Color Me Fit: weight loss, fitness, exercise

Is this something common in each of us, or something that seems to happen to me because I’m a very cyclic person, usually walking my way through various interests one after the other only, and never all at the same time? It gets hard to tell, as it probably could be mistaken for disappointment and discouragement, but somewhat I think it is not the case.

So, as I was saying, I seem to function in cycles. Their length isn’t predefined, and can vary from a few days to a few months or, very seldomly, years. Things have been this way for me as far as I can remember. I’ll have periods where all I’ll do is drawing, producing decent artwork at quite a decent speed too. I’ll have periods where I’m obsessed over a game, and every other activity I do (webdesign, drawing…) revolves around said game. I’ll then switch to a period of high interest for another matter (reading a certain type of books as soon as I have the opportunity, developing skills in a new area like I did with video…). All of this, to finally come back to some of my “old” interests at some point or another. It’s been a good 15 or 20 years that I’m interested in cartoons and animation, and regularly I come back to it. It’s been just as many years as I like drawing, and every few months or so, I get a bursting period of inspiration. And so on, ad infinitum.

What does this have to do with weight loss? Well, I discovered, much unfortunately, that it goes exactly the same.

Let’s not get mistaken, it doesn’t mean that I don’t care about losing weight anymore and that this will come back in a few months only. It doesn’t mean that I’m suddenly despising exercise again, nor that I’m blowing my “diet” off by eating at restaurants and fast-food joints every day. However, the fact remains: my current interests do not revolve around “weight loss at all cost”, and I seem to have lost, so to say, the interest to daily browse weight-loss related websites, write about it regularly, this kind of things - very likely because they take time from my current interests of the moment, not because I don’t care at all. I don’t do these anymore, thus I’m less focused than before on the whole thing.

It’s a problem, though. As much as not, say, watching TV for a few months doesn’t hurt me in any way, getting distracted from these health and fitness matters is something that can become a problem. I’m still watching what I eat, but not as thoroughly as before, when I was almost “obsessed” about reading articles and discovering new websites every day. I still make sure that I don’t take fattening dishes at the restaurant, but I’ll also give in more easily to a dessert, mistaken by its description, or by thinking that “it’ll probably be a small-sized one” (when I could ask before ordering, I mean). Am I finding myself excuses? Or simply not being as focused as before, and thus committing mistakes? As I said… it’s hard to tell.

So what is there left to me… going on on that road, or forcing myself into more motivation through imposing myself daily moments of reading, blogging, visiting fitness websites? There’s not enough time in a day for me to do all the things I’d like to do. On the other hand… the fact that I’m writing these words right now means that I’m aware of what’s happening, and thus with the ability to make things change.

I guess it just goes the same way as “if you want to exercise, you need to make room for exercise”.

I now need to make more room for reading and dialoguing about weight-loss, in order to stay motivated, on focus, and encouraged.

Simple as that.

- Kery