Never miss a Monday

 Monday 15th July

(Originally written in a notebook, just after I decided to start documenting my progress so I decided to add it here to start me off) 

Never miss a Monday

I have just weighed at the heaviest I have been since I was 9 months pregnant and just a few pounds off my original starting weight at Slimming World. 

I can feel it, it's as if I didn't really notice it creeping up but suddenly I am struggling and have decided that I need to make some changes.

I am finding the heat really hard to deal with this year, maybe it's just bloody hot, maybe it's perimenopause but whatever it is it would be easier if I wasn't carrying this extra weight.  I gave birth in August many years ago and it's feeling a little similar. Most of my clothes have got uncomfortably tight and I am short of breath quickly if I walk up the stairs rather than using the lift. 

My knees are taking a lot of strain lately, and I've felt a few familiar twinges which previously has led to pulling something and being in pain for ages,  and my feet are aching more than usual when I've been on them for a long time.

I've not done any yoga for a long time, back in May I did almost every day, now I feel stiff, achy and the improvements I'd noticed in my strength and flexibility have gone again. I'd got complacent about exercising, but I need to leave the excuses- too hot, too tired, too busy blah blah blah,   and start to make small consistent efforts to start the scales going in the other direction,    which will make everything else easier to maintain. 

Let's do this thing...