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2024 is the Year I Prioritize Self Care

It has been a while since I have been on this blog! I decided to bring it back for a little while to post about my first challenge of 2024. I decided that 2024 is going to be the year where I take care of myself first. It has been a couple of years of intense stress for many reasons, and I really need to think about taking care of myself more.

I've decided for my New Year's resolutions this year to try and do a different challenge each month to try and become healthier in a different way. So this doesn't just mean diet or exercise, but things like getting adequate sleep and keeping myself out of stressful situations.

My challenge for January is twofold: I'm going to do a salad a day challenge for the entire month of January where I will have a salad of some type every single day. This does not mean that I'm going to have lettuce every single day, there are lots of salads that don't have lettuce at all, but I'm going to have some type of salad every single day. I have been eating so much processed food in the form of protein bars and protein chips and even meal replacements like huel that I have really been neglecting my fresh fruits and vegetables or even Frozen or canned fruits and vegetables. So I'm going to try and stay away from a lot of the processed foods for January and try out eating salads everyday. It just has to be for one meal each day but if I decide I want to eat more salad that is totally an option.

My second challenge for the month of January is to drink a health or Wellness tea everyday as well as try and finish the teas from my Advent calendar that I have not gotten around to trying from December. The health and wellness teas could be something as simple as a peppermint tea or a chamomile tea. Or it could be something like Throat Coat or sinus Soother or a detox tea. Something that has some sort of claimed health benefit like soothing the stomach or the throat or helping with sinus headaches or helping you sleep. This will be part of the taking care of myself self-care kind of environment.

I'll check in periodically to let you know how my challenges are going! Until then, Happy New Year!
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