Its funny....you ask...what brings me joy beside food?
Before I started this challenge, I loved food.....I loved sitting down at the end of the day and having a coffee and eating a bag of smarties - the taste of them was so yummy. I used to love roasts and eating crackling. However these foods always made me feel yucky in my stomach - and I used to get pain all the time.
However you know what my new joy is? Going to a gym class!
I love the feeling I get when I go through the gym, the friendly team and instructors and creche team when I go to the gym and have an adult talk! Then I get to have 2 hours of "me" time and it makes me feel great.
What happens when I don't get this?
I missed my pump class the other day that I had been looking forward to - and I was in a shitty mood all morning and couldn't cope as well as I usually do with the 4 kids - and I took them out to Kings Park and couldn't stop stressing!
Anyway my husband ended up getting home from work early - and I asked him if I could go for a run - so there I went and did my second lot of running in 2 days! It was awesome - I sang and ran and just enjoyed being me!
I then finished off with a weight session in our home gym at the end of the day and I went to bed feeling awesome!
So there you go - thats my new joy :)
I also get joy out of -
My lovely children - just a special smile, or a laugh or a hug or when my kids tell me they love me.
My husband - doing this exercise together - we have something else to talk about at night
Eating healthy - It is so good to enjoy nice, tasty food now and then just have a small treat every now and then
My family - Especially spending time with my sister and niece - its lovely to have something more in common now. I also like spending time with my mum and dad too.
Til next time,
Julia
I so hear you on this Julia! I love food, and so does my hubby. So cooking for him and making something really yummy, and usually not so healthy, has become a habit in the 9 years we've been together - way to a mans heart is through his stomach right?
ReplyDeleteSince having the kids - especially having them 14mths apart - I lost track of 'me' and became wife, daughter, sister and mother - who was I?!
Since going back to the gym I've found myself again. I have a new lease on life. I'm more organised and motivated. I can deal with the kids, even on their bad days, so much better. Everything around the house gets done rather than left for days. Coming into Spring and having daylight savings helps a lot too - its still sunny and warm when I get home so I can play outside with the kids for a while before going inside to do dinner.
Loving it! And yes, I notice the difference when I miss a day too. Got caught out on site for a job on Monday and didn't make it to the gym and I was cranky until Wednesday when I got to do my next class. Amazing the difference it makes!