Personal Goals for 2013!

Hello 2013! And hello to all my readers that still read these! Thank you for sticking around so long and not giving up when I thought I did!

Looking back over 2012, I am not quite sure what to think of it! It was an on and off year, I suppose, more off than on, but I plan to use the energy I saved up in 2012 to make 2013 one heck of a year! I did some awesome things in 2012, like attended my first festival, went to Crete, got a job. But mentally, 2012 was a bit of a downer for me, so making 2013 a recovery!

Why is this post so late, I hear you cry?! It's nearly February, I hear you cry?! I know, I know, don't worry! I planned all along to kick it off again around this time! What's the point in writing a New Years Resolution blog when by mid January we would all be tucking back into those left over Celebrations from Christmas, the gym long forgotten! Instead, I am making Personal Goals for the year!

I want to achieve more this year and make my life better for myself, not just short term goals, but long term ones too. I felt like my flare and passion for life had died a little in 2012, so I am bringing it back in 2013, I'm going to light myself up (like the fourth of July).

Now, on to those personal goals!

1. Finish a story! (aka Write a 50,000 novel in 31 days because you are a crazy fool)
~With this one, I have started already, though I fell behind last week when I got ill, but I am picking it back up today, I WILL get this done!! I have always written stories, and love writing, but I have never completed one! So this year, I told myself, I want to complete one of my stories, and then this escalated into the challenge of writing 50,000 words in 31 days...I AM CRAZY. But I will do it, I can feel it in my bones. It's even more of a challenge because it's the first sci-fi story I will be writing *le gasp* I usually write fantasy, but sci-fi has always interested me! Wish me luck!

2. Finish AT LEAST one chapter of my comic
~ Yup, another creative one, but I need to get that spark back! And what better way than actually doing my comic! This will be the next creative project after my novel, so once Subject 10 (the novel) is finished, I will move on to starting my comic! I already know what it is about and have Chapter 1 planned out in writing and began drafts, I just need to kick myself up the bum and draw!

3. Lose another stone (and get into healthy eating habits)
~ This one is more a long term goal, as I want to lose a bit more weight and then I will be happy with myself and I want to get into the good habits of eating healthily. I don't want to diet, I want to change my lifestyle! If I can get into good habits and lose weight, it will help keep the weight off!

4. GET FIT
~ I need the stamina. I get worn out after a brisk walk for 20 minutes. I want to build up my stamina so I can enjoy life more! I want to go for long nature walks, walk up hills, mountains, conquer places I have never been before, walk all the way around Portsmouth, stuff like that! I want to have the stamina to keep up with my boyfriend (NOT in the way you are thinking :P Or is it...;D ). Getting fit and healthy will give me that energy boost and stamina boost to live life the way I WANT to!

5. Blog More!
~ Because I was terrible at it in 2012! I love blogging, but I just didn't do it enough, and I totally want to get back into it, not just on this one, but on my media one too, where I will be reviewing local events as well as films, games and music! I don't want to be blogger famous, I just want to bring people good reading! If you have any tips or ideas for me, just comment below!

6. Save up enough money to do what I want!
~ This is a grouped one, because I want to go on holiday, and build my PC, and other things! But I am terrible at saving money, so this one will be a challenge for me! I've already started a budget sheet where I write down my daily spends on it and money coming in and out! This month I'm not doing too well...but I am trying haha!! Once I get my computer, I can do things like make a video game, edit drawings on photoshop, and review games better!! So over all, saving money would improve my life, haha!

7. Be a better girlfriend
~ Because I am a bit selfish to be honest, so this one I am dedicating to my boyfriend so I can make him happy. which will make me happy!

So there you have it, that's my personal goals for 2013! I've already started working on one or two, its baby steps, but I will get there! I will be happier by the end of the year, not a new me, but an improved me! Kitty 2.0!

STAY BEAUTIFUL and thank you for reading!

ox~Kitty~xo

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Kitty and Food (WARNING, NEAR NUDITY)

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS BODY SHOTS OF ME (it ain't pretty) SO IF YOU ARE ADVERSE TO FATTIES NUDE, DO NOT LOOK!!

Haha I warned you :P Well then, lets get on with this post then!! This is about how I have decided to try and turn my life around the REAL hard way!! Not even diets (as I am hopeless with diets, they don't like me and I don't like them). I will be trying to loose weight by simply doing what I should of been doing my entire life: eat properly, healthily and keep active!! Obviously sitting in front of my monitor up to 12 hours a day is NOT active so I need to drastically change this. Ontop of that, I snack on biscuits, chocolate and sweets!! So I am sitting on my big arse shoving food into my gob and not doing anything to burn it off!! Disgusting really. So I started this week to try and eat less crap and more healthy food, ie snacking on fruit rather than crap (that reminds me, veg too, I have carrots I wanna chop up for carrot sticks! No dip please) This means I will finally have to give up my kiddyness in buying kids cereals for breakfast and buy proper adult low fat ones with berries in them (I'm not complaining though, I bought some and it is YUMMY) Though I don't think I can ever eat Alpen. It smells like rabbit food!!

I have always been a chubby kid, and it slowly got worse as I ate my feelings and just ate out of boredom. In college, all I ate was crappy food, but the difference was that I didn't really eat anything else and my weight was up and down like a yo yo, one week loosing half a stone, the next putting it back on!! I lived off chocolate and red bulls basically, what a lovely healthy combo!! Now I am 22 I need to start looking after my body properly and the only way I can do that is healthy food and exercise! I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke, I don't even eat red meat, only fish!! My probably is and always will be my snacking. My meals are pretty healthy I always have a good mix of protein veg and carbs its just the snacking!! Don't snack on crap kids unless you can work it off or you are lucky, like my boyfie, and don't put on weight!! Here is what snacking constantly all my life has done to my body:

Here are my stats:

Height: 5 foot 3 inches
Weight: 13 stone 2 pounds (appauling!!!)
BMI: 32.4 (OBESE)
Stomach: 40 inches
Bottom/Hips: 47 inches
Waist: 34 inches
One Thigh: 26 inches
One arm: 12 and a half inches

Pretty nasty right!! Thats what I get for just sitting on my arse and not doing anything!! I think my main problem is in inactivity as I eat fruit and veg a day and all the healthy stuff, just crap on top of it and no movement!! SO I am determined to get moving every day! From riding a bike, to doing an exercise video to just walking round window shopping (I am poor I need shoes!) just to get my out of the obese catagory at first then into healthy weight!! I have a lot of weight to shift but hopefully I will manage it with a healthy normal life style (no diets please! *fends off diets with a stick) and plenty of movement!!

As you have seen in previous blogs, I have been cycling so this is good, this week I have bike rode on Monday and walked round for a couple of hours round town and to the marina yesterday (you will see soon) and today another bike ride!! Not only is the movement good for me, but I get fresh air too!! Yay!

So I best be off now, I hope I didn't burn your eyes haha! I am going to make a healthy wholemeal sammich and then go for a bike ride with the boyfie and maybe some more footage!!

Kitty xoxox~<3