Zoe Cairns: Week 3

Week 1  Pretty excited really but not thinking too much about the hard work I need to put in at this stage, more about the dream shop about at reebok and the end result. feeling motivated until the fat grabbing sesh at the urban energy office with fiona, a toned hotty personal trainer, who had me strip down to my old undies and then measured my fat. that was a little demotivating. I left feeling a little bleak, and that mood carried on for a few days til my 1st fitness class. (though I started to healthy eat from day one) my first class was mortifying, skiptrix at safa park. I was terrified to go in the 1st place as I'm not hugely confident with sport and being 'sporting' in front of strangers was a bit worrying. My sports date girlfriend also was 'stuck in traffic' which meant I went it alone with a group of gorgeous looking girls who thankfully were all as hopeless as me at it anyway. Chelsee the trainer was very polite and said it took her a while as well to get the hang of it in the beginning. I looked like bambi. Also that week was running and as it was the 1st Tuesday of the month it was a time trial (great) so as fast as you for a km. some people made it in 4 mins something, i managed 7 something. anyway this was the 1st turning point in the challenge as I realised it was really hard work but I actually enjoyed the running. I got a bunch of ace tips from Laurence the trainer. I was running all wrong with clenched fists and all sorts of errors, I felt a lot more comfortable with running by the end of the hour even though i could hardly breathe and was red faced.

week 2 I was really in the swing of it and had huge amounts of self discipline, I was doing 3 classes in the week, skiptrix, running and kickboxing and eating really well. My aches were starting to lessen and that muscle burn that i felt walking down stairs was starting to lift a little. I had my 1st life coaching sesh, I'm not sure about it... open mind.

week 3 Was a real tough one. It was my birthday, so drinks, cakes and dinners. FUN. dont get me wrong I loved it, but I did have that guilt! At birthday brunch I avoided all carbs, I stuck to the salads, meats, fish and prawns though with the puddings I had no self discipline at all! then because id had so much to drink i ended up eating pasta for supper. hopeless. anyway, slip ups. i had told everyone at work though that I was doing this challenge and they sweetly swapped the birthday cake for a pot plant. life coaching is starting to make sense-ish... I'm still a little confused about the questions and a little reluctant to divulge too much, everything that Carolyn says makes total sense when she talks about things in a round about manner but then when she asks me to then make them relevant to me I get muddled and can't work out what it is i want to say and by then I've usually totally lost the tangent we were on, I think I must be just about the worst life coach candidate.

week 4 Result! People are starting to say that they can see a difference... maybe they're being polite but I can certainly skip and run and box a little better than I could before! I don't dread the classes, in fact I look forward to them and not having toast laden with butter in the morning is norm. (though i do still think about hot buttery toast, and pizzas and chocolate and cheese!- a lot, oh god, so much actually!) this week in life coaching I made a positive statement that is entirely mine, I've written it down and I need to look at it and constantly remind myself through out the day. It does help to just look at things in a different light. I really love my life coach and chatting with her is great, but some of the questions like 'who are you really?' really stump me and I just don't know the answer. Looking forward to seeing Fiona this week to get re fat-grabbed and I will be sure to wear some nicer undies.