At the beginning of the week I was still a little under the weather but managed to stick to a healthy diet. I still haven't used my trainers, but I had decided this is the week I will kick start my exercise and meal tracking. My daughter suggested I use My Fitness Pal. I have no time to go looking for alternatives so based on my 2 key decision triggers - my daughter is an excellent researcher and the app is FREE - I decide to bite the bullet.
I did a little dancing in the kitchen ( please don't laugh! I was checking my stamina and getting psyched up for a Bollywood evening .... I'l talk about it another time), I am so terribly unfit, it's ridiculous! From Monday I am vouching to do at least 20 minutes of exercise EVERY DAY! and yes I did say EVERY DAY! The way I see it, is if I have managed to so far shed 3 kg only by sticking to a sensible diet, imagine what I could achieve with exercise! Plus I don't want to feel like an old lady. I am going to take dance lessons in the future and I want to be able to do it!
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| The baggy jumper and leggings look! |
How terribly disappointing is that? The shops must be hiving with delighted fatties like myself buying clothes! And the worse thing about this fashion is that it allows you to deceive yourself! Because the materials are all stretchy, you can really "fit into a 12"! Something you would never be able to do with a fitted suit!
Anyway, I devised a plan to keep me focused. My mother always told me to look at others to see myself. It is very easy to forget how you look if you avoid the full body mirror long enough so I started looking at all these fatties to see how many of them in my opinion were bigger than me. It is incredible how many fatties there are around once you start taking notice. Sadly I realised I'm on the top 25%! I then decided to observe the contents of peoples trolleys and then guess their size before looking at them - MY GOODNESS!!! what an enlightening exercise! It really is not rocket science 99% of the time - I now can see what they meant on that show a few years ago - you are what you eat!! So my focus on what I eat and its impact has been reinforced 10 fold!
For now, I will go to a charity shop to pick a few things to see me through and once I reach goal I will bin everything in my wardrobe and adopt a vintage look with pin skirts and tight fitting jackets!
Have a nice week everyone!
