1.
To have a NON camping style family only holiday
at least once every 18 months.
2.
Focus
on getting fit, losing weight would come with this & is much needed.
3.
To
have coffee somewhere different at least once per month.
So, how did
I go with those resolutions you ask...
BADLY!!
To be fair we will be
having non camping style holiday this June but it isn’t just our immediate
family. We’ll be sharing a holiday
rental house with my husband’s family in Cairns. We are all SUPER excited about it in this
house, even though we are driving there & back. With respect to Point two, I discovered during
the first week of April that we were expecting our fourth child and although I
continued walking and jogging for a short while I soon ran into problems with
morning sickness & tiredness, and stopped doing it as often as I’d have
liked to, thereby quickly losing any fitness I had built up from the previous
year & those first few months of 2011, then from 32 weeks I was hospitalised and pretty much bed ridden till the birth.
And Point three just didn’t happen.
This year my
resolutions have changed only slightly.
1.
Lose
10 – 15kg’s by late June (note, in time for the trip to Cairns.) This means
losing ½ to ¾ kilo per week. That means
1.1 – 1.6 pounds per week, or 22-33 pounds by June. That’s what the converter
on my phone says anyway. Now, I’m well
aware that I could benefit from loosing DOUBLE that and perhaps then some, but
I’m looking at this in smaller more achievable chunks for the time being. Slow
and Steady...
2.
To
get myself to a hair salon at least once every two months.
3.
To
have coffee somewhere different each month.
Thus far,
this late in January I’m doing GREAT!!
My initial weigh
in was 2 & a bit weeks ago. I’m
weighing in fortnightly. In my first
week & a half I lost 1.4kg’s. (3 pounds)
It was only a week and a half because I have changed from a Wednesday to a Monday because it is easier for me to get there. Hopefully I can keep this rate up. At the moment we are focussing on the food and not so much on the exercise which is great because I’m a little scared to exercise my butt off. I’m breast feeding (ALL THE TIME), and I seem to be one of those Mum’s
that has trouble keeping up milk supply if I exercise too much. That is one of my excuses for being a lard
arse, oompa loompa, fatty boomba (etc etc) and, for now, I’m
sticking with it! I have several excuses mind you, and probably several I’m not
really aware of. I intend to tackle some
of these excuses this year. Who wants me
to dig out a BEFORE PHOTO for my next resolution update on this??
Moving on to
the hair... I like my hair when it is
longer. It tends to look scraggly though. It can get a bit of a
wave in it that I LOVE but I never really DO anything with it. It’s always in a pony tail, never “pretty”,
always just boring pony tail. I had a
cut in June 2010 & didn’t have one again until this month. Yes you read
that correctly. It is now January 2012. My hair gets awfully dry & yucky when I
let it get so long without looking after it. Funny that!!
The before,
fresh out of the shower and just brushed straight look & the after, much
shorter, much healthier looking & not at all dry & nasty look!!
That is all just my natural colour there now too.
The hair dresser said I didn’t have to be so strict with myself and that every
three months would be fine. Still, you
better hound me in April if there’s been no mention of another visit.
Mmmmm COFFEE...
Two weekends ago, Hubby & I walked with the kids to a nearby cafe,
Graze Brasserie, on Sunday morning for coffee.
The two older boys had hot chocolates & Miss Pants had a baby cino,
which came home in the drink holder of the pram & got poured down the sink. Honestly, I don’t know why we bother getting
her things sometimes... It was lovely, sitting reading the newspaper
with a nice coffee. Not too strong, not
too weak, and not too bitter! A little
breezy outside, but we chose to sit outside so that we wouldn’t disrupt too many
people. YES, middle of Summer and we could have done with long sleeves.
I’m going to
try my hardest to drag a friend or two along for coffee every month somewhere
new. Well, new to me at least. There is a place I’ve been before, about 6
years ago. I wonder if that counts as
new???
Bye for now, K
Good luck with your goals. I have never been to Carins, but would love to get up there some day.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nic. Maybe someday you'll be invited to a bloggers conference up there.
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