Putting 'Do Something!' to bed.

I love that feeling when I have finally finished putting my newsletter 'Do Something!' together and have scheduled it to be sent out during the night. Sometimes I am up until 2am. Usually when I haven't decided what I wanted to write about until the evening time. Today, however, I knew what I wanted to say quite early on, so was able to get quite a lot of the preparatory work done.

Today has been a very busy, bitty day. I had to rush off to Inverness this morning to pick up a present that originally I wasn't going to buy. However, plans change and fortunately the journey was uneventful and I was back in Kingussie in good time to get ready for my fitness test with Eric at the gym. It was also weight, blood pressure, lung capacity and body fat measurement time, which I must admit I never look forward to! Fortunately, I have been making progress, so the body fat and weight were down (a little!) and the blood pressure and lung capacity were also fine. (Apparently my lungs are in pretty good shape! Must be the result of all those years of swimming and singing!) I am 'good' fitness-wise, having moved up from where I started at 'High Average' (or something like that!). My next challenge will be to cut my time on the treadmill test by about 30 seconds. My mind is already working on tactics and how I can achieve that for the next time. Never mind that we have the Christmas and New Year holiday in the way!

As to that, I was pleased to be able to get some wrapping time this afternoon, before the children got home. I have been known to be still wrapping at 3 o'clock on Christmas morning with the original 'Godzilla' movie the only thing to keep me company. That was about 5 years ago, and I promised myself 'never again'.

I was watching the Trinny and Susannah programme 'What Not To Wear' this evening. I very rarely watch television during the week, but somehow decided to change that this week. It was very interesting for me, as I had been having a sort of crisis of confidence about my weight today. (I am really struggling to get much off, in spite of the regular fitness sessions and the healthy eating I mostly do.) I keep telling myself it is only a number and that I am fit and not bad-looking, but somehow the message bounces of that bit of my brain that says 'I am great!' I had been feeling a bit bad before the programme (probably as much to do with fatigue as much as everything else, as I haven't been too good at following my own self-care promises!) but by the end felt so much better. In the programme 2 women who were much larger than me were put through their paces by T & S and came out of it looking gorgeous! It was nothing to do with their sizes, but their own feelings about themselves and the way they projected that to the world. A good lesson for me to mull on overnight.

Time to follow 'Do Something!' to bed........