Cutting Back and Moving Forward

As an experiment I have been cutting back on the amount of alcohol I drink on a nightly basis, to see whether it affects my body shape (read fat level) and my sleeping patterns.

Not suprisingly the sleeping has been a lot better the last week, and as I am a notoriously bad sleeper to start with sleeping through the night without a sleeping pill is a novel experience!

I can't really tell whether the reduction in alcohol is having a difference on the fat levels in my body, because I am working out so hard at the moment and my body is really changing anyway. This whole body obsession seems to have ound it's balance with me. I am still working out 6 times a week, cutting out the sugary and fatty foods and reducing the overall amount of food I eat, but I am no longer obsessing about my body shape constantly.

I have learnt not to look at the scales as a measure of my success, because it doesn't fluctuate that much from week to week. The differences I can see are all in the mirror, things like an increase in upper body size and a decrease in the waist size.

I keep on saying I feel better and I really do! The difference in energy and overall "wellness" is amazing, mind you in two weeks time it will be 7 months since I stopped smoking! Yippeeeee no more smoking!

And talking of things in multiples of sevens, it was seven years on Wednesday since the boy and I met, yep seven whole years, of course we celebrate our actual anniversary as the day were were married and that will be three years in January.

So seven years on we have an apartment, a dog and a cat and we are both older (I am grayer too). We have seen friends come and go, have seen a lot of our friends get married, a few new children have been born in that time, and we have both progressed in our careers.

It will be interesting to see where we are in another seven years!

So until next time adieu!

9:07:00 AM