#100daysofsummer

100 days from tomorrow (24^th May 2014) will be the 1^st of September.

The 1^st September usually marks the end of the summer holidays, I’m not ruled by academic years anymore; but having the academic year structure be part of your life for so long, it ingrains into your head a little bit.

So with 100 days of summer left; I've decided to make a ‘Summer Bucket List’, so I can make the most of it and not let it flash past in a daze of pub gardens and daisy.

Punting in the River in Oxford

Lots of picnics in the Park

Notting Hill Carnival

Cowley Road Carnival

Read 3 Books

Spend a whole day eating all three meals outside

Outdoor Movie

Theme Park Day

Go to the beach

Run 10 miles

Big Summer Family Picnic

Go for a long hike

Make Daisy Chains

I’m also going to be joining the #100happydays movement and documenting 100 happy summery shots, but adding to it my own hashtage #100daysofsummer.

Join me – let’s make memories this summer.

What’s on your summer bucket list?

Focus, Focus, Focus

It’s been a bit quiet on here; which either means I’ve given up and failed completely or life has been so busy that I have not had time to update my going-ons. Fortunately it has been the latter.

Last week at work was hellish and super busy, lots of late finishes in the office, lacking in energy, not exercising and making bad unhealthy choices – also known as falling off the wagon.  But now I find myself in the middle of a new week, 2 workouts in and lots of healthy clean eating back on the cards – officially back on the wagon.

‘Falling off the wagon’ comes round a little too easy; there are many triggers that can cause a fall. As I’m starting my health journey, clean eating and training had been one of my main focuses; but as a busy week at work was brought on by  a looming deadline at work, my overall focus for the week was the project I was working on in the office, and not my training plan. This temporary focus then caused me to take a step back from my loving friends and family that are my support system, as I was too stressed to have proper chats with them and reach out to them.

So with one little trigger of work; it became a tumble weed of other excuses. With 5 months to the half marathon I can’t be losing my focus on running too often, so from today I pledge to make healthy eating and half marathon training my main focus in life, finding time and not having lots of excuses. I'll update you later in the week on how I am planning to stay focused in more details. 

1 hour is only 4% of your day. 

Tuesday Thoughts

I found this little nugget on an e-newsletter I receive from a nutritionist and seems it fits in very well with my new attitude to healthy and nutrition.  Since starting my new journey to a healthier and fitter me I have felt like a new person and haven't got a cold once, and hay fever doesn't seem to have caught me this season.

More updates to come this week :-).

“Nutrition is to your body, like fuel is to a formula one engine.  Your body is amazing, one of a kind.  There is only one of you and food should be tailored to what makes you feel your best!  Getting your food choices and eating habits right is THE most important thing in your life.  Without it, your body slowly weakens much quicker than it should, you get ill more often and colds and flu’s last longer, you are more prone to attack, you feel lousy and are not focused or productive in your every day life”.