Derek reports on the first 4 weeks of the journey with a focus on increasing mindfulness, the benefits of cooking with kids and how the best learning is done while teaching.

Baking wiht a nine year old had some surprising results, including a sickening insight into the amount of sugar and fat in normal cakes. This has proven to be a huge step for both derek and his role modelling for the kids, as the next task is to discover yummy recipies that are a bit healthier than commercially available snacks.

They also discovered that food the kids cook is far more likely to be given the thumbs up regardless of the healthiness.

TASK REPORT

week1: 16/8 fasting - so far so good. a bit tricky sometimes with time schedules. flexibility is a must to avoid starvation

week 2: Bob's Water Bottle - easy, but big gains in keystone habit forming. Now would usually refill the bottle half way through the day.

week 3: Josh's instagram food diary - I am tasked with taking a picture of every thing that enters my mouth. This is meant to increase awareness (and I suspect it would) rather than shame. So far it is going reasonably. Even if we miss some pics, the residual mindfulness is definitely increased.

week 4: Philip Beattie says go shopping - preparation. make sure you go shopping and have healthy choices in the fridge for when you are hungry - Derek will shop every Sunday and Thursday specifically for healthy snack options. So far this has been difficult. Will be the biggest challeng eso far to add this behavior to my routine.

week 5: Derek has added 5000steps per day to the challenge. This will be easy to achieve BUT the point is to add the routing of chacking to each day AND while doing so learn what type of day increases or decrreases steps.

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