Wow, it's been awhile why is today so special that I would start to re write the old fitness/ health blog?
Today marks 6 years since I made the decision to lose weight consciously thinking about exercising and food to try and transform my body.
Well, 6 years on what has happened? A lot! I lost 38kg with a lot of exercise very little change in my mental view of myself and trying to out exercise my poor food habits. I chose to continue on my destructive path and do more than I was told to do, resulting in my body breaking and rebelling. I had multiple body mishap two knee operations, a partially torn shoulder, multiple back episodes, arthritis in my feet and some pretty epic mental battles. I have completed my Certificate III and IV in fitness, my boxing qualifications and my MP nutrition level 1. I gained back an astronomical amount of weight, struggled repeatedly with seeing myself as a number on a scale and not a person and I've pushed my mental health and well being to the back burner and tried desperately to regain the body composition I achieved in the first 18 months but failed miserably.
Then I had a complete turn around about two years ago when I realised my focus had to be on my functionality and not on the size of my butt or bust ( although it is desperately needing to change) since then my recovery has been slow, I am still nowhere near the strength and fitness I was at during the peak of my weight loss and exercise. My inability to stay focused for more than a second has seemed impossible but you know what has remained consistent through out?
The most important part of my journey I met Sean/ Yoda, now it hasn't always been smooth sailing between the two of us I was a bit of a stubborn shit, for quite awhile unwilling to listen or accept his advice.
He has always supported, encouraged and pushed me my body composition may not be a testament to his skill as a trainer that is entirely on my and nothing to do with his abundance of knowledge or skill with training. He has always encouraged my health and well being and never pushed me to try anything that will cause further injury or discomfort to my fragile joints. So I just want to say
a massive
THANK YOU to Yoda without you I have no idea where I would be, I know our time together is not over and I hope this click around the moon will see some progress once again.
Have great day
