The one where I face the facts…
The time has come to face up to reality. If I’m going to be serious about my Ironman quest - and if I want to stay injury-free along the way, I’m going to have to drop some serious weight. Soon.
To be fair - and to Lee-Anne’s credit - this is something she has been trying to get me to focus on for around nine months. It would appear I’m a slow learner on this front - or rather, I have my childrens’ selective hearing when it comes to cutting down on food, or the foods I love.
I have always battled with my weight. My father’s nickname for me is Rolly - he truely means it as a term of motivational endearment so I’m not actually offended. Actually, either Rolly or Knickers - either one gets used on any sporting occasion, most recently at the Takapuna Triathlon where he positioned himself on a key corner and yelled “Come on knickers” everytime I came around - all six times! But again, I’m not offended - in fact I’m thrilled he’s there and getting into it - it’s a unique motivational tool for me!
But I digress. Back to the weight issue.
I have always been on the larger rounder side. As outlined elsewhere on this site, I’ve been pretty inactive for most of my life, although I excel at fine wine and good food. I have made the effort and lost weight previously - leading up to our wedding for example. But it’s always gone straight back on - I couldn’t fit into my jeans on the last day of our honeymoon - it had only been two weeks for goodness sake!
I’ve used every excuse in the book to avoid tackling my weight issue - pregnancies, IBS, work, stress - mainly the old adage, “it’s just not the right time”. Well the time has come and the time is now. Watch this space.
PS: Special thanks to Lee-Anne (for persevering!) and @donna_de and @brennanannie on Twitter for their advice on this topic!
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I am so with you on this. It is hard to do but really worth it. I have always struggled with my weight and when I finally decided to do it last year I wasn’t sure it was really worth the effort. Now that it is done I am so happy I did it. I know I am healthier. I look better. But I am also faster which is awesome. Great post. Keep up the good work.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Babe, The-Incredible-Expanding-Rach ran over the Sydney Harbour bridge [and back] at 6:30 this morning and believe me, you were in my thoughts. The Amazing-Spreading-Antonys are both on a shrink quest!
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
i’m not sure if this is helpful; but i fell into a bit of trap thinking that just because i was training, i could eat what i liked (within reason!) the result of this was my weight sitting a pretty comfortable place, but still - not moving - despite long hard training sessions!
over the weeks i started to say ‘no’ to the things i would usually reach for - still nothing that was stupidly unhealthy but when it comes to calories *everything* adds up - and bingo, i started to loose weight.
it’s a difficult mental challenge to say no - but it really is the key to reducing your calories and loosing weight. and, really, it’s still a lot easier than a triathlon! you’re already doing the hard work by training, so the battle is 50% of the way there.
this week, my approach has hit my ideal weight
good luck!