Help, I need to lose weight! Help, I need to diet! Words I have been saying since Christmas, since I promised myself that 2012 would be different, no longer would I be a fatty. No longer would I struggle with my jeans and be forced to wear elasticated waist bands. Had I always been a fatty? Hmmm...no...it snuck up on me. One day I looked in the mirror and found that I'm over 40 and dare I say it...podgy. A podgester.
I like to say it's my metobolism slowing down and that I'm eating the same as always, but deep down I know that I'm lazy. I hate exercise. I come from a family of lardies, now if I was to put a photo of my family on here you'd see that I stood no chance of ever inheriting 'thin genes'.
You know how every so often an email comes round with the latest batch of Walmart photos - the photos of American fatties in appalling clothes with masses of flesh on show, guts hanging, love handles wobbling...my family's photo album would equate to those photos. I was born to wobble.
However the time has come to fight against it. To battle against what I was given at birth. I may be lacking in height...I'm 5ft 1", but there is no need to be overweight.
It was after a conversation at work that I decided to tackle my weight. I won't bore you with the details but just say that I work in an office with 36 others, mostly women - I'm female too, but it was an obnoxious guy who wound me up. You know the type, face like a bag of spanners, limp hands, beer gut but he thinks he can comment on the way a girl looks.
Yes he got to me. I let Ugly Munter Man get to me. I was fuming and swore I'd show him! I'd lose the weight but he'd still be ugly.
That was way back before Christmas but I couldn't diet over the festive season, not with such lovely grub around. I then started another diet after Christmas but couldn't get to grips with it, so here I am at the end of February and ready to commence with the 1350 calories a day diet.
I've researched it. I wanted to do the 1000 calories a day diet, but my mates warned me it was too extreme and I'd be starving myself and put the weight straight back on afterwards. I upped it to 1250 calories, but after a heated debate I've settled on 1350 calories. I told them straight, I can't have too many calories, I'm 5ft 1 inches tall! A hobbit, Ugly Munter Man once called me. He was hardly tall himself - what gives with these guys eh? Oh yeah, he was only joking...well teehee...what a hoot he is.
So tomorrow it starts and to keep me on track, it's being blogged. My 1350 calories a day blog. Can I lose weight? Can I end up like Twiggy (ask your gran, kids) or am I destined to end up in Walmart (ok, Asda) with my love handles on display?
It's time to dip my toe....
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