Day 3.

This fantastic year has started on a low for me. I’m down with the flu. Old school influenza. Fever, aches, sweat, headaches, sore throat and everything that comes with it. Not very cool. But my project is in full speed. By the end of this year, I will be a vegan. Even if only for a short time. This is a 12 month project, step by step project. So now I’ve started step one. From now on I am a Pescetarian. According to Buzzle.com, a Pescetarian is one who consumes anything that they wish to, but abstains from meat of all kinds except fish and in some cases, shellfish. They do consume dairy products, eggs and other food ingredients but they stay clear from animal meat. Some may not call this a vegetarian diet since fish is in fact considered a form of 'white meat', but definitions vary and thus the ideas behind each diet.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-types-of-vegetarians.html.

This first step will last for 3 months. I’m very excited about this project and feel more than ready to challenge myself. I’m not doing this as a diet, although I want to lose weight and have the goal of losing 14 kg this year. Hopefully that will be a by-product of my healthy living and conscious eating habits.

I and my running buddies have decided to run a half marathon in the Reykjavik marathon in August. So I’ve been working on running plans and exercise regimes for the next several months. Haven’t been able to start yet, the flu remember, but hopefully I will be back in full health after this coming weekend. I’ve registered myself for two interesting challenges, a 30 day strength training challenge and a 2014km in 2014 on Endomondo. So far I have 6 different runs I will be joining this year. The Sentrumsløbet here in Oslo in April (10km), iForm løbet (10km) also here in Oslo in May/June, Kvennahlaupið here in Oslo also in May/June (5-10km), Reykjavik marathon (21,1 km) in August, KK mila (10km) in Oslo in beginning of September and Oslo marathon (21,1 km) in late September. So I will be busy running, apparantely! Love it J

Plenty to do and not enough time to do it, I’m afraid. But I’m not stressing, I have adopted the 80/20 rule! There is no need to be perfect (then you don’t have anything to work towards!) so even if I only accomplish 80% of my goals and dreams, that is still fantastic. It is also fine to miss 20% of my exercises, or to eat 20% badly, but that is still a great improvement from doing nothing. Not that I’ve been doing nothing. But now I’m prioritising, and will use my time doing things I must do in order to get to where I want to go. It means I have to give up a couple of things I also love to do, but one cannot do everything so ...