Seriously, I need to get back into the swing of writing here, since there are so many things that deserve to be blogged about. Now that NaNoWriMo is over and I’m almost done with my novel, as well as having gotten my vector art blog project kicking in, I have no excuses anymore.
This time of the year gives me the creeps when it comes to food. The other holidays, I can easily go around, but Christmas/New Year… No kidding, it lasts for days, you feel often forced to eat everything since the meals are all taken at different members’ of the family, and to top it all, you know you’ll get at least a non-healthy pack of chocolates or two, which is kind of the standard gift coming from people who aren’t inspired whatsoever this year. Not that I can blame them, I happen to do the same at times. I’m not that close to everyone in my and my boyfriend’s family, to know exactly what they would like as a gift.
Anyway, I’m trying to prepare myself. It’s good that I have these aerobics DVDs at home, I’ll need them on Christmas morning, when my biological clock makes me haul my ass out of bed by 8 am and I find myself the only one alive in the house. The dog won’t mind me if I take the living-room all for myself for a little hour, I’m sure.
The other thing that I need to do is to prepare myself mentally, and make sure to not eat just to please people. If it was only that, I’d manage it, but given that I still fall easily for chocolate and sugary foods when they’re lying right under my nose, I have to battle both the politeness and my own desires here. Not good.
*sigh* There are so many things I still need to learn and understand and, most of all, to accept and put into practice, instead of just nodding my head as if I had already integrated them within my way of living. I’ve understood this the hard way in the past two months. Now is time to just stop the nonsense, and reach a new level, so to say.
More about this later on, though.
Tags: christmas | eating | holidays | weight loss
