Okay, we made it sound easy. I made it sound that way, on reflection, but that's because it <i>became</i> easy. Getting on a diet and exercise program without a single cheat is hard. REALLY hard. Damn near impossible. I mean, if it was as easy as it felt after a few weeks, I'd be there already.
Lately I've managed to have several good days in a row, lose nothing, feel crap, and fall off the wagon again for several more days. This is not the way to do it, obviously, but psychologically, I need to see something on the scales or it's not worth it! This is a problem I would like to re-address from the first time we started dieting.
"He's a man" is little consolation for the fact that he started walking a short distance and cutting his diet and started losing tons of weight. I kept cutting my calories more and more, increasing my exercise more and more (doing extra workouts during the day which I just haven't had time to do 2 a day recently!) until I finally started to lose. <i>Then</i> it got easier.
Now I just can't seem to find it in me to be that disciplined. I need to find it, but it's hard.
It's also hard to get started. It's like this large mountain you have to scale, but once you do, you land inside this place that is still fraught with little mountains and obstacles. I mean, it's worth going over the big one to get where it's easier, but it's not like you get over it and into a field of grass and ponds where you can take naps in the middle of the day. It's still a bit challenging and I don't know about you, but working really hard to get TO another obstacle course, well, sometimes it's easier to just sit on this side of the mountain and enjoy life.
Really, if it was easy, would so many resort to surgery, expensive pills, and costly gyms? No. They would just save money and do it the way we've been trying to do it all along; eating better and exercising more.
Yet, when it doesn't come easily and all at once, it's just so easy to say "I'll start tomorrow." Scarlet O'Hara is a woman after my own heart, but she could still squeeze into a tiny corset.
