Starting something new is always exciting! The first page of a new note book. A new month in your diary. A new year. A new diet and exercise plan. Because its new, you haven't failed yet, and there are all sorts of possibilities about how amazinginly perfect its going to be this time. Because you have started a new diet and exercise plan at the start of a new week/month/year, with a brand new diary/notebook, it's definitely going to work this time.
I guess its thoughts like that that keep us coming back each new year with resolutions of being perfect. The perfect diet, the perfect exercise regime which leads to the perfect figure/hair/skin/wardrobe. With this we will meet the perfect man (or woman!) or the relationship we are currently in will become perfect and we become the envy of everyone around us because being perfect is so easy for us this time. No effort really!
BAH!!!
If you really believe any of that, stop reading IMMEDIATELY!!!
I am already perfect, because I am Me. And Me is made up of MANY imperfect things.
On a basic level, I eat too much and don't exercise enough, which is why I have put on 15kg in the last 4 years (since my wedding). But my husband still tells me how much he loves me (even though he does agree that my bottom is beginning to take over the world!)
Sometimes in the morning I am too lazy to put on make up or do my hair in a nice way and promise myself I'll do it when I get to work, but then forget and walk around all day with no makeup and hair that has only been haphazardly brushed, usually still in thongs because I forgot to change my shoes, jeans because I forgot to iron my work trousers, oh the list goes on!!
Cooking is usually basic and quick because while I love cooking, I hate cleaning up the mess and for some reason, house elves don't seem to service the Secret Harbour Area and my husband is adamant that we don't need to pay a cleaner when we are perfectly capable of doing it ourselves (which is alright for him as he works away 2 weeks at a time and has someone cooking and cleaning for him the whole time he is at work, and most of the time when he is home! but I must add he does a lot of house and garden work when he is home so I mustn't complain too much).
So as you can see, my perfection is made up of very imperfect characteristics and for the most part I wouldn't want to change too much as that is who I am. Just not the expanding bottom part! And this is where most people would say "And that is why I signed up for the Michelle Bridges 12 Week Body Transformation", which is true in part, but different this time for me!
Why I hear you ask...
Well, I am actually PREGNANT!!!!!!!! I say actually because this has been a LONG time coming with some very painful bumps along the way (will tell all in another post) and I am now worried that my bottom (along with my love of sitting and eating) will become out of control now that "its for two" and I want to put a stop to that right now!
I want to control the amount I put on so its not too hard to take it off again later. I want to make sure my body is strong enough to cope with what I am about to ask it to do (weird joints and a chronic bad back are not the ideal skeleton for growing a human being inside of!) but most of all I want to be happy with my changing body and not so ashamed I hide in a mumu and never come out in public.
So Michelle, you say we are in this together... I hope we can cope with ever changing and raging hormones, cravings, tiredness, and the the absolute change of life with a new human demanding my every waking (and probably most of my sleeping) moments.
BRING IT ON!!!!!!
