Are You A “New Year’s Resolution” Type Of Person?
Most retailers have Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season, but the health and fitness industry has New Year’s week and pretty much the rest of January as they celebrate a sharp increase in sales and memberships. Gotta love those impulse shoppers!!!
I’ve left a few gyms in my wake which had had the opportunity to laugh all the way to the bank, wad of cash in hand, knowing they just signed up another sucker who would lose interest in a month’s time.
Are you like me? You give yourself that big pep talk, and you take that long hard narcissistic self-pitying look at yourself as you wallow over your past failures, and you promise… and I mean you PROMISE that this time you’re gonna go through with it, you’re gonna stick with it, and you do all that visualization of what you picture yourself looking like in 6 months, 9 months, a year’s time. You even calculate the number of pounds you’re going to lose… “let’s see - if I lose even just 5 pounds a month - hmmm… wow, in 6 months I’ll be 30 pounds lighter!”
The problem is, you’ve gone through this before. How many times have you made and then failed to keep your New Year’s resolution to lose weight, get into shape, or improve your health? How many times have you squandered hundreds of dollars on gym memberships or fitness equipment just to let it go to waste? How many infomercial products have you sent away for? Sh*t! Do you know how many fitness gadgets, videos, and dvd’s I have laying around my house? I have a decent treadmill in my room which makes a great cat perch and clothes rack. I’m into the thousands of dollars now in wasted gym memberships and fad diet programs.
WHEN WILL IT END?!!!
Most yoyo diet folks seem to do their pilgrimage to diet/exercise hell around New Year’s. Personally, my calendar revolves around hockey season.
Right around February/March I do my empty promise pep talk and visualization crap, then in a desperate effort to get into shape (because I didn’t do sh*t all summer!) I get all Jane Fonda around Septemberish. Ok, I know… Jane Fonda is sooooo 1980. Am I really that old? Well, whatever! I get all gung ho “gotta get in shape for hockey” a month before the season gets into full swing, as though a few weeks on an exercise bike is really going to reverse the effects of years of sloth and fast food!
I just got the official email a couple days ago. Hockey season officially starts in 3 weeks. Yeah, THREE WEEKS! And though I did manage to lose 25 pounds since last season ended, I’ve gone into full anxiety mode once again.
Can anybody relate to this?
4 Responses
Sassy Mama Bear
Tuesday, 19. August 2008
Scouting starts next week, which will mean hikes and more activity and while that is a good thing I have not gotten into the shape I wanted to be before scouts was in full swing so I understand. We’ve done the gym memberships before, and I remember Jane…don’t forget to breath!
Renee
Sunday, 24. August 2008
You are certainly not the only one. Almost everyone I know plans on getting in shape. A few have just said forget it and have had the fat sucked out through liposuction. I have just embraced my fat ass…If I were to loose it I would be giving up the investment I made in all of the money I spent on food to get it that way.
Marlaine
Sunday, 24. August 2008
Yay! Hockey season! Can’t wait! Go Canucks Go! I don’t gain weight during hockey season because I knit while I watch. Maybe try taking up knitting? LOL