Excuses

When I found myself filling in the application to be a part of The Biggest Loser, I thought to myself how had I allowed my weight get to this. Everyone has put on a few kilos without realising but I had managed to gain over 40kg in a space of two years, and I honestly had no idea how. It is often said hindsight is a beautiful thing, and now looking back I know exactly where my lack of control over my weight began. EXCUSES. Eating pasta every night for dinner and following it with apple crumple or ice cream, was what made the fat accumulate around my tummy and butt, however it was the excuses I gave, that made me think it was ok to eat chocolate whenever I felt like it and not do any exercise.


It didn’t matter if no one listened to my excuses, as long as I heard them; it gave me a free pass. When you only have to convince yourself that your life is ok, then it is easy to live a life of comfort. Who has told themself the diet will start on Monday, for only Monday to come and go and the diet has not started because you have thought of some excuse to start another day?

So what were my most common excuses?

• I’m too busy to find time to exercise

• I’m a uni student, I am meant to be eating pasta to save money

• I’m tired, I’ll exercise tomorrow.

• Gym memberships are too expensive, so I can’t afford to exercise

• Apple crumple has apples in it; surely it can’t be that bad for me.

• That girl can eat a whole packet of chips and she is skinny, so I should be able to have them too.

• I can’t....... run, do sit ups, go swimming as people will think I’m a beached whale. ( or anything else I thought I wasn’t capable of doing)

Even though I thought all these excuses were very valid, I now know that there are no excuses that are good enough to ignore weight gain. I now value myself a lot more to make excuses. Sure they still come up; I am probably more imaginative now trying to think of something that I can almost convince myself that I do not have to go to the gym. But the bottom line is don’t give yourself an excuse to eat bad foods, or not exercise , if you are going to the effort to make an excuse then you know deep down that you are just hurting yourself.

Make eating healthily and going to the gym just part of life, just as brushing your teeth, or having a shower is. It becomes routine, you just have to make it a part of your routine and do it as if you are on auto pilot.

Now what are some of your most used excuses? Write them down here and make it the last time you will ever use it.