May 3rd means you should be in the shape you promised yourself way back in January in your new year resolutions! The sad reality for most people is that never happens, and may instead signifies panic instead of satisfaction at the shape you could have been in.
We have also had two big bank holidays in a row, with two Fridays off too, which have made the job of staying in shape that much harder!
So if today means blowing off some cobwebs, then so be it, it has to be done and a process you have to go through to feel as if you’re back to life again!
The way you treat your body every day determines what kind of shape you’re in full stop. If you tell everyone you’re on fish salads all the time and never drink, yet go home and eat fish and chips every night as well as having a couple of glasses of wine every night, then the only person you will be fooling is yourself. Lying to yourself is common and doing it more and more is never going to get you magically in shape.
If a chicken salad is really fried chicken with salad drenched in mayonnaise and heavy dressing, then you may well have had a burger and chips, there really is no excuse for those kind of calories going into your body and you know it. This is one way to get fat, it works every time!
For example, if you went mad and had a good sized easter egg over the holiday, you would need to swim for around 3-4 hours just to work it off! This is heck of a task when you think about it and might deter you next time you have a treat as rich in calories as that.
These are the types of scenarios that stop individuals getting into the kind of shape they REALLY want, its these times when you really need to avoid constant streams of high calories that are so important to being in shape.
The bank holidays are done (at least until the end of may), so now is the perfect time to get your head down and really work hard again, starting right now!!
ur right of course Ke, no breaks now until the end of May, back today from van, and back in the Gym 2mo. Hip/back much better, still a prob if I walk Ryan, he cant quite walk and when I bend over to walk him I still get the hip/back pain, but much better than it was. I remember my NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS, not alot came of them and we r now in May, nearly half the year gone. So I am up for it, wedding in July and holiday in August. I heard on the news today some shocking facts, that if you are obese in your 40’s 50’s and later you are more likely to have Demensia in later life, frightening stuff. I have the high cholesterol and BP so that in itself is reason enough to get into shape.
good points jean, and theres a million other reasons to be in great shape at any age, keep it up and u will get there again!!
Hows cyril these days?