So I have to return to my war against personal indiscipline? The hiatus on being quite stern on myself has worked in some areas of my life but not others! Oh yes I've upped the anti on exercise I have even gone back to Thursday's at tae Kwan do ( let me hear a big yaaay!!) But food wise I have been on a roller coaster ride!
Now don't get me wrong I still love slimming world and its ways but I have to be honest I have gone long periods where I just could not muster up the desire not to have cake, not to have that extra glass of wine or to make those sensible choices when I am out with friends and family! This does not include the constant battle with those colleagues around me who insist on bringing stuff into work, and directly offering it to me and I trust me I genuinely feel bad when I see the little look of disappointment when I try to refuse and I often find myself relenting and then it's all at my expense quite often undermining good efforts I have put in else where!
There is a slimmer's blog I follow the person concerned calls herself ( a bit of an assumption seeing as it's anonymous) weight loss bitch! Imagine that! Anyhow in one of her blog articles she talked about training in order to lose weight likening it to training for a marathon, she made a good point, an honest one as it's not likely you can rock up at the London marathon and expect to win just on the back of turning up, so she was referring to learning about food etc , reading the books we are given and trying different things!
For me I have decided that I am going to try a different track now and set some specific goals with milestones and everything, what have been doing before is just accepting it as a lifestyle change. But invariably what has been happening is I have just slipped off the edge after all I have my whole life to do it yes! Well, no actually, I need to realise the benefits of it beforehand, before I actually start to feel old!
The actual goals and milestones will be another post, but some small wins that I have made of recent,
The inch reduction, not as much as I would have liked, but a reduction none the less.
My fitness level has improved a great deal, walking to the station no longer feels like such a chore ( except if it's raining), I can do proper full press ups, even running round the dojan is not so bad - ( and yes I still hate running)
I have given up drinking diet coke as a comfort drink, as in I always just had one with my lunch, now I do drink more water , but not enough!
I can now stay in the plank position for 60 straight seconds! Quite a feat considering that initially I could not even get in the position!
Now it's quite clear that my life in this area is not balanced, in my mind's eye, if I'd paid more attention to my food that I would be at least a dress size and a half smaller by now? So I have to step up, pay attention and get on with it!
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