Sunday, 20 March 2011

Revenge of the Sloth

See...here's the thing with my chosen...well, career, hobby, interest and main non-food-related obssession. They're all the same thing, and they all involve me, pretty much, sitting on my arse...just writing. There's a very good reason why they're all the same thing, and involve just pretty much sitting on my arse. Much as I'd love to tell you it's because I have a unique gift for writing, which must be shared with the world or my heart'll explode, really, it's far more simple and far less tortured than that.

It's indoors, in the dry, and I really, really like just pretty much sitting about on my arse.

So while today has been quite productive, novel-wise, in terms of healthiness....notsomuch. Huuuge quantities of sitting around on my...well, you get the picture...interspersed with eating things that d has been bringing from the kitchen. Add to the day the image of a really fat man lying sideways on a couch, and what you get is pretty much Jabba the Hutt in a bathrobe.

So - have decided I'm going to up the activity. I've been working on a vaguely agreed programme of doing walking every weekday and cycling once every two days. But because of my otherwise globular day, am going to ignore the fact that I cycled yesterday, and jump back on the bike tonight. But let's be clear here - this hasn't been my best, most active, most calorie-free week, and frankly, come Tuesday, if I'm the same as last week, I'll be happy. To have lost my scheduled two pounds feels like a mad fantasy at this point. The trick will be not to go into next week going "Ohhhh, it's all dreadful, I've faaaaaaiiiiiled, what's the poooooiiiiint!!!" but to keep on with it no matter what, and look at the thing in terms of 52 weeks, rather than one.

After all, there's nothing less appealing that a wailing, self-indulgent Jabba the Hutt...

1 comment:

  1. I remember a wise man saying to me... "it matters not what you do between christmas and new year, but what you do between new year and christmas..."

    yes, we were a bit drunk and he couldn't decide whether he was confucius or yoda, but he had a point. I wasn't playing the long game. I am, now, and the weight is starting to shift as it will with you.

    the only thing my mate cookie (of the nearly 12 stone loss) would tell you is this - do not weigh in more than once a week! I know it is almost irresistible to see how you're getting on, particularly when you're doing so much with bike and investing so much in self discipline, but doing so more than once a week can really destroy your confidence. You can gain 5lb between before breakfast and after dinner on some days - even if you've been the martyr of montrose!

    I got stuck for nearly two years - and that habit was part of it. You need to get D to confiscate the scales and only bring them out on tuesday ;)

    big hugs, tony. YOU CAN DO IT! luv tiglet xxx

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