This is what I am currently reading : The magic power of your mind. I read this book a few years back. Well, started reading it at least but didn’t finish it. Now I am already half through and I think I will be able to finish it this time.
We all know or have some knowledge about how our minds can do wonders. But little understand and even less know how to utilise the minds to their full potential. Although I am quite content with my life currently, but I have to admit there are things that I would like to improve – mostly myself.Hence my hope to recondition the way I think, meditate more, enhance spiritually.
The past few days I’ve been trying to meditate more and more. Most of the time right before I go off to bed. I realize that for the past couple of days, I’ve stopped waking up in the middle of the night like I used to before. It’s not that I got myself a new memory foam mattress or anything like that, so I’m quite sure that my sleeping soundly through out the night may be attributed to the short meditations I do right before sleep. I cannot really confirm it, but I will continue to do what I’m doing.
Eat well, exercise more and calmer feelings, these are my new year’s resolution.
slimgirl
A bite here, a nibble there… Yes, just like many others, Christmas is the time to simply enjoy oneself without thinking of calories. But now that 
Christmas is over, it is time to shed those extra pounds gained.
Need to get these fat burning. For the past few days, I’ve only been eating light breakfast and lunch and skipping dinner. Well, eating biscuits with a cup of cocoa instead of the normal dinner. After feeling all stuffed up for first few days I think I’m feeling a little lighter now.
Perhaps it is also time to do window shopping before life gets back into the “work and back home, and start all over again the next day” routine. Burn away the calorie walking and looking for after Christmas sales. 
Got to look for some nice warm fleece jackets for spring.
Starting Monday next week, I’ll be bringing my pedometer along with me the entire day. 10,000 steps 5 days a week would definitely help me burn some calories.
Well, they say it would take from a couple to 3 months to get rid of festive weight gain – depending on the diet that you do that is – so I am not entirely worried about the weight staying for a long time. My new year hope and wish is that, I would reach 49 kg.
slimgirl
Another 2 more days to go till we say goodbye to 2011 for good. It’s the time of the year when some would ask what’s my New year resolution is. Well, for starters, there are those past years resolution to get over with. 
Anyway, I sure hope that 2012 would be a better year for us all. 2011 has been an eventful year globally and personally for myself.
My resolution is simple and had always been the same every year – Try to do better. So far I think I’m not doing to shabby. Though there is always room for much improvement.
Happy New Year!!
slimgirl
They say that winter starts officially on the 21st of December. Which is tomorrow. (Though I feel like it is winter already since 2 weeks ago. Since it started to get colder ) Now all we need is snow. What is winter without snow right? Winter without snow is like…. say… rainy season without rain. Furthermore, the only thing I like about winter is the fun activities you can do with snow. Sledding, skiing and snowboarding. Boy… do you burn calories with those kind of activities. The fun part is the going down hill, but the fat burning part is when you have to climb up hill to do it all over again.
I yet to try snowboarding and skiing though. But I will eventually one day. Just reading about one of those burton snowboards makes me feel like trying out the sport already. However, for this winter, I would like to try out ice skating first.
slimgirl
To me journaling isn’t just jotting down my thoughts and experience on paper, it is also a therapy. I am by nature a confiding soul. I need to tell someone or something how I feel, what I think, what I am going through. Thinking to myself, or talking to someone may not be enough as there are limits to what you can tell to someone, and talking to myself silently is not enough (further there’s a chance that I may verbalize my thoughts by accident and people might think I’m looney).
I had been journaling since in my early teens. Though unfortunately, I destroyed most of them (since I move houses too often to keep track and I don’t want people to read my diaries by accident). I started journaling early this year and had kept on doing so faithfully till now. I write down my irritations, my dreams and my hopes most of the time – like when I’m going to get that unknown rv financing that would allow us to travel around Europe in an RV perhaps. Or my dream of having my own daycare. etc.
It’s my shrink, my vision board, my counselor all in one.
slimgirl
Yup, as the title says, I twisted an ankle. Well, it happened a few weeks back actually, but to tell the truth I still feel the pain when I move my foot a certain way (which did not hurt before) or when I sit cross legged. I did do the R.I.C.E – Raise, Ice, Compress, and Elevate treatment, but I suppose it would take longer to heal fully.
However if it doesn’t heal in 3 weeks time (I’m giving it a bit more time), I think I may need to visit a doctor soon to find out why it isn’t healing.
slimgirl
Two or three christmasses ago I got myself a pedometer. My first pedometer -which is an omron – that I used to track how many steps I make each day and a way to motivate myself to move more. I am still using it. Although not everyday but quite often. These days 10,000 steps a day is quite easy to attain.
The pedometer is still working but I am thinking of getting something that can be connected to a computer software and keep records directly onto the pc. Well, I told my husband that he can look at garden gifts and health gifts, for this Christmas, so maybe this is what I would get this year.
slimgirl
I haven’t check my weight for quite sometime now. Well, that was a month or so ago. I was packing some old clothes including maternity clothes to be given away ( there are more and more inexpensive maternity clothes these days there is no point to keep the old ones), that I felt the urge to know my weight. It was not too bad back then, but I know that I feel a little heavier now. I am quite aware of my weight gain as people been telling me that I seemed chubbier and I can feel the chubbiness. *sigh* My weight now is my pre-pregnancy weight and I have not been in this size for a long time.
I realize that not only do I move more at work but I get hungry faster too. I need to eat for pleasure more too. It is not a good feeling to know that you’ve gained much weight in just a few months without realizing it. If I keep up not thinking about what I put in my mouth, I just cannot imagine what sort of weight I might end up with when I finally realized that I need to lose weight badly. 
It’s weight watch fore me again…
slimgirl
Though we don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving here, but we did do something at the daycare for this special holiday. Afterall, the children came from multinational backgrounds. We celebrated Halloween too – I was a fairy though someone suggested to us that we headteachers and assistants should wear sexy nurse costumes. 
Anyway, early next month there will be Santa Claus day to celebrate and later a little Christmas celebration. Busy, busy, busy thinking of how to create programs for the those days for the kids. But I’m thankful that I am busy doing something instead of just staying at home and become depressed in this cold weather.
slimgirl
After a week at work, boy… do I look forward to another weekend. I love my job, but I still need my rest to replenish the energy that I’ve used up during the week.
Yesterday, I went for a movie and did a little window shopping with a friend. We spend almost 6 hours doing all that. It was fun to feel like you are single again. And to be complimented on how slim I look… that is also a bonus. Motivates you more to keep on doing what ever you are doing to keep slim. I hula hoop a lot these days. The least every 2 days once I’d do it. For half an hour the minimum.
But today, I stayed in bed for a little bit longer. I believe one can imagine how nice it is to stay in bed and difficult to get out of it when you are lying under a heated blanket when the weather is chilly. I wish there would be more weekends like this to come.
slimgirl
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