New Year's Resolutions

I did all right last year:

- running: pretty much got my 10 minute miles
- knitting: did the fingerless gloves :)
- garden: check!
- weight loss: 6lbs out, but hey - I lost about 2 stone so what the hell :)
- yoga: could improve
- RHS: nearly there
- career: job came along, and gardening increased. Double check :)
- singing course: didn't happen, because the course wasn't there
- spam: killed a load

I'm not doing goals this year. That's not the way I want to focus my energies any more - I want to steer away from non-specific sticks to beat myself with, and go more for monthly themes for my attention. Will post those some time soon!

I do however have a list of concrete things I'd like to do:

DJ course
Ski taster session
Krav Maga short course
gun shooting
survival skills course
Hestercombe's Qigong and meditation sessions
Ballooning
gliding
Yoga retreat
Go to Harlech on the train

These may or may not happen, but it's nice to have dreams. Should anyone feel moved by these, give me a shout as that'll give me incentive to actually shift my gearstick.

February monthly theme

This month I will be mostly eating consciously :)


I eat pretty healthily these days, but despite the detox I still have occasionaly awful blood sugar episodes. And days when I think why the feck did I eat all that substance, when I don't even like it. So I will be spending a month eating consciously and making notes of those two incidents as and when they occur.

February monthly theme

This month I will be mostly eating consciously :)


I eat pretty healthily these days, but despite the detox I still have occasionaly awful blood sugar episodes. And days when I think why the feck did I eat all that substance, when I don't even like it. So I will be spending a month eating consciously and making notes of those two incidents as and when they occur.

Blood sugar incident

These used to be bad, but I nailed them for the most part by cutting out refined sugars. However, the end of last year they started to recur quite frequently at a moderate to severe level i.e. shakes, nausea, cold sweats, about to faint feeling. I'd personally rate this level as a incident where I'm starting to move into inability to drive or look after B in a safe fashion.

They mostly went after the bereavement stress went and detox occurred. But I had a bad one yesterday at work (cold sweats, darkening vision, wobbly legs, nausea) so I'm going to compile longitudinal notes.

Symptoms - cold sweat, dark vision, wobbly, nausea
Food - light tea previous night, egg/toast/fruit bread for breakfast, little caffeine
Exercise - 4 mile run the previous evening
Hormones - menstrual impending :)

Blood sugar incident

These used to be bad, but I nailed them for the most part by cutting out refined sugars. However, the end of last year they started to recur quite frequently at a moderate to severe level i.e. shakes, nausea, cold sweats, about to faint feeling. I'd personally rate this level as a incident where I'm starting to move into inability to drive or look after B in a safe fashion.

They mostly went after the bereavement stress went and detox occurred. But I had a bad one yesterday at work (cold sweats, darkening vision, wobbly legs, nausea) so I'm going to compile longitudinal notes.

Symptoms - cold sweat, dark vision, wobbly, nausea
Food - light tea previous night, egg/toast/fruit bread for breakfast, little caffeine
Exercise - 4 mile run the previous evening
Hormones - menstrual impending :)