The New Motivation

From August last year, things went downhill a fair bit. We moved houses and I had to adjust to a new schedule of sorts. Then came winter and no thoughts of exercise at all. Once again, I find myself at the fattest I've ever been. Not that I want to be here, but I've led myself here and need to fix this.

The reason I need to fix it is that my periods are affected again. For one who's approaching 34 very rapidly and wanting to get pregnant, this is very bad news and must be resolved immediately.

I also recognize that just this proves insufficient motivation when the periods are back and I'm ovulating again, so I'm also setting up some regular motivation - to keep me going for at least 1 year.

Step 1 - not measure things till I've exercised for 1 month at least 4 days a week. Exercise consisting of walking at least 30 minutes.

Step 2 - swap some meals for meal-replacement foods. I'm trying to replace 2 meals a day, we'll see how this works for 3 weeks. So far it's been 3 days of replacing 1 meal... not sure i'll manage to replace 2 meals, but will try. Cutting out white carbs as much as possible, eating more veggies/fruits. no sugar in coffee/tea and drinking more water.

Step 3 - add 30 minutes of yoga in the morning. Even if it's just breathing, it should improve lots of stuff in my life - also enable me to buy a yoga mat.

I was chatting with a frolleague yesterday who works out a lot. He said the ultimate motivation is sex. The more you exercise, the better sex is. I'll admit, it's more fun when you can last longer and are not uncomfortable with how fat you look doing certain things, but when you're in a committed relationship, the nature and quantity of sex depends as much on the other person as on your smoking hotness. Still, if you're smoking hot, the other person has less to complain about what?