Wahoo!

Just went on and checked the stats of my blog - just out of interest! 19 page views just in one day yesterday - I don't know if blogger.com is just making those stats up or not but it most certainly made me feel 100% more awesome than I was already feeling. 

For those people following the blog and following the posts of the 30 Day Shred (when I actually get around to publishing them... whoops), please feel free to comment on the blog - somewhere at the bottom of each individual blog post I do believe. 

When people comment, it shows that I am not just typing everything to the endless amount of cyber friends that read this, or not just typing and having a blog floating out there somewhere for aliens to read - aliens... pfft, whatever Kath... get back to your point please!

Your comments, love and support show me that I am actually typing something useful for others and also helps me to remember to keep typing (NOT GIVE UP) and keep moving forward. 

So yea... read, comment, ask a question, show interest and tell me what ya thinking/what is helpful/what is not/what you like etc.

Would love to hear from you all!

Toodles xx

Day 2 before the workout....

Written before doing the shred workout of the day...

Today, all day I have been in pain - every time I went to raise my arms, moving my legs, keeping my arms in one position for too long, reaching for things and having a painful shoulder, every time I went to stand up, all over, most of the time today I have been in pain. Because of the pain, all day I have been putting off doing the shred workout for today. 

While putting off the workout, I decided to google quotes about pain and suffering combined with giving up/not giving up. I came across this quote and it really made me think....

"Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must; 
just never give up." 

-Dean Karnazes 

For me in my life previously, as sad as it sounds and as much as I hate to say it, giving up has always been an easier option - I dream big dreams, set goals (which in the end I realise are not as realistic as I thought) and as soon as things do not go the way I want them to, I feel like taking the easy way out and giving up. Either that or I freak myself out so much that I either end up doing things just to get it over an done with or freak myself out so much that I am just too terrified. 

Seeing this quote and thinking about this quote made me realise even though im aching with pain, even though everything hurts, even though right now I can't imagine completing this goal that I have set... I've done it once before and I am going to do it again. Even though it seems so unreachable, the finish line for the goal is right there - I just need to run when I can, walk when I have to, crawl if I must and not give up to get to that finish line. 

Each day in this shred workout is a goal in itself - each 30 minute workout that I get through is most certainly a milestone. 

This whole marathon/half marathon that i've said im going to do - flip its going to be a beast and a half (or half a beast) but just as I have decided I am going to do with my shred workouts, I will run, I will walk and I will even crawl if I need to but I will do this half marathon!

Shred take 4 -Day 1

Hey Folks,

It's Fitness Feldon Girl here and boy oh boy is it great to be back in the land of fitness posts via the internet... Last time I clogged up everyone's news feeds on Facebook by doing extremely long posts after each workout so this time I've decided to hit the blogosphere and blog it out instead :)

So welcome to the end of Day 1 of the 30 Day Shred. 

Dude, who has heard the whole thing about worthwhile things in life being difficult to reach or get to? Haha, they certainly weren't kidding with that one. 

Day 1 today was just as horrible as I remember it being the previous three times I have attempted to do it. i guess for all those out there reading this and wanting to be inspired to do the Shred, that previous sentence sure does not help at all - in fact it is probably the furthest thing away from help.

Pretty much today sucked and I also sucked.....

• pain
• lack of endurance
• back to the physical challenge of level 1 etc

At least I got through it and Day 1 is done so i'm that much closer to completing it all over again - YAY!

Piece of advice for today....

• I as well as others know how hard it is and today was even harder to get back into it however I did what I needed to - with a few breaks in between but got there in the end... 

30 Day Shred - take 4....................

Right, straight into it tonight folks....

I aim for this blog post to be short but we all know how that has turned out in the past for moi and my blog posts!

Just been talking to an amazing friend on facebook who I met and was blessed enough to share part of my life with when I was in Wellington in 2009 - she has been working on a blog for a while and has just decided to change it (momentarily) into a healthy lifestyle type blog. Talking to this incredible friend and seeing her blog posts, took me back to a month ago and finishing my my 30/35 day shred and how eager I was to continue with it. 

Long story short, I was committed (or at least I thought I was) to continuing with the Shred however due to a lack of true and utter commitment as well as other events, I completed two days and then basically (as much as I hate to say it) - GAVE UP! Since then, life has been okay yet certainly not as great as it was and my poor husband has had to put up with a moody, grumpy and to be honest literally lazy wife who has not been much of a wife at all. 

Well guess what, its time to pull Fitness Feldon Girl back out of the garage where she has been hiding away from the world for the last month and kick her butt into gear because its game on or at least weight loss challenge (for myself) on! 

I entitled this take four as it will be the fourth time I have attempted to do this painful, disastrous, life changing and body changing shred. 

• The first time I gave up after only 10-15 minutes
• The second was my full 35 days which might I add, I felt like giving up countless times throughout the process
• The third - only 2 days in and I chucked it all in
• The fourth - ??????? Lets see where we get this time!

No more lazy, tired, grumpy, moody, down in the dumps wife/sister/daughter/friend/teacher/blogger... but rather FITNESS FELDON GIRL!