Sunset & Bat Fit

This was the sunset on January 1st, 2013, as seen from our balcony. Isn't it a pretty first sunset for this year?

D and I went to Muenster, Germany, earlier today. We decided to have dinner at a Spanish restaurant and I picked several tapas. They were really yummy, but when I counted calories later... oh, man! :(

Fab Abs: Days 3-5

I did the Fab Abs exercises every day so far. I find the increase in push-up repeats too hard to do yet. I can do 7, but not 10. Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but I think I'll do 7 push-ups and maybe there's a chance I'll be able to be doing 10 tomorrow? Although I'm already supposed to do 12 on Monday... Argh.

Bat Fit 2013

You might have seen in my sidebar that I was taking part in the Bat Fit challenge during 2012. Well, Bat Fit continues in 2013 and I'm still in! :)

Bat Fit is hosted by my friend, Professor Z. Want to know more about it? Here's how she describes it on her blog:

>>Bat Fit is quite simply Goths, Punk Rockers, and Alternative Types (or anyone actually) working towards total physical, mental and emotional health. It's a community of like minds who depend on each other to cheer our successes and lend support when we trip up and "fall out of the Bat House."<<

Come and join the fun!

Writing, Eating, Exercising

by Sal 

Weekend is here! This will be a lovely, relaxing weekend. I have absolutely no plans of doing anything except for:

Writing

I'm participating in this year's NaNoWriMo. I've been failing so far. I won't meet the goal of writing 50,000 words. Okay, I've probably written more than 50,000 words this month, but most of them don't count for my WriMo-project. Read more about me failing at NaNoWriMo in my writing blog.

I hope to get a little more writing done this weekend.

Eating Healthy

Eating healthy and keeping my calory intake below 1,400 is really hard. I usually manage to stay below the 1,600 calory mark. Small success!

Today, I made exactly two bad choices: 

The first one was picking that lovely garlic dressing for my salad at lunch. Unfortunately, I didn't read the label before I bought it. If I had, I would have picked a low-fat dressing. 

The sevond bad choice was eating that caramel yoghurt. I love caramel and the yoghurt was delicious, but it had lots of calories and left me craving for more.

What else did I have today? One slice of whole-wheat bread with curd cheese, four oat cookies (in other words: boring cookies), a mixed salad, lots of oatmeal gruel with cinnamon, two cups of tea, cappucino, water...

I plan on doing another soup day on Saturday or Sunday. My first soup day ion Monday wnt really well and made me lose 700 g (approx. 1 pound).

Exercising

I went jogging twice this week. Hopefully I'll be able to motivate myself to go running a third time on Saturday or Sunday. I'm also thinking about maybe going to the local health club... Undecided about that.

I will have to force myself to do some sets of push-ups this weekend. Remember: I only manage three in a row.

Reading

So many books and magazines I haven't found the time to read yet. What's better than sipping hot tea and reading a good book?

Knitting

I started knitting a scarf yesterday. I might be able to finish it this weekend.

What are your plans for the weekend?

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