So far, I'm pretty certain no one is paying attention. And that's OK, because at the end of the day I need to be accountable to myself. At the end of the day what I am trying to do is change my lifestyle for the better.
I want to be healthy, I want to be fit, I want to have energy for anything, I want to be able to go for that hike, I want to join in that run, I want to walk up that mountain, I want to like the person looking back at me in the mirror.
I am such a huge list of what I want and all of these can be accomplished with this. With lifestyle changes.
I am not on a diet. I am not trying to loss weight for the hell of it.
I got unhealthy and unhappy. I was shortening my own life with chocolate and caramel and ice cream. I was sicker more often than not. I was on my ass watching TV all day. I got depressed about how I look and I started buying clothing at a size 18 like I had given up.
Well, I am turning that around.
My health is my life, and when I stop of the scales just before Christmas last year and saw 102kg steering back at me, my health became important.
I don't every want to see that weight again. What the weight said was FAT. Plain and simple. I had put 12 kgs on in 3 months. I stopped caring.
No more.
I am making the changes, but I wanted to be cleaver about these changes.
Yes I could have gone on a diet and a quick exercise plain to knock myself into shape. It would have been half but worth it to see me loose 10 kgs in a few months. I totally think diets work, don't get me wrong, they do work.
But that's not the problem. A diet is just a diet. You do the right stuff while on are on it as it's designed to do and you loose weight. Brilliant right, well I sort of think not so much.
You only do the right stuff while you are on the diet. What happens when you finish it. You either do another diet or you usually put all the weight back on again and in some cases you put even more on than you lost.
For those of you who diet again, and again, and again. Congratulations. You have made dieting your lifestyle and I think that is so impressive.
But a diet, well that's not for me, because I know I wouldn't want to make it my lifestyle.
I still want to be able to enjoy carbs and fast food and chocolate and caramel. I don't want to give them up permanently, but I do want to make changes in regards to these naughty yummy foods that will help my health.
So this blog is not a diet. This blog is a lifestyle change. I'm using it as documentation as I make these changes and to let me know how far I have come. My eating and my fitness is not perfect. It will never be perfect but it will be good!
I'm 30 days in and I am still learning and discovering what is working for me. If someone out there finds this and finds that it helps, awesome. I'm glade that from this process I am going through I have been able to help you.
But I am in this for me as we all should be. I decided at the start of 2016 that I could be better. Food, well that's my big thing. That's my main focus. Nutrition is a key area for me in my life.
Giving my body the right full. Important.
Treating my body the right way. Important.
Feel good about me. Important.
I'm not done. I'm far from done. But I am better. I am taking small steps for a big result and I am doing this for me.
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