It's NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS time!!

"The future is the reality we set for ourselves"

I LOVE setting New Year's Resolutions - I love the clean slate feeling and the insight you get into people's hopes, dreams and ambitions for the year ahead. Infact I love making resolutions so much, I begin thinking about them in October, start asking people what theirs are from November onwards and set my own on New Year's Eve without fail*. Here are mine for 2k11:

1. Go a whole year without chocolate I am a binge chocolate eater. My brain doesn't comprehend moderation so much so I put on at least 4lbs over the last fortnight from chocolate alone. Like an alcoholic - it's time to go cold turkey - my bikini awaits (once I lose 10% body fat/ 25 cm from my waist/ 20lbs)!!

2. Complete February's 280km running challenge including kitting out my fellow LOVEhearts for the LOVErun. *Kaye let me into the miracle of Janathon this morning so I'm now a signed up Janathon participant and will be setting off for my first run of the year the minute this post is published! (If you want to get the lowdown on Janathon - head over to Kaye's sweet blog for all the intel). When I say "run" - I'm heading to the seventh lampost and back cos I forgot to collect my inhalers today and it's already dark and it's raining AND I feel so unfit (see Resolution 1). Hopefully you can submit such a short route!?

3. Get my 10km race time under 1 hour

4. Complete a half marathon even if I have to crawl over the finish line

5. Complete another challenge with the Hare - The Hare has already been hard at work compiling a list of possible walkathons - VERY exciting but more on this later as I'm still figuring out which races are required to be done in your underwear or similar. There's ALWAYS a catch!!

6. Spend less than £100 on my TfL travel card over the next 12 months.

7. Stay in my overdraft (Trying a bit of reverse psychology here: Every year I say I'm going to pay off my overdraft and every year I fail miserably)

8. Expand my wardrobe to something other than training gear or work clothes. PEOPLE - I'm finally taking the hint!!

9. Attempt to impress people with my {as yet V. limited} culinary skills courtesy of Nigella. This resolution is hopefully off to a good start although "Come Dine and Duel" next Saturday might need to be literal as I managed to invite a host of people before realising that we only have 6-8 chairs in the flat. Hopefully there's nothing wrong with a Nigella supper picnic?!

10. Sort out my career/ jobs (ie. help make SUPERchicks a leading women's fitness SUPERbrand) AND pull off spending two months in the US, get my proposal accepted by an agent and get published AND become a guest presenter on the Gadget Show/ become the next Anneka Rice. (I think you'll agree from my YouTube debut that I have literally NO hope of pulling this off!!) A girl can dream!!

So I've told you mine - NOW I REALLY WANT TO HEAR YOURS xx