Thursday 25 July 2013

Wobbles Wednesday, wobbling along!

Well, what can I say? I've been struggling. I lost my mojo,, looked everywhere for it, behind the sofa, in the fridge (had to eat a few bars of chocolate to make sure it hadn't sneaked into them) but it was nowhere to be found. We were away at the weekend, so there was a lot of eating out and eating rubbish. We stopped at Burger King on the way home, £18 for 2 adult and 1 kids meal nearly passed out. The chips were so drowned in Salt that C wouldn't eat them! But anyway I digress. I have not been anywhere near the scales as I know I have gained, if not in lbs then in fat!

So yesterday I wobbled, I felt fat and lazy and all I wanted to do was eat chocolate. But I gave myself a good talking to and you know what? I didn't have any chocolate! I am feeling fat and lazy because I am being fat and lazy. I know the only way to get the body I want is to work at it, so why the self sabotage? No idea to be honest. Eating rubbish makes me feel rubbish, not exercising makes me feel rubbish so why it is so easy to laze around stuffing my face? My joints are worse so its a bit of a vicious circle as it is now a real effort to get back into exercising. But I have given myself a good kick up the bum and am feeling a bit more positive.

Part of the problem this week has been lack of planning, so shall be back to planning and think I am even going to put together a workout schedule so there is no excuse!

Linking up with http://nakedmum.co.uk/ a day late, not being in work on Monday has confused be totally!

Wednesday 10 July 2013

An amazing body?

So last week I said I looked alright but I wanted to look amazing and while I am still on that mission it go me thinking. We give our bodies a pretty hard time don't we? There is always something to moan about, cellulite, bingo wings, jelly belly the list goes on. In my case if often does this I did not request, the odd dislocation here and there! But do you know what, no matter what shape or size you are, our bodies are pretty amazing.

So without sounding vain I thought I'd write about why my body is amazing!

First off it survived years of partying, drinking more than I should, sleeping less than I should, the usual and it came out of it pretty well intact!

Then it did this....                                and produced this!

 

And if that was not amazing enough it produced food to give my gorgeous little girl everything she needed for 6 months, and continued to feed her until she was 18 months old! If you take a step back and think about it that is too amazing fro words! Its also gave me a delightful set of stretch marks but as this is a positive post we'll not dwell on that!
 
I was a keen gymnast in my youth and remain pretty flexible (it helps that I am hypermobile!) but it's still pretty amazing that I can still do this at 35!

Now the splits are not perfect but my aim is that they will be by the end of the summer!

It's amazing how strong you are without knowing it! I regularly pick up (and throw around, in a good way!) a 26kg child, now if someone asked me to lift that at the gym I'd probably say I couldn't.

I think I'm going to focus on gaining instead of losing. Gaining flexibility, gaining strength, gaining leanness, gaining confidence......

So yeah they may not be perfect but our bodies are pretty amazing! What amazing things can your body do?

 
 

 

Wednesday 3 July 2013

The scales dont say it all!

So at roughly the 6 month mark I have hardly lost any weight around 4lbs woo hoo!!!

But I think I have made a difference to my body shape.
This in in January
 
 This was last week
 
Not the best of pictures I know, and was just before me and the little one were about to go swimming and had an invasion of cuddly toys!!
 
But I think there is a difference (maybe its the angle it was taken?)
 
However the point is if I have given even 90% for the last 6 months I would be looking a lot better! I think the problem is I look 'alright', if you walked past me in the street you wouldn't think I was huge, well not unless you were really mean! But I don't want to look 'alright I want to look amazing and I'm only going to do that if I focus and stick to it!
 
I am still using myfitnesspal.com and I do like it, there are some fab people on there who are not just great at motivating but also understand that real life gets in the way.
 
I am still joining in with the great ladies at #WobblesWednesday
 
I have also joined up with #TeamLean2013 on twitter, great motivation. Have joined the July abs challenge to see if I can get this jelly belly
 
 

 
 
looking a bit more toned!

Have done two days on C25K and really enjoyed it, problem is fitting it in! Hopefully the next 6 months will see a huge transformation into awesomeness!!

Rain!

The rain annoys me
It's a bit of a pest
My feet are soaked
I'm wet through to my vest

But without the rain
The flowers wouldn't grow
We'd go our whole lives
Without seeing a rainbow

Next time someone gets your goat
Or something just drives you mad
Think where we'd be without rain
Remember the rainbow and don't be sad!