Welcome to 2010

I would like to wish everyone who reads my blog a happy new year.   At this time of year many people make resolutions, and usually end up giving up on them by mid January.   Personally, I’ve never seen the point of making resolutions if you don’t mean to do them.  If most people were really honest with themselves, they would say they have a new year dream, or wish, they aren’t really resolved at all.

I spent the time between Christmas and New Year beginning to plan what I wanted to get out of 2010.  I don’t mean a wish, or a dream, but a specific action plan.  I’ve planned a few things that I want to change in my life in 2010, but the one I’m going to talk about here is my health and fitness.

I took the time to stop and think about the fact I was fat, and ask myself a few hard questions.  I’ve written a few times about my fitness and health this year, and attempted a number of times to lose the weight.  However if I’m honest my drive and motivation just wasn’t there, mainly because I felt quite low.

During 2009 I stopped working out altogether, I lost the balance between my work and home life, and when I was at home I was just too hung over, or tired to do anything.   I never considered myself a big drinker, but I certainly drank more at home than I did when I was out socialising.   Combined with eating loads of junk food, I didn’t do myself any favours at all and my weight just went out of control.

This kind of behaviour is completely inconsistent with my values, and as humanist I’m not living my life to its fullest.  I only have this one life, and 2009 felt like a write-off for me.

Just before the Christmas holiday I began using myfooddiary.com again, which is a tool which helps me monitor my food intake.  It also helps me split my food into 5-6 meals a day.  The best thing about the site is that it helps you understand what percentages of fat, carbs, and protein you’re consuming.

The second thing I have done as part of my plan is set up a weight training programme, and started using my gym equipment.  I love working out, especially weight training.  I get that rush of endorphins from a workout that just leaves me buzzing.

I’m the past I’ve written a fair bit about my fitness progress in this blog, but I’m not going to tempt fate by writing about this topic endlessly.  I have all the tools and equipment I need to do this so I’ll let you know as I reach significant milestones what my progress is.  In the last 7 days I’ve lost 3lbs, so that’s pretty good start.