{mally powell}

begin it

So, my the exercise thing is not going so great.

I started well, got busy (Titch turned one! ONE!), got sick and now here we are. No matter, I'll just start again. We'll get there. I have a number of weddings coming up this year - it would be nice to feel foxy by then.

Meanwhile life is throwing me reminders - some gentle, others painfully harsh - to get on with my 101 things.

Some are little things, things that are important to me but not ultimately important (hello craft projects...); some are much bigger: a new home, a new business. These are the ones I really need to get to grips with. So I'm taking baby steps, a little every day.

Life is short. Begin it.

t-22

Ah.

You see what happened there? Not the plan at all! In fairness, though, after some hard core festive feasting (and even more hard core post-festive 'eating up' of the leftover treats) it could be a lot, lot worse.

So. No more cheese binges, no more almond slices (so unprepossessing in the packet, so very moist and delicious in the mouth), all gone Christmas cake (I tried Dan Lepard's caramel one this year and it was delicious, but boy did it last!). I also tried Nigel Slater's stollen recipe (ticking one of my 101 things, yeay!) which was delicious but I didn't compensate for my turbo oven so they were a bit dry... enter Stollen bread and butter pudding: yum!

This afternoon I have my first session with the lovely Kate who is going to size me up and give me a programme to trim me down. Then I just need to make the time to work out three or four times a week...