Week (ahem) Three: Water my Plants and Other Minor Things

Verdant greenery

I buy plants.  I plant plants.  I sit back and admire my handiwork for a few days, then I forget about them or I'm a bit busy and I plan to do it later and the next time I go to the garden I am confronted by a plant graveyard of dry, dead twigs.  So this week, I will water my plants every night!

Because watering plants isn't too taxing I thought I might manage to commit to more than one challenge this week (gasp!).  I know!  I'm really living life on the edge here. 

After my no sugar failure I'm a bit loath to blithely promise something and then fail again - this would be a very dull blog if that were the case -  I'm going to do this!!  Oh, I didnt manage to do it... I'm going to try that!  Oh, it didn't quite work out....  Not very inspiring. And I'm afraid my second challenge isn't a big glittery ball of awesomeness which will have you waiting with baited breath to see if I succeeded or failed but it is something that we women really should do more of: pelvic floor exercises.  Exciting huh?

Without going into too much detail, after having the baby my pelvic floor muscle had taken a bit of a battering and could really do with a bit of toning (as could the rest of me...).  When the baby was born my muscles were utterly knackered, they've improved massively since then but I think with muscles there's always room for improvement!  I'm guessing they were stretched out of shape by the weight of the baby and all the fluid during the last few months of pregnancy and surprise surprise these muscles didn't ping back into shape either. 

Apparently for the best results you need to do this three times a day - the midwife suggested doing it while brushing my teeth but this was too much like patting your head while rubbing your belly and I just don't have the coordination.  Basically, you exercise your pelvic floor by imagining you're stopping a wee mid flow.  Don't grit your teeth, screw up your face or otherwise tense up - this should be a quiet, secret exercise you can do while waiting for the bus or doing the dishes - nobody needs to know what you're up to!  There's more info on the NHS website here.

Now I'm going to push the boat out this week and do one more thing.  I know.  How will she manage it I hear you cry! She must be superhuman! 

Now the final task is a biggie; I'm going to throw out one thing each night this week.  Again, not so exciting but necessary unless I want to wake up one day and have to burrow through a wall of magazines to reach the front door.

So that's it for the week.  Water pants, pelvic floor exercises and chuck out some junk.  Totally doable.  Clench well ladies!