The scales are travelling down again!

Well thank heavens, the scales are on the down slide AGAIN! It's a great day! I must apologise for my lack of posting lately as I have been busy trying to get my cookbook written, which I have been doing for the past two years, yes that's right two looooooooooong years! So what has been the hold up? Well it's like this, I go through fits of being focused and onto it and then the drive fizzles out, story of my life really, and this has to stop!

Recently I purchased a book by Tim Ferriss called "The 4 Hour Work Week" and it's brilliant! I am absolutely loving it especially because I am at the part that totally makes sense to me, it's all about 'information overload'. I am so guilty of exposing myself to loads and loads of information on a daily basis all from a 15 inch rectangle plugged into the wall and sucking in info from around the globe, if it's not that, it's my overly priced iPhone or even worse, both running at the same time!

So my task this week is to try and ignore it all, just simply, switch off. I know, I know, but how, how am I going to do this? I don't have a tv any more so all my entertainment and information sources are via my laptop or phone. I will be cut off from the world, ignorant as to what's going on out there. His theory is that, as soon as you talk to someone, they will tell you everything you need to know and skip out all the crap in between, I guess this makes sense when you think about it. Am I going to do this? I don't know, maybe I will try one day a week and then two days and go from there. He says that when you do this not only do you have enough time in the day to be more productive on your projects, but you also have enough time to spend with your loved ones, quite logical really, and let's face it, a lot of us have our laptops on when the kids are home so that we can check what's happening on Facebook every now and then right? If you say no, you're lying! How do I know, because most people I know, do it.

So for the rest of the week, I will no longer have Facebook running in the background while I am trying to write my blogs and cookbook, I will log in once in the morning and once in the evening and that's it, this is going to be extremely hard, but hey, I need to do it! So expect more posts from me :)

As for the scales, I am back down to 238 pounds, woot!

Barbs xx

It's Easter weekend and I am sick... boo hoo!

This morning I woke up and felt like I'd been hit with a truck, I felt achy and extremely tired. Instead of leaping out of bed I decided that today, I am lying in and reading my book "Reflected in You" by Sylvia Day, it's very much like "Fifty Shades of Grey" what a lot of people call mommy porn, I don't care, I love it! So anyway, I get to the end of the book and find out there is another book after this one but it's not out until JUNE!!!! June! I cannot wait to see what happens between Eva and Gideon until June! How can Sylvia do this to me! lol! So I picked up another book I have been reading "4 Hour Work Week" by Tim Feriss and I LOVE it! I haven't got through much of it yet but I love his style of writing, he speaks from personal experiences and he's quite funny too. But basically the book gets you to think about breaking the rules which of course anyone who knows me knows that I love to do that. So he speaks about leaving the drudgery of the 9-5 job and finding something you can do instead that can not only finance your life, but enhance it. So I am hoping that I can get some great ideas about making money without having to spend of a lot of time doing so. He is a believer in outsourcing and so am I. Once I get through more of the book, I will let you all know what I think and how I am going about designing my own life.

So all in all, even though I felt like a dog's breakfast, a day resting and recouperating is exactly what the doctor ordered, I need to learn to relax more often and get my butt to bed much earlier so that my body can heal itself after the crazy workouts and calorie reduced lifestyle.

Happy Easter xx