Last days of our 12 habits in 21 days mission

Bye bye Miss Ion! We're done with the 12 habits in 21 days mission.

And let us tell you – even though we haven’t kept all the rules, and we can honestly say that we broke pretty much all of them, given the 30-years-old-at-heart-teenage-rebellion that we are, we still managed to make most of them a habit.

We're long not done with our goal to have solid skin, hair, body and health, but at least we could adopt some habits on the right road to our goal.

Speaking of roads – we were traveling this last week a little, so we did not have access to healthy foods, as we were also not able to prepare it myself.

As we announced on Tuesday we were pretty excited to be on the road, because it’s a good excuse to eat some pizza and drink some coffee. And that’s exactly what we did day 18.

Yes we completely took advantage of that situation on Wednesday.

But we must say besides both coffees, the tuna pizza and the kinda salty shrimps in tomato sauce we made for dinner, we had a green smoothie in the morning.

And we even managed to go to a Zumba class to jump around and point our finger at people who could not do the moves (mostly myself) and maybe burn 10 or 15 kcals.

Day 19 was a day of a team building event and we again drank coffee and had some not-to-be-trusted foods.

We did not take pics of everything we ate that day as we didn’t want to come across as a Japanese in Rome. Not that we give a rat’s ass what anyone thinks of us, if we want to do something, we just do it.

Doesn’t matter if Her Majesty, whoever that is, is disapproving.

Yes…smoothie and carrot cake – okay. Gnocchi & tagliatelle drown in cheese sauce – not so much on the slim side. But much on the DELICIOUS side.

Add two servings of tagliatelle with mushrooms, 3 desserts and 2 coffees and day 19 is done. No workout no nothing.

And after two days like that we understood the difference between eating healthy and exercising and eating crap and sitting on your lazy ass after work.

Even though we didn’t see a difference in our appearance – we didn’t gain any weight – after 2 days of only coffee, pizza, pasta and sweets our mood was bad, we felt heavy and we didn’t actually have any energy and motivation to do something.

A reliable thing about eating healthy and exercising is that both are interconnected. We felt so powerful when we were working out, we had a positive mindset, was in a reliable mood and always felt like we can truly kick anyone’s ass.

Which by the way we did not. We're a peaceful rebellion.

Eating healthy and having our smoothies in the morning made us feel energized – we never thought we would not miss a hot beverage. We imagine Sheldon might offer us one kindly in the morning, if he was living across the hall instead of the 80 years old woman who looks evil.

But once you get used to those morning smoothies – you can not live without them.

And eating healthy motivated us to do more sports – we guess because our body feels alive, we just need to spend all that energy with extra exercises – and that motivates us to eat healthy again. It’s called the circle of life. Or maybe not.

Day 20 was a day without a coffee (finally) but not versatile – we had to be out of our house at 6am, so no time for a smoothie and we did not have any time for breakfast. Back at home we had 3 (we repeat: THREE!!!!) portions of this bulgur with vegetables.

This meal is pretty addictive and healthy. This does not excuse the fact that we only ate those portions throughout the day. And in the evening we went to a pilates class. It’s a worse mediocre day.

But at least we did not drink coffee. We just decided we don’t want it and we didn’t buy one. And this is why we're most proud of myself this year – having control over myself and over our actions. Saying you will never drink coffee, you will never drink alcohol, you will never eat sugar, you will never eat meat, you will never pee in a public place – just sounds like you want to punish yourself. And we've been doing this for a while – forbidding myself normal things. This leads only to overdoing them one day. And then it triggers guilt. And feelings of insuccess. And low self esteem and lack of control over yourself eventually.

But doing things slowly and giving yourself time to decide whether you truly want something or you’re only brainwashing yourself by not giving it to yourself when you need it – will give you control. Not control over everyone and everything, but over yourself. And that’s a lot. That’s power – the power to have something when you want it and to say no to it, when you actually don’t want it. You are saying good bye to a bad habit. That’s all it is.

Yes and day 21 we said good bye to our 12 habits in 21 days mission. It was yesterday – we drank coffee, we had a cupcake, a satisfying lentil soup and a salad. We would not say it’s the solid ending on a story, but there’s nothing solid in life. Besides lentils that is.

We did not take pics, or we took but those were not good and are still on our phone. Anyway we're ready now for the next step and we'll write a summary tomorrow of how we solved some of our challenges during the 12 habits in 21 days mission.

Bye bye Miss Ion Possible!