At the beginning of the first lockdown my husband and I had been on a juicing diet and exercising regularly at the gym; we felt good about ourselves. In lockdown we engaged with a personal trainer and when the restricted allowed, my husband, son and I took on his regime of kettle bells, ropes and gruelling ab crunches twice a week. The weather was glorious and we were tanned and body beautiful – well as beautiful as one gets for people in their fifties! New clothes were fitted and sewn to the now size 10 frame. Yippee.
That was over 8 months ago and the weather has taken its toll. Too many comfort food meals, G & T’s and homemade baked goods. Bad weather has dampened the enthusiasm for outside exercise and gyms are closed.
However, with Boris’s road map out of lockdown, optimism about the future has returned. Along with lighter evenings and the possibility of a summer holiday (flights booked the same evening as the announcement!) the lockdown tardiness has to go. New clothes sewn last summer have got to fit so its juicing from Monday, a 5km run every other day, and when allowed, the personal trainer will be on the scene to beat the abs back in shape.
I’m looking forward to getting out for long walks on the beach with the dog and enjoying a pub lunch. Simple pleasures which have been denied but that I will appreciate and not take for granted again.
I hope you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and can focus to the positive.
Take care, Terri
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