Today was my lucky day to babysit my gorgeous nephew!
He is amazing and I absolutely adore him!
That's all 😊
In love and in health
OG
17 Nov 2011
16 Nov 2011
Blogging - Friend or Foe?
So the one thing that always happens to me when I attempt to start a blog is that I always forget to update or am just too lazy to do it :)
Its been a good couple of weeks for me, definitely more ups than downs. Have been out partying till all hours of the morning, been to some good house parties/braais, spent some relaxing evenings with my friends eating good food (naughty I know). But above all I got my final results from my trainer of my measurements.
In 6 months since starting at 360 I have lost 28% body fat! Now this is an incredible amount for any human being, I have lost almost have of myself in fat. I was trying to comprehend exactly how much that is but I can't seem to... maybe you can?
So I wanted to put up before and during photo's for you to see but the trainer who has my photos is taking her sweet time to send them to me... but I promise they are coming! In the meantime, salivate over this one (this is what I am aiming for!)
STRONG is the new SKINNY :)
In love and in health
OG
Its been a good couple of weeks for me, definitely more ups than downs. Have been out partying till all hours of the morning, been to some good house parties/braais, spent some relaxing evenings with my friends eating good food (naughty I know). But above all I got my final results from my trainer of my measurements.
In 6 months since starting at 360 I have lost 28% body fat! Now this is an incredible amount for any human being, I have lost almost have of myself in fat. I was trying to comprehend exactly how much that is but I can't seem to... maybe you can?
So I wanted to put up before and during photo's for you to see but the trainer who has my photos is taking her sweet time to send them to me... but I promise they are coming! In the meantime, salivate over this one (this is what I am aiming for!)
In love and in health
OG
02 Nov 2011
Damaged and Repaired
Its been a really tough week for me this week and I can not even begin to tell you how hard it was for me to get through it. Let me take it through for you day by day
Day 1 - Tuesday: Now you have probably read my previous post by now (if you are reading them in the correct order that is). This day was the day that I had a really tough session with my trainer. Now that night after all my complaining I realised through the amazing responses from my friends that evening whether it was via twitter/Facebook or sms. It made me realize that it wasn't as bad as it seemed and maybe (sorry about this) I was just PMSing
Day 2 - Wednesday: It was a typical day at work, I was on shift with some of my besties and we actually had a really enjoyable shift even though we had a very limited amount of work to do. I had a little bit of a niggly lower back pain, but put it down to stiffness from the workout the previous day. As the day went on I just learnt to ignore it. I went to Hudsons Burger Bar ( after work with A and V for some drinks and it happened to be happy hour there... good deal... between 16h00 and 18h00 its half price cocktails and tapas... we had such an enjoyable afternoon talking about work, gossiping and general chatter between colleagues and friends. During our walk back to the hotel I realised that the back pain actually got worse. The pain then seemed to get progressively worse as the evening wore on... which brings us to...
Day 3 - Thursday: Waking up was the highlight of my day, as throughout the day things just seem to get worse. My back pain got so bad that I couldn't even walk. I went to the doctor who shot me up with chemicals that did absolutely nothing to help the pain and went to bed. That is where I stayed for the rest of the day. Getting up to go to the toilet or to eat brought on physical and emotional pain (I will get to this). I lied earlier when I said waking up was my highlight of my day cause at the end of this day my BF came to visit... we basically grew up together and have been best friends since grade 8 (std 6) after school she moved to Durban. Our friendship has increased and deepened despite the distance. In April this year she got married and she gave me the privilege of being her Maid of Honour and part time long distance wedding planner! Her visit was a surprise and we joked that she chose the wrong time to come due to me being in bed for the entire time she was here. Despite that we had an amazing time together. Talking catching up and generally being in each others company.
Day 4/5/6 - The Weekend: These days really took it out of me. I think it was a mixture of feeling like my body had let me down and the fact that I couldn't exercise was really getting me down. I was in a very very fragile space and no matter what I did or said or was told I couldn't snap out of it. I tried to remember how strong I was and how much I have changed in the last few months and all I could think was how weak I am to have been injured and of course that leads to the usual degrading thoughts of my weight and therefore me. It was really a bad time for me and all the work that I have put in seemed to totally dissipate and I made myself feel totally worthless. To top it all off I suffer from a severe case of the Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) and that weekend happened to be halloween and everybody I knew (no I am not exaggerating) was out having an absolute whale of a time and all I could do was follow their tweets or status updates and be totally green with envy. Even my BF couldn't make me feel better about the fact that she was here and that should have been enough for me. Needless to say these kind of feelings do not just disappear over night and if I am honest even today I am still fighting those feelings and trying to get myself back on the road that I need to be on.
Day 7/8 - Monday/Tuesday: Things seem to get better over these two days. I was back at work, the pain was considerably less and my BF and I had been having a good time together. We went to see other friends and enjoyed a friends birthday slowly but surely I seemed to be returning to my usual self.
Day 9 - Wednesday (Today): I went to see my physio today to get the all clear to go back to gym which I am relieved to say she gave me!! After which I went to visit a new friend of mine and had coffee with her. I really enjoy her company, she is sweet and caring and really just a spiritual and genuine person. I can see us getting close and I am truly happy I found her in my life. I was so happy about the physio's prognosis that I went to visit the guys at the gym and truly there is nothing better then the way that they make me feel! They were all so happy to see me and was so excited and relieved that I could come back to the gym. Its days like today and people like them who make the last few days seem so silly because they always make me feel like I am truly and incredible person and maybe one day I will believe it myself!
Maybe tomorrow I will wake up and be truly happy and maybe not... either way I am not going to stop this process and this road to healing no matter how hard it is.
In love and in health
OG
Day 1 - Tuesday: Now you have probably read my previous post by now (if you are reading them in the correct order that is). This day was the day that I had a really tough session with my trainer. Now that night after all my complaining I realised through the amazing responses from my friends that evening whether it was via twitter/Facebook or sms. It made me realize that it wasn't as bad as it seemed and maybe (sorry about this) I was just PMSing
Day 2 - Wednesday: It was a typical day at work, I was on shift with some of my besties and we actually had a really enjoyable shift even though we had a very limited amount of work to do. I had a little bit of a niggly lower back pain, but put it down to stiffness from the workout the previous day. As the day went on I just learnt to ignore it. I went to Hudsons Burger Bar ( after work with A and V for some drinks and it happened to be happy hour there... good deal... between 16h00 and 18h00 its half price cocktails and tapas... we had such an enjoyable afternoon talking about work, gossiping and general chatter between colleagues and friends. During our walk back to the hotel I realised that the back pain actually got worse. The pain then seemed to get progressively worse as the evening wore on... which brings us to...
Day 3 - Thursday: Waking up was the highlight of my day, as throughout the day things just seem to get worse. My back pain got so bad that I couldn't even walk. I went to the doctor who shot me up with chemicals that did absolutely nothing to help the pain and went to bed. That is where I stayed for the rest of the day. Getting up to go to the toilet or to eat brought on physical and emotional pain (I will get to this). I lied earlier when I said waking up was my highlight of my day cause at the end of this day my BF came to visit... we basically grew up together and have been best friends since grade 8 (std 6) after school she moved to Durban. Our friendship has increased and deepened despite the distance. In April this year she got married and she gave me the privilege of being her Maid of Honour and part time long distance wedding planner! Her visit was a surprise and we joked that she chose the wrong time to come due to me being in bed for the entire time she was here. Despite that we had an amazing time together. Talking catching up and generally being in each others company.
Day 4/5/6 - The Weekend: These days really took it out of me. I think it was a mixture of feeling like my body had let me down and the fact that I couldn't exercise was really getting me down. I was in a very very fragile space and no matter what I did or said or was told I couldn't snap out of it. I tried to remember how strong I was and how much I have changed in the last few months and all I could think was how weak I am to have been injured and of course that leads to the usual degrading thoughts of my weight and therefore me. It was really a bad time for me and all the work that I have put in seemed to totally dissipate and I made myself feel totally worthless. To top it all off I suffer from a severe case of the Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) and that weekend happened to be halloween and everybody I knew (no I am not exaggerating) was out having an absolute whale of a time and all I could do was follow their tweets or status updates and be totally green with envy. Even my BF couldn't make me feel better about the fact that she was here and that should have been enough for me. Needless to say these kind of feelings do not just disappear over night and if I am honest even today I am still fighting those feelings and trying to get myself back on the road that I need to be on.
Day 7/8 - Monday/Tuesday: Things seem to get better over these two days. I was back at work, the pain was considerably less and my BF and I had been having a good time together. We went to see other friends and enjoyed a friends birthday slowly but surely I seemed to be returning to my usual self.
Day 9 - Wednesday (Today): I went to see my physio today to get the all clear to go back to gym which I am relieved to say she gave me!! After which I went to visit a new friend of mine and had coffee with her. I really enjoy her company, she is sweet and caring and really just a spiritual and genuine person. I can see us getting close and I am truly happy I found her in my life. I was so happy about the physio's prognosis that I went to visit the guys at the gym and truly there is nothing better then the way that they make me feel! They were all so happy to see me and was so excited and relieved that I could come back to the gym. Its days like today and people like them who make the last few days seem so silly because they always make me feel like I am truly and incredible person and maybe one day I will believe it myself!
Maybe tomorrow I will wake up and be truly happy and maybe not... either way I am not going to stop this process and this road to healing no matter how hard it is.
In love and in health
OG
25 Oct 2011
Article
Just found a very interesting article on Shape magazine...
Think yourself thin
What do you think?
In love and in health
OG
Think yourself thin
What do you think?
In love and in health
OG
Training day
Every day is a training day for me, but today was a session with my PT and also unfortunately measurement day!
I should be ecstatic about my results but I am just not. My CM and my KG have not budged... not one bit, some of them even went up, saying that my BF% has dropped. I will know tomorrow exactly how much compared to the past results... that I am excited to see.
Despite all that I had a bad bad training day today and I could see it in my PT's eyes how disappointed he was in my performance... it always seems to happen that way. We will talk about my motivation and what I need to do in order to lose more weight and faster... we will talk about food and water and also that I need to train harder and stronger and increase my intensity, but when it comes down to it I seem to fail in actually doing all those things.
To him it probably seems like I am all talk and actually no action, I don't think he understands how hard it is for us "average" and overweight people, who are not fitness freaks and have bodies like G-ds. I have so much to lose before increasing resistance is not just difficult for obvious reasons but also the reason that I am carrying so much extra weight on my bones and muscles. Somehow I wish I could make him understand this. As much as I adore him... and I really really do! He is still very young and very over the top (for lack of a better word) and he pushes everyone to their limits... EVERY time!
I exercise a FUCK load (excuse the profanity) more than the average person and yes I could do better in my cardio workouts and my eating, but I am only human... I want to run and I want to cycle up huge mountains and I know the minute I do that I have reached a goal, but until then my knees and my ankles can't seem to carry my weight so I have to take it slow. But I know.... the trick to looking like this chick is to CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO
I should be ecstatic about my results but I am just not. My CM and my KG have not budged... not one bit, some of them even went up, saying that my BF% has dropped. I will know tomorrow exactly how much compared to the past results... that I am excited to see.
Despite all that I had a bad bad training day today and I could see it in my PT's eyes how disappointed he was in my performance... it always seems to happen that way. We will talk about my motivation and what I need to do in order to lose more weight and faster... we will talk about food and water and also that I need to train harder and stronger and increase my intensity, but when it comes down to it I seem to fail in actually doing all those things.
To him it probably seems like I am all talk and actually no action, I don't think he understands how hard it is for us "average" and overweight people, who are not fitness freaks and have bodies like G-ds. I have so much to lose before increasing resistance is not just difficult for obvious reasons but also the reason that I am carrying so much extra weight on my bones and muscles. Somehow I wish I could make him understand this. As much as I adore him... and I really really do! He is still very young and very over the top (for lack of a better word) and he pushes everyone to their limits... EVERY time!
I exercise a FUCK load (excuse the profanity) more than the average person and yes I could do better in my cardio workouts and my eating, but I am only human... I want to run and I want to cycle up huge mountains and I know the minute I do that I have reached a goal, but until then my knees and my ankles can't seem to carry my weight so I have to take it slow. But I know.... the trick to looking like this chick is to CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO
I will however not get too desponded about all the happenings of today. I will strive forward!
In love and in health
OG
24 Oct 2011
Why is the first always the hardest
I found that no matter how I start off a blog post especially the very first one on a new/ improved blog (such as this one) is always so difficult and I always look back at the post and find myself thinking how stupid it is! I have started this blog post about 3 times over now, each time thinking the next time will be better, but I can not seem to find the right way to start it off... so in the end I decided to just tell you how it is... simple... right?
As you have probably already read you know that I am using this blog as a means to an ends to release some of my thoughts some of my inspirations and motivations as I travel along this very long and winding road of fitness and weight loss. Unlike most people, I can afford to go to gym twice on a Monday, purely because I work shifts. Today happens to be my off day and that allows me to to do what I want when I want :)
They call the classes the Warrior Workout. It is basically 1 hour of absolute and utter torture. Its mostly floor based and weight based and most of the time its done in groups/ teams and on a rotational basis. Today was hard Wes and Dan really enjoy killing our upper bodies, working our chests and arms with weights, followed by some killer Kettle bell moves and of course abs. Now evening warrior is like daytime warrior on steroids... man oh man... they don't call it the Chris Walsh Academy for nothing and tonight even though we had a massive class we all walked out of there like total zombies... I am chuffed with myself that I managed to get in two sessions of the warrior workout but boy am I feeling it.
I decided that this week will be the beginning of something new for me (again) my eating has always been my downfall. No matter how hard I try I always seem to fail when it comes to eating properly. That and drinking enough water are my downfall and I know that the minute I manage to get this all under control the weight will just fall off me... and I am trying, don't get me wrong I am trying really really hard, its just that I am hardwired one way and to change it is a difficult process, now I just have to take it one day at a time.
Todays meals so far (all the supplements I use are Evox products - www.evox.co.za):
10h00 - Oats followed by joint support pills, omega 3&6, and xena
14h10 - Whey protein shake with glutamine and rice milk powder
14h45 - fruit smoothie
16h30 - 2 slices of homemade bread with feta cheese and tomato
20h45 - Fresh Tuna seared with lettuce cucumber and asparagus and for a dressing I used plain old Soya sauce mixed with some Wasabi for flavour
Water consumption: 1.5 of 2 litres (not counting the water I drank during the gym, cause without a doubt that was sweated out)
So far so good I just hope I can keep this up....
Tomorrow is measurement day.... dum dum dum :)
As you have probably already read you know that I am using this blog as a means to an ends to release some of my thoughts some of my inspirations and motivations as I travel along this very long and winding road of fitness and weight loss. Unlike most people, I can afford to go to gym twice on a Monday, purely because I work shifts. Today happens to be my off day and that allows me to to do what I want when I want :)
They call the classes the Warrior Workout. It is basically 1 hour of absolute and utter torture. Its mostly floor based and weight based and most of the time its done in groups/ teams and on a rotational basis. Today was hard Wes and Dan really enjoy killing our upper bodies, working our chests and arms with weights, followed by some killer Kettle bell moves and of course abs. Now evening warrior is like daytime warrior on steroids... man oh man... they don't call it the Chris Walsh Academy for nothing and tonight even though we had a massive class we all walked out of there like total zombies... I am chuffed with myself that I managed to get in two sessions of the warrior workout but boy am I feeling it.
I decided that this week will be the beginning of something new for me (again) my eating has always been my downfall. No matter how hard I try I always seem to fail when it comes to eating properly. That and drinking enough water are my downfall and I know that the minute I manage to get this all under control the weight will just fall off me... and I am trying, don't get me wrong I am trying really really hard, its just that I am hardwired one way and to change it is a difficult process, now I just have to take it one day at a time.
Todays meals so far (all the supplements I use are Evox products - www.evox.co.za):
10h00 - Oats followed by joint support pills, omega 3&6, and xena
14h10 - Whey protein shake with glutamine and rice milk powder
14h45 - fruit smoothie
16h30 - 2 slices of homemade bread with feta cheese and tomato
20h45 - Fresh Tuna seared with lettuce cucumber and asparagus and for a dressing I used plain old Soya sauce mixed with some Wasabi for flavour
Water consumption: 1.5 of 2 litres (not counting the water I drank during the gym, cause without a doubt that was sweated out)
So far so good I just hope I can keep this up....
Tomorrow is measurement day.... dum dum dum :)
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