Week 1, 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

I know! It's the second week of January and I'm only doing this now! I am so sorry people!  Life got away from me . . . but I am now in my preschool routine with the kids and think I can come back to this blogging thing finally.

So although we're two weeks into the New year, it's Week 1 to your new life.

Where do we start?




Well, all productive journeys start with a plan and a map. So let's begin to create that.

First of all, look at our Introductory Post, What Constitutes the All Natural Life? and decide from there where you want to go. On Thursday, I will share my personal "roadmap" I created last year for moving towards the all - natural lifestyle but for today, your task is not to follow me, but to define your own.

Ask yourself some questions:

What about my life do I not like right now?  It could be your weight, your sugar consumption, your caffeine dependence, how bloated you feel most of the time, or all the chemicals that you fear you are putting into your body through processed foods and cleaning products.


If someone could wave a wand and give me the all-natural lifestyle, without it being work for me to get there, what would that ideally look like?  Would it be just related to food? Or would you want to also move into natural cleaning products, learning how to garden, and making your own, healthy foods, like yogurt and sour cream?


What are my priorities?  Chances are, there will be several areas you want to change? Which ones are most important to you? They may be:

Diet and nutrition
Cleaning products
Beauty products
Alternative health treatment options

Write them all down and then number them according to importance. 

Maybe gardening isn't a desire of yours but cloth diapering is. Perhaps you don't want to quit using Pantene but you would like to eliminate the harsh chemicals from your house cleaning habits. Tylenol may never give you a second thought but you would like to learn how to cut out caffeine.

Right now, write out what you want to change. What your ideal lifestyle is.

Don't get overwhelmed with it. Just write it out. Bullets, paragraphs. . . envision it and put it into words. This will help you once we get our roadmap going on Thursday.

This series will follow my own roadmap, but having yours drafted up in your mind will help you keep your focus as we progress along the way.








For the inroductory posts to this series, check out:

• Why the All-Natural Life? Part 1 
• The Diet Cure 
• Why the All Natural Life? Part 2
• What Constitutes the All Natural Life?
  
• Tyra Banks video on the raw diet