La Bella Vida

Monday, 2 April 2012

Let the Detox Begin

Tuesday April 3rd

After quite an unhealthy few months I have decided it's time to do a full detox.

My new years resolution was to become a healthier person. I joined a gym and have started running and working out again so that part is going...errr.great. (Although this past two weeks have been full of overnight shifts, my energy and motivation for the gym is seriously lacking)

Ok. I have seen real full-on detoxes that last weeks - I don't think I have the willpower! I did find a sort of amateur detox which lasts 7 days so I'm going for it.

The diet includes lots.....LOTS of fruit and vegetables, drinking a lot of water which is weird for me - I could go weeks without having a full glass of water, maybe I store it up like a camel, lots of fish, brown rice, certain noodles, oats, seeds (I am beginning to sound like a rabbit) ...and that's pretty much it.

NO sugar
NO dairy
NO sweets
NO crisps
NO meet
NO caffeine

THIS LIST, unfortunately, goes on and on.

I will finish just in time for my visitors to get here when, I'm sure, I will reverse all the good of the detox!

If anyone knows me, and knows the ridiculous amount of crap I eat, knows just how HARD this is going to be for me!

WISH ME LUCK!!

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Our Galway Adventure

The realities of life are sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet. Sometimes they push us to do silly things, and sometimes they push us to do great things. Last weekend, Dearbhla and I decided to do a great silly thing! We took a trip to Galway to visit a friend of mine, do a bit of shopping, and celebrate St. Patrick's day.

Dearbhla and I have been friends since we were about 10 years old - even though she never misses an opportunity to tell people I was the cause of her twisting her ankle badly. Ok, I was... but it was an accident!!! Everything we do together ends up being an adventure (hense the title of this post) and this trip was no different.

We drove down on Friday morning after I came off an overnight shift. We stayed in an old style castle hotel just outside of Galway city. It was surrounded by acres of green fields, much of which we didn't have time to explore. We dropped our bags and went straight to the tournament where we enjoyed a great evening and night out. It had been a long while since I had been 'out out' and we had lots of fun!

The second day we spent shopping and at the snooker, and out again that night. The evening (and when I say evening, I mean morning) saw us dining in the finest restaurant Galway has to offer - Chicken Lickin'...later known to us as just 'lickin'. We were even given a VIP room on the top floor where we wouldn't be bothered... AND they so kindly left us (possibly 1 week old) chicken basket leftovers incase we finished ours too quickly) We had the pleasure of watching the locals wolfing down their SO LOVED chicken wings, and we watched people doing impressions of us 'fishing' for salmon... I really wish I could go into more detail!!!!

It had been a while since I had laughed so much and had such fun, it was well needed! The fact I had to work Sunday afternoon after practically no sleep, didn't matter after such a great weekend! Discretion is being used with these pictures....but here is some of our Galway adventures...