for me.  Sometimes it was only a habit, not a pleasure but I still did it.  I couldn’t even go a day without eating between meals, and I’m not talking fruit here.

More than four years ago I read the book No More Hangovers by Allen Carr and stopped drinking, without really meaning to.  It was like a switch was flicked and I didn’t fancy alcohol any more.  I’m still baffled as to how it happened so instantaneously but also quite happy about it.  I often thought to myself ‘if only I could find out how to do that with my snacking foods’.  About a month ago I had the thought to re-read the No More Hangovers book and replace all the references to alcohol with my ‘problem foods’ – lollies (candy/sweets), chocolate, ice-cream, potato chips and popcorn.

Well, what do you think happened, the same thing!  I re-read the information a few times but it seemed to sink in straight away; I no longer snack and haven’t had these foods since then.  It’s almost a minor miracle and I’m thrilled.

But back to my focus for the day; every so often – near weekends mostly because that’s the time when we have more treats traditionally – I’d think ‘that would be nice’ about one of my old snack foods.  Then I’d remember ‘I don’t eat those anymore and I don’t want to’ and the thought simply floats away.  A-mazing.  In the old days that thought would corner me until I gave in.

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See you tomorrow, be chic!