Finally I get some time to begin my journal on my way to a happy healthier me...
The reason I have decided to start looking after myself was last boxing day was when the family got together, the bombshell dropped right on top of me. Seeing my mother after 12months and to see how she had sick she had become really made me stop and reassess my life.
Time to loose the weight and stop smoking for good... my heaviest weight was 96kg my ideal weight is 65kg, and my current weight as of the 1st of July is 76kg. So doing the challenge will hopefully inspire me to stick to it.
This year I stopped the excuses and joined a gym, started the weight loss seriously this year, it is all going to be about me for a change, with the plan to stop smoking as well. I truly couldn't do both at the same time, I did try 3 yrs ago and that was when I ballooned out. [:'(]
I was travelling well, not too fast and lost 6kg over the first few months of the year.. then a big set back in April I was addmitted to hospital with a serious kidney infection that almost shut my body down for good. So that was the final decider.. give up smoking while in hospital and loose the weight for good, and become healthy....that was 10 weeks ago. Still off the smokes and I have only just got back to the gym the past 2 weeks, and told not to over do it, which I have a tendancy to do, and have put on 8 kgs on over the 10 weeks. I did expect to put on weight but I now know that it doesnt matter for the time being because I will be working hard to loose it.
Had a bad day yesterday, must have been the weather couldn't stop eating... off to the gym tonight to do a change of pace with some interval training on the bike, staying away from weights this week, mainly concentrating on cardio... expand those lungs.
I am actually looking at the Curves gym, I am busy working full time put in about 11hours per day at the office and looking after 3 adult males at home... ( i know that they are not young children, it is harder sometimes) I find it difficult to spend time for me. I believe the Curves gym is a 20min workout.
I am terribly hard on myself if I put on weight or eat the wrong things, yesterday I emotionally whipped myself for eating so much...
Today it is back to work, back to being good.. only if it was that easy.
Cruiser