why am I still here when it is so late?

well I am up late - again. I seem to always be up late which really suits my derby name Midnight Fury! Because whilst I do like late nights, I do not like the early mornings thanks to my precious babies!

I have started this blog thanks to Ms Dodge&Bolt who always encourages me to eat well and exercise lots ... oh and to live and breathe derby as much as possible! This is not hard as to be honest - I quite love Derby and it means the world to me.

Anyways... terrible time of year to get fit - there is no training thanks to it being the off season, it won't stop raining so I can't skate outside and of course the food glorious food that is available to eat!

on a plus side my diet is a little restricted already thanks to allergies and intollerances. I follow a modified version of the RPA Elimination Diet which has been a god send to my sons eczema and I can't have dairy in my diet due to a mild allergy and also my daughter has an intollerance to it (she is still breastfed). I also am highly allergic to crustaceans.. so other then fish, seafood is off the list!

My diet is ok, but could be so much better. I eat ALOT of chocolate. "How" you may ask - "does it not contain dairy??"" Well yes it does, BUT the following chocolate is dairy free and my downfall:
Eskal dairy free dark choc with mint chips (yum)
Lindt 70% Dark Chocolate
Junior Mints (hard to find here - thank god for that)
Choc mint dairy and GF bickies from coles - not sure of the brand - but YUM - taste just like mint slice which was a fave of mine.

My other vice is coke. I don't drink alot of it, I would be lucky to drink 1 can every day which is 375mls. I do not drink coffee at all and I rarely to never have tea, so coke is my one "I am having a hard day already thanks to getting to bed late and then being awake early with a TO DO list longer then my arm, please get me through this day" drink. There are days when I wish I loved coffee.

So I have waffled... mmmm waffles. Essentially I am a mother - I have 2 kids who are 3 and 10 months old. I put on 26kgs for each pregnancy (go me!) and have lost it both times. I have become softer then I was pre-babies - so while I have lost the weight there is some serious lovin handles going on still! My kids both have a million appointments because Ryan has a hearing loss and Keira has a genetic condition call Aniridia (born without an Iris) but more on that later. I am also going to Uni to finish my grad dip in Education. So life is furiously busy, furiously late and if I work hard it should be fabulous!