Friday 6 January 2017

New year, new you?

Does anyone else feel a little bit anxious and overwhelmed by the start of a new year? It might sound completely ridiculous but the thought of having a whole year that you supposedly should have planned out makes me feel a bit blergh! 

We are surrounded by every social media account telling us that we must start a fad diet and a crazy new fitness regime. I feel like there is a significant amount of pressure especially recently to be a certain way. I just think why would we make January even more depressing that it already is by putting so much pressure on yourself to eat well and exercise only to be consumed by a massive feeling of guilt when you accidentally slip up cos you fancied that last Quality street left in the tin. 

This doesn't mean that I am totally against excercise and I admire all the people with amazing determination and I am probs a tiny bit jealous of the people who have a body like Jessica Ennis. 

But I just wanted to say to the other peeps who like me are beating themselves up because they haven't started the new year with a work out DVD and are still munching the Christmas sweets and chocolate that it is OK too, and you are definitely not the only one. There is no set time to do something and if tomorrow you fancy doing a Body coach YouTube video then do it tomorrow, there is no reason why we should be under so much pressure. 

I also don't massively believe in New Years resolutions, for the exact same reason that I feel a stupid amount of guilt when I haven't met them. Why give yourself crazy resolutions and then hate on yourself because you don't quite achieve them?
Why not start by setting yourself some smaller goals and build yourself up to the big things. You don't have to become a totally different person just because the numbers of the year have changed. 

I decided that this year the only resolution type thing I would set myself is to be nicer to myself and spend more time focusing on things that make me happy rather than what other people think. 

So I think it's completely OK that you don't have your shit together yet, you haven't started working out and don't have massive life changing goals that you want to achieve by the end of the year. Be a little bit more selfish and take your time.