Stick It Out With the Slow Fat Triathlete

Okay, so how many of you have wavered from your New Year's resolutions? One of mine was to bring my own healthy lunch every day and I didn't have time today, a Monday, when I had the whole weekend to prep. Not good. Rather than get down on myself, I bought an overpriced tuna sub and ate it while reading a great book we got in a few weeks ago called Shape Up With the Slow Fat Triathlete. The author is Jayne Williams, a wonderfully wry, practical and "imperfect athlete" who has completed over 20 triathlons and, "one slow marathon."
Even if you have absolutely no interest in a triathlons (I don't, but I do want to get in better shape and I couldn't resist this title), the book is full of solid fitness tips, inspiration, and practical knowledge.
Williams says to think of fitness as what you can do, not how you look and gives us the easy first step in adopting her mindset. Seek out the "...old geezers on the on the 30-year-old steel-frame French road bike, the thick girl in the aerobics class, the final finisher in your local 5k race." Appreciate the people who are out there doing their thing and you'll start to appreciate your own body too.