New Year Resolution 2012

Is this the conversation you have with yourself every year? Me too.

This year 2012, taking hope over experience, I again promise myself that this year's resolution is to try to lose some weight. Not masses. Not going for biggest loser territory in 60, 80 or 110 kilos (okay, I would have actually disappeared and be well into negative territory if I lost 110 kilos) but I am aiming for a modest 5 kilos at a time.

Five of those units of 5 kilos lost would be brilliant, but (sorry, just pass me that last square of chocolate...no sense wasting it) I would settle for 2 or 3 or 4.

Five kilos doesn't sound as hard to get as 25 does. I am casting about looking for an eating plan that I can live with. It must be an eating plan and not a diet because we all know that diets don't work.

But they all say the same damn thing! Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. Well I would if I liked them. It's much harder when you don't. Can I take my fruit as wine and my greens as bitey cheddar cheese (the cow ate them green!) on a biscuit? No? What kind of fun is that going to be?

(Honey, just pour Mummy a gin and tonic while I write this article, hmmm?) So I am stuck with eating protein and some lettuce leaves I suppose. Delightful.

I feel better about the exercise half of the equation. I know I must move more and I am already ahead of the game with a gym membership. I haven't actually visited the gym in some time, but the membership is at least, active.

I just have to get there (and change with strangers, get sweaty, shower with strangers, pack my gear back and forth) oh never mind, I'm sure I'll do it. (Ha!)

Perhaps I should just Zumba in my bedroom? Not really enough room and besides, the seismic people are watching closely for earth tremors...best not to start anything there.

Oh well, the end of the first day of the year and I'm almost talked out of it already. But no, I will persevere. I'm going to the movies tonight and plan on having a big container of popcorn. At least it's from a vegetable. That's a start.

Any advice?

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