*Edited on 1/JUL/2015 to add:
So my last attempt failed. (AGAIN)
Fine ! But here I am again. (After two years !)
This time I'm determined to make it work. (Actually, no pressure...just show up every day...that's my strategy this time)
This time (too) there was no shock or anything that prodded me into action.
It was just something that quietly changed within me one fine day. I feel that this is a lasting change. It it isn't, I'll make it one :) (CRAP ! I'm entering this with fingers crossed. I'm putting my head down and plodding through till I feel assured that I AM going to continue. Then let's see about making grand announcements.)
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*Edited on 8/OCT/2012 to add:
So my last attempt failed. Fine ! But here I am again. This time I'm determined to make it work. This time there was no shock or anything that prodded me into action. It was just something that quietly changed within me one fine day. I feel that this is a lasting change. It it isn't, I'll make it one :)
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Simply put, it is about my journey towards fitness. What route do I take, what hurdles I face, what milestones I cross and how I achieve my goal.
I was a waif-thin girl till I started working in a desk job. In fact I was a couple of kilos less than the weight prescribed for my height. In the last ten years on the job I have gained twenty kilos :(
Another factor that caused the weight gain was the irregular schedules I kept. Almost as soon as I graduated, I got seriously involved in theatre as well. Since I work at a day-job, all rehearsals have to be in the evening. This means that I usually return home late and then have dinner. Many times I used to eat out – which I have consciously reduced in the last couple of years. Since I slept late, almost immediately after dinner, I would find it very difficult to get up early. So exercising was out of question, because, as soon as I got up, I would rush to get ready, cook food for the day and leave for office.
All this resulted in the enormous weight gain. For the last few years I have been conscious of the fact that I need to reduce my weight and did make a few half-hearted attempts at it, but never found the will to be consistent.
All around me I saw people younger and older than me who were slim and fit and I always felt that theirs was a different land altogether. I wanted to go there, but lacked the motivation…and never lacked excuses :(
For the last five years, my weight has been constant. Last Saturday, I weighed myself, just for a lark, and to my horror, it had increased by three kilos. That was when alarm bells started ringing in my head.
Finally I decided to do something about it.
