There are two reasons why I decided to start a blog, the
first being that I love to write and the second is that I really want to start
looking after myself. At the moment I’m working as a research engineer and part
of that involves writing papers to publish your findings. I complain a lot
about this part of my work, but secretly I love it! I find that it helps me to
understand my work so much more, you can’t write something down and then
present it as fact without being 100% confident in it. So you end up spending
an awful lot of time just reading around the topic to make certain that you
know exactly what it is you’re talking about! This brings me on to the second
reason for starting a blog – I really want to start looking after myself, but I
haven’t a clue what I’m doing!! I want to lose some weight, get fit, eat right
and take care of my skin and hair (who doesn’t?). A year ago, I had gotten very
unfit and my clothes were either really tight or didn’t fit, my skin was
starting to look dull, my hair…we won’t even go there… and I ended up being
quite unhappy with myself. As well as that, I was often tired, had no energy
and found it hard to concentrate. So, to try and make a change for a better me,
I hopped right onto the health and fitness bandwagon and promptly fell right
back off! I tried this a few times but it never seemed to stick and I couldn’t
understand why. I blamed myself for having no will-power but this isn’t me;
when I put my mind to something there’s usually no stopping me! So why couldn’t
I get the results I wanted even though I was so determined?
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