Facing up to Fifty: one year to get fit!

Well, not having blogged here for a while I thought it about time I sort of caught up with the world. Last entry was about giving up smoking, back in April, and here we are end of June, still a non smoker (cleo too). Since that last blog we have all moved into a new house; nothing spectacular, but its ours, and we are working to get it how we want it.

Having beaten the smoking thing, its now about health and fitness for me. So, I have asked my cleo to sort me out a low fat diet (cleo is so much better than me at sorting out those kind of things) which will help me to lose weight and help towards getting fit.

Why???
I am coming up 49, on the 19th July, and I am giving myself one year from then (i.e. till I am 50) to lose weight, get fit, and feel that I may well have improved my life expectancy. Now, I have to say I am a lover of my food..not that I eat huge amounts because I don't, but simply that I like all the bad things: full cream milk, butter, and any number of other really bad stuff that positively screams "heart attack". Well, not me anymore. I intend to get as long a time as possible with my cleo.

I suppose there come moments in our lives when we are forced, through some thing or another, to face our own mortality. I am not sure whether that has happened to me as yet, but I don't think I can afford to leave this getting fit thing any longer, so thats the plan: lose weight, and get fit. We have already started on the low fat thing: summer of course is easy, meat and salads. I guess that the effect of low fat dieting will take a few weeks at least to take some effect, but I will also have begun my exercise regime then too. Quite how and what I will do I don't really know, except we do have a good exercise bike, and a lawn that needs cutting regularly!

More soon.