Cruising...
It's Friday and I wanna go home and get some sleep. Almost all attempts at diet and exercise have been frustrated over the last week - G and I have had wedding dinners, parties and get togethers to attend EVERY DAY of last week. Most of that is with family so "No" is not an option!
The next evening I have free is the 30th - and if G accepts an invitation on that evening, heads will roll! December is also the time when all the out of town cousins visit. My cousin is visiting right now (she's half English and insisted on cooking a full Christmas dinner last night - she worked really hard and it was really very nice!!) and since I see her only once in 3 years or so, I have been trying to spend as much time as possible with her. Tonight she comes to stay with me and we are taking her and another cousin's brother in law to a party. I hope I'll be able to stand past 10:00 P.M.!!
All that and I still woke up for kickboxing this morning. Hemal has started to really push me again and he is not unhappy with my fitness levels - they haven't fallen as drastically as I thought they would. I've taken off most of my holiday weight, but I am afraid further progress might be delayed till I can actually take the time out to go for a walk once in a while!!
Still, I am raking in the compliments at all these events! The only thing is that all the blouses on my saris have become loose and since I haven't bothered to have them fitted, they get a bit fiddly and I have to pin them around me. Oh yes! A major NSV - I was out to buy a nice new top for new years and I looked for an XL (of course), they didn't have one so I tried an L and it was too big! I finally settled on a M and it looks really good! A MEDIUM??!! Wow! I am quite excited about that!
My absolutely fave assistant, Janet, did all kinds of baking for Christmas and brought me all kinds of snacky stuff as well as a coconut cake at the office today! Another coconut-strawberry and almond sweet, a guava jelly-like dessert, home made marzipan and other salty stuff. It was great - I had quite a bit of it today. She has promised not to do such a horrid thing to me again till next Christmas 
I am getting read to take a stock of my life this past year and make some good resolutions. I am NOT going to make any grandiose weight loss or diet resolutions. I am quite happy to tweak the way I eat when I need to, but I am not ever going on another diet. I am in this for the long term.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!!
Alicia