Your Are Not Missing Out When You Are Choosing To Better Yourself.....


 

Tuesday morning Day 26 of Dry January 2021. Why is it when we give something up or abstain for a while that we feel like we're missing out? What is that all about? 

Our habits & rituals are ingrained into us without us really realising it, until we decide to change it. Well this is what I've found. Over the past number of years I've given up drinking & smoking both of these were rituals to me that I'd been doing for years! It does make me cringe slightly especially smoking!!! It's just so disgusting.

Have you kicked any habits that were totally ingrained into your life? The reason behind that change has to be as 'Clear As Day' otherwise it's not going to last & you set yourself up to fail. Find Your Reason. My reason was my mortality. I was fast approaching 50 & I made the conscious decision that I really want to grow old & stay alive for as long as humanly possible. This to me meant a healthier lifestyle. 

I knocked the drinking on the head first. There is no way I could have given up smoking & still drink. They went 'hand in hand' as far as my life went!!!! So my journey began on 31 March 2015. I went cold turkey. And so my new life began....

I'm a single mum of 2. I live in a flat above an Indian restaurant which happens to be 3 minutes walk from the seafront on the UK's South Coast. I'm not rich, I don't live in Fulham, I'm not a journalist. I just want to tell my story about 'how I did it' so this is what I'm going to be doing day by day in this blog. But for now I'll be concentrating on Dry January & from Monday 1st February I'll begin.....

That's also the day that I start my diet with the aim of losing 2 stone in 8 weeks! To add to all that I'm going to give up sugar for 8 weeks too. I've never been one to do things by halves.....always been an 'all or nothing' girl me!


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