Actually getting my but of the couch and actually starting was the hardest part.
and to think that i nearly gave up before i started. I have gone from spending all my spare time on the couch and replacing it with new habits. I didnt want a quick short term fix I wanted a fitness and nutrition plan that I could live with for the rest of my life. My couch was a bad behaviour and routine, I now realise that we develop bad habits and they are not in us from birth Before I started 12wbt I was a very unfit and unhealthy 125kg 42 year old who couldn't even walk 100 meters without having to stop to catch my breath. If I kept up with this life style I would not have had the chance to watch my grand son Cooper grow up to be an adult. I could not do that to him. 5 months ago i made a choice that has changed my life for ever. I can still remember the first day I went to training. I was so scared when I walked down those steps. My palms were sweating and my heart racing and I hadn't even done any exercise yet. At this stage I had to either fight or flight. Fight the fear of exercise or flight and run away there and then. Well thank god I picked fight. I have fought of over 30 kilos and have loved every bit of the journey so far. 30 down and 30 to go. How fare have I come. Tonight under 6 months later I did burpee practice and pumped out 220 burpees at burpee practice after doing my second bootcamp session for the day. If only I had done this when I was in my 20's . It saddens me cause i now realise that I waisted the last 20 years of my life because of my weight and fitness. I have missed out on the last 20 years and now I have to make up for it big time. 5 months ago i struggled to walk my bin out and to do 5 burpees and now I do 6 bootcamp sessions a week, swim and do the thousand steps twice a week, walk 11ks home from bootcamp once a week and pump out 220 burpees on wednesday night for burpee practice. I have booked into my first fun run in may, Tough Mudder in March and the most exciting accomplishment will be to do burpees beside my trainer as she pumps out 1500 in April Just Amazing. So when you exercise and feel like you are slow, unfit and cant do it just keep pushing forward, Its seems to happen over night. One day you will wake up and go omg I am in the right head space, exercise is part of my daily routine and i have improved so much. I thought i had a life before but it was only and existance. |
This morning i feel from the effort of yesterdays training. On the 28th of October a group of 4 of us our participating in the 30ks kakoda Challenge Over Mount Dandenong, So yesterday we did our first big training session or it. We did 20ks of the 30k walk. During the challenge they give you 9 hours to compete the challenge and yesterday our fantastic team completed 20ks in just under 5 hours. Got to be happy with that. Leg burn like i have never felt leg burn before. The hills were a killer but the weather was kind and this morning my legs are definately letting me now they are alive and didnt agree with the torture i pervailed on them yesterday. But in the Kakoda spirit the 4 of us completed our mission for the day. I bit confused though lol helen and I wore our polars and she burnt 500 cal more than I what is that. All in all a great day with great friends. A BIT ABOUT KAKODA CHALLENGE MELBOURNE On sunday 28th of Octo...
I was going to write 'great story' .. but then I realised it's not a story, it's your new AMAZING life. I also am 42 and cannot imaging doing 20 burpees let alone 220 .. but I figure if you can do it, surely I can motivate/energise/get-off-the-couch and do it too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the motivation.