my journey to health

So I have actually really enjoyed the wee bit of boxing I have done so when  a bag came up nice and cheap I grabbed it, slowly building up my exercise equipment!

Today we did a boxing and spin class which was awesome and I dragged my mother along, now those of you whom know me know my mother and I have an interesting relationship, we really don’t have a lot in common, she is an exercise freak always has been and really struggles with how fat I am, she doesn’t understand it cause all you need to do it some exercise, which is a fair call but not to the person hearing it.
I have a cousin who has the unfortunate genes I do and her mother is a lot like mine, I hear the things she says to her daughter and it makes me cringe as it is the same stuff my mother always said to me, they think they are helping, they really do and I get that, however they have no idea how it makes us feel when it is said to us, constantly being told you are putting on weight, you need to exercise etc it gets tiring, it gets old, we know it, we really do, sometimes it would be nice to just have some support.

To be fair to my mother she tried, she used to take me to the gym with her and she always fed us well, but I have bad genes there is a reason every single woman in my birth family is overweight! There is a reason that growing up with my mother who raised us to exercise and do sport I got fat, my birth mother whom I did not meet until my 30’s is fat, nature vs nurture right there!! It is not an excuse at all, but it is an explanation, some people struggle to lose weight and put it on at the drop of a hat, I just happen to be one of those, then you have people who eat whatever the hell they like, barely put weight on and when they do lose it easily, the two of us can never understand each other because it is impossible until you have lived in each others shoes.

So anyway I dragged my mum along this morning, because for the first time in our lives we have something in common, we can exercise together!! She is proud of me for doing it and it was nice to have her there, to do something with her, so hey this exercise thing is positive in a whole lot of ways!!

Now to fill the base of my boxing bag and put my husbands face on it