Between travelling, starting my coaching session, and the general transitional period I’m currently in, my body is taking a beating! After my trip to Vegas, I was holding so much tension/stress/worry/overwhelm in my upper back that I could barely move my neck for days. This time, I’ve been experiencing a whole lotta gastric distress (to use the clinical term).
Lessons learned. I need to focus more while travelling on eating my usual diet, even if it means going out of my way or spending more $. I also need to ease back into eating clean if I haven’t for a while. Trying to jump back into a 1 week Crazy/Sexy Cleanse after weeks of abusing my body with travel, inconsistent workouts, sugar, bits of dairy, and just not fresh foods was not ideal. Got it body. And I’m sorry I took you for granted.
My mantra the past two days has been: “I give myself permission to let go with ease.” And yes, I mean this both figuratively and literally. <–couldn’t resist! 
I’ve been on mostly liquid foods diet with the addition of some soluble fiber (read: half a box of cereal) and some “gentle” fresh foods (green smoothie + apple with peanut butter). I’ve been rocking supported bridge pose and various hip openers for minutes at a time. They haven’t done a ton to resolve the issue but I can literally feel stuff (I shan’t say “shit” I shan’t say shit) moving around. And, after much research, I went and bought myself some of this stuff.
That’s right folks…15 billion bacterial cultures, twice a day (per the recommendation of the health food store lady). My real-life go-to guru for all things holistic, Sarah, suggested this brand and, luckily, my local health food store had it. *whew* I’ve taken two doses so far and am happy to report that I am, in fact, starting to *ahem* let go with ease. In plainer terms, I can fit into jeans again, a feat which was not even close to possible yesterday when I looked at least four months pregnant (I’m not at all) and couldn’t even squeeze into leggings!
As part of my let my body rest and heal and rejuvenate, you are getting a very quick P:FB post today.
Tip of the Week
Shop around! Don’t go out of your way and waste excessive amounts of gas and and time and energy, but see if you can combine trips in a way that allows you to get the most stuff for your buck! For example, this week we needed TP. So I picked it up at Wegmans after doing the math out. I wasn’t super happy with the $10 purchase but it was later on Sunday and I just wanted to get my goodies and go. On the way home I stopped at CVS to pick up some new wrist braces and figured I’d check out their TP prices on a whim. I ended up saving a close to $6 on TP just by taking those couple of minutes to walk across the store. So if there are other places you pass en route to your “main” store, check their circulars. If you pick up prescriptions at a pharmacy rather than your grocery store, check their prices while you are there. If you purchase two of the same item, no worries…return the other (obviously this depends on your store’s return policy) and enjoy your savings!
Meal Plan
This, this (I used the whole sprout), this (basically the best mac & cheese ever), and this plus lots of green smoothies, tea, and cereal!
SpendingSavings
Wegmans: $22.66
Trader’s: $15.42
CVS: $2.25
Total: $40.33 
I’m back in the game! woot
Total Elgibile Spending: $24.91
Total Savings: $16.26 (65%)
That’s all for today folks…gotta get back to nourishing and healing my God Pod.
Yoga/beauty/healing/savings,
Kait xo
PS Give my fellow budgeteers some loving!
- Emily Levenson
- Dairy-Free Cooking
- Test Kitchen Tuesday
- Red Pen Mama
- Acquired Tastes
- Fit Flexitarian
- Warm As Pie
- Katy Rank Lev
- My Inner Healthy
- Little Blue Hen
- xox, b
- Project Food Budget 2.0
- Fresh…A New Chapter
- Two Eggs Over Easy
- That’s Just Me
- Eat Whole Be Vital
- Four Happy Violets
- Naturally {Un}refined
- Pgh Dad
- yogabeautylife
- Charmingly Modern
- naMAMAste
- Six Dollars a Day
- The Gluten-Free Vegan
- What da Health?
- Twice the Twinsanity
- Brandon and on…
- French Press
Thanks for the link love!
I was just recently asked to do a review of a brand of probiotics called GoodBelly that you might like. It’s my first time taking a probiotic and I’ve only been drinking it for a few days, but it definitely lets you “go with ease”, as you so nicely phrased it. haha You can find it near the refrigerated juices at Whole Foods and so far, all three of the flavors I’ve tried have been really good. I’ll plan on doing a review on my blog in the next couple of weeks after I finish their “12 day challenge”.
Of course! Although I fully blame those damn sprouts for the predicament I’m in. I couldn’t stop eating…the entire pound that I roasted! =/ Haha But seriously…both those recipes rock. I needed a good way to use the 2lb bag of brussel sprouts I got for $2 at Wegmans!
I’ve heard of Goodbelly but for now I’m sticking with my $23 (!) pills. We’ll see where to go from there…and I’m super interested to see your review.
PS Jealous of your review offers! Still getting there…
thanks for linking up the mac n cheeze on my site!
You’re very welcome! It was the perfect comfort meal.