Dieting is simple but it isn’t easy

Use more calories that you consume, ok. Eat less and exercise more, yep, got that. So why is it so damn difficult to lose weight? I don’t have the answer obviously, that was a genuine desperate question. I’m hoping that I have the right attitude for my name to become ironic rather than descriptive, sooner rather than later and I have hopes that if I keep being the angelic dieter I am currently, fat will melt away and I’ll just be a Tart. However, I’m 10 days into the new me regime and I’m frustrated that I’m not slim yet. I know this is unreasonable, as my fellow diet and lifestyle blogger fitambitiousblonde says, and I paraphrase, ‘we can’t just snap our fingers and drop 10 lbs…it’s a life time commitment, so get off your lazy arse’. Well ok, I added the ‘get off your lazy arse’ bit, but that is the gist of her message and she’s not wrong.

I went to a gym appointment today which disappointingly didn’t involve any actual exercise, but I’m booked onto a couple of sessions next week. There were lots of questions, I was weighed again and my height taken again and yes, I am still middle aged, still short and still heavy with a sound heart and impressively perfect blood pressure. I eat far too much but not necessarily the wrong kind of things and I don’t move as much as I should. Nothing new there then. The answer to the problem, the charming assessor proclaimed, is portion control and exercise, but of course I’ve known this for a long time but have not responded to this knowledge in any meaningful way.

My husband and I are the only members of our household (spot is still visiting but should be leaving soon) and we both love to eat and we both love to lounge about on our massive sofa. Our sofa is so big my feet don’t touch the floor, I have to curl up on it, it’s more of a bed than a sofa. When it was new, I had to train myself to complete all chores before getting on it. Once positioned nothing is getting done. Our attachment to this beautiful monster combined with our eating habits is the key to our portly figures. We used to joke that we ate as much as a family of four and over a period time, eventually, our efforts were rewarded and we weighed as much as a family of four. Oh how we laughed. One reason dieting is hard is ingrained bad habits, we all know what we have to do, we just can’t do it. fitambitiousblonde says you have to find a way to the fitter you that suits you, good advice, but this Fat Tart says that whatever that might be will not include replacing that sofa.