Scary Lady Aids Fitness Plan

I've also started my 3x a week workouts, with the help of Jillian Michaels. It called the 30 day shredder but i;m doing it every other day. It's a 20 min very hard interval workout and 2 days in and I'm loving it. I do want to scream at her because its HARD but she is so tough and matter of fact, I'm slightly afraid of her even from behind the safety of my tv screen. I believe in her and what she is saying and that i'm on my way to getting SHREDDED! Haha. Hilarious. So Gabor, it has begun, he has witnessed (caught in work out mode=not sexy=boyfriend swiftly pushed out of room) both times. I feel a before and after picture is suitable here NOT a picture of me working out looking like I'm actually going to DIE.

The Proof is in the pudding

Well this is the desserts book I've just ordered. Looking at price and reviews only I thought, awesome, I'm going to love this. But urm....Natalie pointed out the vital part - 180 recipes. That is a serious amount of desserts in a year. But before I cancelled this order, I thought I'll see if there's anything else smaller. There isn't so I'm pretty sure fate wanted me to have this book. Hard life eh.

So as soon as it comes through I will begin my journey on puddings :-)

THE LIST

In no particular order...


- Make a dress from scratch (CHRIS)
- No more courses until current ones are finished :-)  (HAZEL)
- Go to a gay bar (JULIE ANN)
- Go water skiing (MARIA)
- Organise a girls weekend(CLAIRE J)
- Commit to 30mins of exercise 3 days a week (GABOR)
- Spin a globe and go to the place that your finger stops on (KATRIN)
- Volunteer at an orphanage / elderly home for the day (LENA)
- Go skinny dipping (BECKY) - please note photographs will not be shared of this!!! (I'm
  thinking of you!)
- Go sky-diving (LYNDEN)
- Go to a karaoke bar alone and belt out a song and see how many friends you make (JULIE)
- Have a day of pure honesty but not tell anyone when that day will be (WORK
  COLLEAGUES - other suggestions were streak to a stranger, contract a disease and  
  cure it of your own sheer will...hmm - yes they were all men)
- Lose 3 stone by my birthday (JANINE - She will provide all motivation and emotional support)
- Buy a low fat dessert cookbook and make every single recipe (NATALIE)

These will be updated as people send me their suggestions - so anyone asked who hasnt contributed, send me your idea!

What's going on here?

So after turning 29 I haven't felt different or like there was any particular purpose or thing I needed to achieve in life. BEFORE I turned 29, even on the day of turning 29 I panicked a bit...should I be married, shouldn't I have had at least one baby? Have I done all I am "supposed" to have by now?


Normal questions right, at some point everyone gets that - I know someone who went through that at 18!! But for the first time in my life I was slightly dreading my birthday and all it might represent to me having not completed the life changing things that others have.


Like a true lightning bolt moment, I received a text from a great friend who told me to make the most of everyday of the last year of my twenties and it suddenly felt like YES THAT is what I need to do. I need to do all the things I wasn't sure I would do, experience things I never have and end my twenties on a high note. I think I now WANT there to be a difference for me, for twenties to represent one thing and my thirties to represent another. Or maybe this last year will inspire a change in thinking for my thirties.


Either way, I set about asking people that I consider friends or who are family to give me one thing or a choice of things for me to pick one thing, that I could try to achieve by the time I'm thirty. The idea is not to overload myself with impossible challenges, but to provide a fun way of living out the last year of this decade and looking back with some fond memories. Pictures will follow as will details of it happening.


This sort of feels like a self-indulgent My Name Is Earl but it's something I want to do and I can't wait to get started...