Update.

Hey girlies..

As you know I was doing a 6 week challenge but unfortunately I had a bad spell in my mood the past 3 weeks of it..

When I get a bad week I feel like I just want to crawl into a ball and hide away.
I don't want to see anyone. I didn't even have any interest in netflix I just wanted to sleep all the time.

I think the main reason for my 3 week long bad spell was because I knew my aunt anniversary was coming up, not seeing my friends and being anxious over rugby starting up again soon..

I haven't put on any weight over the past three weeks.. In fact I have lost it from my upper legs but no change to my belly which I was most concerned about. But I have kept to eating better food throughout the week like salads in work and having smaller portions for dinner and drinking water.

But I just feel horrible in myself.. I feel very fat and unfit and lethargic. I feel like someone has taken over my body, im scrutinising every piece of myself and it's making me worse and no matter how much I tell myself to stop I can't.

So I'm restarting my 6 week challenge with the help of my best friend.

He is a personal trainer and is putting together a shopping list and diet plan and workout plan for me..

I will do my shop on Thursday and post what I buy, when ill eat what and instagram the shiz out of it like the hun I am 😗.

This time ill be doing a update every single week and im going to stick to it.

I have to for rugby's sake.. I need to be the player everyone says I can be and I know in myself i can be that player too..

It's tough going tho, especially when you don't believe in yourself, your strenght, your abilities and you feel as though your teammates or coaches don't believe in you.

But I need to change my mind set.. and it's going to be hard going.

I know I need to make these changes for myself too.. If I can't love myself then how would I ever expect someone else to?

I hope I do it.
I am going to do it.

Wish me luck gals..

I'm definitely gonna need it

Nikkie xo

Vhi Mini Marathon

The Vhi Women's Mini Marathon. 

On June the 1st, June bank holiday weekend, my Mam, Aunt, Sister and myself set out on a quest to walk 10km in aid of the Alzheimer's Society Of Ireland.  

My Nanny Betty was diagnosed with dementia in 2010 and it has been a long 5 year battle. It has progressed to the stage she doesn't know who we are anymore. She goes to a group on a Monday and Thursday and every second Saturday so we are donating the money we have raised them as they do such a good job with her and other people that suffer with dementia and alzheimers. 

The day started off with nerves and excitement with the streets being filled with 40,000 women and men dressed as women. 

It was such an amazing day with just everyone excited, pumped up and raring to go. 

So many people out in the lashing of rain doing it for a tonne of different charities, from pieta house, dspca, cancer, temple street to down syndrome ireland. 

By 2.17 we finally crossed the starting line. The first 5 miles were going great and we walked at a very steady fast pace, within an hour we were at the 5km mark. 

nearing the end of the race with only 2km to go.. 

with only 1km to go we thought the final km would be the longest by far, but we swiftly walked,our sore limbs getting heavier by the minute.

and then we saw the finish line and our pace quickened.. on the clock it was 2hrs 13 mins when we crossed.. never been so proud of us all in my life.. The 10km didn't seem so far when you're with good company. 

we got our medals and headed to the foggy dew for some food and a well deserved pint after being drowned all day long. 

Never been so proud in my life, I would have never thought that I would ever to a mini marathon. Ever. But I have. I'm delighted. All for an amazing cause and i hope the money we have raised goes towards finding a cure to help those im the early stages of dementia and alzheimers. 

Thanks to everyone who has supported us and donated money to our cause. 

Nikkie xox

My holidaysss

Hello my loveliess..

So I know this is a few weeks late but I swear I'm Getting better at time keeping..

Or at least I hope I will in the coming week 😜

So at the start of May I headed off on an adventure! I like bilbo bagging rarely leave the shire that is Dublin.. so I was super excited for my little adventure to a wonderful place called Kinsale in Co. Cork.

So on the First night, we wore our own attire and headed to Actons, were the rest of the girls and guys from the club were staying. Had a few drinks there and then headed to a nightclub called Baccas, the doorman of Actons told us that it was a top notch place to go. Was only a fiver in whereas the usually place to be The White Lady was €15..

That night I wore my 'Little Black Dress' dress, leggings, and my heeled boots that I got in the sales in New Look. I just had simple flicks and a touch of smokey eye for my make up. And hair the usually natural curls.

We had a ball of a night danced till the wee hours and headed back to Actons to the residents bar where I stayed and made new friends with the Henry Hoovers, great bunch of lads!!

I staggered into bed at 7.30 that morning to be woken up at half 9 to get ready for the day of rugby, dancing and more mischief!

We, the socials had our first match at 12.40, we played Old Belvo, and as we didn't take it very serious, we lost. We came back with a bang in our second match against a quite lovely English team, and won. I made a great tackle and sat in appreciation for a while after it 😜

Unfortunately the weather wasn't great as it was rain, rain and more thundery rain.. but as us ruggers do we got on with it and had the banter.

Throughout the day We supported our Elites team who did very well against all teams they came up against. And as a railway kinsale tradition we did our human pyramid.. We had some #structuralissues

That night we wore our specially made railway women's tshirts with our nickname wrote on the back. Mine was 'drop it' as I dropped the ball a few times during the year but told people it was because I 'drop it like it's hot'😂

I teamed it with my black high waisted skinnies I bought from penneys and my black New Look boots, along with simple smokey eye and curled hair as it was lashing and didn't see the point in doing anything else 😜 #afro

We stayed in Actons that night not venturing anywhere else.

The next day we had no matches but we went to support our elites.. I got up slightly later than everyone else and decided it would be a Fantastic idea if I put some face paint on. I did the railway colours on my cheeks and dots all around my eyebrows..

The weather was quite a lot nicer than it had been so wore my classy orange sunnies..

The banter was had that day! I stayed in the beer tent dancing the day away.. didn't realise the time going by!! By 7pm it was time to head off and start getting ready for our 80s workout disco theme night.. I was super excited for that... I couldn't wait to wear vibrant colours with crazy hair!

A picture will be provided soon of that look.. everything was bought in Claires accessories and penneys

That night taxis were very scarce so we decided to walk from our b&b to Actons which was a lovely moonlit walk.

The night was full of crazy from dancing, doing a 'call on me' video workout, human pyramid, cartwheels, handstands to playing hide and seek.. you name it it was probably done 😂

I stumbled home at 9am the next morning walking from the hotel to my b&b..

Having to get our stuff together and leave so early wasn't good but we got to chill in the hotel till our very lovely teammate collected us for the drive home..

Was a fantastic weekend.. Every weekend should be a kinsale weekend.. memories were made and to be never ever forgotten!!

Hope y'all enjoyed my little weekend away story.. If you enjoy rugby and drink and banter you should definitely make sure to head down!!

Ps. A few pictures of my lovely adventure are below 😄

Love nikkie xox

Railway Dinner Dance Outfit

So railways dinner dance was a huge success this year.. This was my second dinner dance with the club and my god did I make the most of getting to look fancy for a night!! Last year I was quite unprepared as i was unemployed so i couldn't really afford to spend money on a beautiful new dress so I just wore my debs dress which had still fit (unfortunately😜), so this year I began looking for a dress as early as I could. I began on all the main clothes websites like Littlewoods, New Look, Next, Evans.. but none had that chic but edgy look I wanted and nor had they a great selection for my size.. so last but not least I went onto Boohoo.com and my god.. I found the most perfect dress I could think of.. The dress was in a new collection designed and modelled by a gorgeous plus size model named Nadia Aboulhosn. The dress is asymmetrical ( long on one side short on the other) I thought it would be perfect with a pair of peep toe blue/white heels I had bought weeks previous for my sister's confirmation.. so I got it and couldn't have been more thrilled.. The dress is slightly see through so naturally I wore a slip underneath.. I got a beautiful pair of earring in a lovely little jewellery shop in Northside Shopping Center called Adorn! They have some stunning pieces of jewellery and at prices you couldn't say no to! The earrings I bought were €8! I fell in love instantly!! And my outfit was a huge hit! I felt like a queen strutting around.. The night was unforgettable! As are many of railways crazy nights out!! I'll post pictures of my outfit underneath and earrings and ill be doing a separate blog post for my make up.. hope you enjoyed my first proper blog post.. With many many more to come.. Xox nikkie