There has to be a trick to it!

So the mason jar salads went really well. In fact, I've even kept up with it by making a salad for this past week as well! I'm still not feeling my life fall back into place though.

It's a bit ironic, what I really pinpoint as the moment I got off the rails again was during Lent. I gave up Netflix and TV and didn't have anything to fill the extra time. Ironic, neh? By trying to give up a "bad" habit, I fell back into worse ones. Let the lesson be learned, bad is not the same for everyone! While the TV was playing, I would sketch or do laundry, cook and experiment with various things. Without it, I found myself wasting time on the internet and drinking and there I went! Back down the unhealthy rabbit hole.

I'm trying to figure out what was the magic key that clicked and got me on track back in October. Was it the Herbal Cleanse? Tried that again and failed. The weekly meetings? Can't really replicate that on my own. The copious amount of time spent sweating? I'm getting in some with my yoga assistant practice. Or was there some nebulous alignment of various things, both conscious and subconscious that just clicked into place?

I'll never really know but I'm going to keep trying to get back there. Resolution for the next week: Wake up at 6 or before every morning. Even if I don't have plans, just wake up and enjoy some tea and sit outside (if the mosquitoes allow!).

I want to feel myself closer to being the person I want to be as I approach the anniversary of Spark. All alcoholics experience some backsliding, so maybe this is just my moment of relapse into the old lazy person I've found it too easy to be for the last several years.

This week

So the theme for this week is mason jars. Yup, just as this trend is passing its peak and going on the downswing, I am jumping on board!

Basically, I'm hoping this can encourage me to eat more salad. I've picked two recipes that I'll make for lunch  tonight that I will eat for the week. I'm also going to give sprouting at home a try. I'll be picking up some screen for the lids of my mason jars so that I can see how this works. I really loved throwing sprouts into my cooking in Japan (20 cents for a giant bag of mung bean sprouts, cheapest way to add veggies to anything!).

I will be making Asian Noodle Salad (with zucchini for noodles) and Citrus Chicken and Orzo salad. Recipes shamelessly cribbed from Buzzfeed recommendations.

I'll keep all my non-existent readers updated! Maybe I'll even try to figure out posting pictures!