Today I had a lovely lunch date with hubs and our littlest fella at the tastiest vego cafe in town!
Kept little man busy by pulling all the sugar sticks out of the glass and asking him to put them all back in one at a time, while counting them. That and a vanilla milkshake kept him busy enough (as in he only spent half the time getting up and down off his chair and rolling around with the cushions off the sofa) while we waited for our food.
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| Healthy Juices and a BIG tasty share platter! |
With a full tummy (still!!) and a quiet house (thank you Mister Maker) I am contemplating the goals I have set for myself over the last few weeks. Goal setting is a challenge for me .... I LOVE making the goals but I hate when I eventually figure out that my goals are a little too ... well ... unachievable. For example when I was sitting down writing my fitness goals, I decided I wanted to be able run 10k by the end of the year ... a fairly decent goal given I learnt to run (plodding jog) 5k in 8 weeks, so 10k in four and a half months seems completely achievable right? But now I've decided I want to explore barefoot running (see previous posts) and the more research I do, the more I realise that I will be pretty much teaching myself to learn to run from scratch, I don't even know how long that will take to retrain my body let alone run 10k. So that's one goal to rethink.
At the other end of the spectrum, my second fitness goal was to be able to do 10 Turkish Get-Ups (with my 12kg kettlebell) ......
I thought this would be a big deal!! But with the ZAPT training we've been doing, we really focus on Turkish Get-Ups with each train (weak spot training) and already I can do 9 reps of the first half of the TGU *Floor to bridge position ... hopefully in the next few weeks (as opposed to the MONTHS I thought it would take me) I will be able to do a set of 10 (5 each side) Turkish Get-Ups. I know it sounds completely ridiculous but this really bothers me! It's completely not what I planned!!
So it can kind of go either way with goal setting, sometimes the goal you've set is too far out of reach and sometimes you get there in a quarter of the time you planned. I am slowly learning to be a little more flexible and not concentrate so hard on strict time frames but rather finding what works best through research, trial and error, and either running with it or reevaluating it.
SOME OTHER GENERAL GOALS FOR THIS YEAR:
* Have a set (still flexible :p) date night/day with husband at least fortnightly
* Move out of this house!!!!
* Work on finances - sticking to a budget and building up savings
* Getting into a "good" routine in general ie. housework maintenance, meal preparation, fitness and eating plans ..... in general just being a little more settled and organised (Boring, I know, but my sanity is reliant on it!)
* Get littlest man back into a more settled routine
* Go on an annual family holiday
* Maintain the Zombie Apocalypse Preparation Training throughout the whole duration (3 months I think?)
* MAINTAIN A HEALTHY EATING PLAN ..... always a battle, always a let down and yet always a goal that I am dying to achieve so ..... I'm breaking it down a bit into a few different parts
1) Stick with the Biggest Loser Eating plan for a 6 week period
2) Exceptions to the above are date night/day and when I catch up with my girls (probably about once or twice a month), so that should give me roughly a meal off a week
3) Post six week eating plan, reassess and go from there
OKAY six weeks ..... I can do six weeks ;)
* I obviously have a weight loss goal but maybe a little too personal to share at this point in time but all things going well, six months down the track I'll tell you how much I weigh and how much I lost and you can do the math!
I know talking about diet and exercise gets really old pretty fast, everyone seems to have issues with their body and the way they look and I'm not going to pretend to be any different but the reality is I am unhealthily overweight and with 3 kids, an amazing husband and hopes and dreams for a future full of adventures together, it is just plain stupid for me to not do anything about it!
I have chosen to make a blog to be able to openly talk about these sorts of things without making people feel uncomfortable or judged (as apposed to just sharing on Facebook etc. where my friends would have no choice but to read my rambling thoughts) ..... when I am talking about these things, I am talking about them in direct relation to myself and not in judgement to how anyone else lives there lives. Why not take advantage of the WWW to have some support and share stories, achievements and failures and to be accountable with the goals I dream up in my head?!? So anyway that's probably enough rambling for today! Hopefully over time I'll have a group of people who feel the same and are open and encouraging and wanting to share their lives as well :D x
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