Two months since my last post, okay today I wanted to address mental health as well as physical.

I realised this week, I have fallen into the trap of believing in order to experience happiness in life that I have to feel joyous and happy ( thank you to Dr Jodi Richardson for her insightful workshop on this topic, such a light bulb moment)  That was, is not the case. I made the connection between my negative responses and the reality that it's okay to feel sad, I simply need to  recognise it and work with it doesn't mean life needs to change,  it will inevitably be filled with times of sadness I need to change how I responded to each and every situation.

I hope my attitude has not caused any long term damage to relationships and I apologise for being a sour puss.

Secondly exercise, how good is it to be able to move your body to release some stress, anger, frustration. re build a damaged, broken body. I initially saw exercise as only a way to change my physical appearance which I did and was still unhappy with who I was! I'm sure I am not alone in believing exercise is done to change the way you look,  lets be honest you can definitely do that with exercise and the right fuel.
 I see it as a way to keep my self in tune mentally far more than I am concerned with how I look, if I start to miss too many gym sessions I suffer. My body simply does not function without regular exercise to keep my joints mobile, I have no idea how I got by doing nothing for so long, my next goal  I want to start walking with my dogs more so I'm outside in the sunshine and not just inside the gym all the time. If you do not exercise at all or see no benefit I encourage you to take a walk to the end of your street today and back or even around your back yard,  you will feel better for it.

I am currently in the third week of a 12 week challenge, I committed to no alcohol or chocolate in the block and so far so good. We had body scans done at the start of the challenge with inbody and I am shocked by what has taken place inside me over the past 12 months. I know my training dropped again due to my second severe back injury in less than 12 months, I currently do low load leg work and then injured my forearm/ wrist and hand so couldn't do a lot of upper body strength work. Started working a lot more and just didn't go to the gym.
Embarrassing result but  I  gained 2kg on the scales which itself is not great but changeable but the horrifying part is,  it equated to losing a significant amount of muscle and gaining body fat. It showed me beyond a doubt that body composition if far more important than a number on the scale. Quite simply going by my bm it i shifted by less than  .3 but I actually gained 7kg of fat and lost 4 kg of muscle, I am owning it public because I hope my struggles can show you that changing your life is long term, I am on the road back to where I want to be but it's hard to make the choice to be active and eat well 80% of the time.

Thanks to my trainers, you two are awesome and I love working with both of you.

Two months since my last post, okay today I wanted to address mental health as well as physical.

I realised this week, I have fallen into the trap of believing in order to experience happiness in life that I have to feel joyous and happy ( thank you to Dr Jodi Richardson for her insightful workshop on this topic, such a light bulb moment)  That was, is not the case. I made the connection between my negative responses and the reality that it's okay to feel sad, I simply need to  recognise it and work with it doesn't mean life needs to change,  it will inevitably be filled with times of sadness I need to change how I responded to each and every situation.

I hope my attitude has not caused any long term damage to relationships and I apologise for being a sour puss.

Secondly exercise, how good is it to be able to move your body to release some stress, anger, frustration. re build a damaged, broken body. I initially saw exercise as only a way to change my physical appearance which I did and was still unhappy with who I was! I'm sure I am not alone in believing exercise is done to change the way you look,  lets be honest you can definitely do that with exercise and the right fuel.
 I see it as a way to keep my self in tune mentally far more than I am concerned with how I look, if I start to miss too many gym sessions I suffer. My body simply does not function without regular exercise to keep my joints mobile, I have no idea how I got by doing nothing for so long, my next goal  I want to start walking with my dogs more so I'm outside in the sunshine and not just inside the gym all the time. If you do not exercise at all or see no benefit I encourage you to take a walk to the end of your street today and back or even around your back yard,  you will feel better for it.

I am currently in the third week of a 12 week challenge, I committed to no alcohol or chocolate in the block and so far so good. We had body scans done at the start of the challenge with inbody and I am shocked by what has taken place inside me over the past 12 months. I know my training dropped again due to my second severe back injury in less than 12 months, I currently do low load leg work and then injured my forearm/ wrist and hand so couldn't do a lot of upper body strength work. Started working a lot more and just didn't go to the gym.
Embarrassing result but  I  gained 2kg on the scales which itself is not great but changeable but the horrifying part is,  it equated to losing a significant amount of muscle and gaining body fat. It showed me beyond a doubt that body composition if far more important than a number on the scale. Quite simply going by my bm it i shifted by less than  .3 but I actually gained 7kg of fat and lost 4 kg of muscle, I am owning it public because I hope my struggles can show you that changing your life is long term, I am on the road back to where I want to be but it's hard to make the choice to be active and eat well 80% of the time.

Thanks to my trainers, you two are awesome and I love working with both of you.