Interesting State Of Mind

As you know from an earlier post I've now reached my target weight and my Body Mass Index is just, just, in the healthy range, while this has given me a good deal to be happy about it has also caused some interesting things to happen in my head.

I've decided to carry on losing weight and reassess my situation when I'm 14 stone as I still have a spare tyre that isn't just, well, stretched skin, it has some self supporting properties and I know that the BMI is not an exact science but I'd be happier if I was well into the healthy area.

This has got me thinking and analysing the situation as it would appear that my biggest concern is actually stopping the weight loss, I kind of get a buzz from it now and I look forward to the weigh ins and mapping my progress. As well as this I think that a major problem is worrying about the road ahead as I've lost weight before, although in an unsustainable crash diet way, and just put it all back on when I stopped the diet. Even though I feel that I really have changed the way I deal with food for the better and broken the bad habits with junk food I really do have a fear that I'm going to just lapse into my old ways and pile it all back on again at the drop of a hat.

Now this isn't a problem just yet as I'm still fairly chunky and I don't think I look overly thin, but it's something I need to keep a watchful eye on just in case I lose focus and actually end up unhealthily underweight. The actual act of eating isn't a problem at all as I still think about food and anticipate what I'm going to have and plan ahead,  I just really need to keep an eye on myself.

I think that one way to manage this is to take up some sort of physical exercise as this will tone up any unsightly lumps and bumps and also give me something else to get addicted to but the two problems I have here are getting myself motivated to start the exercise and what exercise I will do.

I have a history of playing competitive sports and have done: rugby, cricket, weight training, handball, basketball, netball, hockey, boxing, running and circuit training when I was younger. I had the idea of doing martial arts but looking at the local clubs it would appear that they are run by people who take themselves and their chosen form of martial arts a bit too seriously for my liking, so the other options are running, which I used to do and really enjoyed in my 20s or boxing which I also did in my 20s and really enjoyed so I'll have to do some research and see if there are any local clubs that do boxing for fitness as I'm well past the age of wanting to spar and the good thing is that I know from past experience that boxing training is one of the hardest forms of physical exercise I have ever undertaken.