The past few weeks I’ve been eating very badly, not getting quite enough sleep and, during the house move, I stopped running every day.
Sometimes its really easy to want to skip a run or eat some junk food because the consequences aren’t immediately apparent. You have to skip a few runs and eat a lot of food to gain even one pound, so what does it matter to have a little break?
The answer for me is, I feel terrible.
I’m tired, irritable, acting like a bitch (acting like a bitch for me anyway. If you were on the receiving end, I’m sorry!), feeling insecure and bloated, all of which I attribute to the way I’ve been eating and, (probably more so) the lack of exercise of the last couple of weeks.
So today, I’ve been inspired by this post on Beth’s Journey to set some goals and make some changes. Because (hopefully) committing to things in writing makes it more likely that they will happen!
I’m going to
- resume daily(ish) runs and workouts (I love 10 minute toning by Cindy Whitmarsh!)
- make healthy choices 90% of the time and try (amazing how hard this actually is) to only eat when I’m actually hungry
- kick the sugar habit
Wish me luck! And let me know what you’re health goals are at the moment!
Aww I’m so glad I inspired you to write out some daily goals! I really think small, incremental goals are the way to go. I want to focus on drinking water, but also getting back into exercise. I haven’t worked out yet this week!
Hey Beth! You did inspire me – I love food bloggers and some of my favourites are daily garnish and kath eats, but it is refreshing to get the perspective of someone who like me who falls off the wagon sometimes and is still finding exercise and eating well to be a chore. Its such a barrier isn’t it, the longer you go without doing something, the more of a deal it starts to become! I’m going to try and focus on the fact that exercising will lift my mood as a motivator to go for a run!
Totally with you Kerry, fell of the healthy eating wagon over Easter and it’s hard to kick the sugar once you’re back on. SO, I have ordered 30 day shred off Amazon, and have got back on myfitnesspal.com to track calories. Healthy skin, hair, heart and head here we come!
OK lets get back on it together! Let me know if you’re ever bored in the house and want to go for a neighbourhood walk/run. The 30 day shred scares me though, I did one of Jillian Michaels DVDs, it was SO hard!
Yay for us!