I made three resolutions this year.
1. No chocolate for 2012.
(I mean chocolate in chocolate form, so not chocolate cake or hot chocolate or chocolate Nesquick - a chocolate powder for cold milk drinks) The reason for this resolution is I eat far too much chocolate! I love chocolate with caramel inside, chocolate chip cookies, brownies made with lumps of chocolate inside, chocolate digestive biscuits, chocolate slabs, bars etc. So anything with chocolate on it, in it or chocolate its self.
I need to lose weight, and this seemed like a good place to start.
2. When eating anything with Carbohydrates (excluding fresh fruit or coloured veg), put half back, or leave half on the plate. When serving myself I will serve half, but at restaurants I will be leaving half on the plate and walking away from those calories.
You can go into a whole long complicated list of what not to eat, but I have simplified it for myself: If it is white, or could be refined to become white, eat only half. (this excludes cauliflower and egg whites) So biscuits, pastries, cakes, pizzas, breakfast cereals, oats, bread, pasta, rice and potatoes.
This goes along with the losing weight goal.
3. Do one hour of cleaning every week day.
I would rather sit on the couch and read a book, or watch something, or play a game, and this has to stop! There are things around the house that I do do. There are chores that the kids do. We don't live in filth and squalor, but we don't live in a neat, orderly, dust free home. My time and season for playing with the kids and cleaning later is long gone. I know that I tend towards laziness, so now I am training myself to tend towards being industrious with my hands, working willingly at the tasks that should be mine to do.
So far this year I have thrown away the old medicine and organised the medicine boxes. (Jenny you would be proud!) I have scrubbed the walls, tiles and cupboards inside and out, in the kitchen. I have cleaned and organised the boxes we keep extra food in, and the list carries on.
And it's only and hour a day! I set the timer and off I go, then when it rings, I go and do something else. An hour a day gets a lot of clean stuff I tell you! Even the kids noticed that the kitchen looked shinier. And you know what, it feels really good to be getting on top of my lazy tendencies.
So those are my resolutions. So far, so good.
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Those are good resolutions, i am excited to see how you go with the chocolate one. I know how much you love chocolate. I met a lady the other day who decided one day that her love for chocolate was more an addiction. She hasnt had it for years. Amazing!
Thank you for sharing your resolutions - I have full faith in you that you will do well with them. (And I am proud of you for your organising!) I also can tend to laziness and / or distractedness and find some days that it helps to break that hour up into 15 minute slots, with 15 minute "reward time" in between (blogging, crafting, reading, etc). You can suffer pretty much anything for 15 minutes, right? It also makes me race to see how much I can do in those 15 minutes. And really, an hour is only 4 of those 15 minute slots, but it doesn't feel like an hour or a huge chunk of time.
Character-building. You will be anxiously engaged in good causes, doing much good of your own free will. Sterkte!
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