The countdown has begun

21 days to go!  One last hurrah!  I'm going for a final push on goals to get as many done as possible.  I had to accept that berry picking isn't going to happen.  After writing my last post, I tried to find a place to go and pick.  Apparently the picking season for berries is very short, and had already ended.  The previous time I had looked, they hadn't started!  The lack of rain this year made the season even shorter than usual according to some sites, and there was damage to baby plants earlier in the year which also didn't help.  So that's one more goal on the 'fail' list.

I reviewed my food journal and noticed a few bad habits.  I tend to graze if I don't have something planned for a meal; I eat too much bread and cheese (or starchy food and dairy) combinations instead of rounded snacks; I'm not getting enough fruits and vegetables.  Also, when I just grocery shop and buy random things instead of buying specific ingredients to make recipes I've chosen, a lot of my food ends up going bad in the fridge before I eat it.

My plan to fix these is to plan out my meals better. I believe I mentioned in a previous post that I've been going through a cookbook to make healthier meals.  Since then, I haven't grazed other than for snacks, which hasn't been often.  I've been sticking to the planned meals without any problems.  And I've been making sure to include a good portion of fruit at breakfast, to increase my fruit/vegetable intake each day.  Before I was basically only eating toast with peanut butter and jam on it for breakfast, which isn't the healthiest thing I could choose.  Lately I've switched to having Greek yogurt with a bit of granola and a lot of fruit.  I even switched over to plain Greek yogurt.  I was wimping out and getting vanilla flavour before.

I only have 50K to go on Freerice - I feel like I'm getting there finally.  50K is manageable. I'll probably be on the website on the last day, frantically answering questions to try to complete the goal. And I have started deleting emails again in the last email account I have to deal with.  It's the one that I use the most and have had the longest, and it is slow going.  But it's going!