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On this special recap episode of Try Living With Lucie, our host, Lucie Fink reviews what challenges she has stuck with throughout the year. She updates us on what changes she has incorporated into her daily routine. Press play to learn what 5 day challenges Lucie is still trying!  Episodes Mentioned: 5 Days Of Meal Prep https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWaU47V3rMU 5 Days Of Calligraphy https://youtube.com/watch?v=HDJYRLqTUjo 5 Days Of Spring Cleaning https://youtube.com/watch?v=n6M8MIMGcJs 5 Days Of Becoming More Organized https://youtube.com/watch?v=X3U1v-woUqc& 5 Days Of Different Styles https://youtube.com/watch?v=jUTtY4JQKeM 5 Days Of Indoor Gardening https://youtube.com/watch?v=tF-uyHBgQ8g 5 Days Of Becoming A Morning Person https://youtube.com/watch?v=khxztJmtJHo 5 Days Of Ayurveda https://youtube.com/watch?v=HWThjgT0D14 5 Days Of Learning New Skills https://youtube.com/watch?v=OF9jffX7qiI  ABOUT SERIES Try Living With Lucie follows our favorite R29 millennial, Lucie Fink, as she dives headfirst into social experiments — five days at a time. From a week without sugar to full-blown street performing; there is nothing she won't try!   ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  RELATED CONTENT 5 Days Of A Capsule Wardrobe https://youtube.com/watch?v=Di9Bjf_OPj4 5 Days Of Meal Prep https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWaU47V3rMU&t=521s 5 Days Of Sleeping On The Floor https://youtube.com/watch?v=HsV_cwDY4l4  SEE MORE REFINERY29 VIDEOS http://refinery29.com/video  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 For the latest trends and videos, visit: http://refinery29.com Like Refinery29 on Facebook: https://facebook.com/refinery29 Follow Refinery29 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/refinery29 Heart Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/  TALENT Follow Lucie Fink on Instagram: https://instagram.com/luciebfink/ Follow Unbothered on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29unbothered/ Follow OnHerTurf on Instagram: https://instagram.com/onherturf/ Follow Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/

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00:00Hey everyone!

00:00If you're new here and you've never seen this channel before in your entire life, click

00:04right here and subscribe.

00:05But also, if you're new here and you've never seen this channel before, you might want to

00:09go back and watch some of my 5 Day Challenge episodes before you watch this recap video.

00:13For those of you that have been following along with Try Living With Lucy, I figured

00:17we have a new year on the horizon, 2019 is almost here, so I figured I'd take some time

00:22to look back at some of my favorite episodes from 2018 and give you all some updates.

00:26One of the most frequent questions I get asked is, after trying all of these lifestyle

00:30challenges, what are you still doing?

00:33People always want to know, months later, after I tried 5 days of organization, is my apartment

00:38still clean?

00:38After 5 days of indoor gardening, are my plants still alive?

00:41Am I now officially a morning person after 5 days of becoming a morning person?

00:45I get tons of Instagram DMs asking me this almost every day, so I figured I'd bundle it

00:50all into one beautifully packaged video and give it to you for Christmas.

00:55Enjoy.

00:55So, first stop is the first video of 2018, 5 Days of Meal Prep.

01:02Way, way back in January 2018, I did 5 Days of Meal Prepping where I spent one entire Sunday

01:07prepping my breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the 5 day work week.

01:11So do I still meal prep?

01:13And the answer is, not for 5 days worth of food.

01:17After filming this episode, I realized that not only was the food towards the end of the

01:20week, kind of soggy and a little wilted for my taste, but it also felt a little bit monotonous

01:25to eat the same thing every single day.

01:27And personally, my taste buds crave diversity.

01:30My schedule at Refinery29 is way less predictable than a typical 9 to 5 office job.

01:35So since I'm on set shooting videos about 2 to 3 days a week, I'm never quite sure where

01:40I'm going to be for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

01:42And also, many of my meals are eaten with the crew on set.

01:45So bringing my own meals sometimes is not always feasible, and can be a little bit rude to

01:50the others.

01:50All of this being said, the 5 Days of Meal Prep episode did help me start to feel a little

01:54bit more comfortable in the kitchen.

01:56I feel like I'm un-chopped.

01:57How do we want to cook the chicken?

01:59How's my rice doing?

02:00Ah!

02:01And I've also made Alyssa Gagarin's Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Chickpea Bars about 5 or 6 more

02:06times in 2018 because they are so good.

02:09Alright, on to the next episode.

02:13To be totally honest with you all, there have only been a few episodes of Try Living

02:17with Lucy to date that have deeply affected my life.

02:20To name a few, 5 Days of Yoga, I now practice yoga 2 to 3 times a week.

02:245 Days of Ayurveda, I've studied this topic extensively and it's now become a major part

02:29of my lifestyle.

02:30And also 5 Days of Zero Waste, which has affected how I live my life both inside and outside

02:34of my apartment.

02:35And one other episode that has really stuck with me and added a major new hobby into my life

02:40was 5 Days of Calligraphy and Hand Lettering.

02:42My first bullet journaling episode in 2017 inspired me to start a bullet journal of my

02:47own.

02:47And once I began my 2018 bullet journal, my hand lettering and calligraphy skills were

02:52put to good use.

02:53I've shared most of what's in my 2018 bullet journal on YouTube this year, including a

02:57holiday spread which should be on my personal YouTube channel this month.

03:01And you'll probably notice that compared to my first ever video on hand lettering, my

03:05skills have improved drastically in the past year.

03:08And it's all about practicing and getting the strokes down and starting to memorize how

03:12certain letters look when you connect them.

03:15So certain letters like R's and S's were way more difficult for me in the past and now

03:19I'm a lot better at them.

03:20I love that when you type in LucyThink bullet journal to YouTube, you get a selection of

03:25bright and colorful videos that pop up.

03:27And I think if you add up the views on all of those videos, it's approaching about 2 million

03:31views.

03:32It just makes me so happy to see that a skill that I genuinely love doing is being enjoyed

03:36by so many people out there.

03:37Let's keep this moving on to the next episode topic, 5 Days of Self-Care.

03:44As I mentioned in that episode, self-care has become a $400 billion industry.

03:49And as more wellness bloggers and influencers have begun supporting this industry, it's becoming

03:54easier and easier for consumers out there to think that self-care is about buying candles

03:59and crystals and taking bubble baths.

04:02And I'm just going to come out and say it, I'm as guilty as anyone.

04:05I have definitely tied a ton of my Instagram partnerships to self-care.

04:08But it's important to know that even though candles and crystals and baths are amazing,

04:13there's so much more to self-care than those tangible things.

04:16I made that first episode on self-care back in March 2018 after I had a pretty rocky January

04:22that was just filled with stress.

04:23And honestly, as the year has progressed and as my job has gotten crazier and simultaneously

04:28my social media channels have grown, I realized that my stress isn't going anywhere.

04:33As I grow and develop and my career path continues to weave and wind, I know that the

04:38best thing that I can do for myself is to stay grounded.

04:42I'm the only one that's in charge of my health and my happiness.

04:45And as I've come to terms with this, I've ramped up my self-care.

04:492018 has seriously been my healthiest, happiest, and most mindful year yet.

04:54I've started including meditation in my life regularly, often going to meditation classes

04:59in New York City or just listening to YouTube meditations at home.

05:02I've begun listening to tons of podcasts about health and self-care at any opportunity I get.

05:08I've been practicing weekly yoga with my twin sister and I continue to watercolor and bullet

05:13journal as another form of de-stressing.

05:15Alright, for the next episode recap, I'm going to mix two episodes in one because they're

05:19so closely related.

05:205 days of spring cleaning and 5 days of organization.

05:24When I shot both of these episodes, I realized just how true the saying is that outer order creates

05:29inner calm.

05:30Cleaning has surprisingly become something that I actually enjoy doing as an adult.

05:34And I say surprisingly because in my family, I've always been the messy kid.

05:39My twin sister is a total neat freak, my older brother is really organized, and my room

05:44used to be littered with clothes and toys.

05:46And now I've realized just how nice it feels to have things organized, clean, decluttered,

05:52and also how great it feels to donate and to just have fewer things.

05:56I've continued to make my bed every morning, it's become habitual for me, and I actually

06:00have an entirely new system that I use for washing dishes, and believe it or not, it has

06:05become fun, fun to wash dishes.

06:09I basically put on rubber gloves so my hands don't get all pruney, and I start by batch

06:13soaping everything.

06:14So once everything is all soaked up and cleaned, then I batch rinse everything.

06:19This saves water so I'm not running the water as I scrub, and it also makes the process

06:23go by a lot faster.

06:25As for the way I organized my entire apartment in 5 days of organization, honestly I've kept

06:30things pretty neat.

06:31My bathroom cabinets have maybe gotten a little bit more cluttered as I've added a couple

06:35of new products to the shelves here and there, and my closets and drawers of clothes haven't

06:39stayed quite as neat as they were when Horderly came over and taught me how to fold.

06:43T-shirts are still pretty good.

06:45This is the file fold they taught me.

06:47I definitely do need to refold some of those drawers.

06:50I've had a lot of people asking me for more cleaning and organizing episodes.

06:54Many people have even asked to see a clean with me video, you know those 20 minute long

06:58videos on YouTube where I just roll and play a time lapse of me cleaning something.

07:02So if that sounds like something you'd be interested in watching, comment below and let me know.

07:06And now on to the next 5 days of different styles.

07:11This was one of my favorite episodes this year because that week proved to me just how

07:16much your style can affect your confidence and the energy that you exude.

07:20And actually, since filming that one, I do feel like I've started to express my personality

07:25a bit more through fashion.

07:26Growing up, I never really felt like I had a specific sense of fashion.

07:30In fact, I felt like I had no fashion sense because I found myself constantly mixing colors

07:35and patterns that other people told me did not work well together.

07:39But there have been a few instances since this episode that I've found myself picking out

07:43outfits that really correlate to my personality.

07:46For example, I had an engagement party last month and I found myself pulling together this

07:50really unique outfit.

07:51It was these velvet blush pants with a white turtleneck bodysuit.

07:55And then on top of everything was this gold sequined sparkly dress.

07:59I knew that I wanted the outfit to be unique and different and almost a little fairytale-esque,

08:03and I think the outfit I chose really captured my personality.

08:07Above all, I feel like I'm starting to veer away from wearing things that are considered universally

08:11stylish and more towards putting things together that I actually love or that capture a specific

08:17vibe that I'm going for.

08:18And from some of the responses I've been getting on Instagram, it's becoming increasingly clear

08:22to me that it's really not about what you wear, but it's about your confidence and how

08:26you rock it.

08:27Up next, five days of indoor gardening.

08:32In this episode, I worked with my friend Maria Faiella from the Bloom and Grow Radio podcast

08:36to completely transform my space and add 26 plants and a pet fish Buttercup into my house.

08:43I've had tons of people asking me how Buttercup's doing, and I know I shared this update on Instagram,

08:48but I'll share it here too.

08:49I actually gifted Buttercup to a family friend.

08:51She's a 12-year-old girl who desperately wanted a fish, and I realized that she would be a way

08:56better fish mom than I was going to be because my travel schedule is crazy.

09:00A couple of my window sill plants are doing better than others.

09:02So the snake plant is thriving, it grew a few more sprouts, and it's pretty tall.

09:06The sago palm looks good.

09:08The parlor palm is not doing so hot, I'm not sure how to revive this one.

09:13And the money tree looks okay, but the leaves are starting to get some holes in them.

09:16Since the episode, I've also added two new plants to that window sill.

09:20My kitchen herb garden is looking great too, so I've switched to using an herb garden from

09:24a company called Click and Grow.

09:26They come in pods, and it's super easy to maintain.

09:28First, I was growing basil, and then once I harvested all that basil, I switched it to

09:32peppermint.

09:33And I use the herbs all the time to make tea.

09:35My lime tree is thriving.

09:37He's grown so many more leaves since the episode, and I've continued to water him about every

09:41three days or so.

09:42I even got a cute new ceramic watering can that I love.

09:45I just love seeing all the greenery around here, and I've inspired many of my friends

09:49to start getting plants for their homes too.

09:52Also, since the episode, I've named each of my plant babies.

09:55The windowsill plants are all names from the office, so Dwight Schrute is my snake plant,

10:00Kevin Malone is my money tree, then there's Phyllis and Toby, who's not looking so hot.

10:05The two newer plants are Jim and Pam, and I did originally have six air plants, and they

10:09were Andy, Erin, Kelly, Ryan, Angela, and Oscar, but all of them, except for Oscar, have died.

10:15My lime tree is Michael Scott, and then in my bedroom, I have three succulents, and those

10:20are the mean girls, Gretchen, Karen, and Regina George.

10:24Next episode, five days of becoming a morning person.

10:28There was a time earlier this year when all I freaking wanted was to become a morning person.

10:34The thing you want to do is most definitely wake up early.

10:38Why do I want to do that?

10:40Um, because you want to be a morning person?

10:43Do I ever stop talking about it?

10:45Never.

10:46I'm really sick of it.

10:47I felt like morning people were more productive and more successful, and I was so inspired

10:51by people who woke up early and accomplished half of their to-do list before the sun even

10:56came up.

10:57To be totally honest with you all, interests and goals change, and I'm not really all

11:01that inspired to do this anymore.

11:02I've even come across some studies that say what's best for your body is just what your

11:07body naturally does, so if you don't get tired until later in the night, and you can actually

11:11sleep until later in the morning, then that might actually be what makes you the most productive.

11:15The one aspect of this video that I have attempted to carry forward is setting that 8pm stop

11:20time for myself when it comes to being on my phone and my computer.

11:24This was also the episode where I started following Deepak Chopra's 21 Day Meditation Challenge

11:29on YouTube, so I just wanted to show you how pretty the final tracker looks now that it's

11:33all filled out, and I also wanted to let you know how great that 21 day challenge

11:37was.

11:37I had never stuck to meditating 21 days in a row before that, and I really got into a

11:42good groove.

11:42Second to last video recap, Ayurveda.

11:47I'll just come out and say it, this was my favorite episode of Try Living with Lucy

11:51ever, in the history of Try Living with Lucy.

11:54And based on the YouTube comments, it seems like a lot of you felt the same way.

11:58This episode took so much research and so much preparation before I even started filming.

12:02Putting the episode together and sharing what I had learned with all of you, that was the

12:06easy part.

12:07So, how has Ayurveda continued to influence my life?

12:10Well, firstly, I'm still listening to the Highest Self podcast.

12:13I got myself a rice cooker, and I've started making kichiri for dinner every so often.

12:18Kichiri is a mixture of yellow mung dal beans, basmati rice, ghee, and digestive spices, and

12:24it's considered a very cleansing and detoxifying food in Ayurveda.

12:27Let's see, what else?

12:28I scrape my tongue with my tongue scraper every morning.

12:31Knowing that I'm a vata, I've started scaling back on most of the cooling foods in my life,

12:36and I've begun adding tons of warming, grounding foods to my diet.

12:39I've also started practicing abhyanga, or self-oil massage, after showers.

12:43And I've started giving myself a nice foot massage with sesame oil before going to sleep.

12:48I've also been attending Ayurvedic workshops at my local yoga studio.

12:51I've been getting into essential oils, and I've had all of my friends and family take the Ayurvedic dosha quiz.

12:57And the final episode of the year that I want to recap is five days of learning new skills.

13:06I've become fully obsessed with my Fender ukulele.

13:10There's my uke.

13:12Pass.

13:15Please.

13:16I think that's right.

13:18I pick it up almost every night and either play new songs or write new songs.

13:22I love YouTube so much.

13:27That's all we have time for, thank you.

13:29And I think I've become pretty good at strumming compared to how I was initially.

13:42My fingers hurt when I strum like this, so maybe I will strum like that anymore.

13:50Right now I'm almost bleeding on this finger.

13:54It hurts.

13:55Next, making my own scoby for kombucha opened my eyes to probiotics and gut health, so much so that I

14:01actually made an entire episode of Try Living with Lucy about gut health, and this should be coming out soon.

14:06The thing about this episode that really shocked me was how quickly you can pick up on a new skill

14:10just by practicing and sticking to it.

14:13I'm getting close.

14:14See ya!

14:16And I'm very excited because I even have a few more classes on my calendar for the end of this

14:20year, including a drumming class, a sushi-making class, and an origami class.

14:24So overall, I'd say 2018 was a pretty great year.

14:28I'd love to know what challenges you want to see me try in 2019, and I would encourage you all

14:32to follow along with my personal life on my Instagram, at LucyBThink, and also on my personal YouTube channel, which

14:39is just YouTube.com forward slash LucyBThink.

14:42There's one more new episode coming for you next week, and then we'll see ya next year.

14:46Love you! Bye!

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