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The kilos must go
A few apple slices, a dozen of grapes, some slices of cucumber and carrots. Not your ideal breakfast if you ask me. However, my neighbour Marie at my office will hear none of this.
What with a New Year and long list of goals! Typically, conversations in January rotate around healthy goals and the financial blues thanks to our fun binge during the festive season. I love the former because talking about getting your fitness goals on their marks, is more exciting than actually getting down to business.
I have been spending a lot of time at the water cooler hearing other people’s goals. So Ms Neighbour wants to lose about 10 kgs by April. She was pretty excited about this and had been sharing her new diet menu.
“It is about being determined and this time I must do it,” she told me in the first week of Jan. I love the sound of this because to be honest, the same thoughts run through my mind before I make excuses and never work out a healthy eating plan for myself.
“Life is short, we have to enjoy ourselves, no diet for me at all,” is what another workmate said when she eavesdropped on our conversation. But neighbour was not moved, for the next day it was a similar healthy option and her lunch was a chicken salad.
I kept peeping over the partition that separates our desks, to see what was new on the menu. Are you really going to keep up? I always asked her. I wanted to be encouraging, but the foodie in me is not that friendly to one on diet.
I have done a couple of diets myself, but oh boy! What a waste of time those were. After two weeks of consistency, neighbour announced that she had lost two kilos. We did a little victory dance. I was happy for her. No, I was envious. I wanted to rob that feeling of triumph from her. By week three though, poor girl was back to eating that tasty fried chicken and pork at the cafeteria.
It was disappointing to have what was going to be my (her) success story end just like that. Don’t you just hate it when the things you set out to do just come crumbling down? We are now talking about doing more exercise and forgetting the food aspect.
Healthy it will be, but not that business of juice this, smoothie that or veggie the other. Rather than exchange diets from the internet, we are talking about exercise options and gyms.
When you speak about exercise, it seems the easiest of things and even quite a simplistic topic, but let’s face it, this is one giant that many of us have failed to throw to the ground. Our stones in form of excuses just never hit its forehead.
Not cool at all. The New Year is our chance to redeem ourselves and get active so we can reduce those health bills in 2019 and improve our general wellbeing.
Oh! An excuse for missing out on any form of exercise today just came to my head now. Let me lean over and see if neighbour will buy it. Not going to happen!
Eyes on the sparrow this year.
