A NEW YEAR: Workout Motivation, Thoughts in January, Walks with my Baby in Tuscany

Here we are in a new year. Like many people, I love empowering myself with a more disciplined exercise and eating plan in the month of January. Come with me for seven days as I go for walks around our house in Tuscany, Italy, and try to convince my husband to join me in this fitness challenge.
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Hello again how is the first week of this fresh new year for you how peculiar that a calendar just an arbitrary collection of numbers gives us the permission to start again to hope for better the permission to forgive ourselves for the sides of our character that we dislike or that we’ve been

Trying to Bridle to Mark a line in the earth and articulate what we desire to clasp the wheel a little more firmly and Proclaim I’d like to turn the ship more in this Direction please I have many desires for this year some are very personal others are the

Obvious ones I worked on this video last week but then I hesitated sometimes it’s difficult for me to decide what to share with you and what to leave out I feel so close to so many of you particularly those who write to me who support my

Work on patreon who have followed me for many many years I suppose I will just try as I always do to be myself but to tread delicately with discernment it’s such a strange thing to document one’s thoughts in a public space but then I suppose books have always been a similar

Concept a very private intimate thoughtful process that usually occurs in a room alone whether it be a writer 100 years ago scribbling a manuscript or me filming this video the end goal is to share thoughts to connect to faceless friends who may glance at the work absent-mindedly or scornfully or indeed

Inhale every word with the focus with which it was created I guess sometimes when I feel tired of this world of incessant oversharing my inclination can be to withdraw like a snail and keep my thoughts safely in my little shell but then I remember that sharing isn’t all

Bad it makes us feel less alone it creates art perhaps it’s only negative when it’s mindless when it’s created without thought or on the part of the viewer when one consumes social media without choosing who you watch it can feel like everyone is oversharing when in fact all

That is needed is to balance one’s own day better and just watch or read or listen to a few select people rather than than a tidal wave of random voices this footage was of a walk I took this week with John Franco the fields are a vivid green now the air is crisp

And clean as though cognizant of all the good intentions floating around the heads of humans everywhere this time of year I thought perhaps an intention you might share with me is a renewed commitment to health it can seem trite but I love realigning my diet Di and

Exercise and sleep and mental health uh in January and uh giving it the focus that I may not be capable of later in the Year Take back P I know yought ways come we have some come we have fun and this was never going to be the same make it more make it make it make it so come we have fun I want to be by you all night long I to be I to be by you night long I give you every reason today you can enough I love when you squeeze no B take it slow you can take it low oh n n

N body on fck oh my my my oh right n n n I want to be by you I I to be I want to be by You I want to be by you be by You as you know I cook fairly wholesome meals using so much from our garden I’ve walked almost every day of my pregnancy in my postpartum year but the severe sleep deprivation has meant I couldn’t actually work out as much as I used to and as you know I have such a love of

Baking and cooking elaborate desserts so I always like to give myself a month or two at the start of the year without sugar and almost no processed food this is a week of me working out I find watching others commit to their exercise and eating goals quite motivating so

Maybe it will be a little reminder to any of you who are trying to do something similar this January oh my gosh this is an example of the reality you start the year with great intentions and you get everything set up and then you wake up and I’ve got a sore throat I’m exhausted because John Franco woke up multiple times last night and I

Just I just lie awake when he’s if he’s waking up you know every hour or hour and a half I don’t get back to sleep in between uh and that is difficult because then it’s the consistency that keeps you motivated because you look and see that

You’ve done number of workouts in a row and uh and and consecutive days and then and you feel really proud and you feel really like uh you can keep keep going and and really really make some progress and now I’m just but it’s important now to just keep

Eating healthy and rest and just think okay maybe I can do a workout this afternoon or a walk or something I don’t know uh we saw in the news the other night I think it said half of Italy is in bed with the flu or some kind of

Virus or covid or something so I just can’t seem to recuperate when I’m not getting enough sleep nowhere near enough sleep and it’s I suppose my immunity is down because it’s just been 14 months of of not sleeping so difficult we’ve we were on such a great we’re in in such a great

Chapter where my breastfeeding was just putting him to sleep and and it was really finally working that I could just put him down without an hour of of crying and screaming and soothing and and uh and then when we had when we weaned which we had to do um it uh it

Just messed up everything and now we’re back to an hour of of screaming every bedtime and he has two naps a day so that’s three hours of of uh but although it is it is easier when I walk him when I walk him I just put him in the pram

And he gent and then I sing to him and he gently falls asleep so that’s easier did I tell you I’m cutting at Sugar yes it’s what I generally do the first two months or something two or three months of the year and um it helps me just not

Have those sugar Cravings get out of control because I have a very sweet tooth look at look at this day it’s so still and quiet nothing but the sound oh look John Franco look what’s that oh gosh look at that nothing but sound of John Franco singing I think I’ve said this before

But it always works when you don’t make it that there’s oh some days I’ll work out some days I won’t if you just say every morning I’ll get up and move and do some exercise and then you don’t have to think about whether you do it or not and work through your willpower

Yeah look at this day oh my gosh it’s so pretty yeah yeah yeah I’ve been trying to convince Guido to join me and finally halfway through the week he did although I refrained from filming him uh just didn’t want to scare him off uh we both felt like as

Soon as Christmas and New Year were over we weren’t quite ready to deal with work and all the list of admin responsibilities for our jobs when one feels stressed or pushed for time the last thing you want want to do is uh is start your workday later which is what

We have to do because with John Franco waking up through the night we can’t cut back on sleep and get up earlier but within only 2 days of working out for just 30 minutes a day we’s mental Clarity improved he was sleeping better and he seems more patient and kind

Take back what you want to play I know you like it naughty come over we have some come over we have have fun and this was never going to be the same make it more make it make it make it so come we have F I sit up I want to be I want to be by you all night Long you My H M delicious Perfect M so it is cold and rain rain in and gray skies and it’s easy to work out when there’s sunshine and you are reminded of of being outside and and uh and all the rest of it but um but I’ve managed to convince Guido to come and

Work out this morning to do some step aerobics and when I first met him he was doing step aerobics in a gym and he absolutely loved it and uh so yeah I got us some steps uh for Christmas and hopefully he’s arriving [Applause] Soon so many times I’ve fallen down and once or twice I’ve turned around cuz it’s not easy this life can knock you on the ground but when you’re with me I’m safe and sound Ooh you make me better ooh better than ever when you look into my eyes and make me feel like I’m Divine ooh you make me better I close my eyes and I see you there think it’s a sign that you’re always near cuz it’s not easy easy to do this life alone but

Now when you’re with me I’m safe and sound Ooh you make me better so this was my week we all have different bodies different demands so I hope you can find whatever brings balance to your life as for me I feel so excited about how strong my health will become now adding these workouts and

Taking away sugar for a couple of months which always makes me snack when I’m not even hungry I may continue all through January and February or I may have to recuperate if the sleepless nights continue we’ve just had three nights where he slept right through but today

He is teething so I don’t know about tonight like having a baby with exercise one has to think I can’t control what life throws at me but I can set out a plan for how I would like things to go and then just adapt and accept if it has

To change I hope this video gives you a little motivation thank you to my patreon supporters thank you for subscribing to this channel uh think about giving it a like if you’ve got up to this point in the video and I shall see you next episode Alima [Applause] You make me Better better than [Applause] ever I was just about to publish and then I remember that I’m going to do a Q&A next week so if you have any questions for me please leave them in the comments below this video I’ll I’ll ask also on my Instagram if you would like to uh leave

Me a comment there uh but I hope to answer as many as I can and I’m going to start filming that tomorrow morning so uh thank you very much for watching and I’ll see you next episode in the Q&A