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January is such a difficult month. So many things vying for your attention, so many different people trying to influence you to make promises about what you are and aren’t going to do this year. Unless you’ve had a good think about it beforehand (like november), resolutions are made impulsively, and then not kept as you realise how difficult they really are. I didn’t make any resolutions this year. With moving house, being exhausted from pregnancy, and facing a year with more uncertainty than ever about how my life is going to change, it seemed ridiculous to suddenly announce upon waking up on the 1st that I was going to become a completely different person, right here, right now.

However, I am not against becoming a different person, in certain respects. My eating habits for example. But I have failure issues (which I’m not sure I want to get into in this post), which prevent me from making sweeping statements like “from now on I will no longer eat cakes” (as if I’m ever likely to say such a stupid thing). Far better to trial run such life-changing initiatives.

Hence the month of eating what the government says we should. At least as far as fruits and vegetables are concerned. For the month of February we are going to try and eat the recommended 2 fruit and 5 veggie servings every day. Fruit is not likely to be an issue, but veggies could prove trickier. I’m planning a chart which I’ll stick on the fridge so that we can tick off our progress. The bonus of this is that hopefully by the end of the month we’ll be used to such eating, and we won’t say “that was fun, now let’s go back to the old way of doing it”.

If you want to read some more about trial-running potential life-changing decisions, you can go to Steve Pavlina’s blog, and more specifically, this post. I’m not in total agreement with everything else he has to say, but the 30-day trial seems sound to me.

And yes, I realise that February has but 28 days. We’re hardcore enough to tackle it in less than 30. We like a challenge.