Welcome to A Picture of Health. There’s ten weeks left until myself and my partner-in-blogging, Katy, pack up our books and saucepans and take our first tentative steps into the real world. Me (in an attempt to delay fiscal responsibility as long as possible) to a Masters in Sheffield, she to a real job in Politics or something similarly grown up. Neither of us feel ready, neither of us feel equipped to face commutes and pencil skirts and tax. We eat chip sandwiches. We go to Morrisons late at night to buy a cut-price chocolate cake and then eat the whole thing in one sitting. We’ve never tried quinoa.
This is the main reason* we’ve decided to start this blog together. We’re going to sort our lives out, once and for all. We’re going to kick the ridiculous crisp habits and stop pretending our thirty minute walk to campus is enough exercise – even when we only do it once a week. We want to be the kind of people who feel rubbish if they don’t go for a run, and who would honestly rather have a single square of dark chocolate than a Wispa.
First, a few of disclaimers: Neither of us is fat, neither of us has a BMI outside the healthy range, neither of us is trying to lose weight, and neither of us is going to be restricting calories. You aren’t going to find any whiney, self-loathing thinspiration here. We just want to be fit, healthy, strong. And we reckon, if we ask you lot along for the ride, how can we possibly fail?
Over the next ten weeks we’ll be documenting every step of our journey – we’ll experiment with healthy recipes, we’ll try out new exercises, we’ll even see if we can rope some friends in along the way – and we’ll be providing the photographic proof at every turn.
So stay tuned. We pray there won’t be blood, hope there’ll be plenty of sweat, and reckon there’ll be a few tears.
*The other reason being that we’ve both recently read The Hunger Games and have a horrible feeling we’d die first.