The Decision

Not really sure why I’m telling you this. Maybe if I think if I tell you I’ll stick to it. God, that sounds a bit ominous doesn’t it?!

This is a spur of the moment, one of those ideas that you come up with while performing some meaningless task like taking off your make-up, brushing your teeth, scrolling the through the drivel that makes up Facebook timeline, blog post. Recently I decided that I was unhappy with my body and I actually wanted to something about it. Not like “oh god! Is that what I weigh?!....” and then asking if we have enough milk for me to have a Nesquik (chocolate only of course); but actually going out and joining the people I see jogging my past my bedroom effortlessly.

I’m not going to become a calorie counting obsessive, for the most part I haven’t got the willpower, and all I want to do is tone up and not intentionally lose weight. If I do lose weight on the way it’s not a big deal, in fact it’ll be an added bonus, but I am not doing it purely because of that. 

Reasons:

• I want to tone up for summer
• I want to be able to have more energy and strength when Apollo has a mental idiot attack where he’s just so excited he bursts
• I want to be confident wearing vests without a huge jumper over the top
• I want to achieve something I set my mind to

Goals:

• A toned-ish stomach
• Increased overall fitness levels
• Increased body confidence
• To drink more water when at home – sounds weird but I don’t drink enough when not at school

How I’m doing it:

• Jogging at the weekends at least once at the moment and during the week when it’s light enough after school and sorting Apollo out
• Riding more regularly especially sitting trot
• Nightly exercises for 5 minutes

Update:

When running for 25 minutes on Sunday had to do some walking and didn’t get as far as I thought Didn’t have a tissue or water so couldn’t breathe properly – suffering a cold

Legs ached like hell

But…

Did take 4 barrows of crap out of the field

Feel proud that I actually did something

Realised shoes didn’t fit that well…

This could be extremely boring for you so I’m sorry, but I think by sticking this on the internet I will actually achieve something. They say “it takes 21 days for something to become habit” so only 20 days to go…

A x

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