I've eaten too much ice-cream. We've been at the beach for the school holidays so it was unavoidable.
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Okay, it was totally avoidable, and continues to be deeply necessary that I stop overindulging on ice-cream, too many hot chips then chocolate coated peanuts to finish with.
I need to start fresh on my whole approach to healthy living. The new financial year is surely just as good a time as the regular calendar New Year, isn't it?
I'm definitely struggling to find motivation though, because I feel like we are living in the last days - especially with the pandemic and all the current drama around the globe.
So if I'm getting raptured up to heaven soon, why deny myself the iced-donut right?
Then again, just in case I'm wrong, I still have to fit into my pants to go out of the house tomorrow and it's getting increasingly difficult to do so.
Disciplining myself is even harder than disciplining my children because when they behave badly, I turn to mulled wine to dull the pain of my failures as a parent.
With three teenage daughters in my family and two still at home, I am frequently aware that I may only be energized enough to raise one perfect child.
It doesn't help that we are living in the lucky country during these crazy days.
I've found it challenging not to spoil my girls with treats to ease the stressful pressure of anxiety.
I worry that my daughters take the abundance of food, clothing and shelter available to them totally for granted - in fact I'm sure that they do. How do I combat this?
I know I need to dedicate more time to educating them about the realities of our luxurious lifestyle relative to the majority of humans around the world, but I'd have to get them off their time wasting devices first.
Our flawed existence in this first world bubble was vividly demonstrated recently when members of my family considered our holiday accommodation as not flash enough.
I felt deeply ashamed of their arrogance.
Spending more on ourselves always means having less to share with others and is too much in synch with popular culture which primarily promotes self-love.
Me setting a better example will be a start.