Detours BODY

I have a nasty cold/chest infection. Still trained through it on Monday but it’s a bit of a no brainer to guess that I got worse! Tuesday was bedridden and Wednesday which is usually a day off anyway was spent feeling exhausted. Not much better today but will still go to the gym and do my workouts, just not as intense. I start dieting in January so I feel the need to keep up with things. With Xmas round the corner and the much needed break from measuring food coming along I feel that I need to earn the junk food that awaits! Sounds silly to some but I’ve worked hard and sacrificed a lot of tasty treats to get to this shape and don’t want to undo it all at the christmas table. I know 3 days will not turn me into a block of lard, but it’s more a psychological thing, the mind set. In your head you say.. ok I’ve done it now, might as well carry on ruining my diet… you lose self control and I really don’t want to. Yeah I’m ill but not dead and if I can keep my body moderately active I’ll feel that I have to give it what it needs - the healthful foods that I have been. Oh I’ll relax a little but not so much that I’ll need to lose 10lbs of excess. I’ll be making chocolate pistachio fudge treats for everyone and I plan on eating a few you know quality control’n'all! My priority is to get better and laying in bed all day doesn’t do it for me. I need rest sure but it’s so boring, most days I would welcome the chance to do this but when you’re ill and treated like an invalid you kind of rebel and do the things that you normally do. I shall try to be sensible, can you believe I still woke up to do my cardio?!!! Just 20 mins low intensity to keep myself dialed in. Right, time for meal number two! CIAO

Be taking some photo’s in a couple of hours for my website and I’m super excited but super tired. had a busy week topped off by a long day yesterday. Had to take a trip to Birmingham to see my trainer, I live in London so the trip there took 4 hrs give or take some. That meant waking up extra early to do my workout which was shoulders and triceps and a short cardio session all before my hubby goes to work then I take over looking after my daughter.. get her ready, take her to the childminders..get back home and get ready myself to go up there and see him..(deep breathe in!). It was interesting to have my bodystat done and find out how my training is going. Bad news is my bodyfat % is the same (not really bad news because it’s hardly high and I’m still bulking, but a little loss would’ve been nice!) But the great news is that I gained 7lbs of muscle in 2 months!! 2 months - without gaining any fat! Well I think that’s impressive and he certainly does, it gives the appearance that I’m leaner because the muscle is forming underneath and is giving me more of a shapely body - which is good.. I’ll up my cardio to bring down the bf a lil but I’m not dieting or in the high bf range so I’m not too worried, but SEVEN POUNDS LEAN MASS! THATS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!!!

Yes I’m lucky to look like I do after having a baby because it’s just how I am! Yeah right.. I’m bored of hearing that from people! My daughter didn’t fall out of my body and within an instant I had a flat tum and firm body, I breast fed her for 7 months and stayed quite big until I stopped. Was exercising to keep fit, but started busting my ass once I stopped breastfeeding  to get a body I could be proud of. Progress was slow at first but the addition of clean eating and eating the correct amount for my needs saw huge changes.  The amount of women who say "you haven’t had a baby" have to shut their mouths once they see my stretch marks. Oh yes and I’m lucky to get the time to exercise.. yes I am so lucky to get to wake up at 4:30am to do my cardio before she wakes up and then have a day with her, work part time and then go and train in the gym in the evening, come home and cook dinner and try to spend some time with my partner. Yeah real lucky to have to sacrifice sleeping til a decent hour in the morning. Excuse my rant but I’m pissed that some people think that it’s a walk in the park to get my body to this condition and I’m not even where I wanna be yet! Its f…..g hard work, not just the early mornings and late nights, the toddler and work and hubby but the food - not eating all the junk that everyone else does and tries to get you to eat. I don’t get it, they praise you for looking good but when you refuse that glass of wine or that biscuit they try to force it down your throat and say oh go on you’ll burn it off anyway..  How about the notion that not eating that stuff keeps me this way and I don’t wanna have to work even harder than I already do to make sure that the wine and chocolate biscuits don’t show up in places I work so hard on!  Then I get friends who say they train hard but can’t resist that donut so they have it, but complain when the fat stays ..duh! don’t eat that shit!  You want a lean hard body with no lumps and bumps, you complain that having a baby keeps you fat and you want your cake and eat it too.. then stay fat then, simple! I sound angry here, but I work bloody hard because thats what it takes, I accept that I have to sacrifice the junk food and time sitting on my ass or sleeping in my bed if I want to find the time to fit in what I need to do to achieve my goals. there are 24hrs in a day if me a mother can find 2 hrs to train (splitting up cardio and weights) then the average joe can find one hour, don’t care who you are if you really want it you’ll pull the time out. Ok I feel a lil more relaxed now I’ve let that out!

Some of it is mis-education granted, but come on really no time..bollox!