Christmas and New Years are over so hopefully the world returns to a more ”normal” pace and activities. This means that I can start to pay attention again to what I am eating and how much exercise I am getting. I have a very bad habit of letting exercise be the first casualty when I am extra busy.

So it has been a few weeks of not really paying close attention to what I am eating, or drinking. Drinking has been one area I think where I have let the side down so to speak. It is rare that I would normally drink either alcohol or soft drinks but over the party season I have had a bit of both. This is an area where it is all too easy to consume excess calories without noticing.

Eating when you are not in charge of what is being prepared is also a challenge. I have eaten more bread and pasta and potatoes (chips) in the past few weeks than I have in a long time. This all adds up.

But the travelling is done. I am home again and though I will be at home looking after the kids for most of January I am hoping I can get into a good eating routine again. Minus all the fast convenient foods that are full of the things I don’t want or need to eat. Though, in my favour, I did manage to take my protein powder with me and ensured that I had at least 15gm of protein within ½ hour of getting up, despite when the official breakfast may have happened, or what it contained.

While travelling I didn’t take my scales with me (that would be just a bit too much dedication), so it was with a bit of trepidation that I stepped on them for the first time after we returned. Only 1.5kg up. Whew. I was kind of expecting more than that given the lack of focus over the holiday period.

So now back to the diet. Back to the exercise. Back to wanting to get below 100kg for the first time since I was pregnant with my eldest (who is now nine).

Susy