Is it at all possible that you have a wonderful chance for a tremendously more exciting and rewarding life, but you tend to undervalue yourself and put yourself down because you don’t think that life is possible?
If you do think that a exciting life is indeed possible, are you are stuck in a place you don’t think you can get out of? If that is the case, would it be fair to say that you are really a unique and special person with the need to do and be all of who you can be. You may not achieve this maybe because you feel weighed down by life, by responsibilities and you don’t really “want to make a fuss”!
If you are really this person with huge ambitions for yourself and don’t do anything about it, you are letting yourself down, your family and all of those who depend on you for whatever reason. I wasted years working in an office, not really believing i could make it on my own. I am making up for it now, but i don’t you to waste all those years yourself, and that’s why you need to be on this programme changing your life around and being your best, and really creating the new you.
Taking control your life again is hugely liberating. It’s all about finding the old you and to do that, you only have to think back to the best times of your life and how good they made you feel.
What was the happiest time of your life? The most fulfilled and the most you’ve just been “yourself”. In those times, life should have been full of excitement and energy, and at the same time, you will have been at peace with yourself as life was calm on the inside.
You may have been in employment, but work would have seemed so much fun back then in your best time. You may have felt as if you were exactly who you were meant to be, and working with colleagues who you wanted to work with.
You made decisions for the right reasons and you didn’t care what anyone else thought, they were the right thing to do and that’s what really counted. There was no self-doubt and no excess worrying, everything life in life will have flowed together and you lived every day looking forward to the next. There was a sense of optimisim, that good things would always happen, as long as you put the work in and you treated people fairly.
You weren’t sure what the future would bring, but you didn’t care so much then, as you were full of self-assurance, not arrogant but confident in your abilities and you were going to strive to get what was rightfully yours, no matter how long it took. Your accepted the way you were and this was the fundamental reason this was the happiest period in your life.
To get back to these times, you need to discover what is important, and throw away the negative stuff that is hurting your progress to a better life. Life can push you out sometimes so its time to put your life together again and respect yourself for who you are and what you do.
Life is not “going along” with any old rubbish, life isn’t “a bitch and then you die”, it really doesn’t have to be that way at all and deep down you know it. It’s not about “getting by” and if you just do that, you have settled for a life much far less than i bet you thought when you were 18!
It’s time to put the excitement back in there, and get back to your best times, when endless possibilities existed and life was flowing with endless energy. Those of you who have significantly improved their fitness, health, their bodyfat, blood pressure, energy levels, skin tone, hair, teeth, resting heart rate, organ function, will all know that life tastes better where you are right now and your “old self” is coming back! 30 days into this thing already, you have an incredible 54 days to make an even bigger difference so let’s get excited and keep making the change!
Well so much for old Doc Hughes, I know my Peak Flow is low and I understand why he told me I could’nt train until he sees me again next week, but it was such a lovely day I went for a cycle this afternoon, and guess what I am still breathing. OK, I thought that I would try and go for 15 to 20mins, no pressure, if I felt ill I could stop. I got down to the county park and into the forestry, I did 1hr 4mins, was wiped out when I got back and wont go for a walk 2nite, but I am HAPPY, and I am thinking it will be easier 2mo. Didnt go the distance I usually go in 64mins, but who cares. My eating is back on track too.
8.30 porridge, bluberries, banana, protien
snack NONE
CYCLED 1.45 TO 2.50
3pm BLT, 1 slice of lean bacon, lettuce, tomato, 2 slices of rye bread, apple
am goin to have later, fresh veg, 3 new potatoes, 3 slices of smoked haddock, and fruit if I need it or may have a shake with my left over milk allowance. I wont stop posting, just feel I should be participating b4 I can post. So I am pleased with 2day, dont tell the Doc. Have booked a holiday for 17 April so I have 8weeks to lose some weight, anything would b good. And Keri bless, I will never b an ANIMAL again babe, remember the DUNES and VAUGHAN HURLING, and GRAIG HILL, and the sprinting on the PIER, those were my hay days, just as long as I keep doing something and ticking over keep the rust from the joints, WD40 is a good lubricant so Ken tells me. C U 2mo. Jeanx
now thats the old jean i know! and back with a bang! Your attitude means everything, your ability is never in question so lets make sure you are well and have a big period of good activities when you feel well!
went cycling this morning, I thought I’d plod along with the pace and see how it went. My aim today was to go the same distance in less time, yesterday took me 64mins and today I wanted to beat that. It was very cold on the bike today Cyril and as always once you sit on the bike there was a wind. Well I cycled 29.14 when I came to BLACKBERRY HILL, It’s a hill in the Country Park that I use to sprint up some years ago with my friend, havent been there for 3 years. It’s called BLACKBERRY HILL on the side that is in the Country Park because in the summer at the base of the hill it is covered with blackberries, but once your up and over it is callled FOREST HILL because instantly your are in the FORESTRY. Well I stayed on this side of it today and did 3 sprints up this hill each one taking me 36secs, but I didnt go to the very top, could’nt breathe, each one took 120secs with the jog back down, total 4mins. Then I jumped back on my bike and cycled home, 30mins 45secs, so in total my ride took me 59.59, 4mins less than yesterday and 4 mins for the sprints. I could be wrong Keri, but I think I saw that ANIMAL today, very briefly. Anyway the point I am trying to make is I DO KNOW MY OWN BODY AFTER ALL. Since I have become asthmatic THEY have had me believing that I DONT and I have listened to THEM. I dont think anyone knows your body and what it is capable of but yourself. Anyway I know I HAVE GONE ON A BIT, but I hope you see my point, I wont doubt myself again, and even tho I could hardly get my breath I did’nt use my PUMP, I just took longer to recover. And I survived my little ADVENTURE. Yesterday my Peak Flow at the Doc was 280, and he said to wait a week before doin anything, well today my Peal Flow is 400, so EXERCISE IS THE BEST MEDICINE, and Keri knows what he is talking about. Think that the Doc must just be over cautious. Can you tell from my babbling that I am excited at my achievment, I feel great and tomorrow, now that my PF is up I will do indoor workout and a 20min jog. YOU CANT SEE ME, but I am smiling like the cat that got the cheese. Hope your day is as good as mine. Jeanxxxxxxxx
thats a pretty awesome story jean, but please be careful not to overdo it. Stay optimistic and you know you have it in you to get your health back in a big way!
cold gone now,well only a sniffle left.TG today 3×12 of everything 30mins and had a fair old puff on 🙂
breakfast muse OJ
snack to time food shopping today
lunch back on the pita’s with Turkey&leaves thank gawd, this bread although brown is still bloaty!!!!!!!!!!! pint of water
snack did’nt feel like anything
dinner Chicken with spuds,peas,sweade,carrots,brussles,washed down with water
supper baby porage.SHUT UP GIRLS I DONT CARE!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 😉
well done Jeany on your excellent work out 😉 was hoping to go on the bike tomorrow, but i think Dirk said theres bloody white stuff on the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thats more like it cyril, you are back on course and i was cycling down mumbles today and yesterday, without gloves!!! This is definitely the coldet and biggest problems with ice i can ever remember, and maybe the worst for you too, i am serious when i say this is the coldest i can ever remember and was glad to get inside today afterwards, and thats not like me!
no snow tomorrow hopefully for us cyril, so fingers crossed, but still brutally cold!
Would leave cycling 2mo then Cyril, it was cold enough 2day, took ages for me to thaw out, anyway am pleased with 2day, walked for 1hour 15mins teatime over the beach with Bud.
8.30 porridge, blueberries, protien
snack none
Dinner 1.15 Tuna salad on Rye bread
Snack 3.15 Chicken drumstick, grapes
Evening meal 5.30 3 new potatoes, carrots, broccoli, french beans, peas, chicken breast
Snack 8pm Protien Shake
Thats it, wiped out, nighty night Jeanx
My old mates are back!!!!!! HURRAH!!!!!!!
and how nice it is too Debs.been spreading the word about this site and Ker’s great work to keep it going to my facebook pals.But i think they are a bit internet shy at the moment 🙂 🙂 🙂
You are a new girl already jean, i can feel it!!
nice work keep it going, your attitude always means a lot here! Up to 129 absolute unique visitors every day now up to yesterday according to google analytics, but IT guy has given this site a 2-5 year time frame to grow the site, it takes that long to get a good base.
We were only 3 around 12 weeks ago so not so bad, and i think you have to let people post in their own time. I used to wonder why people didnt post, but was explained to me by my IT guy that is a normal process and may take years before people have the confidence or inclination to actually post. As i told you, it took even me 2 years to post on scumv.co.uk!
As long as people benefit from the info provided, that is my only real concern, the site will only improve from here so i suppose its evolution over time.
Have a lot of feedback outside the site, and many people have it as an alert on their phone every day, so its all good and thanks to everyone.
Thanx Ke, your support is invaluble to me and its a long time since I have been called a GIRL Ta. Sorry about my post yesterday, afraid I was HIGH ON ENDORPHINES, so chuffed, wanted to share, embarrased 2day tho. Will keep it to the point. Been tempted 2day with things I keep in the house for Jasmine, but havent had any of it.
Breakfast Ditto
snack grapes
Dinner rye bread with sardines
thats it so far, I have walked 13mins, jogged 20 mins, walked 26.26. total 59.26 Legs very stiff 2day may go for a walk later. Yes Debs, feeling good, was on a high yesterday, so long since I have attempted hill work, got carried away with my post, hope your doin well, SPRING WONT BE LONG AND I WANT TO B READY. Must stop weighing myself every morning, old habits, did put them on top of the wardrobe, my scales I mean. Best wishes to you all. Jeanxxxx
Your doin well Keri, everything takes time, Its the same with the second shop with Andrew, wont happen over night. My friend Wendy has gone away for half term, so she is waiting till she gets back. Spring wont be long, we have has a couple of nice sunny days lately and nothing nice fitted, afraid I was happy to see the bad weather return so I could hide under my clothes, wont b able to do that in the spring/summer, so MUST STICK AT IT, it sneaks up on you b4 you know it, so keep at it guys. Cyril, my legs are sore 2day mate, walking very strangely, even the dog is giving me strange looks. Think I should push myself and go 4 a walk try and get rid of the Lactic Acid. Jean x