You know, they say variety is the spice of life. And for me it’s definitely one of the things I have to keep working at in order to stay interested in weight loss. It’s the one thing that doesn’t change. Variety is constant for me.

You can see this in the phases I go through. When I started at WW, I used eTools to track. Then I moved to paper, on those weekly little booklets we had. Then I bought a WW book specifically for the purpose, though I wasn’t great at keeping on track with it. Then I tried Twitter (which method went bust because Twitter no longer allows ‘repeat posts’ … how do I make ‘Weetbix and Milk, 2.5 pts’ more interesting?), and then finally I bought a little black book for the purpose. None of them worked forever. I just get bored. Now, I’m swapping over into a custom-built worksheet. It’s going to take a while to get everything set up, but it should work. I’m really excited about it at the moment, I can picture success – which is the first step to actually succeeding, right? If I record it like this, I can see each week in a glance, work out where I went wrong (the icecream I didn’t like and didn’t need), or right (the omelette instead of pizza).

It’s the same with exercise. Originally I hated it. I began to make myself go the gym and I would refuse to go to classes. Then I would refuse to go the treadmills and would only do the classes. Then I began to teach myself how to run, and it was back to the treadmills for me. Then I gave up running – back to classes. And now? Not doing exercise at this moment in time. But once I get the rest of my life under control (and find my running shoes), I’m going to go back to square one. I’m going to start the C25K again from scratch. I’m more advanced than those days when I started the first time. I can run 30 seconds without wanting to die. But I need to go back and find out where I’m starting to challenge myself again, rather than feeling like my task is insurmountable.

So…what does this teach me? Regardless of whether or not I get bored and need to move onto something else, regardless of whether or not my exercise regime changes or I get frustrated, each change is a step in the right direction – each change is a step forward, closer to my goal…regardless of whether or not I feel like it at the time.

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