Weight loss and fitness is rarely too late
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My good wife Alex was up and out at 6 this morning running 4k.
She did 4k when she got in last night from work too.
She’s done a lot of 3-8k runs recently.
She agreed back in April to do ‘Running Down Dementia’.
Running a total of 100k between then and the end of August (today).
Worked out about 5k a week.
The plan was to raise £100 for a great cause (Alzheimer’s Research UK) whilst giving her an incentive to do some running – something she enjoys but is often pushed to the back burner.
Returning from holidays two weeks ago, Alex had done 18k.
82k to go in two weeks.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t convinced she’d do it.
But she’s proved me and her brother wrong.
Which may or may not have helped motivate her 😉
Here’s the sponsorship link if anyone fancies popping pound or two to help a great cause (I’ve recently lost an Uncle and an Auntie to it and out Sister in law’s mother is going through it 🙁
www.runningdowndementia2018.everydayhero.com/uk/alex-9
She could’ve quite easily decided it was too late at that point.
And ‘written it off’.
Doing nothing more.
But despite having a busy and challenging job, four kids and an idiot husband, and all the pain that comes with doing two marathons worth in fortnight, she got it done.
It’s rarely really too late is it?
We write off the weekend and eat shit and get hammered because we ate shit and got hammered on the Friday?
We decide to “start again next month” when the current month is about a third gone?
We decide it’s “not worth” starting exercising again till after the summer / Christmas / this busy period?
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We can always choose to get hammered, eat shit and not exercise.
That’s our prerogative, of course.
But telling ourselves the story that it’s “too late” or that “it’s written off” is hugely self limiting.
We owe ourselves better than that.
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If she was to do this again, I’m sure she’d approach it differently.
The ‘catching up’ was so hard compared to a ‘spreading the load’.
Same with tracking our food for a week.
Friday to Friday.
And promise we’ll hit our target.
If only to prove our spouses and siblings wrong 😉
Go nuts over the weekend and have to practically stave yourself from Tuesday onwards?
Hopefully that’ll help you question how nuts you go.
You know – a main and desert and 7 G&Ts rather than starter, main, desert, 2 bottles / 10 pints and a tub of Haagen Daz / kebab.
For probably 97% of the enjoyment at the time, not feeling like death the next day and not starving for three days to make up for it.
Spread the load.
Do the equivalent of 5k a week.
Get a little behind and catch up ASAP.
Don’t write it off.
Even if you have the equivalent of 82k in two weeks to do.
Much love,
Jon ‘TV’ Hall and Matt ‘2.48548’ Nicholson
P.S. As a third little point – sometimes it’s ok to use “proving someone wrong” as part of you motivation for doing something 😉
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