The lean mummy

It’s just the same old me…. BUT with an additional job now !!

It’s been a busy 6/8 months but after many hours of studying and exams, it has all paid off, and I am embarking on a new career as a Mortgage and Protection Advisor (*With normal PT sessions to resume, perhaps just with a serving of financial chat now 💁🏼‍♀️😂)

Borne from a personal loss last summer, when we lost a very dear friend.
For many years my family and this great man’s family had discussed creating a business together, we registered it one night on a family holiday in Majorca and it was always our plan to go into business together.
We were almost there, but things unfortunately changed last summer.

Determined to not let the dream go I signed up to study CEMAP and now I am incredibly proud to say that (in the words of my dear friend) I’ve promoted myself from ‘Tea girl’ (or words to that effect if you knew Mr Smets) to Mortgage Advisor.

I am working with a great company, Peak Mortgages and Protection, who have been offering mortgage and protection advice for several years now and are an award winning company.

So, Mr Smets, my dear friend. Wherever you are. We did it 🤘🏻

One wonderful charity.

Two amazing causes.

I am NOT a fan of running however to raise money to get these beautiful people to Disney, and thereafter to raise money for the me, and 17 other friends, will be running a half marathon dressed as Disney Characters 🧚‍♀️

🤍Read the link to find out why this is so special to me…. and to donate 💰

https://magicmomentscharity.enthuse.com/pf/in-memory-of-smets-2f592

WHY LIFT WEIGHTS (BRUV’)?

Quite a few good reasons but here’s one - To be more bloody USEFUL and EFFECTIVE in your general life 👊

Lifting weights is also knowing as FUNCTIONAL TRAINING - Training that has a PURPOSE.
Focuses on movement patterns that have a PURPOSE.

STRENGTHENS you in a particular way that directly translates to an activity outside the gym.

The exercises will carry BENEFIT and cross over to your everyday life.

Functional exercise # 1 The Farmers walk.

💭 See people wondering around the gym carrying weights (kettlebell or dumbbells can be used) in each hand ?

Enter the FARMERS WALK.

Looks SIMPLE but is EFFECTIVE - that’s what we want from our exercises.

👊 Exercise hits most of the muscle group (Including you’re core - I know lots of people are all about the core 🍏)

👊 Effective from a cardio perspective (Again people love the cardio effect, but mostly without doing traditional ‘cardio’ 🙋🏼‍♀️)

👊 Functional exercise ( Carrying shopping bags - that’s a female function 💁🏼‍♀️)

👊 Improves grip strength - again transferable to your strength training (may be the problem area with your deadlift?) and your life.

So get those Farmers walk included in your next training sesh.

Let me know how it goes

SELF LOVE

I always tell Rory that he needs to love himself the most 🧡

To believe in himself.

Be resilient.

And yet sometimes, and previously, I haven’t done that myself.

If someone spoke to him the way I’ve been guilty of speaking to myself previously I would go bat-s**t mum crazy (you know that rage mums!) and yet I do it to myself.

That’s crazy.

What do you teach your kids that you could do with teaching yourself?

For weight loss goals; should we track food?

First things first; if we are looking at a weight loss goal then we need to review our calorie intake.

If we want to effect our calorie intake we need to know what we’re consuming, and where.
That makes sense right?

Tracking can be seen as a really useful, sometimes short term, educational tool to :

🔑 EDUCATE yourself on what foods carry what calories.

🔑 UNDERSTAND the make up (macros) of these foods ( I thought I was carb cutting circa 2010 until I realised veggies were carbs!)

🔑 AWARENESS by looking back on yesterday / last weeks food intake.

🔑 ACCOUNTABILITY is staring at your right there on your phone. When I used to log my food I would sometimes do it before I ate, and that would perhaps deter me or help me make a judgement call.

🔑 Help with PLANNING your food - which can be key to staying on track, as opposed to reacting to a situation or an instant feeling of HANGER !!

Tracking doesn’t have to be a long term thing, i understand and appreciate the ‘obsessive’ aspect for some people, but what I am saying is that it can be a bloody useful tool.

Take what you need from it, and then move on.

Tell me, do you track ?


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