The Long Overdue Post

And when I say long overdue, I mean I haven't posted since March. March. That's not days overdue, that's not even weeks overdue. I mean that's literally months overdue! Life man. It gets in the way when you least expect it, and buggers up all the lovely plans you'd laid out for yourself.

I think I've been telling myself on a near daily basis since my last post that I need to get back on here, because it's something that I really, really enjoy doing, but there's always been something else that needed my attention. It's been a busy few months since I was wasting my life reading all the blogs. I finished my A Level exams (thank the lord, I thought it was never going to end), went vegetarian, changed my hair from blonde to ombre to burgundy to purple to blonde/turquoise/violet, joined Slimming World, lost a stone, planned a month's travelling around Europe, turned 19, spent a lot of money, navigated London for the first time by myself...phew, I feel exhausted even reading that list. Of course, there has been a lot of lazing around and Netflix binging too. I mean, some things never change. And season 3 of Orange Is The New Black was literally incredible.

                                  Pretty proud of my new found cooking abilities (although lets be honest, I've

                                                       gone back to beans on jacket potatoes and the occasional egg as my staples!

But anyway, I am now firmly back in the driver's seat of the blogging train, and here I plan to stay for a nice long time. Lots more changes happening very soon, and I'm sure I'll be posting about them/freaking out because I have no idea how to adult and I've gotten completely lost in Hungary or something. Who knows. Life's exciting like that! Tomorrow regular blog posts commence, and I have plenty of the old ideas floating around in the grey matter, and I can't wait to share my latest beauty finds and have a right old moan about how difficult booking travelling stuffs is!

Change is positive?

I will always be the first to admit that I don't like change. I am very much a girl set in her ways. I am a home bird who doesn't cope very well being away from home, I have certain mugs I like to use, and every day pretty much has the same routine. I don't often step outside my comfort zone, definitely not as much as I probably should in order to push myself as a person, and even my makeup routine follows the same routine with the same steps.

But lately I've been thinking a lot about change. I spoke about it in my blog post yesterday, that this year is going to be a year of massive change. I'll be leaving home and making the giant leap that is university and becoming a responsible adult, and I have no idea how I'm going to cope. But I've also been thinking about change in another, very important aspect of my life.

There is no hiding the fact that I am fat. Chubby, curvaceous, plump, rounded, a bit of junk in the trunk, however you want to describe it there is no way I can pretend that I'm not. I used to do a lot of dance and be a lot more toned and slimmer than I am now, but since stopping the nine classes a week I was doing, I haven't actually much changed my diet, and slowly but surely the pounds have crept on and my clothes are becoming tight. I can just about fit into a UK size 14 still, but in order to have to not buy a whole new wardrobe, I need to make some change.

And so 2015 is going to become the year of change.

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I've been reading a lot of healthy eating blogs lately, and watching a lot of videos in the same vein, and for possibly the first time I am somewhat motivated to make this change in my life and get healthier. My goal isn't to become really skinny, because that's probably not going to happen. I wasn't built to be skinny, like some people are, and that's okay. It's okay to be different. What isn't okay in my book, is to be as overweight as I am, with the health problems that are associated with it. I've watched various family members deal with weight related health issues, and I don't want that life.

This is also the first time that I've been motivated to lose the weight in a healthy and sensible way, which is for me a Big Deal, and the feelings I've experienced before I may make a blog post on someday, if anyone would be interested.

But I can't do this alone. I've not got the greatest willpower in the world, and whilst this isn't going to become a total fitness/weight loss/healthy eating blog, I do need somewhere where I can post my progress, share recipes and tips, and somewhere where I can be accountable and actually make this change, rather than trying for a few days and giving up.

So here's to change, and all the positive benefits that may come with it! What changes, if any, are you making in your life this year?

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