the kind mind
PHOTOGRAPH: LAURA DOHERTY. *M CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, ‘BEYOND BOREDOM AND ANXIETY’ (JOHN WILEY & SONS, £42.50)
Despite forcing myself to go jogging for years, I actually find it dull to the point of dreading it. When I was jogging a lot, it felt to me like running was the only way to exercise and be fit. Even when I joined a gym, I found myself on the treadmill. It’s as though subconsciously I believed that exercise had to be painful, mentally as well as physically, in order to work. And the same applied to diets. If I wanted to eat healthily, it had to be in order to lose weight, and it had to be the foods I didn’t find satisfying; plain salads and tasteless fat-free cottage cheese.