joanne9989

The thing I’ve been missing most since coming home from uni is going to the gym, I really miss the adrenaline of exercise and the natural high you get afterwards. I went to have a look at the gym 5 minutes from my house but they’ve moved, which is annoying. I’m only at my parents’ house for one more week though, and as soon as I get back to Leeds I can use the university gym again.
Yesterday me and my mum and dad went on a walk on some cliffs somewhere, and it was quite hard work because it was mostly uphill. I really enjoyed it though, and all in all we walked about 4 miles. In the evening I went on my mum’s rebounder for 20 minutes. The mini-trampoline is my temporary solution for not being able to go to the gym, and it’s a lot of fun, although I prefer being able to see how many calories I’ve burnt and having a variety of different equipment.
I’ve also cut out eating between meals, which was my downfall in the first place. I hope it makes a difference, cause at the moment I’m halfway between overweight and obese and I feel like a right heifer!

It’s been 6 months since I last tried to lose weight, and I’m up to 13 stone! :S OK so it didn’t help that I went to Italy for 2 months then gave up smoking, but now I just feel dead fat, and I’m clinically overweight for my height.
I was talking to this bloke I fancied today and it turns out I weigh loads more than him! Which is as good a reason as any to drop a few pounds, I reckon. I start tomorrow, wish me luck…

So this is the one goal I thought it would take me years to achieve, and all I can say is that I can’t believe I thought it would be this easy.
What happened was that my chest started hurting. It hurt when I breathed, and it hurt even more when I smoked. So I bought one pack of nicotine gum and that was all it took. Once you’ve been a week without smoking, the routine aspect of it has almost completely faded away.
One thing that helped me was reading Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking. The most important message in that book is that giving up smoking isn’t actually a hard thing to do – and to be honest, it isn’t. We have all gone through those horrible nicotine cravings, but if you stop to think about it, they don’t hurt, they don’t feel like anything at all. The other thing that got me through it was just to think about something else. We tend to make mountains out of molehills as far as cravings are concerned, but as long as you give yourself a limit of 20 seconds or so to think about it, it is actually really easy to just get on with your life.
So I don’t feel full of energy or anything like that, but my sense of smell has returned, and I feel so glad that I’ve managed to achieve something that is supposed to be so difficult (but it actually isn’t – shh).
The only problem is, I started replacing cigarettes with food, and have put on a bit of weight, so now I have something else on my list to tackle! Oh well, at least I have one thing crossed off :)