Wednesday 24 December 2014

A New Year resolution

Me?

Never before, but perhaps this time.

Just one - I would really like to get fit again.

I have not been exercising properly since our baby was born, and my diet is uber haywire at the moment. The exercise part is excusable, I suppose; there is only so much one can do in a day when housework, expressing breast-milk and baby-sitting take up a major bulk of one's precious time, to make no mention of sitting down with a cuppa and book. I have run out of excuses for the diet part, though. While I try to eat three square meals a day (for the sake of keeping my job of being the sole cow in the house), what goes into my gastrointestinal tract in between can be hair-raising, and I would rather not elaborate, just so that I won't ruin Christmas for the health and fitness gurus/enthusiasts who read my blog. (Well, maybe, I exaggerated just a tiny bit.) Yes, lactating does make you irrationally (and dangerously) ravenous at times - but this mama is lacking discipline more and more as time goes by. I am being too easy on myself when it comes to cakes, chocolate, cookies and fried carbs. (Nothing beats a good, creamy cheesecake in the afternoon - and there must always be coffee/tea to go with it.) Consequently, I am putting on weight in places where the bulges might render my blood circulation impeded (already and more so soon) if I continued wearing the same dress size.

I stepped on the scale last week and nearly fainted.

Hubby took a look at the numbers, tried to be nice, and said tentatively, "It's the milk, I am sure!" ~ Yeah, right. Har har.

"You still look sexy to me."

Still, I'd like to be fit sexy, thank you very much.

So yes. I have decided that enough is enough. While year end is the time for many meet ups and thus, many cakes and coffees, I shall try my best to do away with them beginning 2015. (Not the meet-ups. Just the cakes.) Maybe not stop cold turkey, but limit them to just once a week or something. And eat healthier. I'd like to get my weight down to my normal range again. Maybe I might not be skinny (gotta leave some squishy in me to hug Sophie with) - but at least, I'd be as healthy as can be.

Wish me luck, folks.

Blessed Christmas, everyone!

5 comments:

Zoey said...

Ben is sweet =D when we meet up, we can drink tea ok ;P

weelyn said...

let's do it together! i desperately need to lose LOTS of weight too.. mine is way overdue although i'm still bfeeding but so much lesser now.. so i've got no more excuse (except the exercise part, really cant find the time in the midst of all the crazy stuff that i have to juggle! eeks..)

and Ben is so sweeeettt.....

Grace Melody said...

Haha. But your coming to Penang calls for a celebratory cake, no?

Grace Melody said...

Oh yes please. I need a fitness partner to motivate me from time to time. :p

Zoey said...

We can have a bowl of celebratory cornflakes >.< All the best Grace and Weelyn on your fitness plan!