Today I've downsized my makeup collection. What I've done is sort out everything that I either don't use, or that has become to old.
This is the initial amount of makeup that I'vecleaned away from my makeup collection. It's a mash-up of both old and unused items!
I then cleared out all item that are too old and I threw those out. Whatever was left have been given to my sisters and my mother to bicker over - the items are pictured below
It felt good to declutter that part of my life, along with my office earlier in the week. New things are coming my way. I can just feel it :)
I'm typing this at half past nine in the evening because I've spent the day doing nothing but looking up planners on pinterest and google!
I'm officially obsessed! My Moleskine planner is not enough anymore! It's too standardized and I can't change on add anything!
During the weekend I ordered new dividers and new diary inserts for my filofax in the personal size, but as I'm looking through videos and pinterest I am slowly realizing that my Personal sized filofax will not be enough!
It's just too small for all of my planning and the things I want to do with it! So what am I going to do? I can't cancel my orders as they've already been shipped!
The plan is as follows:
To save some money and buy an A5 or A4 filofax system (currently leaning towards the A4 as it seems easier to customize) at the end of March and use my Moleskine for another month.
The diary inserts that I ordered are day per page and that is way to much space for me to plan out my day - therefore those inserts will be used as a journaling tool instead!
I have also spent the day making even more dividers and my own printables!
I now have my own, customized vlogging and blogging ideas sheets and a social media tracker to go with it. They are all in personal size and I was really happy when I figured out how to create them!
It's actually really simple!
So, my Filofax in the personal size will be used as my journal and an outlet for vlogging and blogging. Now, that will probably not stop me from creating something pretty for my other Filofax that will be used for work as well!
Enjoy the pics of my newly customized planner and the printables I made - let me know if you want me to share those with you!
So, I don't know how many of you actually know this about me, but I suffer from IBS. It's a fairly common disease, that happens mostly to women around my age and people don't like talking about it because the symptoms are not that kosher.
It's also very hard to determine if it's a "real" disease or not. This is because the triggers are mostly phycological. Basically I got mine from my anxiety and panic attacks. Which is another thing you might not know about me. Senior year of high school I got my first panic attack, and I got scared of public transportation. It took some weeks before I got a diagnos and medication to help me. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. It was a very difficult time. If you are not familiar with this disease I'm not going to explain it, just send you to a video that Zoella posted a while ago that describes the symptoms and disease very well, even better than my phycologist did back when I was diagnosed!
It's almost 20 minutes long, but trust me, if you don't know what panic attacks and anxiety is this will explain it. And if you are suffering from it yourself this will help you understand it a lot better!
Now, back to the topic at hand, IBS and FODMAPs. I was diagnosed with IBS as a follow-up from my panic attacks, which is usually how you get IBS. IBS stands from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and has also been called Nervous Bowels. Basically, if I'm nervous, stressed or faced with something challenging or new my body stops functioning as it should. I get stomach pains and the urge to visit a bathroom becomes an emergency. I won't go into details, but let's just say that I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
It has become such a problem that I've let it control my life and because of it I'm not actually living my life to the fullest. I've lived with this problem for almost eight years now and it has been a constant struggle and worry for me.
One of my resolutions this year was to actually live my life and in order to do that I have to get my IBS under control. I've read about this diet called FODMAPs which is an Australian thing where you eliminate quite a lot of foods that are known to be irritable for your bowels. I've been eating according to this diet for a week now and I've noticed major improvements! Trust me, I noticed a change 24 hours into the diet!
I've eliminated gluten, lactose, unions and garlic. This is very, and I mean very, problematic and difficult in the beginning because there is unions and garlic in almost everything. However, it is so worth it due to how much better I feel already.
On Friday I accidentally ate something that had unions in it and the pains arrived a couple of hours later. This diet has definitely showed me things that I absolutely can't eat, and that I do feel better when they are eliminated. My co-workers are telling me that I have a healthier glow to my face now and that I am more energised.
I'll update you more about all of this as I go, but for now I'll leave you with that this diet works and if you have IBS I urge you to try this.
