Easter Success

Well Easter 2012 has been and gone - THANK GOD!!!

For me it was a series of highs and lows and I'm trying not to get caught up in the lows - but I'll start with them:

Low

My training MOST definately suffered over the 4 day weekend - The gym was closed for 2 days and had limitted opening hours for the other 2....neither fitting in with my work/sleep/travel schedule.

I absolutely could not have trained - even though I wanted too.  Even to me this sounds like excuses, excuses, excuses, The long weekend started and I was already 2 days and 1 night into a 7 day working week- looking down the line at 4 Easter Public Holiday Night shifts.  To top it off my little family were up at Bribie- so on very (very very very) little sleep I was travelling back and forth.  I calculated on Sunday that over the previous 4 days I'd had 12.5hours sleep...TOTAL!! So averaging 3hrs sleep a night, 10hour shifts and dangerously travelling to Bribie at 2am and back at 2pm - I was the walking DEAD!!  Training was on my mind- but certainly not on my agenda - shattered!!

High

I made it through Easter keeping true to my word that Choclate has absolutely no place in my diet.  I am so proud of myself!! Sooooooo much temptation - I feel like a Biggest Loser Contestant playing temptaion!! They have a 24hour Tempation challenge this week - my chocolate tempation seems never ending!! The kids have SO much chocolate in the house!! They are not big chocolate eaters and are getting through it SO slowly! I packed some up and sent it out of the house today (Thanks to my Chocolate Loving Bestie for taking some for the team!!).  I will stay strong and I have no doubt that I'll live through this sipping my Jarrah Hot Chocolate to get my choccie fix for 46cal!!

Low

My nutrition was NOT squeeky clean over the Easter 4 days! Friday was great - squeeky clean - I survived lunch at my mums with cheesecake, potato bake, garlic bread, chocolate. Saturday was good - mostly clean (too many pretzels!!), Sunday was a disaster -breaky was good - but thats where it ended - poor choices for snacks (3 scotch finger biscuits a handful of cheezels and too many wafer biscuits) saw me skip lunch - by 9pm I was at work with no food and no clue!! I was deleriously tired and extremely hungry and.......ordered pizza!! I ate 3...no make that 4 pieces of vegetarian pizza from pizza hut.....I didnt do the ordering so I ended up with pan base!! Noooooo!!!! I tidied up by Monday but I was still disappointed in myself over my absense of training and self control. 

High

.....actually resisting chocolate is really my only high..... I wish there was more to report!!


So I'm back, my gym is open, the snack box is closed and I am ALL OVER smashing out what's left of the next 4 weeks!

I hit the gym this morning and week 9 training is HARD!! (Really hard!!) I think this is where the true test for me will lie.  I've been travelling along nicely - I have been smashing it out at the gym, LOVING the workouts - but getting a taste of week 9 this morning and writitng out the weeks workouts in my gym journal, I have realised that this last 4 weeks is going to test me, physically and mentally. 

I wondered this morning whether I am tough enough to see it out - I shouldn't have, because now I feel a little (well maybe more than a little) fear in my guts that I might not have it in me!!

The key to get through this will have to absolutely be combining Mish's Motto: Consistency Consistency Consistency - JFDI!!! and the little personal mantra I have been focusing on "I Stand Strong in my Personal Power - with true power from within - nothing is out of my reach!!"  I read it before the start of the round and I have absolutely drawn upon in time and time again when I feel like giving up.  I must remember my Personal Power each time I think "I Can't" and focus on the "I can" or even better the "I bloody will!!"

Here we go!!!!!