Cheers to Good Health……
18/05/12 • 4 Comments

Ironic that drinking expression! I came home from work today because I was already sick when I recieved some bad news. That tipped me over the edge and suddenly I couldn’t face the rest if the day. I felt a little guilty leaving my kids,but I wouldn’t have been able to do my job properly and I hate being tired and cranky around them it’s not fair. Today I thought about my good health and how much I appreciate being well, being fit and exercising and eating healthily. We are so lucky, most of us have privileged lives we only have “first world problems” and yet we feel the need to soak away our misery. What the hell to we have to complain about. It’s not like parents in this country are powerlessly watching their children starve to death, we don’t live in a country where there is ongoing war, [...]

One month after….
13/05/12 • 7 Comments

So my 12 month HSM officially ended about a month ago and I haven’t had a drink. Interestingly enough I have been tempted twice, but logic won out in the end. Last night was one incidence of temptation but it was good it forced me to really think a few things through. I was just at my friends BF’s house having dinner and watching the footy, everyone was drinking red wine and I had my tea, the thought crossed my mind that I could maybe have one glass. There had been some reminiscing going on about the good old days when I used to drink and we were telling some stories about wilder times.   I didn’t have the wine. Here is why. I realised that the good old days were not all they seemed, they were like an illusion of a tropical oasis in the middle of the desert. [...]

1 Year Today, Hip Hip Hooray!
14/04/12 • 19 Comments

Hello Sunday Morning. It’s hard to believe I have been saying that for one year now. Somehow it is very fitting that my year ends on a Sunday morning. My plans for today are going to the markets and the gym and doing some reading, cooking a nice meal because I’m on holidays and have the time and the energy to properly cook.   So what does it take to not drink for a year? ·         Recognition that alcohol and binge drinking are not working for you in your life, I had this before I started and I had begun to try and moderate my drinking. ·         Stumbling upon Jill Stark’s article in the age and then checking out the HSM site and deciding I could do this for 3 months. ·         A high level of stubbornness (some might call it will power, but in my case it is totally [...]

Kicking a goal right on the siren!
28/03/12 • 6 Comments

  If you have read my blog over the last eleven and bit months you might have noticed that I was really struggling to get into a good exercise routine. Well it took that long but I have finally cracked it. I walk to school and back everyday which is twenty minutes each way unless it rains then one of the other teachers (aka my BFF) picks me up and drives me. But that’s not all. I joined the gym two and a half weeks ago; I have been going nearly every day. I love it, I feel amazing after and I am finally burning through those last few kilos I had to lose and I am most certainly toning up, my legs and arms are really coming along quickly!   I just wanted to share this because it’s something I have struggled with and now I am achieving it [...]

11 Months
17/03/12 • 2 Comments

I am now 11 months into my HSM challenge.    Normally I like to do a goal check so here it is.   Still achieving everything!   I have lost weight; I’m walking to work everyday when it doesn’t bucket down rain.  Still have a little to go before I am happy and fit into the clothes I was wearing before I left Australia.   Debt continues to go down and I should be debt free well before the end of this year. Can’t wait to celebrate that!   Save money for travel. I am buying my ticket to London next week! I am flying in July so that means it was expensive! But I can afford it! AWESOME!!!! My friends are making lots of wonderful plans for me, I can’t wait!!!   Support others doing a HSM. If I am honest I have not been doing this as much [...]