I am not a fitness blogger but fitness is a huge part of my life. This is a way of life, a way of keeping a clear head while life throws one crisis after another at you. Keeping anxiety at bay through comfort eating or drinking is not for me. Instead, I blast negative energy out at the gym and get stronger, not just physically, but also emotionally!
Within the past 4 months, I have managed to drastically change my body composition (and I was already reasonably happy with my weight):
✅ 5 kg weight loss
✅ 8 kg muscle gain (crikey!!)
✅ Body fat percentage down from 42 to 29%.
✅ Metabolic age down from 65 to 37 years!
If I can, you can! No diets, just regular exercise. Best motivation? When the gym trainer sees you stacking extra plates on your bar bells and comes to tell you how much you've come on. Or the trainer following your journey looks at your results and says: "Whatever you do, mate, keep doing it!"💪🏻🥂❤
Thanks to Olivia McGee from Exceed for this video!
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Video review of my book. 😍
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Yes, it has. Being tall has been a journey. I am sure it is for many of you, too. Know that you are not alone in this!
Link to book in bio.
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A tall woman reading a tall book. 😍 Meet Dion Thornton - owner of the newly emerging tall fashion brand The Tall Fit and reader of my tall novel, "A Tall Woman of Many Talents". She was so dedicated to reading it that she had the manuscript printed and bound (out of her own pocket!)... and now seems to be enjoying it. 🙌🏻
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When people asked me if I play basketball, here is what they don't know...
From 'Failure Five. Do You Play Basketball?' - #chaptersample from my #tallbook
*** Seeing me aiming at the ring with a basketball in my hands? This was a fairly amusing sight. I am guessing people would actually pay for such entertainment: watching a tall girl (perfect height, so sought after, for God’s sake!) being so inadequate. I could be a sports comedian (if that were a thing) or something – I was that bad.
Still, it was impossible to persuade the coaches that basketball wasn’t my thing. The only way to make them believe that was to give in to their pestering and join their team. Bwahaha!
This is exactly when they, eventually, got the idea. Sadly, it was far too late for them: they’d already, optimistically, decided to drag me along to some sort of a tournament.
I have hardly been more humiliated in my life. Honestly. Being just over two metres tall, attracting fans’ admiring looks… only to sit on the bench and pray not to be called into the game. Or, even worse, to actually be called in – only to quickly disappoint everyone, and I mean everyone, so badly!
At least there is something they remembered me by: being that tall girl who sucked at basketball. So, there is your silver lining. For all the wrong reasons.
I wonder if there could be a Guinness record for most unsuccessful basketball player?
So, this is why, when strangers in the street randomly stop me or try to get friendly with me and, looking for an opening line to have a conversation, ask me the mandatory question, ‘Do you play basketball?’, I just want to scream. All I can muster at times is an awkward smile. Or, if they got me in a good mood, I would walk an extra mile and laugh together with them at just how bad I was at basketball.
Now I can hold a basketball very well. Pretty professionally, I would say. I can make a good impression that I know what I am doing. Until I try to score two points.
When you've lost half of your working week to migraines, your body is screaming for movement. An improvised #trxworkout for beginners got my blood moving and the most delicious stretches made my muscles sing.
Piano Monday is here with Lynn Marie Bateman ❤️ 🎹
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Never too late to learn!
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And an even bigger challenge for a beginner piano learner... a duet! 😱
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The lunch break I most look forward to... My Monday piano practice with @lynniebee.photosart.
Crikey, how do musicians do this? I can play this tune with no mistakes, but for the camera?? No way!
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Does anyone else read more than one book at a time? 🤔
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Booklovers be like...
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