My becoming fit and healthy journey

As part of my Inspire Me blog, I though it would be a great place to document my trials and tribulations with becoming a fit and healthy person, and hopefully enable me to achieve my goals and stay positive and on track.

I’ve struggled with my weight for sometime now, and as depressing as it may seem I can acknowledge that I am a self sabotager. Meaning I put up road block to stop myself from achieving my goals…I always set out and plan to achieve certain steps and even start out with a bang, but then I stop. Well NO MORE! I know that I’m leading myself to an early grave, diabetes, heat failure, cancer.

Now I would love to say yes I’m going to go to the gym etc…but I’m currently unemployed an can’t afford that, plus I’ve never really enjoyed attending the gym. I do love swimming however, so I’ve decided to go three times a week…but first I need to make sure my togs 1) still fit and 2) don’t have a faded bum, nothing more embarassing than seeing your bottom through your togs. And now with the summer months coming closer, I want to take up disc golf again, it’s a great 2 hour walk around a rather lovely park. Hopefully I can get in one game a week. I also want to try and do a 40m minute walk each day. I do own a bike, but I’ve never really enjoyed bike riding, but if I go and get some bike gloves it may make it more enjoyable, my handlebars are rather uncomfy to grip. And lastly I own a pilates DVD, so will try to achieve putting this on twice a week and spend the 30 minutes it take to do the routine, and hopefully this will also help me become more flexible too.

I’m not going to put my weight down here, as I hate looking at numbers, instead I will go by clothing sizes. I’m currently a size 22 (NZ sizing) and ideally I would like to be a 12-14, but I think I could be happy at a size 16 – it just seems more realistic to me at the moment. I’d even be happy to get back down to a size 18 to start off with.

Me and food is a love hate relationship, I eat when bored, I eat when depressed and I eat when happy. I eat healthy food, but I also eat really unhealthy food, I don’t eat in moderation! I love chocolate what can one say, and candy and chippies and crackers and cheese and nuts and pretty much every thing. And I find it very hard to cut out the junk and just stick with the healthy options of fruit and veges and have a nice salad etc.

I’m very bad at planning meals, but it is probably something that needs to be done, so I can stay on track of what I’m eating….now I just need to get the husband on board with this too…he is also in the same boat when it comes to food. He however get slightly more exercise than me.

So there it is….I’ll update each week, to report how the week has been in regard to achieving exercise and eating healthy.

I’ll also post up pics of my progress..and image will hit this page soon – I really don’t like photos of me at the moment, as it really does hit home as to how I look, and how I really don’t want to look like that at all!