When does one say “Enough is Enough?”

I think I said it yesterday. And I have some mixed feelings about this.

Over the past 4 months, I happily went back to my old habits of leading a terrible, sedentary life with no control, over what I eat or how I treat my body. The only saving grace was that I quit smoking and I’m still a non-smoker.

But there’s always a price to be paid for everything, isn’t it?

So while I’m religiously following a strict regimen of exercise and diet, I can’t take the credit for having taken the decision to do it. It was forced on me.  My body forced action by giving me pain that I can no longer tolerate. The “Piriformis Syndrome” in my leg has become painful beyond belief. And the lower back pain hasn’t helped things as well.

So here I am… doing everything to reduce the pain I’m in. The stretching is the worst as the pain is really bad. But the rest of the exercise routine feels great.  I’ll be in touch as I go along. I was 190 lbs 2 weeks back. I want to lose 2lbs each week till I hit 170lbs at the end of July. So the target for June-end is 178lbs.

Its gonna happen !

Ro

When the warranty runs out…

The lightbulb moment !

I have a theory – We all are born with a warranty on our bodies till age 35.  We can do whatever the hell we want to and our bodies will take the abuse. Of course, I’m not talking about extreme cases… but you get the point.

We can drink, smoke, eat like pigs, party out like banshees, do whatever the heck we want and the next morning… we’re still alive!

But the day after our 35th birthday, after we’ve passed out from all that booze, we wake up to a hangover and realize that something has changed – we’re not the same people anymore!

Now if we have been taking care of ourselves, then we have an “extended warranty” – and that lasts till age 40.

And finally, there are cases where people are pure fitness freaks and can outrun a Lamborghini, but lets not talk about them – its depressing. There’s another reason I detest them – They make us all look bad. That’s never a nice thing to do, right?

So I’m talking about the majority of people who have the Y35 warranty (that’s what I call it). I’m one of those people and have watched the deterioration of my body with fascination over the past 5 years.  Last week I decided that I’ve been fascinated enough and something needs to change.

I’ve thought out my plan in great detail and have mentally identified (and experienced) all the challenges I’ll face as I go along. Never before have I been so certain that this time, its going to happen.

But (unlike before), I’m going to be patient. I’ve spent 20 years getting out of shape… I’m not getting everything back in 2 months… that’s for sure!

Stay tuned for the mayhem that’s about to begin…

Ro