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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.

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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!!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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