Look people, you can stop the clamouring. I'm here and I'm ready to rumble. Especially if "rumble" means "write in this blog". I've had some ups and downs over the last few weeks with regards to my fitness but I'm ready to keep this party going.
Here are my excuses for not exercising much:
- Bad weather
- A cold
I've been swimming twice a week and the swim workouts have been really good. The weather finally got nice this weekend so I went for a run yesterday. It was only 4km but I want to start running more regularly. Once the weather gets better I'll ride my bike to work too.
The weather excuse really is a good one. When it's -20C out there I can barely muster up the courage to walk to my car, let alone to go for a run. It's very slippery out too.
But none of this is why I sat down and put my proverbial pen to paper today. I am here is to tell you about an exciting new idea that I've thought of that might help me to lose weight. It's a radical departure from what I've been doing, but I'm feeling confident that if I can pull it off I will reap many benefits.
Here is the idea: eat less.
I will now share a bit of personal history: I used to eat less, and then I got bored of eating less and I started to eat more. It was around that same time that I stopped exercising. Eating more and not exercising. Those two things combined into a perfect storm of metabolic catastrophe that caused me to arrive at this sad point in my life - 20 lbs heavier and unable to fit into my favourite trousers. So my new plan is to not eat the thing, instead of eating the thing.
In sort of related news, I'm hoping to compete in a triathlon in July. I need to be able to swim and bike and run for a sustained length of time. I'm not going to get too excited because I get all kinds of injuries from these activities and I don't want to be too disappointed, but doing this race is my general plan.
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