Thursday, 9 March 2017

"But I don't have tiiiiime to lose weight!"

Bullshit.
Complete and utter bullshit.
First of all, if you have time to stuff your face, you'll save time by eating less.
Second of all, you make time to move your butt if it's really that important to you. How much idle time do you spend daily/weekly/monthly watching TV or just doing not much at all?
Find 10 minutes to just move. Walk around your back yard, find a fitness video on youtube and jiggle along with it (that's what I used to do!), find a way to fit exercise in with your daily routine. Walk to the shops, or to work, park a little further away . It all helps!

Here's how much time I have...it's the same amount of time I had before I started to lose weight (actually, I have less time now because any time you see "time for relationship" in the pic here, I didn't need to set that aside before.)
Please note: the things not listed in my schedule are:
Every 2nd weekend, the entire weekend becomes "time for relationship" and I spend the weekend with the boyfriend, and the schedule is very flexible. I sometimes do exercise things, but my primary focus during that time is relationship things and spending quality time together.
Time for buying groceries.
Time for appointments with doctors or teachers at school, or whatever.
Time for cleaning my house.
Time for washing clothes, etc.
Time for leisure activities, taking the kids places on weekends, etc.
Time for idle things like reading or watching TV (these things are important too)
Time to spend with extended family and friends.

You'll note that the only "spare" time blocks I have are Thursday early evening, Saturday early evening and Sunday during the day. That's when all of the abovementioned things happen.

So when do my workouts happen? Well, I joined the gym where my kids do karate. While they train, I train. Sometimes in the evening we'll get dinner in early and go out running/biking on the Peninsula Link trail. On weekends, we do things together that involve more movement. I'm a single mum (that is, I do not live with my boyfriend and I'm running the house by myself). I'm about as time-poor as it gets, once you factor in work and the kids' sports stuff. Please don't ever tell me that you don't have time to take care of yourself. Unless you're ok with me laughing in your face.

Anyway... here it is:

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