Starting the year with visits to the doctor’s, path labs etc. is what I’m referring to. It’s been a pattern for the last few years and it’s terribly upsetting. I mean, you don’t want to be starting your year being sick and lining up for check-ups at doctors’ clinics & various tests at hospitals.
2008 started with chronic pharyngitis that took me almost the entire year to get over as the throat infection would just keep coming back. 2009 started with unbelievably rapid weight gain (2 kgs in one week!!) that sent me scurrying to the doctor and then to the hospital to check for polycystic ovaries & hypothyroidism. And 2010 has started with a stomach bug. A short trip over the New Year weekend turned out into a sick weekend that saw me mostly on the bed & on antibiotics. Which meant, no street food, no shopping, no meeting my fabulous friends who call that city home (Vinny, if you’re reading this, now you know why I didn’t get around to calling you :(
I’m hoping 2010 is GOOD and that the first few days do not set the pattern for the rest of the year. Here are the tangible things I want to be looking at by the end of this year:
- 7 kgs weight-loss (minimum 5)
- Better fitness levels
- Better all-round health
- Cutting down on my expenses by 10-15%
- At least a few lacs sitting pretty in my bank account
- Respectable investments
- A more stylish wardrobe
And with all the positive influences around me (read a boy who believes being over-weight & non-stylish are the two biggest crimes on this planet, punishable by death) and the fact that I now live in a city that doesn’t force you to be counting how many pennies you have left in your bank account at the end of each month, I think the goals mentioned above should be attainable.
In my defense though, I’m not technically over-weight. According to the BMI calculator, I’m on the border of normal & over-weight. And I think I’m reasonably stylish. Just that the goddamn companies want only skinny people to wear their clothes these days, so finding an outfit that I like AND that flatters my body (that is of cow-like proportions right now) is tougher than finding a needle in a haystack. And unfortunately for me, I don't possess the patience of The Boy who can spend an entire day trying to find a pair of jeans or a t-shirt that he likes, and is still perfectly happy to not have found anything by the end of the day!!
5 comments:
Scarlett...hope that all your bad luck for the decade is over. And your resolutions work out in triplicate... qualitatively speaking.
I'll keep mum on the weightloss and non stylish part. Wouldn't want to aggrvate the boy.
But hint hint, zero is not a number
@The Knife - It's like that saying "I'm not shapeless, round is a shape"...LOL!!
I don't think I can be Size 0 even if I turn anorexic-bulemic. And The Boy doesn't read the blog.
@The Knife - And thanks for your good wishes. Happy New Year to you too :)
cutting down expenses and more stylish wardrobe in the same list? is that possible? ;)
@Perplexed - I'm sure there's a way around it. My new motto is to buy a few killer things rather than a whole bunch of stuff :)
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