I’ll start on Monday! Lots of people say this about various different things that they want to achieve, and along with it comes the saying “Monday never comes”. Well Monday came and I started! First week of competition preparation countdown is under way.  The Christmas cake is now in the freezer (safer there) and I am back to eating chicken and egg whites and the occasional steak, plus loads of green veggies and salad and some fruit. Over all it is a nice healthy way to eat until you get a few weeks out, then it gets more intense. I wish I could stomach fish but while on the methatrexate it just isn’t possible, I feel so sick after eating it. I can’t even stand being in the same kitchen with someone who is cooking fish. One of my favourite eat out breakfasts is egg’s Benedict with salmon which I can longer consume. My training is going alright. I have started doing 40-60 minutes of cardio each day on my exercycle or stepper.  Monday I had a different chest and triceps workout as one of my bowflex dial up dumbbells has broken so I had to use normal dumbbells. This is horrible as the bowflex are so nice to hold and all you do is dial up the weight that you would like. With the normal dumbbells I have to load and reload lots of dumbbells which can be tricky and painful with my rheumatoid playing up at the moment.  I have loads of free weights so could still go as heavy as I wanted. Tuesday my chest and triceps were so sore so I obviously did a great job. My children now are both battling with a cold of some sort and today I am not feeling that great. I decided to miss my leg workout today and instead I did cardio morning and night. I am hoping to feel better tomorrow and get back on schedule. Christmas came and went with its usual ups and downs with family dramas, got to love family huh! My children both woke up a 2am Christmas morning and saw their sacks filled with presents but they are such good kids and went back to sleep without even hinting that they wanted to open one.  I woke up again at 6am and thought I’d better get a black coffee into me before the children came running in. I made one coffee and consumed it then I made another one, the clock ticked over to 8am and they were still in bed so I decided to wake them up………accidentally of course……I couldn’t sit in bed with my 3 coffee and camera in hand waiting forever!!!!! It’s the best part of Christmas day, watching your kids open their presents. The year is almost over. It’s the time of year that you start to think about what your New Years resolution will be. I know what mine is. I want to be happy always, or at least more often than I was last year. I got myself a gift for Christmas. It is a book by Deepak Chopra called “The Ultimate Happiness Prescription. Cesar Millan speaks highly of Deepak so I thought I would see what I could learn from him. The first few paragraphs of the first chapter has impressed me already I want to share it with you so maybe it would help you to make your New Year resolution. “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. Happiness is the goal of every other goal. Most people are under the impression that happiness comes from becoming successful, accumulating wealth, being healthy, and having good relationships. There is certainly enormous social pressure to believe that these accomplishments are the same as achieving happiness. However, this is a mistake. Success, wealth, good health, and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause. When you are happy, you are more likely to make choices that lead to all these things. The reverse isn’t true. Everyone has observed people who are deeply unhappy even after they have attained incredible wealth and success. Good health can be taken for granted and abused. And even the happiest family can find its happiness ruined by a sudden crisis. Unhappy people are not successful, and no amount of money and achievement will change the equation. In the last few years psychologists and brain researchers have undertaken the first serious research on happiness. Previously, the field of psychology was almost entirely focused on treating unhappiness, much the way internal medicine is based on treating disease. But just as interest in wellness and prevention has dramatically risen in recentyears, so has interest in happiness.” “Deepak Chopra” |
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