Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change: Week 5

My SMART goal is to eat 3 servings of fresh vegetables everyday. And well this week, once again, wasn't any better than last week. I have been having some troubles with  my teeth. I started eating regular food sooner than I should have and I became swollen all over again, so I was forced to go back to eating applesauce, yogurt, and pudding, ick! As of today I have resorted to eating soggy cereal because if I have to eat one more spoonful of applesauce I may actually throw up! To deal with this challenge I have been looking and researching a little bit for ideas of soft and different meals that I could eat, especially ones have some sort of vegetable in it. If you have any ideas let me know! This week I learned that when people tell you it's going to be "awhile" before you can eat solid food again, "awhile" doesn't mean 4 days, it literally means "awhile", like a week or two.  I also learned that I need to be a little more patient with these kind of problems. Healing is a long process, in words of my mother and roommates "You have to remember you had your gum tissues cut open and four, rather large, teeth yanked out, you are NOT going to be healed in a week!" Darn it!! I will keep my plan the way it is. My plans for this next week is to do some deep research on meals that are soft and nutritious and if worse comes to worse, I have a blender!

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change: Week 4

My SMART goal is to eat 3 servings of fresh vegetables every day. This week achieving my SMART goal was very very difficult. I had one big challenge this week, and really no successes, to be completely honest. The one challenge I had was on Thursday I got all four of my wisdom teeth pulled so I have had to eat extremely soft foods. I'm still having trouble eating "normal" foods. I feel like I have failed the project, because I haven't been able to eat hardly anything. It's frustrating and annoying. I miss eating regular foods. I try everyday to eat "normal" foods but it doesn't last long because my jaw starts to hurt, but I'm going to keep trying everyday. I guess the lesson I learned this week is to always brush and take care of my teeth, even though it was my wisdom teeth, not like rotten teeth, but I never want to get teeth pulled again. I enjoy eating solid food too much. My plans for next week is to make up for this week and go ALL week long without slipping up. I will continue with my goal, I can do it!

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change: Week 3

My SMART is to eat 3 servings of fresh vegetables everyday. Achieving my goal this week was difficult once again. Some successes I had was making sure I ate 3 servings of vegetables daily fresh or not fresh. There wasn't really any strategies that came into when making sure I ate 3 servings daily. But some challenges I had was making sure I had fresh vegetables around the house. This time it wasn't so much that I was leaving to go somewhere, like going home last week, it was more I've been really tight on money because I had car issues and bills to pay and everything just seemed pile on at once money wise. I decided that for this week just the 3 servings of vegetables daily would be better than eating 1 serving of fresh vegetables daily. I felt a little disappointed in myself when I wasn't able to eat fresh vegetables but like I said I figured just eating vegetables in general was better than nothing. I learned this week, and not with just this assignment but I learned in general that I need to manage my money better although some things, like car troubles, I can't help. My plans for this next week is to come up with a budget plan. I will continue with my SMART, I am determined to complete this challenge.

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change: Week 2

My SMART Goal was to eat 3 servings of vegetables everyday. The first few days of starting my SMART goal went really well. I ate some fresh green beans, green peppers, etc. I then went home for the weekend and ran into some challenges, that set me back. A challenge I faced was on Saturday I went to Cranberry Festival in my home town, I was there from 9:30am to 6:00pm and the only food available to for me to eat was either burgers or hotdogs. There wasn't a whole lot of options for vegetables. Solution could have been that when I got home at six was to just eat all three servings but that caused another problem/challenge. Because my house is now used as our cabin and my parents are only up there on the weekends, they don't keep fresh vegetables around. In replacement of no fresh vegetables I ate canned vegetables (which I know aren't as healthy) and recycled the can, so I got in most my servings and still kept it Eco-Chic by recycling. What I learned this week was to plan for different environments, such as traveling home. My plans for this next week are think ahead and what my plans are and try and figure out how I'm going to get my three servings of FRESH vegetables. I will be keeping my SMART Goal as is.

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 1: My SMART Goal

My SMART Goal is I will eat 3 servings (serving = 1/2cup) of fresh vegetables everyday. I chose this SMART goal because I wanted to do something that was not only good for the environment but good for me as well. I started out wanting to eat less processed and packaged foods but I had to narrow it down and be more specific. I thought about doing fruit but fruit, for me, would be too easy because it taste a lot better than vegetables. I needed to find something that was going to be a challenge but yet doable. My goal is eco-chic because I will be buying vegetables that aren't pre-packaged or in a can and that are crisp and fresh.

Welcome to Fun in the Sun with Andrea

Welcome to Fun in the Sun with Andrea

My name is Andrea  and I'm studying Community Health Education. Something I love to do is to be outside in the sun biking, hiking, or just being a beach bum. This blog is going to be about having fun outdoors, under the warm sun while being environmentally friendly! There are 5 possible types of posts on my blog. They Include:

1. Advocacy Project
2. Eye Openers
3. Reflections
4. Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change
5. Share and Voice

If you notice at the bottom of this post, the categories will be listed as labels. This post has been labeled with all five kinds of posts. You will also see the number of each kind of post in my Labels Gadget at the top of the page. All post titles from now on will begin with one of the categories above.

The members of my web group are:

1. Amy and Kristen@Enviro-Surfing with Amy & Kristen 
2. Sarra@Sarra's Notes in Nature
3. Jamie@Jamie on the Big Lake
4. Caleb@Caleb Cares About Contamination 

You can follow my blog by clicking "Follow this Blog" in the gadget column. You can see my complete profile and all the blogs I am following by clicking on "See Complete Profile." I hope everyone learns to have just as much fun in the sun as I do!