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. |
Last weekend i ventured over to perth for Round 2 Finale and had an absolute ball. Its a chance for us all to get glamed up and treat ourselves after all the hard work we have put in over the 12 weeks. First id like to thank Tania de Rossi for organising the group hair and makeup even on Saturday Afternoon it was great sitting there drinking champaign and catching up with other 12weekers. Then back to my hotel with my lovely daughter to get frocked up and of we go. From there its history. Danced and drank the night away. Presentation was one of the proudest moments of my life. My daughter baby tough mudder not only won by changing her life this round but she took out the overall transformation title. My husband and i stood there crying a moment i will never forget. ( actually brings tears to my eyes everytime i think of it) You just have to watch the video below and you will know what i mean
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.