Wed, 26 Aug 2009 9:20a.m.
I’m a bit of a conundrum and often my own worst enemy.
I swing from either having water tight self control (e.g. Quitting smoking cold turkey after 7 dedicated years) to having none whatsoever (e.g. I’ll only have one glass)
And like most brides I knew in the buildup to the wedding that the dreaded E word would soon rear its fat head.
12 months ago when FH popped the question I though great- I’ve got 18months to whip my comfortably overweight body- that comes from years of relationship contentment and having my share of his must-eat-every-three-hour meals, back into the shape it used to be.
And of course 18 months is loads of time to achieve this truly surmountable goal… If I’d actually started. But slowly 18 turned into 12 and 12 turned into 6 and during that time I have successfully managed to store the plan in the attic of my mind in a box marked “Do not open”.
Somehow in the process I also managed to get my Pantene ad completely mixed up and I was waiting for it to magically happen overnight.
Unsurprisingly I managed to keep that box firmly closed (I’m good like that- see watertight control) and it turns out my transformer skills are severely lacking.
So 3 weeks ago now I sucked it up and started going for 40minute walks with FH (when he wasn’t working) and bike rides in the lounge (when he was).
“It’ll get easier” they said
“It takes 21 days to change a habit” they said
“You’ll enjoy it” they said
The one thing I didn’t realize about they who say these things is that they actually enjoy exercising in the first place!
It’s a bit like telling someone who hates heavy metal to listen to it for 21 days in a row…
Now do you really think that after those 21 days they are going to all of a sudden love heavy metal?
Or do you think it is going to make them hate it even more? (…And want to kill themselves).
Yes… precisely. So I have 6 months to get determined, to try and get over this painful thing called ‘exercise’ and to prove that TV really does tell the truth…
It won’t happen overnight… But it will happen