Am I Taking The Piss?
Posted by VickyC on May 2nd, 2010
So I started my Get Fit For Summer Challenge last week – today is day 7!! 
I’ve noticed a fair number of views, so thank you to all of you who are following my “progress” It is greatly appreciated!
I was a bit concerned when I started doing this that people would think that I was in some way taking the piss. I didn’t want people to think “why is this skinny cow doing this ‘get fit’ thing?!” I’ve always been quite a boney person – I have chickeny legs, boney knees, boney wrists and my collar bone sticks out worse than Victoria Beckhams! In high school, I was always SO self conscious because I was so skinny. Changing for gym class was an absolute nightmare. I hated showing my legs, and I would always wear high-necked tops so that my collar bone and boney chest wouldn’t be visible.
No amount of food that I ate would make me put on weight. I know a lot of people thought that I was bulemic, which is an awful condition, and awful for a 12-13 year old girl to hear, when they’re not! I would eat plate after plate of chips for lunch. It wasn’t until I was 18 that I finally weighed 100 lbs. And I was so happy!! Nonetheless, I was still very thin – but at least my weight finally consisted of 3 digits.
Oh, and clothes. It was impossible to buy anything that fit nicely or fit at all. I would have to alter all of my jeans myself – I would hide in my bedroom and by hand, sew the legs in. The up side to that was that I got quite good at sewing! I could do both legs on 1 pair of jeans in 1 night! But I couldn’t wear anything right off the shelf. My chicken legs would be swimming in trousers that were supposed to be tight.
In the last few years, since leaving university, work had kept me skinny, I would work through lunch, quite regularly, and 5 à 7 my way through supper. Unhealthy, yes.. But very awesome!!!
If I ever mentioned wanting to go to the gym or something, I’d be met with “but you’re so skinny!”. To which I would always reply “I’m skinny, but it’s not healthy skinny”. Which is true.
But now, after a year of no office job to stress me into not eating, coupled with the fact that I’m not 18 any more, my body has developed into quite an unfortunate shape. So that, my friends, is the point of my Get Fit For Summer Challenge. It’s not to take the piss or to make anyone feel inadequate. It’s an attempt for me to get healthy, by eating a little better and sucking up the pain and exercising every day.
Hey, if I had as many dollars as Heidi Montag, I’d pay for an ass lift, back re-shaping and lipo.. But, I don’t.. So my body has to be “shaped” the hard way! And maybe my daily exercise updates will encourage some of you to do the same.
I’m not trying to be some great inspirational beacon of hope, just a real life example of how exercise and a good diet (dispite the slip ups), can (hopefully) pay off in the end!
Thank you again to those of you who have been following my updates. I hope you will keep reading!
Much love xx
Tags: Challenge, Diet, Exercise, Get Fit For Summer, Health, Healthy, Healthy Food, Heidi Montag, Skinny, VickyC, VickyC.me, Weight
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I totally go along you! I have often felt that way but nobody really would like to take it as seriously as we do apparently. Excellent blog anyway, I am going to have to stop by more frequently.