Happy Anniversary A Bit Shit!

You guys, it’s been a whole year of writing this blog. Thanks for all your support!

I realised I’d been writing ‘A Bit Shit’ for a whole year when the automatic yearly fee for the site overdrew my account! So I’m still a bit shit at managing my finances (and my life) but would you have it any other way?

To be fair, I don’t just have a lack of faith in myself. As humans we’re all basically flawed. For example, did you know that 95% of diets fail with most regaining their lost weight 1-5 years later? I’m not suggesting don’t do it because that’s how I got diagnosed with diabetes last year. I’m just saying that on the whole we’re programmed to fail.

I had a hairy moment when it was time to try on my bridesmaids dress for an upcoming wedding. The wedding was originally planned for early last year but postponed due to Covid several times. This meant it had been a year since I last tried it on, a Covid year.

In that time I’d had serious threat of diabetes causing a knee jerk reaction diet and exercise. I lost a lot of weight, I felt fantastic, it wasn’t even hard!

But then…suddenly it was. I can’t tell you why it was so easy or even what exactly got me off track. But for a year now every time I try to get back on that diet-wagon, I fall straight back off again…into a mound of carbs and saturated fats.

My scales are not working. Some of my clothes are tight but most are stretchy and forgiving. I’d lost some weight but I wasn’t sure if I’d gained some of it back, all of it, or more. So it was with a lot of trepidation at that bridal store, that I took a teal chiffon gown into the change rooms, stripped off, held my breath and wriggled into it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the verdict was that it fit….exactly the same as it did the first time! Yep, I’m right back where I started. So was it worth doing all that healthy eating and exercise? I believe so, for the following reasons:

My point is, that apart from a few ‘perfect people

• Eating healthily and exercising is good for your overall health with or without weight loss.
• If I hadn’t lost the weight I’d probably be even bigger now.
• I’ve proven I can do it and technically I could do it again
• ‘Whatever’ it wasn’t some harmful crash diet and I actually enjoyed it

My point is, most of us aren’t perfect. And some of us, no matter how hard we strive, end up exactly in the same place we started, but is that so bad? I’m quite proud that I’m back here writing after a year, same handful of followers, same attitude, same me. I love to write so to me I’m living the dream.

Would I like millions of followers and a book deal? Sure! Tell all your friends people. It’s a bit shit but atleast it’s consistent.