Remember the Journey!

We often tend to label ourselves in a negative way, particularly with regard to losing weight…………..you know, the ones like ‘failure’, ‘unsuccessful’, ‘no determination’, ‘what’s wrong with me’! Especially when you put a massive effort in, your motivation is at an all time high and your expectations of course is at an all time high! But all too often we forget to look at that journey to the point where we start to have that change from a positive to a negative. I mean, look at the exercise choices you made while you were at your peak in motivation, look at your food choices and most of all look at your head space………….it was good wasn’t it. Then when that all too expected results does not happen, we start to beat ourselves up! Well I have decided that beating yourself up keeps you trapped, stagnant – well think about it, you get excited with the oncoming result then the result doesn’t happen but it is so close or you had a reversal. You talk yourself into being a failure and you start rehashing your last week of all the good things, trying to find out where you went wrong, questioning “what’s wrong with me!”. Well guess what! You didn’t go wrong!

So what now……………keep going! Your expected results is now just a day behind, your in front! The result is the loser, not you. It is the one lagging behind! Here’s an age old saying that makes sense………”just relax and be patient, Rome was not built in a day”. We really need to start praising ourselves for the effort we put in rather than the result we get from that effort. The thing to do is look at the result as “Collateral Damage”. To look at it differently and call results collateral damage might work if you only recognize the effort and choices you put into your goal. Realistically, that is what gets us to where we want to go ultimately. The journey! The only way to get to RESULTS is to take the JOURNEY!

Ciao!

Nothing is impossible

So how was your weekend???

What can I say about mine???????? I am feeling a little funny today, but a good funny. Its hard to explain………….I feel happy, excited, tired, energetic, elated, flat and eager all in one go? What’s with that??

I have had some pretty good days training since I last posted. Well we all know about the major DOMS from legs, then the next day I smashed out a fantastic new PB in Chest Bench, only to jump up excited punching the air and then it hit me……………..oh shit, I need to go up in weights. Needless to say, the weight is already quite heavy!!!! Oh well always great to improve, but I need to do it slowly, as you can always get stronger muscles quicker but your tendons often are left behind, and you will struggle with them………so next week I will pump out my second set at the heaviest weight for as many reps as I can. Can’t get too strong too quick!.

I have been talking to some pretty inspirational ladies of late, not to mention those who are on forums and have blogs. This has pushed my energy levels as well and like some previous posts ago, something has just gone SNAP! All just clicked into place. Maybe because I am not stressing over it, just going along for the ride. While a passing chat with a brilliant mind on Saturday, I came to some realisations that the choice is always mine, like an incident with dinner in the beginning of the week. Long story short – had a dish, asked if it was fresh, came out to table different than when told at ordering. Ate it anyway but when reflecting on it, I could have changed the result slightly and would have had better of for it, eating the same dish. So now with this being discuss, I have taken on food purchased outside of the home in a different perspective and will embrace it, rather than obsess over it! Phew, it was like a ton of food issues just gone from my head! Wahoo! Everyday is a choice, a choice for us to make. The discussion finished with that if I feel a deep passion for something enough and I can create focus, commitment and perseverance, anything can be accomplished and my so called “impossible BEHAG” dream can become very real indeed.


I came across this quote and just love it. I don’t know who the author is?? Anyone know?? I do know that is was a very successful ad campaign for Adidas with Mahumod Ali and many other famous athletes (just Ali stays in my mind).


Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.


With that I will leave!

Ciao!

Train like a beast!

Yep that was me today......................the legs! Super heavy squats(100kg), Dumbell weighted lunges (12.5kg) off bosu ball supaset with supa heavy deadlifts(80kg), finish off with single leg 45deg pushes(120kg). Then on tready for an hour hike at a very steady pace, then stretched it out in body balance! Then tonight walked for miles for dinner and now I am sitting here thinking I am going to have some pretty serious DOMS. Someone have a spare hanky?????

How good did it feel to have today off work and spend 3 hours at the gym.............awesome. then caught up with a special friend and had a nice chicken salad for lunch, home to wait for aunts to arrive from Melbourne, drive over to Redcliffe from Logan Village, have dinner, a walk, a chat, a coffee and little bit of cake (1 slice shared amoungst 3), chatted up a very cute greek boy - could almost turn me into a 'cougar' but way too young. more walk then drive home to find Qld lost football...................shame I was really hoping for a whitewash!

Need to go and prepare my meals for tomorrow. Talk soon.

Ciao!

Have you ever................

Have you ever had something just go snap? I am talking about things just falling into place. Well atm the food has just fallen into place. Talk about getting it right. Tonite as an example I had turkey breast strips, stir fried with green beans with mandarin juice and greek herbs with rosemary. Very yum.

Had a good day gym time - a nice hard session with weights - back and shoulders then an awesome session boxing. Total shoulder conditioning. I have ordered myself a punching bag that should get here in a couple of weeks, this will be great on weekends, do a bit of a round or two with the bag. Can't wait.

tomorrow I have off as my aunts are visiting from Melbourne and want to catch up..............they are a bit of work but harmless enough. I haven't seen them for such a long while. They are 5 & 8 years older than me, so more along my age group rather than my mothers. hehehehe. Most annoying thing is I miss State of Origin tomorrow night, would be good to see a total white wash by the Queenslanders. My son is lucky, he is actually going to the game. Anyways, they wont hit Brisbane until lunch, so I am going to have a good 3 hours at the gym..........1 hour walking, 1 hour weights - probably legs and then an hour of body balance to stretch it all out. Then off to meet the relis...............

Well I best go now and get some beauty sleep. hehehehe

Ciao!

All Fired UP

Livin with my eyes closed,
goin day to day
I never knew the difference,
I never cared either way
Lookin for a reason,
searchin for a sign
Reachin out with both hands,
I gotta feel the kick inside

All fired up
Now I believe there comes a time
All fired up
When everything just falls in line
All fired up
We live an learn from our mistakes
All fired up, fired up, fired up - hey

Aint nobody livin,
in a perfect world
Everybodys out there,
cryin to be heard
Now I got a new fire,
burnin in my eyes
Lightin up the darkness,
movin like a meteorite

All fired up
Now I believe there comes a time
All fired up
When everything just falls in line
All fired up

We live an learn from our mistakes
All fired up, fired up, fired up
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line

We live an learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line

We live an learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line

We live an learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line

We live an learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe

Anyone who was a pub crawler in the eighties would know this one! I was thinking about my postings today and driving home this song came on the radio. Well I cranked it and sang it as loud as I could. Talk about firing me up.

Sweeet!

How hungry do you get for it?

So what makes that dedication an all time consuming hunger for you??? In my mind I go through pictures of myself, of what I would look like, the finished product. But what keeps that picture alive in the waking hours of the day, the day where you start off great, but somehow gets lost by the end of it!!!

Now I have announced that I am trying to work my way back from the Abyss, stepping around the edge, toying with the ability to stay out or fall back in.. What is it that makes this all seem so hard. I should be so motivated and yet I don’t appear to be. If only we knew how the inner functions of the brain work? To remember to flick that switch on and keep it on!

So today the food has been of good quality and equal proportions (you would be proud of how many veges I am getting in Liz), I have eaten 3 meals so far today and I am soooooooo full! But I know the answer to that. I have slowly dwindle my food intake over the last 6 weeks, that I was not eating enuf and then having a binge on something totally wrong. So I have to now teach this body once again to accept good whole food, at set times – all the while making sure I get the correct macros in at the right times. Back to feeling sooooooo full. This too will pass, as my body starts getting used to eating again, it will start looking for the food required at the set times. All a matter to flicking the switch on and keeping it on.

Looking at the girls who competed this weekend and they all looked sooooo hot, I want that too but I have to get it, work it and just do it. Nobody else can get me there, it has to be me, so it is up to me to get my game plan on. Looking back over my blogs, I don’t know how many times I have said this and quite frankly I think I sound like a broken record. It is a matter to getting my head in the right spot again and adhering to what I want, let nothing stand in my way.

Ciao!

Rocky Balboa in Rocky 6

"If you know what you are worth then go out and get what you are worth, but you got to be willing to take the hit"

You have to find out what is stopping you!!!!

Okay, so I am still alive. I have been absent from computers at home due to the time spent on them at work (never ending story there). I have been very remiss of blogging, facebook and even my emails for a month. I think I have about a 1000 of unanswered emails that I need to sort through this weekend.

I have been full at it at work and consequently have let all things else suffer…………….BEHAG journey, house and home, social life and myself!!!!! But this downward spiral really does have to stop. It really is a amazing to watch when you let your guard down just how much can really go down hill. Then you start feeling pretty crappy on top of that and you start to become a recluse. Talking to a friend of mine who is currently part the way through her Naturopath Degree, she said that there is a result of a study done that women who are going through menopause or suffering symptoms of, often will become reclusive during that time. Downside to that is when I stay at home more, I become more lethargic and all I want to do is read which results in a widening of the rear end!!!!! Damn!

In an article I read, Dave Robson says “It is part and parcel of human nature to have bad days, times where low motivation levels prevents us from reaching our full potential”. I have to agree with him that accepting this statement results in failure on my part, to which has been the case the last month. But looking at the failure as a learning curve as well, the lesson learnt is to keep the eye on the prize at all times. I have to program myself to accept failure, and gear up for success from the lessons learnt. Something in his article also rang true for me, that when you are highly motivated, you do put more effort into you reaching your goals and the exact opposite when the motivation is at an all time low.


I have noticed that when my motivation is at an all time low, I don’t visit blogs, or motivating websites or even turn my computer on at home. Its like a wave of despair washed over you and the grey haze around you doesn’t let you see the door, then after a while (a month in my case) you remember you have fog lights and you turn them on to find that door. Whoops passing a mirror in the way you notice there are some changes as well. I wish my fog lights were like my car lights – automatic! Interestingly enough when I do have these moments of sanity, remembering what I want, the automatic button wants to kick in. Like now, and I am thinking “What the hell happened to the last month” It was a ‘Homer Simpson “DOH!”’ moment!

So heres to a new start and hopefully another lesson learnt. Note to self – Try to keep that Automatic button on!

So now I leave you with a pretty neat focus poster! In the words of the great Arnie "I'll be back"!

Ciao!

Oohhhh! I forgot..............

what having a period feels like! Not happy Jan, so over the pain! Doc says that if and when (which is now) I do get my periods back, the first couple maybe killers. You know what, give me DOMS anyday over this crap! Overit! I think I need to go take some naprogesics.

Okay whinge over and now moving on. Have been amazingly strict and clean with my eating. Did a good light weight session this morning (belly pain a little bit of a hinder on the strength side of things - so just had a play) with Chris. Did a bit of back and shoulders. I am hoping that I can have a good session tomorrow. I miss doing heavy weights sometimes and today was one of those days. You know I never realised how draining Ttom can be. Early to bed tonight I think. Going to be a late night tomorrow night, as it alway seems to be on State of Origin night. We as a group of friends, head over to ones place, have a pot luck dinner and then watch the game. So I will have to try and get my stuff together before I go out. Determined to keep on the current path, so plan and prepare is the way to go.

So a short and sweet post, not very comfortable atm. Talk soon..............

Ciao!

Make the most of this power!

Well banner says it all at the moment. Food is good, killing it in training and had some drop in scale weight. This current mode of thought and process is working out great.

On another note, I finally have a visit from Uncle Ttom! This traveller has been absent since the 2nd of November, so long drinks between visits and affects are not comfortable atm - belly has a low dull ache. Ah something I didn't miss.

Training is set for the next 10 to 12 weeks, with a very mixed up program from coach. We worked together this morning on some good moves which I am excited about trying out.

Also really starting to enjoy the interval resistance sprints on elliptical. Be good to be able to do that on the treadmill. One day, I will do it! But atm, following with heavy duty cycle intervals and xtrainer.

Well time to log planned food and get clothes ready. and bed.......................................

Ciao

xx