Louise.

Today I read an amazing post on Garance Dore’s blog (the sketch above is hers, click for a link to her blog). The post is part of a series she has done called Changing Lifestyles and it’s probably the first thing to do with dieting/exercise/weight loss/gain that I’ve ever read and really identified with. Since being at university I have definitely put on weight, not in a drastic, instantly noticeable way but as Garance puts it, it feels like you’re wearing the extra weight; there’s no neon sign, but it’s definitely there. And that’s exactly it, I just stopped feeling less comfortable, exactly like I was wearing something undesirable, and it’s frustrating because then you start to exercise to get rid of it, realise how unfit you are and it depresses you, so you stop. Then you decide to exercise some more and you get into it for a while but it’s maybe only for several hours a week, so of course the weight doesn’t just drop off and you get frustrated, so you stop again. What Garance’s series of posts has made me realise is that by persevering with exercise and modifying your diet just the tiniest wee bit (i.e. not being like me and having 90% of your diet consist of buns and sweets) your actual lifestyle changes (hence the title, clever, Garance, clever) and results in a healthy body and a much healthier mindset; because when you’re constantly thinking about what you eat and worrying if it’s going to stop you losing a pound here or a pound there, that’s when a really negative and unhealthy relationship with food can start to develop. Reading over this it all sounds ridiculously obvious and maybe to almost everyone else in the world it is, but when you’re struggling in the midst of something I suppose the obvious is kind of difficult to see.

Today I read an amazing post on Garance Dore’s blog (the sketch above is hers, click for a link to her blog). The post is part of a series she has done called Changing Lifestyles and it’s probably the first thing to do with dieting/exercise/weight loss/gain that I’ve ever read and really identified with. Since being at university I have definitely put on weight, not in a drastic, instantly noticeable way but as Garance puts it, it feels like you’re wearing the extra weight; there’s no neon sign, but it’s definitely there. And that’s exactly it, I just stopped feeling less comfortable, exactly like I was wearing something undesirable, and it’s frustrating because then you start to exercise to get rid of it, realise how unfit you are and it depresses you, so you stop. Then you decide to exercise some more and you get into it for a while but it’s maybe only for several hours a week, so of course the weight doesn’t just drop off and you get frustrated, so you stop again. What Garance’s series of posts has made me realise is that by persevering with exercise and modifying your diet just the tiniest wee bit (i.e. not being like me and having 90% of your diet consist of buns and sweets) your actual lifestyle changes (hence the title, clever, Garance, clever) and results in a healthy body and a much healthier mindset; because when you’re constantly thinking about what you eat and worrying if it’s going to stop you losing a pound here or a pound there, that’s when a really negative and unhealthy relationship with food can start to develop. Reading over this it all sounds ridiculously obvious and maybe to almost everyone else in the world it is, but when you’re struggling in the midst of something I suppose the obvious is kind of difficult to see.

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