There is no TRY, only DO or DO NOT!

Happy Monday Everyone!
I have often been one of those people who says, "I am going to try and do more of this or less of that".  "I am going to try and write in my journal everyday" or "I am going to try to eat less sugar".  Who am I kidding?  Try is such a loose and weak word.  I am reminded of what Yoda said to Luke when he was learning about using the force.  There is no TRY, only do or do not!  I have had great success when I said I DO NOT DRINK!  Prior to this statement I often said, I am going to TRY to drink less or TRY to have alcohol free days.  No wonder I failed.  Once the statement is strong and certain it is so much easier to be your word.  Try is a cop out because you can always say, "at least I tried".  But where does trying leave you?  Still a little wiser but what about if you JUST DO IT!  Ha!  There it is again.  What have you got to say for yourself?


I will DO my journal writing every day.  I DO NOT eat sultanas in the afternoon for a pick me up.  I DO set goals and visit them often.  I DO yoga often (I always used to say I will try and do more yoga).  F**k the TRY.  I will lose that word from my vocabulary.


AHA moment!!! As I am often learning the things I need to do are so simple.  I should write a book about it.  Here are three lessons I have learnt off the top of my head.


Lesson 1
Be Kate and Be my Word
Lesson 2
Know where I want to go
Lesson  3
Do or Do not, there is no TRY!

Hi to all my Blog Hopping friends.  Sorry this was a little late.  I needed focused time to get it done without "someone" always looking over my shoulder.
This is my second attempt at blog hopping.   Thanks to Kate from Kate says and Natalie from Mummy smiles for keeping up the fun!  Loving your work!

12WBT Fitness Friday – Blog Hop Kick Off

Hi Everyone welcome to my blog.  I have been using this blog to record my journey through the 12 week body transformation challenge.  I began my journey in September 2011 and successfully lost around 10kg in the Round 3 and I am 6kg away from a healthy BMI.  I aim to write about once a week and you will see I have been through an interesting journey.  I am going into a new phase now and looking forward to what is ahead of me.

I got an email from Super Ang whose blog I follow From From F**cked to Fab as the ultimate 12wber transformer speaking about blog hopping I had no idea what it was.  I have since in a Friday night haze of tiredness, tried to learn about it and see if I can join in.  Thanks to Kate from Kate says and Natalie from Mummy smiles , I am learning more about it.  I do not know you guys but  it has been nice to get to know you through your blogs.

I am a little nervous as I have not really put my blog out there that much but I thought I would put it out there a little further as a means of taking my blogging skills to another level. 

So hello everyone who has come here as part of blog hopping!  I am Kate, I’m 38 and life is great (except that I have eaten three splits this evening).  I am a working mum with two children and a busy travelling hubby.  I also study because I love it and will soon have an MEd to add to the end of my name. 

I know I need to be very diligent with my food if I am going to have a nice lean body and Michelle’s  program is slowly helping me to transform my mindsets so that I no longer feel bitter for needing to care about what goes in my body.    This is my second go at the 12wbt and up until a few days ago I wasn't going to join for another session because I felt I could achieve what I needed to do alone.  She then added running programs and that was all I needed to bring me in (that and a big medicare rebate).  I am excited about meeting more people and actually connecting better with likeminded people and sharing our journey.

Back for another round of 12WBT - this round introduction

Having now given up wine I am a new being and feeling so much clearer for it. This is my year to shine and I look forward to sharing that journey with anyone who would like to connect.

I am the perpetual dieter many of you can relate to, I do really well on challenges but usually slip back into my old patterns of mindless eating. At my heaviest after my second birth I was 115kg. I got down to 95 pretty quickly and then slowly went down to 85kg where I fluctuated from 80 – 90kg for many moons. I joined 12WBT ready to break my cycle and be a better, prouder version of me. I had got to the point where I wasn't liking much about me and after many battles I am on the other side ready to be this greater me. After 10 years on the dieting roller coaster I am pleased to be maintaining a 77kg body and will never go back to the 80’s but I am now also ready to try for the 60’s. This will be huge for me and I am excited!

All is great for me but getting better as I shed this excess weight and all that goes with it. This is my second round and I ummed and arghed about joining again because I thought it may be too distracting. I often spend time on the here (forums and website) when I should be cleaning and managing my busy household and thought it would be better not to join. I am looking hot and now feel that losing the next 8 kilos is a bit self-indulgent but decided I loved it all so much last time I would miss it. I love getting the recipes and the exercise programs are amazing. The mindset lessons always shook me around and the support crew were very helpful. I am not short on motivation and reallly feel like I am nipping a lot of demons in the bag so this round is simply to consolidate my learning, enjoy some more yummy food and get better at running. Oh and the added benefit of getting to under 70 kilos will be great too. So glad Michelle has added the running programs as this was the final decider for me and I look forward to getting into my running full of boundless strength and energy. One of my goals is to do 5 of those pistol squats, picture above.

Go us!!!

What do you want?

I have yet to really establish with passion and emotion where it is I would like to be now.  Everything I read about goals and change says you need to have some emotion and feeling behind what you are striving for and I need to work on that.  I want to be a lighter, stronger, faster woman and I get excited when I catch glimpses of my stronger lighter body but it isn't enough.  I need to want this.  I think about things like my desire to be lighter and my reflections after a boundless and strong run.  I know life is easier and more fun in a lighter body and it feels soooooo much better in a lighter body.  I just need to want this.  Come on, want it.  Love the idea of it and really believe you can do it. 

My story

At this moment I know that my current story of becoming the best version of me has hit a plateau. This is the point where I usually turn to a new story, but the climax has yet to be written. I can't stop now!  I have written many stories in my weight loss adventures and they usually end with something like... I lost my way, became complacent and watched the scales and waist circumference increase once again.  So the story so far…there was this 38 year old mum who knew it was time to do something about her ever expanding body (yet again).  The scales said 89.5kg and she knew she was NOT going to get to 90 kilos ever again.  Having tried and succeeded in many  weight loss challenges she knew she just needed to enrol in something and get focused.  She had always admired Michelle Bridges’ no bullshit attitude and decided to sign up to her 12 week body transformation challenge.  12 weeks later she had lost 11.5% of her body weight and saw 78.4kg (for a day). 

Yippee I was getting loads of comments and was feeling mighty chuffed at my efforts.  So that could be the end of the great story but if I end it there what happens next?   Usually it goes something like...  she continued to exercise and enjoy her body but slowly lets bad habits creep in and with it gram after gram sneaks into her butt and gut leaving her disheartened and body conscious yet again.

Well this is where, to tell you the truth, until this moment I had not really thought how the next bit of my story would go. Two months and a silly season have passed and I am still sitting pretty in my sub 80kg body.  Story is going well and I am excited. I look better than I have for a while but know it is time to get into gear and get to a healthy weight range.  The other day I ran 1km in 4 minutes 20, life is great.  I am loving my machine of a body and am inspired by it.  I am however a little bored with how the story is going because I am still guilt ridden over my love and lack of self control when it comes to my wine consumption.  I am in a perpetual cycle.  I get through another rather mundane day with the kids home for the holidays, don't achieve much, daydream and procrastinate and 5 times out of 7 finish the day guzzling down a bottle of wine.  I don't want this to be my story but it is but I would like to add a new and more interesting bits to it.  How can I make things interesting?????

 An interesting thing did happen the other day and I have been thinking it was a sign but I am ignoring it.  One afternoon when all was busy, I snuck down to the wine cupboard after vowing to be alcohol free on weekdays and got a bottle of sav blanc to chill.  As I came up the stairs there was this bizarre strike of lightning which gave out an almighty shriek, I

nearly wet my pants and my hubby came out saying he had witnessed a strike of lightening hit the road just outside our house.  The universe is talking to me but I am not listening.  So now how can I really make this story end???

One day, while sitting on her magic carpet a bird whispered in her ear...the mutterings were translated,  "I see your future and things look grim for you, all you need to do today to change it is leave the wine to the winos and things will start to become amazing."  I am choosing a less than amazing existence while partaking in problematic drinking and it is time to do something about it.  As you as my witness I am going to vow to no longer drink obsessively.  I am amazing and am urgently requiring more amazing things to happen, and if it is meant to be.....well it is up to me!  Go forth and conquer that wino inside you, put her to bed once and for all.  It is time!

2012 - Year of Clarity

I have now declared 2012 as the year of clarity.
 
1.  Clarity of thoughts as I consume less booze.
2.  Clarity in wee as i make healthier choices
3. Clarity in my workspace as I ensure better order
4. Clarity in my direction, more planning and structure in everyday life.

Good Luck to me :)

Breaking Free

I am in between sizes now and I feel excited but I also have some demon inside me conspiring against me.  "Drink that wine, eat that extra food, who cares you are an 80kg woman stay here, you like it here."  This is where all your clothes fit and you are comfortable.  Okay comfortablish.  I soooo want to embrace smaller me but for some reason I have dropped the ball in the past three weeks and lost my momentum.  The main culprit is my over consumption of wine and if I continue to do this I will steadily gain back the weight I have lost.  WHAT AM I DOING?  I really have to work on this wine issue.  You know what I do now to try and feel okay about the wine drinking?  Wake up and not eat breakfast and go for a run to run off what I have drunk last night!  I do not want to be in this spiral.  I hate waking up every morning feeling bad about drinking the night before, I hate it!  It has a hold on me and I want to break free.  I want to break free from the hold.  Yes I do, I really do. 

What am I going to do?  Well today is the first day of the rest of my life so I may as well start now.  I am committed to eating clean today and only feeding myself noursihing food.  I love you body and I want to treat you well.