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It’s okay.
Do you know how easy it is to make yourself look happy?
“Are you ok?”, “Yeah fine thanks how’re you?” When really you are dying inside, screaming no I’m not ok, but it comes out as fine thanks
And life just carries on
Check on people, watch them, not everyone is as put together as they might seem, A smiling selfie captioned “living my best life” on Instagram doesn’t mean a thing. People are…
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You are not stuck
Change is scary, right?
Do you know what’s scarier? Staying in the same place for the rest of your life, staying somewhere you don’t belong, doing something you hate.
You’re not stuck.
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Sometimes, things, habits, places can become more harmful than helpful and make you feel like you can’t move forward, like you can’t do something, but that’s…
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Breathe 💨
BREATHE
an inhalation or exhalation of air from the lungs.
Cue Blu Cantrell song 😅
“fight or flight” It’s what the body does as it prepare us for sometimes difficult things, It can helps us rise to many challenges, but trouble starts when this response is constantly provoked by less major, day-to-day events, (looking at your Sarah 🤦🏼♀️), such as money problems, job worries, or relationship…
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Circle of life
If your looking for a lion king related blog post I’m afraid this isn’t the place for you, however if you want to hear my thoughts on circles 🤔
here’s a Friday thought for you 💭
“Listen to me
If the people around you don’t wanna see you win
If the people around you don’t wanna see the best you
If they don’t inspire you, or motivate you
I hate to tell you this but it’s true
You ain’t got a…
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You can do anything if you set your mind to it - Running my 1st Half Marathon 🏃🏼♀️
You can do anything if you set your mind to it – Running my 1st Half Marathon 🏃🏼♀️
If you’d have said to me probably a year or two ago that I would run a half marathon, let alone finish with a great time to be proud of, id have laughed in your face, half marathon? Good one.
I’ve written about my fitness and weight-loss journey on here but although I have come along way in my journey at the gym, it wasn’t until 6 months or so ago, in September 2018 that I watched lots of people…
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Bad day?
Was it a bad day? Or was it a bad five minutes that you thought about all day?
💭
I’m so bad for this so…
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks even months over analysing a situation, trying to put the pieces together, or you can leave the pieces on floor and move the fuck on.
It won’t change it, you literally cannot, so
stop. thinking. about. it.
Don’t let anything destroy your day, your…
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Strong body, strong mind
“Physical activity helps you lift whatever is weighing you down” 🏋🏼♀️
The gym is my place, my own time, my physical & mental outlet, my sweat it all out place, my put your music on so loud you can’t hear your own thoughts place, my lift heavy shit place. It’s a home from home, my happy place.
I went into the gym today with things on my mind, didn’t think about those things while I was there just…
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Fear is just an illusion
“You must realise, that fear is not real, it’s a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, fear is a choice”
Everyone’s scared of something, dying, losing someone they love, being alone, losing them self, doing a certain task, even a specific bit of gym equipment (I’m looking at you hack squat 🤣)
but if you let that fear take over then it’ll consume you, It’ll…
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Personal victories
Yesterday was 💩
We all have those days, it’s when you let them spill over into the next day & the next when it becomes detrimental. I’m pretty good at this usually, so today I made it my mission to try & not.
I got up, kept myself busy & then let off some steam at the gym. These things work for me. we all have our own things that work for us.
Now
I never thought I’d have the confidence to:
Go to…
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You should go & love yourself
The concept of loving yourself is foreign right?
You need to raise your opinion of yourself.
You not believing in yourself is a fucking tragedy.
Be aware of how you speak to yourself because negative thoughts will only lead to a negative outlook on yourself & they are just thoughts.
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it.
So what are you going to say?
Don’t compare yourself to…
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Getting started
Always remember where you started. After all, the worst bit is starting isn’t it?
I started in 2017, over 14 stone, 2 babies down, very unfit & very unhappy. I decided enough was enough and I would join the gym.Did I know what I was doing at the gym? nope. but it was a start, I’d joined. Then I got offered a complementary PT session with a fucking badass, loved it and bam, the game changed.
I was…
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The answer to true happiness If you clicked on this thinking you'd get answers it probably not the best place to look because i don't have them, not yet.
To the one who made me a Mummy
To the one who made me a Mummy
It may sound like a cliche but before I met you I don’t even know if I knew what love really was. Not real unconditional love. Not our love. Not the heart bursting out of your chest kind of love that i feel every time you look at me.
Your much calmer than your brother but with a sprinkle of crazy sometimes. Your SO kind and thoughtful, I love this about you, It can be a rare thing so don’t ever…
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This picture always makes me a little sad. I still remember the young girl who would run around aimlessly for hours without a care in the world, wear whatever her mum put her in and not think twice about what it looked like or what other people thought of it and more importantly, me.
Unfortunately it seems that those innocent years inevitably are left behind when we step into those teenage years, full of angst, rebellion and emotion.
I was always the shy, quiet girl in school who wouldn’t talk in class if I didn’t have to, and spoke mainly when spoken to, and throughout all my years at school I remained the same, albeit slightly more outspoken in my sixth form years, I was still always not wanting to be the centre of attention. The longer adult life has gripped me, and having more responsibilities of a house, children etc I seem to have stumbled into a more socially awkward version of myself.
However at some point there comes a time where she needs to come back. And that’s the hard bit.
Sometimes it takes a few years, and maybe in my case a few more to realise that if you want to get her back, you’ve gotta do it yourself, for yourself, because she will always be there, you’ve just got to, as the picture says, go get her.
Far too often I find myself worrying about what other people think of what I’m doing, what I’m saying, what I look like, however this just ends up being the thief of any kind of joy that all those things in your life bring. Why should I worry about what I’m doing, if it makes me happy? Why should I worry about what I’m saying? If it’s how I feel and what I believe (with the obvious exception of just being down right rude) & why should I care what I look like, if I’m happy with what I see in the mirror?
With all this being said I know full well what it’s like to not feel these things. I started my weight loss journey and going to the gym because I wasn’t happy with how I looked or felt and it was making me down right miserable. So 2017 I took the plunge and started my journey. Skip forward to 2018 and physically I am where I want to be right now but with a lot left in me to achieve, however mentally I feel like I could do more.
I’m a very negative person unfortunately, mainly when it comes to myself at least, and while it is always good to want more from yourself, as I keep being told recently, I need to be proud of how far i have already come in order to really move forward. I’m a worrier for sure, and find it hard to let go of things if they worry me, but there comes a time when you realise that this will only hold you back, and worrying about things whether they have happened or not, won’t change them. They’ll just simply fester in your mind and keep you rooted exactly where you are, no one wants to be in the same place forever.
I also have 2 small people who I want nothing but to grow up happy and knowing that they can damn well achieve anything they want to. I’ll have there back 100%, always, in anything they want to do, anyone they want to be and I’ll always be there, cheering them on as there no 1 fan. So why can’t I do that for myself too, they need to lead by example, and that starts with me.
With all this being said, from today I have made it my mission, to be a more positive, happy person and to try and just not give a damn what anyone else thinks anymore. I’ve been on this earth 27 years (god I feel old) and yet I feel like I have wasted too many of those years being negative and unhappy for some reason or another. Enough is enough.
I want to:
Wear that top because I like it, not think about whether people will think my outfit looks cool and if not then just wear something else.
Talk to people with confidence, and get my point and view across instead of just nodding and agreeing with what they say.
Dance around like a idiot & sing at the top of my voice and not give a damn, (my sisters got this down to an art, perhaps I should take some pointers from her 😂)
Admire what someone else looks like, without thinking why can’t I look like that?
Stop worrying about how things used to be
Surround myself with good, positive people
Look up & smile more 😉
Grow stronger 💪🏼 & achieve my goal of a pull up and to run a 10K.
It’s not always gonna be easy, but it’s got to be a darn sight better than not even really living at all. It’s a cliche but we only get this one time, one chance at life and unfortunately some people don’t even get long enough to achieve all the things they should, so if you have it, don’t waste it being unhappy.
To end & because I love a good motivational quote, here’s a few faves…
until next time
Time for a change This picture always makes me a little sad. I still remember the young girl who would run around aimlessly for hours without a care in the world, wear whatever her mum put her in and not think twice about what it looked like or what other people thought of it and more importantly, me.
Pampers Squad- What did we think?
It’s been a few weeks now since we received the Pampers package and I thought it was about time that we gave our thoughts on the nappy pants.
I gave some of the samples out to a few friends and family to try out also,
I gave them to a work colleague who had a little girl, my sister who has my little niece, I also gave my mum and other sister some to use when they were looking after my boys, to…
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Pampers Squad Nappy Pants Project
I recently applied to be part of the ‘Pampers Squad’, an exclusive club where you can participate in projects from pampers, to try out and review any new products they have.
This particular project is called the Nappy Pants project and is all about trying out Pampers active fit nappy pants.
Having two busy and bustling boys I thought this would be a great opportunity to try out on them.
I have…
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Happy Easter 🐣
Hi Guys!
It’s April 1st & 31 days since I started my DE-Chox for the British Heart Foundation, no chocolate for the whole of March, and now, in Easter Sunday it’s finally finished, I did it, 31 days of no chocolate, nothing, no chocolate flavourings, no chocolate bars, nothing.
I raised £70 for BHF so very happy with that 😀
I also thought I’d share with you the Easter gifts I brought for my boys…
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