My Leap of Faith

"Sometimes taking a leap of faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see."  

Or in my case, creating a blog in which to write my ramblings. Well, seems like everyone's got a blog these days. So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right?!

My journey to healthy began a few months back after having moved back to the UK a couple of months before, given up my healthy, Mediterranean lifestyle and gym membership, and having started piling on the pounds from not really moving all that much. My excuse was that in a small town, there wasn't as much to do or see as in an exciting city like Madrid where all I did was walk places. Plus eating British food (not so much fruit and veg variety) at British times (the big meal is in the evening as opposed to at lunch) in (what I call) British portions (bigger) didn't exactly help. And so the scales weren't exactly tipping in my favour. 

But after one cold November morning stepping back on those scales, the dreaded numbers 13st 2lbs faced me. Well, that couldn't be right. I stepped off. I stepped on again. 13st 3lbs. Hang on! How could I have gained a whole pound in thirty seconds?! I stepped off again. And back on. 13st 2lbs. Well, at least that extra pound had gone. But how on earth had I managed to gain nearly a stone and a half in just two and a bit months?! That was it, I needed to lose weight.

That's when I began the morning workouts. I kept them up for well over a month and lost about 6 pounds. Good start, I hear you say. Well, yes... but then you see, you overestimate my motivation. With Christmas and New Year I knew I was going to put something back on and then have to lose it again, and I just wasn't sure I had the energy for that.

And that takes us roughly to now. No, nowhere near back to where I started. And the truth is, if I really want to be a healthy weight, I'm going to have to lose even more than just that one and a bit stone that I put on.

So I'm not writing this from the been-there-done-that wagon. But then, nor am I writing this as someone who's morbidly obese with diabetes and a heart condition. I'm just a fairly normal girl who wants to shift some pounds and get healthy. And these are simply my diaries of how I'm getting on.

So no, this isn't one of those I-lost-loads-of-weight-and-now-you-can-too blogs. And it certainly won't be a here's-a-fitness-and-diet-plan-that-works kind of blog either. Because the truth is, I'm still on my journey to a happy and healthy me. I still need to be doing those morning workouts, eating clean, downsizing my portions, getting out more. 

Nope, the aim of this was really to keep me accountable. I want to lose weight well and become a fitter version of me. And let's face it, to take that leap of faith, I need to write about it to imagine the ending I can't yet see.

And hey, if I manage to amuse some people along the way, I'd say that was a bonus.

Love,

Bekah xx