TWO WEEKS OUT FROM COMP

Let just say I am very excited - I would have said "stressed" but I am not allowed to use that word so the word of the month is "excited".

I have a busy two weeks leading up to comp. Tomorrow Saturday I start work at 7:00am cause we are running end of financial year and then I have normal work and open homes and of course all the paper work - that should take me until 2:00 when the gym opens and I will do my gym and cardio and then it is straight to a bridal shower for one of the lovely girls at the office and then straight from their to a friends house for a BBQ - no doubt that will not be an early night.

i am going into the office on Sunday at 5:00am so I can catch up on some work because I have to fly out to queensland on Wednesday. Sunday I will need to to cardio and gym and I have not practiced my posing at all for weeks. I can't get my routine and I am just hopeless at posing so I have some serious work to do there.

Wednesday I fly to queensland and don't get back home until Friday night. Jo Rogers is going to see me one night after she finishes at work to help me with some posing.

On the Saturday that I return to Dubbo I have more work and open houses and then a gardening course for the rest of the day. I will work all day on the Sunday and then try and get organised between work and gym and cardio and posing to fly to Melbourne on the Wednesday.

Somewhere in the middle of all that I have to do all my cardio and gym and posing and pack and wax and all those other things that you need to do.

Anyway just checking in to tell you this will probably be my last check in before comp. I am really scared but everything is going smoothly so far. God I forgot have to cook and freeze to prepare to take food away as well.

It is also tax time and the accountant said he wants all my gear by the 15th July - I told him he had bucklies - so I have agreed to do it by the 19th - guess what I am doing as soon as I come home from comp.

In the middle of all this I turn 50 on the 9th July but I am not going to celebrate my birthday until I come back home to Dubbo after the comp - think I will sit down in a quite corner with a bottle of red to myself and indulge :)

Everyone have a great couple of weeks and I will update you with my experience after comp.

Oh most important thing I nearly forgot - what am I going to eat after comp :)

Live with Passion
Kimmy

Photo my house from the Ultra-lite

Me flying in an Ultra-lite Plane with my friend Trev

Playing in the leaves

THIS IS MY GRANDDAUGHTER, CLAUDIA 4 YRS, ME AND MY MUM-IN-LAW - SHE IS 83 AND HAS LESS WRINKLES THAN ME :)

Accept and move forward
+++++++++++++++++++

If everything works out the way you planned, that's great. If

things don't work out as planned, that can be great, too,

because it opens up new possibilities to you.

Give your best thought, effort and attention to the factors

that you can control. And give your full acceptance to the

factors you cannot control.

What's the best response when some unforeseen event beyond

your control prevents things from working out as you

planned? Accept the situation, find the very best of the new

possibilities that have been created, and move forward with

them.

Acceptance of what has happened does not mean that you agree

with it or that you resign yourself to live with it.

Acceptance means that you see it for what it is and make

positive use of it.

Instead of constantly worrying that something will come

along to disrupt your plans, remind yourself that you can

adapt to whatever may happen. Instead being paralyzed by the

fear of what you cannot control, be confident in knowing

that even the most difficult situations harbor positive

possibilities.

Learn not to fight against what has already happened or to

be stopped by what might. Instead, choose to accept what is

and to use it as a springboard for magnificent success.

Ralph Marston

PLEASE WISH ALI A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

IT IS ALI'S BIRTHDAY TODAY BUT SHE SEEMS TO BE HIDING IT FROM EVERYONE.

SHE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PERSON SO CAN EVERYONE PLEASE SEND HER SOME HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHEER.

THANKS GUYS

KIMMY

QUOTE OF THE DAY

>We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

>Charles Swindoll

Feeling good :)

Awareness beyond thought
+++++++++++++++++++

Your thoughts and sensations may often dominate your
awareness. Remember, though, that your awareness exists
beyond them.

Even when your thoughts are completely calmed, you are still
very much aware. The thoughts and sensations come and go,
and behind them all is your ever-present awareness.

The thoughts you have are the thoughts you choose to hold.
They are not you.

Although you may have been stuck in a negative, destructive
thought pattern for years or even for decades, you always
have the choice of letting it go. For ultimately, your
thoughts do not create you or define you, and they do not
have to hold you hostage.

When you know that you do not have to think, then you are
free to think whatever you choose. When you experience your
thoughts and sensations as objects flowing through your
awareness, then they no longer have the power to hold you
back.

Your mind is an enormously powerful tool that is yours to
use as you choose. Cultivate awareness beyond your thoughts,
and put all those thoughts to use in a positive, meaningful
way.

Ralph Marston

PIC 5 WEEKS OUT

Wow where did that week go :)

Well lots happening - we had a bonfire last night - my husband just loves this time of the year. My granddaughter had her sparklers and all the pretty fire works kept popping up right near our house - wonder where they all came from - especially those really really loud ones - think someone was trying to scare us :)
Again food everywhere - had friends over and had four different types of cheese that I had to cut and dips and biscuits etc. I opened a packet of mixed salted nuts and put them in a container - I wanted to make sure they were fresh - so I bit a cashew in half with my teeth and spat it out and put the whole lot in the bin - now that is discipline - I knew if I ate even half of that cashew that would be the end of me :)
We had a BBQ with meat and sausages, bread, potatoes in jacket (cooked in the fire) with butter oozing everywhere - toasted marshallows and chocolates to finish off - oh and I forgot at the beginning we had little sausage rolls and spinach and ricotta bites - oh all so tempting. This little chicky babe had her salmon wrapped in foil and cooked in the fire with my veges - it was beautiful. I drank about 12 cups of green tea and was entertained by my husband who was having a wonderful time.

I sent photos to my coach and he said he could see a change - so I think that was good. He is re-doing my programme so I am waiting for it to come through.

I am having so much trouble with this posing - but the good news is about 10 days before comp I have to go to a conference at Surfers so I am going up a day early and Jo is going to spend a couple of hours with me teaching me the poses and my routine.
She sent me an email today to say she had finally finished the routine so that will be good. She promised me that it was really slow music and not much to learn - that is good because it takes me that long to get into the poses and I am so unco-ordinated LOL

My weight etc is not budging so will be keen to see what my next plan of attach is.

I will try and post one of my photos that I sent through - might be good motivation to bare myself to everyone so I push through to the 15th July.

I spend one full day at work this weekend, one full day cleaning up etc and one day gardening and entertaining my mother-in-law and granddaughter.

Be good everyone and hope you all had a great long weekend.

Live with Passion
Kimmy

WILLPOWER AND FOOD

Scales saying 52 kilos this morning so I am pretty happy with that and went out to a cocktail dinner with 20 people at a friends house last night and I cooked my salmon and veges and took it on a plate and warmed it up in the oven. Need to add a few things to my goodies list in the back of my journal– This was the menu last night - pumpkin soup and soft bread rolls and butter, beef wellington with carrots in honey and almonds and baked potoatoes and caramelised stuffed pears in pastry with icecream with a drizzle of custard and choc sauce plus chocies with coffee – oh and I forgot all the cheese and biscuits and bread and dipping oil before we sat down for dinner etc etc. Anyway I ate my plate full of food and drank mineral water all night – (I just told them I didn’t eat meat and they didn’t even realise that I didn’t have the rest of the food well except for the person sitting next to me J

You won't believe what has happened Now

Thank you so much to every one who has sent me messages - it is so lovely - I haven't have time to reply but will get back on track soon.

You will never guess what happened yesterday – I got a phone call from the doctor saying that the docotor who took the biopsy phoned her (my GP)and was still really concerned even though the results came back benign and wants me to go to Sydney to have a second opinion. I couldn’t believe it – but it is ok cause it hasn’t affected me in an “emotional” way - but god what the ______? Anyway I have been spot on with food – the only thing I have been not so good with is cardio (only doing half sessions - 25 minutes) this week so I will get back on track now – I had the funeral yesterday of one of our friends (died of cancer) and all my hubby’s mates and partners that we haven’t seen for years went to the pub after the funeral so we all didn’t get to bed until after 1 o’clock – last night – not good on a week night - but was so good to catch up with them all .

I have a speech to do today at a conference for the Council and then a gardening course all day on Saturday as well as catch up on all my work that is piling up – so no rest for the wicked.

I have booked in to see my Sydney doctor – she is away at the moment but I got an appointment on the 26th June – another long wait - so I am just going to keep going with my gym and cardio and posing (not that I have been practising – but I will start doing this) – I am still waiting for the routine!!!! I have just decided to put all this medical stuff at the back of my head for the time being and concentrate on my comp to see if I come up ok by July – I can’t do anything until the next appointment in Sydney so n ot much use stressing or thinking about it in a negative way – so best for m e just to turn off until I go to Sydney for the appointment and then take it from there.

Well have to rush and go and practice my speech – my eyes are hanging out of my head but I am sure they will look all pretty after I shower, dress and put on my face :)

Will keep you posted – wow what a week. I remember someone telling me it takes 72 hours for the food to really hit your body – so will be interested to see what the scales say in the morning and t o see how my body looks after my big binge earlier this week. Unless the fat all plonks on me in the next 24 hours I don’t think I have done too much damage but I guess the truth will come out in the photos

Will talk soon.

Kimmy