New Years Resolutions?
This is my 50th blog! Hooray! So back to the title.
This year I decided to do New Years Resolutions, wrote them and stuck them in places I regularly see. Have you ever set New Years Resolutions? Did you keep them? There are tough to follow through on! One year I tried and broke all of them in the first week. I was still in college studying constantly so I can give myself a break there for the Taco Bell burritos and smoking. Bad, bad, bad, I know. Preach it, sister (or brother). But you only live once and Taco Bell and smoking might have helped me get through term papers. At this stage in my life I no longer have access to Taco Bell (Wouldn't be a patron if I did.) And the Marlboro Ultra lites have been out of my life and lungs for a few years. But I want to be the physically healthiest and mentally most positive person I can be. Now, with the time I have on my hands, I have no excuses. I'm no longer an overworked, underpaid, under-rested, malnourished college student. I'm a married woman who has constant access to a real kitchen and real food and have no excuse not to be healthy and have time to better myself.
I heard Heidi Klum once say that we are all athletes. My current thighs don't agree with her but they do have the faint memory of being the soccer team captain in high school and swimming every day in Maryland up until I moved to Italy. While I was thinking of what to do for my New Years Resolution, I thought of Heidi and remembered being an athlete, then thought of ways to get back to being in the best shape that my current body can allow. I enjoyed a series of fractures in my frivolous youth (aggressively playing sports, jumping in the short side of the pool and riding a jet ski on waves bigger than it could handle) so high impact sports like soccer are no longer allowed. Here are a couple of my New Years Resolutions:
1. Eat less like a cicciona (chubby girl). Less gluten, less cheese, more fruit, more raw veggies. (Mama, I already hear you calling me skinny, and cicciona simply means eating healthier, not less. Basta...) My mom would tell me to eat 3 strong meals a day and call me skinny and beautiful even if I was 500 pounds and needed little men to carry my fat.
ok, then:
2. Start a morning routine (I am not a morning person, apart from 2 cups of coffee in the morning) but think that it could help to know what I am supposed to do, rather than winging it.
It wasn't fair for only me to set resolutions so I took an executive decision and imposed some on my cats, Fatty and Bentley:
1. No more sleeping on the lady's bed (my bed)
2. Loose weight (they are tipping the scales...)
It has been 4 days and so far so good, well sort of. I have successfully eaten healthier, started a morning routine that somehow ended with me being in sweats all day (that is fine with zero degree weather!) I went to the Desenzano pool for the first time today and LOVED it. No, like luuuuved it. It is an indoor pool, and sort of reminds me of Roman baths. The dressing room is in 5 parts: the hair drying room, the dressing room, the showers, the lockers and the foot sanitizing pool before entering the real pool. The pool building has 1 side that is all glass and get this, the Alps are visible while you swim! Tell me that isn't fantabulous! I hadn't swam in, gosh, more than a year and today I put in more than an hour in laps. Take that Federica Pelligrini! I jumped out of the pool with wobbly legs like jello but so happy. It made me want to do the Cupid Shuffle all the way back home. Oh well, I did so mentally. Here is the best Cupid Shuffle video (though the resolution isn't the best). It's a dance for everyone, go ahead, try it! It will make you smile :)
We had a discussion about Federica Pellegrini recently (famous Italian swimmer) and I commented that she had perfect legs. My husband said that she swims like 6 hours a day and I replied that I walk to Simply (the grocery store) and jog to the end of the street (it is a really long street). It was funny. I actually really like Federica, mainly because her sign is Leo, then she is also gracefully scandalous, and I think she would have been proud of my doggy paddle.
The cats on the other hand have failed at all of their resolutions. I didn't allow them in our room and they scratched the door and wimpered, howled, meowed, growled even. So rather than have to listen to that and have the door damaged, I let them in. And for their diet? Forget about it! They are as chubberific as ever! They stand their ground when it comes to seriously demanding their meals on a regular schedule. No diplomacy or negotiations will lower their appetite. They could easily beat Hillary Clinton in a staring contest without blinking.
Sigh, I tried. Here are some beautiful pictures of the cats from their Christmas trip, which I was meaning to upload but they didn't fit in any other blog, here they sort of do. Fatty had the best Christmas gift ever. While in Pescara, Nonna Gattona (my mom-in-law) kept them well fed. She innocently believed their cries of hunger. One day, Fatty was missing for a few minutes. I thought he was under the bed and forgot about him till I heard my mom-in-laws excalmation of surprise. I ran to the livingroom and found Fatty in the middle of a mountain of cat food. He had knocked over his food bag, pawed everything out and was having Christmas, New Years and Easter dinner! I should have never told him Santa wasn't bringing him anything...
So for New Years Resolutions, the year just started so if you haven't set some resolutions yet, you still have time!
This year I decided to do New Years Resolutions, wrote them and stuck them in places I regularly see. Have you ever set New Years Resolutions? Did you keep them? There are tough to follow through on! One year I tried and broke all of them in the first week. I was still in college studying constantly so I can give myself a break there for the Taco Bell burritos and smoking. Bad, bad, bad, I know. Preach it, sister (or brother). But you only live once and Taco Bell and smoking might have helped me get through term papers. At this stage in my life I no longer have access to Taco Bell (Wouldn't be a patron if I did.) And the Marlboro Ultra lites have been out of my life and lungs for a few years. But I want to be the physically healthiest and mentally most positive person I can be. Now, with the time I have on my hands, I have no excuses. I'm no longer an overworked, underpaid, under-rested, malnourished college student. I'm a married woman who has constant access to a real kitchen and real food and have no excuse not to be healthy and have time to better myself.
I heard Heidi Klum once say that we are all athletes. My current thighs don't agree with her but they do have the faint memory of being the soccer team captain in high school and swimming every day in Maryland up until I moved to Italy. While I was thinking of what to do for my New Years Resolution, I thought of Heidi and remembered being an athlete, then thought of ways to get back to being in the best shape that my current body can allow. I enjoyed a series of fractures in my frivolous youth (aggressively playing sports, jumping in the short side of the pool and riding a jet ski on waves bigger than it could handle) so high impact sports like soccer are no longer allowed. Here are a couple of my New Years Resolutions:
1. Eat less like a cicciona (chubby girl). Less gluten, less cheese, more fruit, more raw veggies. (Mama, I already hear you calling me skinny, and cicciona simply means eating healthier, not less. Basta...) My mom would tell me to eat 3 strong meals a day and call me skinny and beautiful even if I was 500 pounds and needed little men to carry my fat.
ok, then:
2. Start a morning routine (I am not a morning person, apart from 2 cups of coffee in the morning) but think that it could help to know what I am supposed to do, rather than winging it.
It wasn't fair for only me to set resolutions so I took an executive decision and imposed some on my cats, Fatty and Bentley:
1. No more sleeping on the lady's bed (my bed)
2. Loose weight (they are tipping the scales...)
It has been 4 days and so far so good, well sort of. I have successfully eaten healthier, started a morning routine that somehow ended with me being in sweats all day (that is fine with zero degree weather!) I went to the Desenzano pool for the first time today and LOVED it. No, like luuuuved it. It is an indoor pool, and sort of reminds me of Roman baths. The dressing room is in 5 parts: the hair drying room, the dressing room, the showers, the lockers and the foot sanitizing pool before entering the real pool. The pool building has 1 side that is all glass and get this, the Alps are visible while you swim! Tell me that isn't fantabulous! I hadn't swam in, gosh, more than a year and today I put in more than an hour in laps. Take that Federica Pelligrini! I jumped out of the pool with wobbly legs like jello but so happy. It made me want to do the Cupid Shuffle all the way back home. Oh well, I did so mentally. Here is the best Cupid Shuffle video (though the resolution isn't the best). It's a dance for everyone, go ahead, try it! It will make you smile :)
We had a discussion about Federica Pellegrini recently (famous Italian swimmer) and I commented that she had perfect legs. My husband said that she swims like 6 hours a day and I replied that I walk to Simply (the grocery store) and jog to the end of the street (it is a really long street). It was funny. I actually really like Federica, mainly because her sign is Leo, then she is also gracefully scandalous, and I think she would have been proud of my doggy paddle.
The cats on the other hand have failed at all of their resolutions. I didn't allow them in our room and they scratched the door and wimpered, howled, meowed, growled even. So rather than have to listen to that and have the door damaged, I let them in. And for their diet? Forget about it! They are as chubberific as ever! They stand their ground when it comes to seriously demanding their meals on a regular schedule. No diplomacy or negotiations will lower their appetite. They could easily beat Hillary Clinton in a staring contest without blinking.
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| I will win and get. more. food. |
Sigh, I tried. Here are some beautiful pictures of the cats from their Christmas trip, which I was meaning to upload but they didn't fit in any other blog, here they sort of do. Fatty had the best Christmas gift ever. While in Pescara, Nonna Gattona (my mom-in-law) kept them well fed. She innocently believed their cries of hunger. One day, Fatty was missing for a few minutes. I thought he was under the bed and forgot about him till I heard my mom-in-laws excalmation of surprise. I ran to the livingroom and found Fatty in the middle of a mountain of cat food. He had knocked over his food bag, pawed everything out and was having Christmas, New Years and Easter dinner! I should have never told him Santa wasn't bringing him anything...
So for New Years Resolutions, the year just started so if you haven't set some resolutions yet, you still have time!
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| Brotherly love |
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| Bentleys spot |
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| Sun bath |
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| The entire couch for 1 cat |
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| cuddles |
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