Short and sweet today.
Live your lives with passion, with love with hope, with energy and enthusiasm.
Live don’t just exist!
Enjoy your weekends of living wildly, cherishing each moment.
Living rather than existing!
Imagine if ….
Imagine if you could re live every ordinary day as though it were extraordinary?
Imagine if you loved every part of your body and didn’t want to change a thing?
Imagine if you were the smartest, richest, funniest, most talented person in the world?
Imagine if each time you posted on Facebook you instantly got a million likes?
Imagine if you never had to work at anything and you were automatically thin, successful, fit?
Imagine if…..
Imagine if:
You actually lived out every ordinary day having extraordinary thoughts, seeing the world through extraordinary eyes, imagine how amazing and fulfilling each day could be….
You loved your body flaws and all, you realized that everyone has their own in securities and while each body is different none are perfect.
Imagine how happy you could be if you were comfortable in your own skin and you focused on all the things you love, rather than the things you hate…..
You didn’t strive to be richer, smarter, more talented but you learnt to appreciate and feel gratitude for all the amazing things you already have in your life…..
You stopped posting on Facebook and instantly checked for likes, you didn’t feel sad when you only got two likes rather than twenty.
You realized that the amount of Facebook likes does not equate to your successful status as a human being…..
You stopped wishing for more, you appreciated working hard to get results, so you could feel a deep sense of achievement and pride……
Imagine if you spent less time thinking, worrying and more time being present in the moment, more time feeling genuine gratitude and happiness.
Imagine if you spent less time worrying about people’s opinion of you and more time focussing on how YOU feel about you.
Imagine a world where you can start to create and control your own happiness……
Imagine……
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Kale – super food
It’s the start of a new year, and I like millions of others around the world are busy making plans to “eat better and get fitter”.
Well as a fitness instructor, I have the fitness bit all sorted, and while my husband and I eat very healthily already, there are always things that can be improved.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not (and never will) one of those girls who drinks water only when out and has nibbles on a few lettuce leaves and thinks that’s enough…..
Sure if that lettuce was a comfortable bed for a range of other veggies and meats then count me in.
I love a good steak, and recently I read that kale is the “new beef”. I knew it was a superfood but it has cow like properties – amazing 🙂
So off I went to buy my bunches of kale amongst other things as I figure putting that into a blender rather than a chunk of porterhouse steak makes way more sense.
I made (thanks to a recipe from a friend) a healthy, and surprisingly refreshingly delicious drink of kale, green apple and coconut water.
Kale is not only super it is versatile, throw it in your omelette, put it in your stir-fry, make some brown rice with kale, avocado and mango.
These are just some of the super things I have been doing recently with my super food.
Here is an interesting article I read recently on the top ten health benefits of Kale.
A time to reflect, to plan, to celebrate
After a few soul searching days by myself at the beach, I have come to the conclusion that:
A – you are never too old to change your life.
B – happiness is a choice, a way of life, something we all have the power to experience.
C – you can achieve anything with determination and by setting little realistic goals.
I have been walking on the beach, exercising, relaxing and after setting myself some fitness goals for the new year have been already challenging myself to learn some new yoga poses.
Like anything worth achieving, we must first be dedicated, motivated and patient.
Enjoying the journey along the way ….
Whatever your plans are for the new year, I thank you for your support, for your dedication in striving to be fit, healthy and happy.
Happy New Years
Merry Xmas
Short and sweet today, have a great Xmas everyone, and if you are interested in doing any classes down by the river at Currumbin over the next week, please let me know.
I will be between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, resting, eating and trying to keep a little bit fit in-between.
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
Give yourself permission to slow down
I didn’t really understand until this year, just how stressful this time of the year can be for people.
I am fortunate that Christmas for me is a joyous time, yet for many the thought of spending time with family they may not really like can be a forced and stressful situation.
The thought of racing from one family function to another is tiring before it even begins.
The act of running around; shopping, cleaning, fitting in as much as possible is exhausting rather than exhilarating.
If this is all ringing out true for you, then please know that it is ok to just slow down for a moment, it is ok to sit still and breathe.
It is ok to take it easy at the gym, rather than push your fatigued body.
You are the master of your own destiny and if you need to slow down, then give yourself permission to do just that.
Everything in moderation
Everything in moderation, we have all heard that saying countless times.
I think this time of year as you are devouring your third plate of Christmas dinner goodness, eating just “one” more chocolate, and drinking your hundredth alcoholic drink you are starting to wish you actually adhered to it.
While I do think that drinking 100 drinks probably isn’t ideal and eating too much fatty sugary food isn’t going to make you feel amazing; it is Christmas, it is a time for celebrating and partying so please don’t beat yourself up if you are consuming the “bad” things a little more frequently and less moderately than you normally would.
As I always say in my classes, be kind to yourself, listen to your body, give it the break and treats it deserves, but keep in mind if you are drinking and eating excessively you will most likely put on weight.
So my friends, eat and drink (at least not too crazily) if the weight creeps up, then so be it, deal with it by not allowing this to become a habit, jump back into action early in the new year and get your body healthy again.
Life is too short to be at war with yourself.
Water a trusted old friend
The human body is comprised of over 50%water.
So clearly quite an important part of it.
As you sweat you dehydrate, as you drink you dehydrate.
As you dehydrate you need to rehydrate.
When you reach the point of feeling dehydrated, your body has already been pushed too far.
If you don’t really know the effect that lack of water has on your body, look at your garden and notice what happens to your plants when they are thirsty and starved of water.
Our bodies are the same.
If you, like the majority of people, are drinking more alcohol than usual over the madness of the Christmas party season, then your water intake is crucial.
Even if you don’t realize it at the time.
Drink water, then drink more, then drink more again.
Your body will thank you for it.
Water is an old trusted friend, who often gets neglected, yet always come back to rescue us when we need it.
Resting your body is just as important as moving it – true story
Anyone reading this post who knows the amount of classes I have already done this week, may find this hypocritical and as my mum reads my blogs and always worries I am overdoing it (hi mum, love you) I am not going to actually tell you how many classes I have done.
What I am going to tell you is how I am coping with doing x amount of classes.
Aside from walking like a zombie, speaking as though English is my second language and spilling things all over myself frequently I am in fact coping!
I am coping by resting in-between classes. In fact this week has felt like a crazy blur and I think on Tuesday I had convinced myself it was already Thursday.
I have been doing 5:45am classes, I will then come home and sleep for an hour or two then do my next class, rest, eat, teach again and repeat the process all over again.
As much as we all like to think we are invincible, and as much as I promote the theory of pushing and challenging yourself, there are limits.
We are human, we need rest, our muscles need the correct nourishment to thrive, and that nourishment comes in the form of eating well, drinking water to re-hydrate and resting.
It is counter productive not to do so!
As always I learnt that the hard way.
If you are exercising frequently you NEED to eat and rest frequently or I dare say you are without knowing it, undoing all the good work you set out to do.
Think about your computer, your smart phone – they perform well until they don’t! We reboot them and then wallah, they leap back into action refreshed reawakened. Our bodies are the same!
The more we work them, the more we need to treat them with the rest they deserve.
Resting your body is just as important as moving it!