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My first proper post (for a while, anyway) is about my planned little project of self-improvement/self-torture. I have named it ’31 at 31′, as I just turned 31 and the project is planned to last 31 days (well, indefinitely, but as I will explain in a little bit, the 31 has a significance. Kind of.)
The old saying goes that forming a pattern takes 30 days and breaking a bad habit takes 90 days. In about 33 days I am going to head out for a little break from work and hopefully have a relaxing holiday, but before that, the plan is to indulge in a little health kick. God knows I tend to eat helthier food when I am on holiday anyway, so this is a good ‘pre-break prepairer’.
Doing shifts and studying has definitely taken a toll when it comes to my health. I’ve been riddled with colds and plagues with being tired all the time, and I have decided that it is finally time to do something about it. And swapping gyms to one that does all sorts of classes has also had a significant impact into this decision.
And so, I have decided to indulge in a kick up the arse from myself, and a general kick up when it comes to fitness and health. I intend to spend a month eating more healthy food. Granted, since this is mainly due to the fact that I am absolutely broke due to a useless housemate who cannot pay her share of the electricity bills (if you’re reading this, bloody well borrow the money from someone, lol – or atleast stop shopping crap and showing it to me /:-)). So, there is no money for junk food. Or proper food, to be fair. I suspect that I will be spending a month eating porridge and the free soup I can get at the vending machines at work. However, no take-away, no fast food. Lots of water – not a hard task in the heat we’re having.
More importantly, I intend to take up exercise again properly. As in ‘in the gym’. Sweating, horrific, enjoyable and endorphine-filled. And I intend to post it all in here. Not how well I did, how badly I did, but just how it was, what it was, how did it go in general. it’s only a competition against myself, no-one else.
So, I am a member of a gym. One with no windows, no proper classes, just a bunch of equipment in a building. Not my thing. I have only trained there a few times, and not enjoyed it one bit. So I decided to change that, and joined a new gym.
I foresee that this blog will now have a new dimension to it. Whinings Postings from a newly-motivated exerciser. Trials and errors, the annoyance and the bulging training kit..
I have a real love-hate relationship with exercise. I hate it with a vengeance. If I do it properly it gives me an insane high, intense and long-lasting. But I hate it. I hate to love it. I love to hate it. But now I have a gym that as classes. Shiny, glittery classes in shiny and glittery exercise studios with chrome and brick walls. Free internet. A cafe, oh a cafe..
On a sidenote, I feel that it may be time to revamp the blog a bit. Or a lot 
. Eventually.
