savvy

I live in Atlanta but I’m from
Scotland originally and as such can lay claim to come from one of the unhealthiest countries imaginable.  We drink too much, smoke too much and when it comes to diet, well let’s just say we mock southern style cooking for being too easy on your heart.  We fry chocolate, not because it tastes good, but because it doubles the fat intake while reducing the effort required consuming it.  We’re clever like that.

So it’s not so hard to imagine how I ended up here, right?  Well, it’s not so straight forward.  When I was younger man I was a very fit and athletic.  Over the past few years in my head I have remained that, fit and athletic.  I weight less now than when I was a rugby player, so what’s the problem?  Well it took a very brave stance by my girlfriend about her weight to let me see how I have just let things go and that reality wasn’t quite what was in my head.  I started giving her advice about how she should do this and how she should do that.  It’s all good advice by the way; I just wasn’t listening to myself and acting as I preached. 

Bottom line, I don’t like my wibbly bits, or my jibbly bits although I’m a firm believer that everyone needs some silly bits…:D

So, I’m stopping smoking (eeep!), and I’m going to get my weight down, my fitness up and Lindsay and me are going to have fun doing it together.  Sometimes it’s hard to keep going at something like this because you don’t always see results straight away and it can be hard.  To me, ensuring that you have fun will add tenfold to the determination levels.  It’s a change of lifestyle for me, I’m not 18 anymore but I can still have fun (it’s what the silly bits are for).  So good luck to you all!