take better care of myself

• Eat my Fruit and Vegies
• Drink water
• Walk more (and therefore exercise more)

Drink more water, take care of my skin, start walking three or four times a week, monthly spa treatment.

I’m feeling so good today.
Less food, more water etc. Swaying around my room to my Tim Buckley album – there is nothing better!
Encourages me to tidy up too.

x Kate x

Whenever I am down, it is usually related to my appearance nowadays.

I’ve thought about this, and have decided that I need to:
- Eat less
- Eat healthier food
- Drink more water
- Drink less alcohol
- Exercise more

Ways in which I can do this are to fight temptation, and to use our new trampoline more often.
The only thing that holds me back from the trampoline is the fact that all the neighbours can see me! I will have to forget about that I guess.
Drinking less alcohol shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. I hardly ever drink, but recently I have found that it is my escape from the dullness of the company I hold. As long as my best friend Sophie is there, we can have a laugh without drinking.

Kate x

I feel like a knackered slob at the mo so I’m going to try a few changes and see what happens.
Pea x

I have ordained this goal as my first priority, above everything else. I keep on neglecting myself and it is time to stop! Not taking care of myself has had negative affects on other aspects of my life. I hope to be able to mark this goal as finished by the end of this year. I have designated each month with a particular focus and they are as follows:

JAN – daily physical activity *
FEB – hair (including facial hair)
MAR – eat healthier *
APR – face: skin
MAY – posture
JUN – face: other
JUL – body: hair
AUG – teeth
SEP – body: skin
OCT – hands
NOV – feet
DEC – all

With each new month, the previous area of focus will continue thus making this a culminating task. The hope is that by the end of this year taking care of myself will become second nature.

*not included in this goal, seperate goals

i had my tonsils taken out, which should reduce the occurrence of tonsilitis…

i’m going to stop drinking soda when i leave on my trip in 2 weeks.

and when i get back, a new gym membership!

My mom and I went to the lake to go swimming (well, for her it was wading!) tonight… we hadn’t been swimming in years! I feel a lot better, more happy, I guess.

This is probably considered trivial, but recently I’ve started to apply Lipsmackers to my lips regularly (it’s started to become an addiction, really!) and it’s making me feel a teensy bit… prettier and a little more self-confident. (I think it has something to do with liking the look and feel of soft lips… and maybe actually putting forth the effort to help myself to feel better!)

I just need to work on taking better care of myself in other ways!

I think I could perhaps be okay with marking this goal done if one thing were to improve: my sleeping habits. I only need about 6 hours a night, but with all that’s been going on in my life and in my head, I haven’t even been getting close to that. I’d say I’m getting about 4 a night on an average work night. Sometimes I crash out and take these awful, long naps in the middle of my days off and then I wake up and feel useless and wasted. That’s no good for body or brain. No one wants to feel guilty for sleeping through a perfectly good day, and it throws my already spotty pattern off kilter even more.

Not really sure how to go about fixing this either. More exercise than I already do? More yoga? Herbs? Tea? Therapy?