Perception

This week I have learnt a big lesson about perception. I took my 12week photos and was devastated with what I saw. The frontal photo did not reflect the way I felt. I felt leaner but that is not what I saw and I was very unhappy. The side and back photos certainly showed changes and I was happy with them but I kept looking at that front photo and wondering what I had done wrong, why had the program not done what I hoped it would do.

Poor Josh has since had to listen to me complain about that photo. He really has put things into perspective for me. The gains I have made in all other areas of my health and fitness are more important than that one photo. I have to agree with him. I took my resting heart rate which was 59-62 a huge change from earlier when it was sitting above 100. I no longer take antihypertensive medication and in fact my blood pressure can be a little low at times. I can feel my hip bones and my ribs, I couldn't before. I have not deviated from the MP nutrition and training plan in 12 weeks. I couldn't run 5kms 12weeks ago and now I am not only running 5km but I can run 5km with hills along the way. I have never run 10km under 70mins until recently.

I have also realised that in the last year that I have no photos of me except those taken for body composition in my underwear. So my goal for this month is to take some photos of how people see me so that I can visualise the changes I have made that people say they can see. I was given one the other day and I looked at it and I could see changes.

Leaner
Treena