New Year, New Beginning

So if you have been keeping up...well you will have noticed that there hasn't been anything to keep up with! Since my strong start (I like to think it was a strong start) I have done nothing. About this here blog or, if I'm honest, about my intended weight loss.

I have a list of excuses ready for you but I don't want to insult your intelligence. I like to think that many of you have found yourselves in this same position; you make a commitment to yourself, start seeing some progress and immediately you start cutting corners. That scoop of ice cream won't hurt, some cookies here won't make a difference and skipping a work out today won't matter that much.

But my complete lack of any success since late summer would seem to show otherwise.

When you skip your work out once you are more likely to skip the one after that and the one after that. Pretty soon you are watching people work out on TV guilt free. Not good.

The thing about weight loss that sucks so much (because let's face it- losing weight is a sucky process. All that deprivation and sweating) is that you kind of have to make a long term commitment to that one person that is the easiest to lie to. Yourself.

I can see that I am danger of getting all preachy and that is definitely not my intention!

My intention is to share my weight loss journey with others in the hopes that a) I will be inspired by you to keep going and b) to inspire others to do the same. Strength in numbers and all that.

So how do I plan on pulling this off?

Well I made a start today: brought my lunch to work and had breakfast at home.

I would say these are key. Breakfast at home prevents that mid morning Starbucks run (where I inevitably take a chocolate croissant back with me), lunch allows me to keep track of what is in my food. I'm not going all Biggest Loser on my lunch with portioned turkey or anything. I'm useless in the kitchen- but I bring a low calorie frozen meal, an apple and a yoghurt. Simple right? I also live to drink water so I don't have to worry about cutting out soda- I just don't like the stuff.

And the next, rather obvious step, is exercise. I'm pledging to go at least 4 times a week. For an hour. To start.

And finally- I will weigh myself once a week and write it down to keep track of the progress (or setbacks). I hate the scale but last time I found that it really was the single most important tool in weight loss.

So. Today marks the return to this here blog and a renewed commitment to my own health and well being.

Anonymously of course. I still find it embarassing to have even gotten to this point!

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