New Year Resolutions

Resolution number one is to buy some new scales. The results this morning from the weigh in room are not good – my weight has ballooned to 77.5KG. At this rate of an additional 200 grams per year, I’ll be a decidedly unhealthy 100KG at the age of 147.

To date I’d always adhered to the school of thought that New Year’s Resolutions are daft things and that if anything is really worth doing, then it’s not worth waiting until the 1st January of the following year. However after the whirlwind of three kids in which it is alarmingly easy to lose sight of things, events and other key milestones, I’ve come to realize the value in having an easily recognizable date which can serve as a line in the sand. The other reason why I had always shied away from resolutions was because they always seemed hopelessly idealistic and never very realistic with a clear description of how to achieve them e.g. just a simple "be a better person", or "read more books" etc.

So, for me, in 2012, I have decided to eat less (by refusing second helpings, which increases the importance of the first helping obviously, and eating no desserts in the evening), and to do 50 sit-ups and press-ups per day (on the clear understanding that if I manage to do this until the end of the first quarter then we can consider that resolution achieved). There, it’s down on (electronic) paper so there’s no hiding now. I can now look forward to old age safe in the knowledge I’ll never hit 100KG.