So my little brother just returned from uni for the Christmas Holidays. It was his 21st birthday a couple of weeks ago, and my mother's birthday a couple of days ago so I decided to stump up some cash so we could have a cheeky chinese as a sort of celebration.
It's almost the week of Christmas which I have already decided will be my cheat week because hey, it's Christmas! Well just over a week really I guess. It's probably most likely set to continue until the 1st of January. I'm banning the bike too. Much as I almost like doing the exercise daily, it can eat into my evening planning enough to muck up family based activities. It is only forty minutes I do at a time, but that also involves about ten minutes of preparation (finding my clothes, getting the bike, stretching, dvd etc) and then I also have to factor in my shower. So it's probably over an hour dedicated to the exercise which might not seem like much, but it's one of those things which hangs over you and screws with planning. And this is the only time of year we can manage to convince my dad that board games of an evening would be an amazing idea...
Take today for example. I was going to do the exercise post dinner, around three o' clock like I have been doing for the past few weeks. But I have been to work today and it's a 7am start, and a lack of sleep the last three nights meant I just wiped out for like two hours earlier. Now it's almost half past eight and I'm off to do some evening shopping with mum at Asda and I still haven't managed to squeeze in some exercise. (Granted after the chinese it's more like a token gesture to be honest). I doubt tonight will contain any though...I know what mum's like for shopping so we probably won't be home till gone ten and I have to be up tomorrow again at 7am so it'll be an 'early' night for sure. Plus my head feels like it's full of cotton wool after that nap..
I'd like to get a weigh in done before the festivities start. I'm not one to obsess over how many pounds I put on at Christmas because, let's be honest, if I was that person then I would either be thin or not over eating come Christmas. I'm not going to stuff my face all day every day as it is. I haven't been super strictly denying myself on this 'diet' but I have gotten to a point where if I do over indulge, it's not by an awful lot. Especially over an extended period of time. Plus I now have to factor in the (today formally diagnosed) IBS...which again, I will do an actual blog about at some point. But yes I would like to note my before and after Christmas weight just to see how much I set myself back. Last year I remember it wasn't as big a deal as the media makes out. For me at least. It was around about three or four pounds I put on which is not an awful lot, and nowhere near the horror stories of a stone in a day like the papers often declare (NB: maaay be exaggerating this slightly).
Thing is, my only device for weighing myself happens to be my Wii fit...and the bloody thing has ran out of batteries...Well no. I do keep buying the pound shop specials where you get about 300 for a quid but they last thirty seconds each. We did buy some scales from Argos but they told me I'd managed to loose half a stone in about an hour, which was lovely but out and out lying. Back to the shop it went.
So tomorrow will be a quest for batteries and exercise me thinks. That's the plan anyway and now I've written it down I'll have to stick to it...
For now though, good boo.
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