Ice cream, cakes, biscuits (cookies), chippies - damn my sweet tooth and taste for greasies.
Just like it says in just about every bit of literature you'll find about middle age spread, the extra weight has crept up on me and it only hit me a couple of weeks ago that I really have to do something about my "clothes shrinkage".
My bum lift jeans can no longer lift my bum, because they are too tight around the waist. My NYDJ jeans will still zip up, but it's easy to see that they are having to work a lot harder than only a year ago. And the pretty maxi skirt that fit me just right last summer will no longer button up at the back.
Yep, it is time to do something about it.
A couple hours of Google searching ("lose spare tyre") and three fitness-over-40 type books later, I have settled on a plan of attack:
- I already make sure I go for a walk every day - from here on every other day my walk will be interval-training style. Every time I hit an upward slope I'm going to go up that as fast as I can, then slow down for the flat and downward bits. Interval training is supposed to be good for targeting belly fat.
- Will try to do stretches and mobility exercises...
- I'm going to cut right down on the sweeties and greasies. None at all during the week, but letting myself have a treat or two during the weekend so I don't go postal. This is the bit that I expect will make the most difference.
- I'm keeping a food journal so if I do fall off the wagon, it's all there on paper so I don't forget it.
- I'll only have one between-meal snack mid-morning and another mid-afternoon (rather than whenever I'm bored or slightly hungry)
This only started on Tuesday so it's early days yet. I know that last time I tried to go sugar-free I only lasted a week. But that time, I was motivated only by the desire to be healthier. Fear of falling down the roly-poly black hole is a much stronger motivation for me at the moment. (Okay I also don't want to get Type 2 diabetes.)
Wish me luck!
2 comments:
For stretching, I recommend Yoga by Adrienne on youtube. It's only a 30 minute program and it's a good yoga for people who think they can't really do yoga. I also try to get my sweets from fruit when I can manage the craving, or a handful of chocolate chips. Finally, I plan all my food, down to lunch and snacks, and keep a lara bar in my purse in case I get caught somewhere hungry so I don't make desperate hangry food choices.
Lots of luck Violet! I hope it works, and reasonably easily - biology is such a rat. There seems to be some sort of "last through the next famine / deluge and save the grandchildren" thing triggered - SO INAPPROPRIATE.
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