Rae 102: Recent History

Rae 102: Recent History :)

I have been really lucky in my life, I have had the chance to see change being effected and maintained, right before my eyes. While I was a teenager, my mum undertook a huge challenge - to lose 35 kilos -which is a lot on a 5ft1" frame!She changed her life around, and set me up with good principles to follow, that I knew would work, for the time when it all piled onto me.

I guess I could put the blame for my weightgain elsewhere, and make a whole heap of excuses concerning my hormones and unrelenting illnesses. I could take no responsibility for my own actions, but really what I need to acknowledge is:
that honestly, I did it to myself.

My weight is all connected to my emotions, and it is the main reason I am writing this blog. So that these emotions are out, staring me in the face, and I can never ignore them again. I am determined to not continue to indulge my feelings with food, nor allow food to become a crutch. The old ideas are going, going gone, and they will be so forever!

My amazing Mum has kept her weight off for over half a decade now, we will never see it again! She is an inspiring Weight Watchers Leader, and loves her job of helping people so much, that she went to Uni in her 40's to do a nutrition degree, and flew through with flying high distintions that make me so proud to be her daughter. Even more, she has just decided to go back this year and do post-grad Dietetics, and I know she will be fantastic! She is a constent source of inspiration to me, and I don't think i ever tell her enough how much she means to me. But I am saying it now! :)

This week I have picked myself up, dusted myself off after being ill, and pushed straight back inot a happy, healthy, energetic life, and I feel that that is always an achievement. At other times, I am sure I would have just been overwelmed and been too cought up in doing all the things needed to be done, to not take the time to take care of myself. But by taking care of me, I am better equiped to help everyone else! I love being me! :)

Rae101: History Lesson :)

History Lesson: Rae101
The old me.
Let me tell you a little about her... are you ready? settle back while i tell you a story...

Once apon a time, there was a little girl who loved life, and sport and never felt the cold. She could always be found outside playing soccer with the boys while all the mothers worried themselves sick over her lack of adequete clothing, but she didn't mind, she loved playing.
A day came when her beloved soccer held no joy for her anymore. What was she to do? She couldn't play soccer with a bad ankle injury. But she then discovered a secret part of her. An amphibious part of her. A part of her that when she got into the water, made her feel like she could fly. So thats she did. With the glorious feeling, it was no drama to get up at 5 to go to training, or eat toast in the chlorine filled air before school. It was even ok in that freezing time before summer fully hits and the outdoor pool was back in use. No, it was all great, because she was a girl in love, in love with water.
There comes a time in all girls live's howevr, that can really change everything we thought we ever knew. Its called puberty. And it really did a number on this little girl. So much so that she found herself no longer an active little girl, but a bored, sick bundle of hormones, and she turned to the age old comfort of her friend food. And so she changed. She was still little - in the height department- but not so little anywhere else. If fact, she found that she was a fact, quite a big girl.

But sunshine can always be found, so although there have been struggles where months have gone to years as illness after illnesss kept giving her excuse as to why she shouldn't bother to change, the sun has come bright with a new Rae of sunshine, a decidedly lighter Rae.

and things can only get better! :)





***Coming soon!***
Rae201: current events! My journey with weight watchers, also hear about my amazing mum who not only lost 35kilos, but has kept it off, and what she is doing now that makes me so proud of her!