Wednesday 2 January 2013
{January Joy - 2nd Jan}
The prompt from Florence Finds #JanuaryJoy for the 2nd is to 'have a dry week/month'.
In 2011, I started a healthy eating & fitness regimen with the help of a personal trainer and lost 3.5 stone. I gave up alcohol for 6 months, partly for the weight loss and I also couldn't really drink alcohol anyway at that time due to the antidepressants that I was taking (I did it once & was violently sick - not to be repeated!!).
Fast forward to 2013 and I do now drink occasionally but not often. When I do drink, I'm a complete lightweight!! There is also nothing worse than being hungover & in charge two demanding toddlers, so I tend to only have a drink when I don't have the children the following day (or work for that matter!), which doesn't happen very often as my regular nights without the kiddies are 'school nights'.
So I've decided that a bigger challenge for me would be to have a week without sweets or chocolate (I am sat writing this at 7pm on New Year's Day and will be scheduling the post for the 2nd, whilst scoffing a packet of the kids chocolate biscuits and drinking a hot chocolate - Highlights, so that makes it ok, right?). For a while I was exercising 4-5 times a week and running frequently, which meant I could eat what I wanted and still maintain my weight. I've become lazy, am rarely exercising (twice a week max, typically once a week) but I'm continuing to stuff my face with sugar. I would go as far as saying I have an addiction!
Anyway, let's see how I manage without for the next week or so. (I doubt I'll manage it for more than a week as it's my birthday in the 14th and I'm reckoning there may be cake at my work!! Hint hint!!)
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Good luck! My problem is giving up my nightly glass of wine. Fingers crossed! X
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling, big style :-/
DeleteBest of luck, I can't give up sweets n cake wish I could
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I'm finding it much harder than I thought I would... not good!!
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