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Thank you so much for all the well wishes, congratulations and comments – I’m truly overwhelmed!  I’ve been trying to thank everyone individually but I am having a hard time getting my internet to work here.  It works for about 5 mins then shuts down.  Very frustrating. 

So, I had my first spew last night as the headline indicates.  Nice, not.  We had dinner out, seafood platter, and before anyone has a go at me for eating seafood, my OB has no problems with it so I figure he should know.  I think it was the mix of foods, there was hot and cold and various bits and pieces.   Come 11pm (I’d been asleep for 2 hours already) I was up and driving the porcelain bus.  Twice.  I felt a lot better after that.

I am really shocked at how much food I am putting away.  I’m starting to feel it too.  And I still don’t believe the fatigue – it’s really incredible.  I got up at 6am (sleep in), and it’s now 10am and I need another sleep.  I have no inclination to work, to exercise or do anything really.  Not that you can do much in this god awful weather.  I might have to change my favourite holiday spot to somewhere else.  Have has shit luck when it comes to weather up this way.

Tomorrow we will go to the Eumundi markets, and then the Farmer’s Market on Sunday.  This arvo we have our spa treatments.  Kerry thanks for the tip, I have sussed all that out, they know their pregnancy stuff.  No hot tubs, I’m having a body scrub and wrap (not a heating one so ok for pregnancy) followed by a mini facial and a 60 min pregnancy massage.  Cannot wait.

Ok well I simply wanted to say thank you to everyone who has wished us all the best.  You all rock.

x

Well over the next few months there will be a few big changes happening.  Unfortunately I can’t say too much because you never know who’s reading – or should I say, I’m always surprised to find out who IS reading.

I have some work to do between now and Friday where I have a deadline for providing programs for the big project that is still in the pipeline.   I have a few other projects to get underway in the next 3 months.

You should see my house – I really have a little shop happening here now.  Empty boxes everywhere, and my cupboards are just full of stock.  It’s a little bit of a trap to have the yummy new Chef Jay’s Gourmet Brownies in the cupboard I pass before I go to bed   I have so far tried the White Chocolate Mousse, the Ultimate Chocolate Walnut, Lucious Peanut Butter and the Caramel Butterscotch Torte.  I am not sure if I will try the Double Chocolate Decadence or not – single choc is just fine for me, don’t want to go overboard!  So, yes you guessed it, I’m not dieting for a comp anymore.  It didn’t last too long, I’ve had a few things come up so for now there will be no comp.

We are planning to have a trip up north soon, just not sure when exactly.  Probably Noosa.  I’d love to go back to Palm Cove actually, the Sea Temple was awesome.

Nadia and I went to a seminar preview last night, for Alpha Dynamic.  It was really, really interesting.  As always I am a bit skeptical of this stuff, but when they demonstrated the memory thing, I was blown away.  This lady sat out the front while the presenter asked 20 people in the room to suggest a  ‘thing’ – for example, Women’s Health magazine, hydraulic oil, Blackberry Mobile phone, V1X 3 golf ball, a red apple, and so on.  He wrote them all down on a whiteboard.  When asked, this woman systematically went through the 20 items, 1 by 1, in perfect order.  I was amazed!  I want to send my husband to the seminar just to improve his memory!  Anyone else had any experience with this sort of brainwave stuff – Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta?

My Big Pud has been told by the vet he needs to go on a diet   Poor Pud.  He’s 7.3kg up .5kg since last year.  I think he looks very healthy!

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Either this guy has a massive gut or is in very severe lower back hyperextension.  Either way, it’s not pretty.

Anyway, so my sleeping has been crazy.  I am getting up at 4am most days – a sleep in for me is 6am.  No idea why.  I’m starting to feel a bit shagged today, I guess it is catching up with me!  I don’t think I can do a training session today, it would just wipe me out.  So, will make sure I get a decent night tonight (not sure how I will do that yet, not like I have any say in it!), and then do Friday and Saturday gym sessions.

It is so very humid here at the moment – training is really tough, sweating like a pig and heart rate very high.  Burning heaps of calories. 

I had a coffee and 2 hour chat with Nadia Tuesday morning.  That was great, we don’t stop yakking the whole time.  Looking forward to our bike ride and sand sprint session on Sunday morning.

I did an ancillary shoulder, arm and calves workout yesterday, followed by 20 mins of cardio.  Mike said it was ok to add some additional isolation work since I don’t have any in this particular program.

My foam rolling and dynamic warm ups and stretching are going well – my chiro was impressed with my hammies this time around, much more loose and not overly sore.

I believe SHAPE magazine is out today!  Go get yourself a copy of this brand new fitness and health mag, it’s gonna be big!

Please note, our special free products trial offer closes on Saturday.  So make your purchase in our Products Store before Sunday to recieve your free Trioplex Bar and Elite Oats sachet.  Please specify your preferred flavour in the comments section.  NOTE – uness you do this, you will not receive your free samples!  We have sold out of Brown Sugar Cinnamon at this stage.

Stay tuned for the announcement of our NEW YOU champions for 2009!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning….   Uphill… barefoot…   BOTH ways  Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay  a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it  and how easy they’ve got it!   

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!   

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it! 

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!   

There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen!   

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! 

Child Protective Services  didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! 

There were no MP3′ s or  Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!   

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favourite tape and “eject” it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause – that’s how we rolled, dig?  

We didn’t have fancy crap like  Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it! 

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either!  
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!  

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We   had the  Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen… forever! 
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!  

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no  Cartoon Network  either! You could only get cartoons on  Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait  ALL WEEK  for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! 

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!   

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980   or before! 

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Thanks for the laugh Hils!

I’ve been a bit too brain dead and busy to be sitting down at the end of the day to blog.  So I haven’t.  And then I took a few days off to take a trip to Victor Harbor, in the hope I would spend a few lazy days by the beach, in the sun.  No such luck.  As soon as we headed in, the clouds descended.  It rained, blew and was bloody cold.  I was pissy.  Add to that I had ‘women’s problems’ for 2 days, forgot my thyroid medication, and so was feeling very cotton wool headed, sleepy and grumpy.  Today, our last day, I felt a little better.  Even played tennis.  Because it has been cold and wet have done nothing else except visit wineries, a cheese factory, eat (mostly crap) and drink.  Bbecause I wasn’t prepared enough and we don’t have a kitchen (I have some cottage cheese, yoghurt and berries in the fridge but that’s about the extent of it) I haven’t even had any veggies apart from a salad the first night.  I haven’t felt like training, walking, or doing any work (which I hadn’t planned to do, apart from this big project I’m working on – but I just couldn’t concentrate).

And my final bitch of the night – good coffee is hard to come by here.   So, my holiday by the beach sucked.  Definitely going up north next time.  Every time (except 1) I have been here in mid summer it’s been cold, wet and windy.  WTF?

And so.  Since I have been so lazy I am feeling rather crappy.  However, I have at least got my training and diet planned for comp.  I’m not pregnant, again, so my focus shifts to something else.  Bit over that. 

I am having Mike Robertson write my programs.  He offered a great special, half price online training to raise money for the Haiti earthquake victims.  I snapped it up but will have to wait a few weeks for my program, but that’s ok.  I went to a seminar of Mike’s this time last year in Melbourne.  He is an expert in knees, and various other correctional exercise stuff so I look forward to learning more about injury prehab and rehab while working toward my comp.  Let’s see if my hammy improves.  Am looking forward to something new, my training has been stale and a bit lacklustre.

Decided to do my own diet and cardio again.  A little different on the diet front than last time, but something I have done before which worked well.

Right, well off to bed I go I think.

It’s interesting, in about a week or so, I would have been having a baby had it stuck.  Instead I will be in Melbourne doing a photo shoot for a national promotion with a huge media company.  Maybe there is a reason it happened that way…who knows.

Before I forget, if anyone is wondering, our sugar free syrup is in transit from US to Oz and was supposed to be here last week.  I’m following it up.

PS Sorry Jan that I didn’t catch up, I would not have been the best company!