Realisations

I realise things very slowwly, I absorb messages, lessons later than most people.

So yesterday, while talking to the mother of my 14yo's friend, who is slim and fit as can be, who has told me previously that she walks 4-5 miles a day, who I always see in her workout clothes and with a bottle of water, that is when I realised two things:

one, that I HAVE to exercise 6 days a week, one hour at a time to lose this weight. There is no other way around it. None. No shortcuts. This HAS to be done to lose the pounds.
and two, that I simply cannot eat the way I have been. My eating habits havent changed since I was a teenager. Not that I was slim then- I was on the heavier side of normal at the time, but carried it better because of the young age. NOw with gravity starting to play a role, all that extra fat is moving south and it feels, let alone looks, bad. I am still eating the big servings of meals with the snacks etc. And no-one eats like that. All those lean bodies are made with small servings of the good wholesome foods.

Tho, on a better note, I havent had anything out of a box ,except my breakfast cereal, in almost 2 weeks. And there is a nice slideshow on msn about how we are eating larger servings of the good foods which is making us gain the weight.

So , now that I have realised this at the late age of 40, maybe I will start acting on these realisations by the time I am 50!