Well, gone are the days of all day drinking resulting in no drunkenness due to the fact you can't get to the bloody bar because of how overcrowded everywhere is!! Also long gone are the days of house parties where by 10pm most of us could barely stand up for all the sidekick shots we had done! ooh memory of strawberry milkshake shots :) Instead this year Mark and I are having a quiet night on our own, pj's on and watching Alan Carr, perfect!!!
I always find December 31st quite sad looking back on everything that has happened in the last year, some of my memories are, learning to run again, continuing to lose weight and better my health, our bloody boiler system packing in!!
My dear friend Katie passed away in February, snowing heavily outside i was sitting at my desk writing a uni assignment when I got the phonecall, a day I will never forget and continue to grieve :( sleep tight beautiful
Our beautiful eldest dog, Princess Phoebe, an 11 year old Irish Setter, sadly had to be put to sleep in July, broke my heart letting our princess go :(
and most recently my Uncle Mark died just before Christmas, difficult as he is my real Dads brother and I stayed in touch with him when I cut ties with my Dad and yet when Uncle Mark died all I did was worry how my Dad was coping. Bloody emotions!!!
Anyway enough memories from the past 12 months, I can't change the sadness but do hope for less tears in 2013!!
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So 2013, Mark has asked me to do a fitness timetable for the spare room we have with our exercise equipment in, unlike me Mark doesnt like the treadmill, he uses the rowing machine which I cant use at all! he also does weights, and uses the exercise bike so I will timetable him up ready to start next week when normal routine resumes!
We have done the food shopping tonight (rock and roll!) and have meal planned for the next week and a half :)
Tomorrow I will share my meal plans on here.
So, wishing everyone a lovely evening whatever you are doing and a wonderful new year. Here's to a healthy 2013!
Monday, 31 December 2012
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Getting out the recipe books....
Now that gave me some inspiration! I have been sat with 3 recipe books, Jamie Oliver's 15 minute meals, the Hairy Bikers mum knows best and the hairy dieters, for around 2 hours tonight, compiling a list of all the meals I want to make from them and looking at ways to make them simpler and as healthy or clean as I can :)I also got out some of my slimming world recipe books, easy yummy meals in all of these, also got the new mag today, has anyone read the comfort food recipe book which came with it? Lots of tasty ideas in there too. So all in all I have made my list of meals I want to make and eat (in my Filofax which I am obsessed with!) 26 meals I have come up with! Chicken, beef, lamb, curries, vegetarian, so many choices and everything will be adapted to ensure it fits in with my clean lifestyle. I have also got my primal blueprint book back out to give myself a kick and refresh my mind as to how and why I wanted to eat clean in the first place, simple effective eating to make me feel great! Who doesn't want eggs and bacon for breakfast?! Tomorrow we have a family dinner but at some point I plan to share some recipe/meal ideas on here :) Please also share any yummy meal ideas which you might have!
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Food
Love my food, nothing will ever change that! Since I have been with Marky I have found a love for cooking. Mark really enjoys cooking big old fashioned one pot meals, spaghetti bolognese, stews and stovies from his Scottish roots.
I like using my slow cooker to make curries, chilli and stews. Find them so simple to just throw everything in before going to work and then dinner is ready when we get home from work. Some days after work I have no inspiration to cook anything, I work in a school and am also doing my teacher training degree so most evenings I am studying late, cooking a meal is the last thing I want to do!!
I plan our meals weekly and only shop for what is on that list, we rarely have chocolate and treats in the house. I buy all our meat on a Saturday from the butchers, the prices that supermarkets charge for meat covered in fat is disgusting, I don't understand why people don't buy from a butcher, better quality and they aren't expensive like people believe.
The thing I really need to get my head around is eating fruit, Mark has a banana every morning as he is leaving for work and I rarely eat one piece a day!
Tonight I have got some of my recipe books out and I plan to make a list of meals I want to make in the coming months, so on with it!
I like using my slow cooker to make curries, chilli and stews. Find them so simple to just throw everything in before going to work and then dinner is ready when we get home from work. Some days after work I have no inspiration to cook anything, I work in a school and am also doing my teacher training degree so most evenings I am studying late, cooking a meal is the last thing I want to do!!
I plan our meals weekly and only shop for what is on that list, we rarely have chocolate and treats in the house. I buy all our meat on a Saturday from the butchers, the prices that supermarkets charge for meat covered in fat is disgusting, I don't understand why people don't buy from a butcher, better quality and they aren't expensive like people believe.
The thing I really need to get my head around is eating fruit, Mark has a banana every morning as he is leaving for work and I rarely eat one piece a day!
Tonight I have got some of my recipe books out and I plan to make a list of meals I want to make in the coming months, so on with it!
A little intro
Well of course it's nearing the end of December so it's time for everyone to start with their new year diets! This has also been me for the last 6 years, a girl on a mission to not get fat.
Blonde hair, blue eyes, big boobs and a peachy bum, sounds lovely and I'll be honest I love my boobs and bum, it has never once bothered me having curves, I much prefer my body shape to a lot of these skinny boney 'role models' we are brainwashed to aspire to.
I am starting this blog as hopefully an incentive diary to support me on my healthy eating throughout 2013, I don't particularly enjoy exercise, I like to power walk and run, I also love my treadmill and exercise bike but the gym, ugh that is just a pain in the arse in my opinion. I used to go to the gym everyday and I found all it was doing was giving me a complex, why do some women go for a workout in full make up? You're supposed to sweat not look nice!! So yes the gym irritates me!
I don't particularly eat bad, my problem is binging and boy can I binge. Chocolate is my massive downfall, I had a rough time earlier this year and I ate a 500g bar of dairy milk everyday, this obviously resulted in me getting angry and upset with myself and so the vicious circle continued until one day I snapped out of it, I'm not saint, I still eat plenty of chocolate and I always will but I am starting to control my binging through a wake up call which I could only give myself.
I have dieted with weight watchers and found I was hungry all the time. I have also tried slimming world which I found amazing, the food I could eat was great, my meal plans were great and I lost so much weight I felt amazing, the downside was the maintaining of the weight loss and also portion sizes which I struggled to keep to.
In the summer I was introduced to a book called The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson, what can I say, the book changed the way I look at food for the better, this was my summer holiday from work reading sorted, my whole lifestyle changed, I was less sleepy, less bloated, less moody, I made amazing meals which were full of flavour and very filling. Eating this way increased my fitness levels and gave me a huge confidence boost in actually finally having a clue what I wanted to do lifestyle wise.
Mark, my partner, still isn't massively keen on the primal eating so I do compromise and occasionally have a pasta dish but honestly I see no problem with this, I understand what I should be eating and I eat as much in the way of primal that I can. I find the research fascinating and most definitely feel healthier since beginning my primal journey in July. Yes there are days when I want to eat junk and even knowing how sluggish I will feel after I will still eat the junk which will in the long run stop a disgusting binge!
I intend to restart my healthy lifestyle with a strict food and exercise regime by the third week of January, this will be free from family festivities, dinners with friends and also give me chance to revamp some meal plans. I plan to remain eating primal foods but also follow some of the amazing slimming world meals I have previously made. Who doesn't love a syn free chilli?! I have never been a massive fruit fan, I get no enjoyment from fruit but I love making smoothies to get some fruity goodness!!
I suffered quite badly with shin splints from running recently so have been resting my legs on doctors orders for a while now, but thankfully all is good again and I have been doing some daily stretches to discourage any further discomfort. I plan to start my road running up again within the next few weeks, and before then I will be back on my exercise bike whilst watching the soaps!!
My weight at the minute doesn't seem to bother me as I am not fat but I do need to continue with my healthy lifestyle to keep the fat away, there is no excuse! I have big plans over the next 3-5 years and putting on weight does not come into it!
Please join me on my healthy journey :)
Blonde hair, blue eyes, big boobs and a peachy bum, sounds lovely and I'll be honest I love my boobs and bum, it has never once bothered me having curves, I much prefer my body shape to a lot of these skinny boney 'role models' we are brainwashed to aspire to.
I am starting this blog as hopefully an incentive diary to support me on my healthy eating throughout 2013, I don't particularly enjoy exercise, I like to power walk and run, I also love my treadmill and exercise bike but the gym, ugh that is just a pain in the arse in my opinion. I used to go to the gym everyday and I found all it was doing was giving me a complex, why do some women go for a workout in full make up? You're supposed to sweat not look nice!! So yes the gym irritates me!
I don't particularly eat bad, my problem is binging and boy can I binge. Chocolate is my massive downfall, I had a rough time earlier this year and I ate a 500g bar of dairy milk everyday, this obviously resulted in me getting angry and upset with myself and so the vicious circle continued until one day I snapped out of it, I'm not saint, I still eat plenty of chocolate and I always will but I am starting to control my binging through a wake up call which I could only give myself.
I have dieted with weight watchers and found I was hungry all the time. I have also tried slimming world which I found amazing, the food I could eat was great, my meal plans were great and I lost so much weight I felt amazing, the downside was the maintaining of the weight loss and also portion sizes which I struggled to keep to.
In the summer I was introduced to a book called The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson, what can I say, the book changed the way I look at food for the better, this was my summer holiday from work reading sorted, my whole lifestyle changed, I was less sleepy, less bloated, less moody, I made amazing meals which were full of flavour and very filling. Eating this way increased my fitness levels and gave me a huge confidence boost in actually finally having a clue what I wanted to do lifestyle wise.
Mark, my partner, still isn't massively keen on the primal eating so I do compromise and occasionally have a pasta dish but honestly I see no problem with this, I understand what I should be eating and I eat as much in the way of primal that I can. I find the research fascinating and most definitely feel healthier since beginning my primal journey in July. Yes there are days when I want to eat junk and even knowing how sluggish I will feel after I will still eat the junk which will in the long run stop a disgusting binge!
I intend to restart my healthy lifestyle with a strict food and exercise regime by the third week of January, this will be free from family festivities, dinners with friends and also give me chance to revamp some meal plans. I plan to remain eating primal foods but also follow some of the amazing slimming world meals I have previously made. Who doesn't love a syn free chilli?! I have never been a massive fruit fan, I get no enjoyment from fruit but I love making smoothies to get some fruity goodness!!
I suffered quite badly with shin splints from running recently so have been resting my legs on doctors orders for a while now, but thankfully all is good again and I have been doing some daily stretches to discourage any further discomfort. I plan to start my road running up again within the next few weeks, and before then I will be back on my exercise bike whilst watching the soaps!!
My weight at the minute doesn't seem to bother me as I am not fat but I do need to continue with my healthy lifestyle to keep the fat away, there is no excuse! I have big plans over the next 3-5 years and putting on weight does not come into it!
Please join me on my healthy journey :)
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