Road Block

Thank you Mother Nature for making this training week so much more of a challenge, first there is the weather which means I cannot do my power walk with the children. I have been doing my cross trainer but as with anything that gets monotonous and monotony is hardly something that one looks forward too.

Secondly Mother Nature gifted me my monthly "friend" all for my training week, so in pain and bloated I solider on. Thankfully it is not eating plan week as I have been taking comfort in my faithful companion chocolate. I am trying to make sure it is out of the house for next week.

Let's hope for a better week in the New Year!!

Bye Bye 2011 this is the last year I will be over weight, hello 2012 you will be my healthy year, next Summer I will be chasing my children down the beach!!!

Trial Week.

If I didn't know better I would swear my trainer Jeremy was trying to kill me in a long, slow, painfully torturous way. Today marks the beginning on my trial week of training. Jeremy believes that starting a new food plan, as well as, intensive training can be to much, I agree especially at this time of year. For instance all within a few days I was given a litre of Baileys and more chocolate than I would normally consume in a year. SO for me my training started today and the food starts next Monday. I may start a few kilos heavier thanks to the Baileys and chocolate.

As I type this my face is red and I am dripping actually no running with sweat, you would think I had just had a smelly shower. In the middle of one god awful push up it came to me that it was like giving birth without a midwife. Gone are the nice comforting words in your hours of agony, all I had to tell me it was going to be alright was my damn carpet. When Jeremey had been taking me through the exercises ( in the middle of the ACP Media cafeteria I must add) it seemed so much easier, I mean it did hurt but I could hear his words encouraging me on. Now alone in my house I have to visualize my own personal Jeremy saying " you can do it Jess almost there".

I don't want to glamorize this process as sometimes it looks like people have a huff and puff, throw a little tantrum then boom they are skinny. I had tears rolling down my face mixing with my sweat in the middle of a hellish exercise. It is awful when your body will not do what you want it to do. What keeps me going is that one day when I do that same drill it will be easy and I will feel strong and healthy again.

And So it Begins.......

Every journey big or small begins with a simple first step, while this is so cliché it is so very true. My first step beyond deciding enough was enough, was answering an add on Facebook. I was chosen to feature in Little Treasures magazine and be given my own trainer to help me lose my baby kilos.

Being big is not fun for anyone, but for me it left me with certain feelings of bitterness. Once being what was stereotypically considered hot it has been an adjustment coping with being so far from it. It is not so much just looking in the mirror and feeling miserable as mirrors lie and it can take sometime for the brain to register what is being reflected. It is how people treat you when you look different.

Before I begin I want to add a disclaimer: My program was designed specifically for me by a qualified professional ( THANK YOU JEREMY) it will not suit everybody. You should consult a professional before attempting any unknown program on your own. What I want to achieve by blogging is to show the process of how it can be done, to show that it is possible to reach your goals with  no gym, limited resources and an abundance of children :S

Thank you for following me on this journey I look forward to sharing it with you :)