Victoria8’s BodyBlog

It was a good morning I went to the gym and did my weights and then a 45 minute spin class.  I felt excited and motivated and I was chatting to another gym junkie and told her how impressed I was at seeing Destiny from Gladiators on TV and how she did not always look fabulous in fact she entered the “12 week challenge” and became even more motivated to achieve her fitness objectives.  I was excited about the prospect of changing my own body and decided that doing the “12 week challenge” would inspire me to achieve my own objectives.  With all this inspiration and motivation behind me I decided to log on to the net and have a look at some before and after photo’s of other “12 week challenge” contestants… “Wow!” was what I was thinking… if they can do it I thought to myself then yeah I know I can … I’m more motivated than I have ever been and inspired by this so I thought I would call my boyfriend and tell him all about it.  That was a big mistake!!!

I rang him up and told him about the “12 week challenge” and I read out some stories to him over the phone about the amazing contestants.  And you know what he said “When was the last time you played sport!”… I knew where he was going with this so I burst into tears (as all I could think of was all the negative comments made to me by various people my whole life).  What he meant was because they had played sport they could easily look fantastic after twelve weeks.  Me on the other hand had played sport in high school and my 15 years of aerobics (and being in an aerobics troupe) and weight training didn’t count did it (during my late teens and thoughout my 20’s!)

He has his doubts about me and that’s because I obtained the application form before and was going to enter, I filled out all the details took photo’s but never sent the forms in.  I wasn’t as educated about working out as I am now and my diet was not on track as it is now.  So I guess he doesn’t want to motivate me as he probably thinks that I won’t follow through.  Maybe I’m upset today because I some how believe that he is right… I just hope he’s not.

So instead of feeling really great about myself today…instead I feel like crap!

Yes it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride trying to get into the gym swing of things but I eventually got myself into it and back on the rollercoaster!  I’ve lost 7 pounds and 3% body fat which I am happy about. 

At the start I was simply trying to get myself familiar with the gym again and since having a baby I didn’t want it to be too strenous on my muscles and joints.  At first I wanted to achieve my results quickly so I would push myself so hard that my muscles would be so sore and then I wouldn’t want to go to the gym again for a while.  I ended up with excuses of why I didn’t go…slept in … to tired… can’t walk …. etc etc.  I got tired of listening to my own excuses and decided a different approach was needed.

I started weight training, first it was a total body workout for a few weeks then I started to implement training different body parts on different days and I then started to add some cardio.  Now I train 5 days a week Monday to Friday and I have Saturday and Sunday off.  My diet on the other hand has been all over the shop but just recently I’ve been really careful of what I’m eating also and that’s when I saw the weight trainig, cardio and diet all had a part in my 7 pound loss (3kg) so far (I know its not much but to see this result was a great feeling).  I feel I have the necessary tools now to achieve my fat loss and weight loss goals.

I just have to keep at it.