Iconic Fit Dee

I haven't posted anything in a while... Life happens! After 5 months of no gym and a ton of very stressful stuff and menopause rearing its ugly head, I've decided to get back into the rhythm of a training plan again. I'm astounded at how fast my body went back to its factory setting! Lots of hard work ahead and some before and after pics in a few weeks once I see things changing. 👊🏼💪🏼

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Oh how the tables have turned 🙌 Welcome to the performance enhanced club ladies, what took you so long? 🤣

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Don't say I don't show you a good time.... 🍭 Popsicleize your BCAAs for summer! You didnt think of that did you?! I always find this sort of supplement (pre workouts) waaaayyyy to sweet to drink but, they are perfectly fun-tasticle in a popsicle!! Give it a go!!

Happy New year to all! It's officially 2024! No new year resolutions here... Just consistency and new goals with a few big dreams thrown in for good measure!

Let's talk about DIET.
If you are training with a PT and he/she has given you a diet of some kind please throw it in the bin. It's probably been zerox'd a million times and been passed from one PT to another for 10 years. Take note: one size does not fit all and your requirements are unique!!

Your diet should be designed by a qualified person who has asked you all the relevant questions on hormones and health and your bloods, that are required in order to calculate exactly what your specific requirments are, in order to achieve your desired goal.
So by all means train with a PT but for goodness sake get your macros and diet done by a professional. You wouldn't ask your hairdresser to do your b**b job and the same caution is required with nutrition.
If you need a meal plan, I highly recommend

BA HMS, biochnetics Honours,
On line coach and DIET GURU!!

It's not too late to work on your body. It's never too late, and being too busy is just an excuse... stop that! Prioritize yourself! That comfort zone you're so keen on is boring AF. Make it happen... lift weights... eat right... be fantastic! It's Monday!

PHOTO CREDIT:
LOCATION: .iconic.iron

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My very own version of cardii versus weights. The first pic was taken during a period of starving myself and running 5km a day (45). The second pic was taken at the age of 52, eating 7 meals a day and weight training only.

Do I need to say more??

I grew up in the 70s and 80s when, as a woman, it was fashionable to be super skinny and petite. If you had a flat bum, you were sexy AF, and that was that! Of course, I didn't fit into that particular category, and so for many years of my life, I struggled with self-esteem, fluctuating weight, comfort eating, and depression. I was a big girl... 5ft7 and solid with a bubble bum that was often the center of family jokes and jibes.... "My Amazonian daughter"
It was10 years ago that I started to realise that my physique was an asset rather than a liability when an ex boyfriend told me that girls spent hours squatting in the gym to have a bum and legs like mine. I thought he was crazy but the seed was planted, and 4 years ago, I knuckled down to training and competing. I wanted to see the body I was given treated correctly and embraced for being unique and special and mine. The result was that after 50 odd years of being self-conscious and self-loathing, and having made myself small, I found inside me an amazing, strong, powerful woman who is unstoppable and confident and brave and larger than life. She had been there all the time. What a waste of 50 years of valuable time for living just because society labeled my body "unacceptable" and definitely not sexy.

So my message here to young girls... f what the media and your mother thinks you should stereotypically look like. You are perfect and beautiful and most importantly....unique. Look after your body. Don't abuse it with diets and pills and self-loathing. DONT LISTEN TO S**T UNLESS IT IS POSSITIVE! Give your body all the love you need to be you.
Drink water, eat clean, exercise, read, meditate, and love yourself.

It goes everywhere... and it's...
Durable
Accessible
Lightweight
And sexy as hell!

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Just a girl in boots sitting in a kitchen looking at a fridge and wondering why there is never cold pizza in it.


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