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A slightly
belated happy new year to everyone here at Tote Bags ‘n’ Blogs.
I’m not sure what it is about the
start of a new year, the flipping of the calendar over from December to January
that creates such a buzz; possibilities seem to open up. It’s like opening up a new notebook,
picking up a brand new pen, the feeling that you can write a whole new chapter.
Like so
many people I’m starting a
weight loss plan – I’m not calling it a diet, because
diets are something you start and maybe succeed with for a while, but in the
end the weight just piles back on.
I know I’ve been
there, done that.
The weight loss has to be about food because between the
dodgy hip and a shoulder that took a battering in a fall in December, serious exercise
is not on the agenda at least for a while. And with contracts for three books I’m going to be spending a lot of time
at my desk.
On the recommendation of a fellow sufferer I’m reading a book by Gillian Riley
called Eating Less: Say Goodbye to Overeating. I’m only
a little way in but I’ve
already recognized some things I do that I need to change.
Snacking in the evening, never passing the biscuit tin,
eating too much of the cheese I love because it’s there
when I open the fridge. I’m not giving stuff up – well, except sweets and chocolate because,
well really, they are just empty calories and I need to watch out for the
danger of Type II Diabetes which is reaching epidemic proportions.
Oh, and the dh will give me £100 if
I lose a stone (that’s English
English for 14lb) by the end of March. It’s not
the money; it’s the fact that he was moved
to make the offer. The fact that he’s
concerned that I’ve put on a lot of weight
over the last year.
I was about to write that I know I’ll never be as slim as the day I had my first book
published (and stopped running to work and instead just walked to my desk) but
that’s setting myself up for
failure. I’m going to lose those 14lbs and
by then, if I concentrate, I’ll have
broken some of those bad habits. I may, by then, feel up to the local Tai Chi
class. And there’s absolutely no reason why I
shouldn’t lose another 14lbs and when
I have, I know that my hips and knees will thank me. I come from long lived
genes and I do not want to spend the years running into my nineties in pain.
A new year and, hopefully, a new me.
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Liz Fielding’s 65th
book for Harlequin Romance, The Sheikh’s
Convenient Princess, is published in February. You can pre order now at
Kobo Amazon US
Amazon UK
2 comments:
Happy New Year! Best Wishes with your new eating plan.
denise
Thanks so much. My scales seem stuck, but I'm sticking with it. :) All best wishes.
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