Weight: 86Kg
Height 1.65m
Today is the first day of Lent, and so after stuffing my face with pancakes last night (the ones with the Nutella filling were so wrong, yet so right) I’ve decided to get off my fat arse and actually give up something useful for Lent. In short, I’m giving up not doing exercise. A pronouncement that genuinely flummoxed my husband with the whole double negative thing. He’s a clever chap, so I can only surmise that the thought of my exercising again has shorted out a few essential neurons.
So, I weigh 86.0 Kg and I’m 1.65m tall, that gives me a BMI of 31.59 which is clinically obese. Hurrah! I mean, whoops. So, to get back to a healthy BMI, I need to lose about a quarter of my current bodyweight. A worrying prospect.
Now, I feel I ought to explain that up until a couple of years ago, when I had a brief flirtation with depression, I used to exercise like a demon (not exorcise like a demon, however tempted I was to slip that pun in there) and never had to worry about what I ate. When I stopped exercising and went through a few massive upheavals, I just never started going to the gym again as I had quite a few Issues and general bad memories from the time of The Depression mentioned above. Still with me? So, I know where the weight went on, and I know that its not coming off as I’m so sedentary that I’m practically furniture.
Hence, I’ve made a commitment to myself to exercise and once my darling husband is off galivanting around the world for half a year, I shall start Slimming World’s Online thingy, called oddly enough bodyoptimise and not Slimming World’s Online Thingy as you might perhaps expect. As God forbid my husband actually eats a vegetable or has a meal not involving meat. Heaven forfend!
So, today being day 1 of my exercise regieme, and the fact that it’s Feb and raining, I’ve decided to put off starting a running plan (such as the BUPA 5k one or the Cancer Research 10k one, this one starts with a week of walking to start you in the habit!) until the slightly less damp months and until I’m sure we’re not going to get any snow. Good, the start of a new resolution and already I’m making excuses.
Still, I eventually did an exercise DVD – Joanna Hall’s Drop a Size for Life. It’s good. the music is non chart stuff, so you can just tune it out, Joanna is bright and bubbly, with her encouraging comments coming at the right time for me and actually feeling quite encouraging rather than things she’s saying to pass the time. She’s got 2 people working out with her, one doing easier versions of certain exercises and one doing slightly more difficult versions, so I can see this DVD having some longevity. Its split into sections, a warmup, abs, legs, cardio then a metabolism booster circuit training session and the DVD has a nifty feature that allows you to play them in any order you like or miss parts out completely, to customise your workout. I did all bar the cardio, and it took about an hour. I’ve done the entire DVD on previous occasions and felt like it was hard work. Missing the cardio still made me feel like I’d had a workout (the metabolism booster section is quite high impact) and gave me the wobbly leg “gosh, haven’t I been Improving Myself” feeling which is always a joy to have. At which point my husband walked in, took one look and sensibly refrained from commenting before hiding upstairs to use the computer.
