The news today in the papers that an anti-obesity drug is causing some worrying side effects should be of no surprise to most of us. Many of you who know me will remember that i predicted such worrying problems at least ten years ago. If you could take a pill and all of your worries would go away, then i think we all may as well start belieing in father christmas again!
It’s the same with just about anything in life, many people try to cheat their way to a result, and in the end, when they get found out, they realise they would have found it easier to put the work in first time around.
There is no substitute for hard work and doing things the right way, although many people will tell you otherwise.
You know that there’s another miracle diet book around the corner, you know there’s going to signs on traffic lights promising you to lose 30 pounds in 30 days, you know there’s going to be some kind of miracle piece of exercise equipment that promises to get you in your best ever shape, only to end up as a clothes hanger in your cupboard approximately two months after purchase.
THESE THINGS DO NOT WORK, get used to that fact!
There are celebrities who often get a free degree or an honorary degree from their home town university, but do you honestly believe that these people value that certificate the same as if they had studied for 3-5 years? Of course not!
There’s no such thing as a free lunch they say and that’s a very true statement. We have all tried to prove that wrong but it’s always come back to bite us once we thought we had somehow got that “free lunch”.
Hard work and efforts rules every time but the great thing about that statement is that the hard work gets easier once you are in a routine and focus on constant improvement. Once the first month is over with your exercise programme, you tend to get used to the exercises, they become a little easier, your food becomes a little more tasty, a little more inventive and this very natural process ennables you to feel that the whole thing becomes a lot easier than you ever thought.
The reason i write this every day is because a healthy lifestyle, like life in general is a kind of repitition every day, i don’t mean that in a boring way, each day is likely to happen for you so you may as well live it in the best quality way you can?!
We all know people who preach “only one life we have” so get down the pub mentality, and that’s true the first part anyway (the one life we have), but why live destroying your health every day which means you have even less of this one life! If you keep doing the simple basics every day of more fruit, more vegetables, your white meats and fish, enough water, some exercise and some good sleep, your life is likely to be longer not only according to me, but top scientists who are trying to make us not only live longer, but have a better quality of life too.
Nothing wrong with a couple of beers now and then, and all i’m asking is do the right things 80% of the time, that’s after all an 8 out of 10 success rate! Do this and the results will be spectacular over a lifetime!
only thing i can say to the drug is its a pile of shite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its just for people who are to lazy to get off their lazy fat butt’s (i should know i was one!!!!!!!) been trying to get all my mates on face book and their mates to join this Parks For Kids Campaign cos with us the council have pulled it down to put up allotments for the old biddies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to be honest the ones they do build aint with it, cos they are only about 2/3 feet of the ground some of the slides only have 2 steps with us,how the hell is a child supposed to work up a sweat on things like that……hell of a rant that hey 🙂
been up the track for a leisurely ride ended up going further than last weekend!!!!!! feel ok though,FOR NOW 🙂
breakfast was the same has yesterday
snack banana
lunch will be a pita bread with the same as i normally have
snack will be a baggett over the club watching the rugby
dinner tonight should be chicken omelet with rice from the Cantoneeeeees….
the council get me mad too cyril. had a project going myself for young kids and waiting for land to come through. However, we have people illegally parking there now and blocking the entrance. Council have taken these people in burry port to court successfully once at massive expense, but the new owners continue to do what the old owners did! this has gone on for 11 years, the county councillors know all about it as well as the chief executive, yet they wont do anything about it. Gross imcpmpetence and many of these officers wouldnt survive in the real world!
The council need a kick up the behind on a load of things.
Did you know they let a huge piece of park get stolen off them in penygroes too, they were told all the time about theis guy who was mowing this part of the park, now they have lost it and the llanelli mp is furious about it as it stops all the youngsters playing in the park that you pay council tax for?!!!
and what about the morfa tennis centre getting closed due to cutbacks!
it makes my blood boil!!
Good work on your food though and let’s aim to step everything up in a big way now, you are getting there now!
Hi Guys, am back from my little break, weather was great, havent had time to read all the posts I have missed, laptop keeps crashing, Tiscali have been taken over by Talk Talk and since then it IS CRAP, crashing all the time. Will read 2mo, as I have Jasmine now, Cyril you are a STAR mate and are doin so well. Keri I did a 46min run teatime 2day, only stopped 4 a drink of water, aiming 4 an hour. Shins better, back on the sand, did feel it a bit coming back but not as bad as yesterday. Your right Ke, I did let the scale blow my achievements out of the water, when I read what you posted, it made sooooooo much sense, I am stupid. Have to go, Jasmine is coming up the stairs and if she gets on this I will never get her off. Jeanx
and you are a star again jean! The only negative you were feeling was the scales, and EVERYTHING else was a positive, just look at all your previous posts, you will see this amazing pattern and you know it.
From where you have been, you are showing tremendous success in all areas, remember how your breathing was?!!!!!!!!!!!
Celebrate your success, and now build on it and keep those great training diaries coming!
Thanx Ke, well I finally got on line, 2lbs off and 1 inch off the waist. Ken has put the scales in the shed at the bottom of the garden, so it will only be the tape weekly and the scales monthly, so 4 weeks 2day I will weigh next. Hope ur all doin well also, 21 days since I stopped talking my PUMPS, seen the Doc last monday, chest is fine, Pulse he said was slow, and he was not amused that I had stopped taking my pumps without consulting him, but he knows what I am like and I dont listen, so by the time I left his office we were cool.