Friday 24th December
Christmas Tips
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Wishing you a wonderful time and here are some tips so that you make the most of Christmas. At this time of year we tend to over-eat massively and our bodies legitimately put on several pounds! So the question is how to keep in balance whilst still enjoying the season.
- Use this time to educate yourself about how you handle food, the additional opportunities to eat more
- Often there is higher emotional pressure and it's a good time to find out how this affects your eating patterns
- On a lighter note! Do enjoy yourself - sticking to a very rigid eating regime may create inner resentment that will back fire on you later on
- Remember to weigh yourself every morning - monitoring any weight gain will help you track down any foods that your body can't digest easily
- If you can - keep a food diary to help with the weight monitoring
- Drink 2 litres of water each day
- Intersperse alcoholic drinks with a non alcoholic one
- Take a walk every day to keep your metabolism high
- Fill up on fruits and vegetables so that you keep hunger at bay - this will help you to be your sensible self when there are more tempting things available
Have a wonderful time
Tuesday 21st December
Joy of giving of your true self
As I emerge from the cocoon I am finding it such a pleasure to give of the inner me - sometimes I give more than is really required and that's good to learn a new balance point.
Being able to run upstairs is absolutely brilliant - we have been up north for a long weekend stopping for a large latte on the way as one of my little travelling perks. The services had the promising sign of Starbucks - oh goody!
Only it was one of those where what you want is the other side of the motorway. In the not so good olden times I would have given up - not so now - I surprised myself my sprinting up the stairs with ease feeling very proud of myself! Then I heard 'go Mum go!' as Sam followed in hot pursuit and we raced accross the M1.
I realised quickly that even being four stone lighter my 52 year old legs would not beat a 16 year old who now towers over me - so I tacked up and down so he could not over take me! Reaching the golden chalice (Starbucks) with a loud 'And she wins!' I caught sight of amused faces as I opened the door - and with that Sam ducked under my arm and entered triumphantly as the winner! Ah well - at least I was not out of breath and felt fit and healthy.
Wednesday 15th December
My PADI manual has arrived - yippee AND they have suits that will fit me!
I am drawn more and more to just how much easier life is when we retrain our mind - life is ok when we are happy and comfortable - making sensible choices about anything is effortless. However when we are unhappy or uncomfortable on the inside we make rubbish choices on the outside. The way through that is to be very clear in our minds what we want; have a clear picture, with full sounds and feelings of what we really want. Spend time getting really clear on this so that when the chips are down - you can refocus your mind and ask - does what I am doing (or thinking about doing!) move me nearer or further away from what I want.
This works.
Say I want to have a close relationship with my partner and he ignores my feelings and just talks about his day or something that interests him... I could choose to feel ignored, or he doesn't care, or he is thick skinned, pig-headed or deaf... Does this move me nearer to what I want? Well no. So instead I choose to talk about what he is ready to communicate about and experience a closer relationship.
Food for thought eh?
Monday 13th December
Ooh beginning of the week again - lots of fun coming up to Christmas - I find it a kind of juggling act to run the business, keep the house going and rememeber to fit in time for relaxation. Sometimes I think I am doing really well and find that not only have I dropped a ball but it has rolled away and I can't find it! Like my blog! Remembering to see the funny side always helps.
Wednesday 7th December
I love swimming snorkelling in open water and one year decided to bite the bullet and no-matter-what-size-I-am-I-am-going-to-learn. Well - oh dear - what a disastrous decision that was.
Egypt it was - 2006 - I'll see if Roger can find a photo. Roger and Sam had shot off to learn to sailboard - Sam learnt how to not give up when the going gets tough - Roger learnt that being over 6 foot was no joke when you continually fall off the board! I wonder how many jobs I can get Roger to do at home for me NOT putting a photo of him climbing back on for the 100dreth time. They have stories of their own to tell.
Off I trotted (waddled) to the big PADI sign - full of hope pushing down the looming fear inside. I spoke with the 2 guys there who nervously looked me up and down, side to side and back and forth and then with each other. Then they spoke very fast to each other like they were having some sort of Islamic feud - this did not seem like a good sign. It all started to cheer up when one ran away and the other said ‘he get BIG suit'.
So I waited, and waited, there are only so many times you can read the aging leaflets and torn notices sellotaped to the peeling walls of a cheap scuba diving office. So then I read them all again so that I would not have to think either of the failure or indeed the potential success of the ‘BIG' suit.
Then he was back with what looked like a suit eight feet tall. Girding my loins I slipped of my sarong to reveal my swimming costume - an act that clearly made the men very uncomfortable. It was at that point I realised they were Islamic. Not that it made any difference to me... they however were extremely disturbed by being alone with this nearly naked overweight white woman!
First I struggled into the under suit which was exhausting - they hovered around like flies only touching bits of the suit which were a long way away from bits of pink flesh. I just could not pull up the zip up at the front and so there was another loud yelling match as one of them got the short straw of helping me with the zip... which was now located at my pelvic area... One helpful note at this point to let you know is that the woman out there go round in a sort of penguin suit which covers up almost everything (including pelvic areas). So actually SEEING ONE only clad in a bathing suit was dreadful but having TO TAKE HOLD OF A ZIP was just too much.
With the zip still on the open position they decided to see if they could shoehorn me into the ‘BIG' outer suit. It was like the 3 little pigs story; they huffed and they puffed but they could not do it.
I was near to tears as I left and I made a wow that when I was smaller I would treat myself to learn to scuba. Always have a dream - it will keep you going when all else around you fails and will raise you up when life looks bleak.
Next year I will put up pictures of me wearing my scuba diving kit! Until tomorrow - Emily
Tuesday 7th December
I just had to share this Facebook post today from my mate Dee:
WARNING, PLEASE READ.If someone comes to your front door and asks you to remove your clothes and dance with your arms in the air, DO NOT do this, it is a scam, they just want to see you naked. Please copy and paste this to your status, I wish I had received this yesterday, I feel stupid now!
Ok so I know that this reduces many of your options when answering the door to receive yet anothe load of pressies from amazon - I hope it makes you chuckle when you do!
Monday 6th December
Thanks Caroline Langstone for this fun pic this morning - all the folks on Practitioner were amazed at my new shape! Actually so am I - I'm still shocked when I catch sight of myself in the mirror. I lift my arm and I am surprised to see it - I just don't recognise myself anymore! Hurray!
Good to be back at work - theres been loads of calls from people wanting to start the program after Christmass.
I hope everyone has survived the snow!
Sunday 5th December
Welcome back me! Goodness I have been unwell. I really over did it last Saturday although I was under the weather I spoke at the Nutrition and Health conference and I exhuasted myself. I tell all my clients not to overdo it while on the very low calorie part of this regime and it is high time I 'ate my own cooking'.
Feeling fit as a flea today and it's only now I realise just how low I was. The Conference was great - they wanted to know how to use NLP to help people eat a more balanced diet and it was such fun to speak to several hundreds of people in a proper lecture theatre. So it was onwith the lipstick and onto the stage I went. It was only afterwards that I remembered I did amatuer dramatics when I was a kid and what a great training ground that was.
Had to get Sam to make 7 more holes in my best leather belt today and its still loose! I can now thing about getting so more clothes as I am now in the stabalisation phase for a couple of months.
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Emily
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