Confession time: I have taken a slight hiatus from the healthy eating and exercise…
OK, when I say slight, it’s been over a month of “enjoying” eating all the junk I want and ignoring my running trainers. My body is not happy about this – and it’s not put me in a good headspace. Today I found an article in an old magazine which discussed studies which have confirmed a link between eating junk food and depression. From experience, I know that it is so much easier to feel better in your mind when you’re living the healthy life, but I still self-sabotage myself and eat trash and don’t exercise.
August was an up and down month. At the start I was having a really stressful time at work, which was causing me a lot of anxiety. I have a very critical manager who has promoted a blame culture and seems to seek the negative. I was losing sleep about it and couldn’t find the time to exercise or read other weight loss blogs for inspiration, and turned to food for comfort. I know that I’ve piled on the pounds, but I will weigh myself in a few days when I can face letting the blogging world know.
Thankfully I had a couple of short holidays booked to escape the city: I spent 5 days learning how to surf in Cornwall (brilliant exercise and so much fun – I ached all over!), and a couple of weeks later went to South Wales for a week. The bad news was that I used these as an opportunity to continuously make deliberately bad food choices (telling myself that I should eat whatever I want whilst I’m still off the wagon). But overall, they were good experiences for the soul!
The time away gave me the chance to evaluate things and on Monday I handed in my notice at work. I truly believe that life is too short to accept a job that makes you unhappy or let someone make you lose your confidence. I hopefully have a new contract with another company coming up (otherwise I’ll be broke), but I feel confident it was the right decision whatever happens. One and a half more weeks and I’ll be out of there!
So I need to get my head straight, start living the healthy lifestyle again and make sure I stay far far away from that 17 stone 4 lbs starting weight!
I have a lot of blogs to catch up on, but I hope you’re all doing well with your goals. I look forward to reading about them. I need to re-motivate myself, but still – it’s good to be back.
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