I am a lucky lady...

Hi everyone!

Thought I'd give a little update on how July is going for me so far.
After losing my dear Cindy I felt really really down and it's been a bit of an uphill struggle trying to focus on the good things in life to at least distract me from the sadness I felt. In a lot of ways I have just blocked out the memory of losing her and have been trying to move forward, otherwise the feelings can all get a bit overwhelming.
I've been making sure to surround myself with people that absolutely motivate me and radiate positivity and have been trying to do things that I really enjoy...and as a result I am feeling a lot better than I was four weeks ago.

With all the crap stuff that's been happening around the world, it really makes you realise how precious life is. I have been focusing on appreciating just how lucky I am. I have a supportive and loving family, a great group of amazing friends, awesome fitness friends and lovely colleagues. I have a job, I am healthy, I am happy. I honestly could not ask for more in this life. Sure, we can strive to improve and I am working hard to make sure I do, but when I take a step back and focus on the basics, I realise that I am very lucky.

Staying strong

Wow, what a month June has been. I honestly cannot remember the last time I had so many negative and bad things happen in such a short space of of time. From injuries, insane work stress, days and days of sickness, home stresses and to top it all off, the loss of my beloved feline best friend whose been with me for 17 years... from start to finish, the month was crazy.

Cindy

I started the month off very positive but it was just one blow after another coming my way all month. It was hard, and really it still is. Mentally I haven't felt so "weak" since I started this journey 13 months ago. I have missed a few workouts, eaten a few bad foods, but on the whole, I've managed to stay on track.

Right now I am emotionally and mentally exhausted. Since finding out that my cat was very sick ten days ago..and then losing her four days later, I've just been numb. It's been hard this week to even do every day things but especially getting back to the gym. My focus has been off, and the training sessions I have done were even more exhausting than normal.

I know the pain and sadness will eventually get better, and in the mean time I am just trying to look ahead, and get through one day at a time. Obviously my goals are still very important to me, and I am doing my best to remember I just need to keep going.

My goal for the month is to stay strong and get back to feeling like myself again. I need some positivity in my life, so I will do what I can to surround myself with all of the people and things that inspire me the most.

In terms of the challenges I set for myself for June, I think I've probably succeeded with half of them...
- Complete the 30 day ab challenge: failed..but I have started doing more core classes at the gym
- Drink more water: passed, and feeling alot better for it
- Blog more: 50/50...I set up my facebook page so that's been great

- Not weigh myself for the whole month: win win win... I weighed myself for the first time today and it really wasn't that hard to stay away from the scales. I will probably stick with this for the last leg of my weight loss

- Hold back on exercise while my injured toe healed: I managed to do this for two whole weeks, and I am pleased to say that it has healed, and I am able to go about 90% again, but still have to be careful with a few things

Thank you for reading. I appreciate the support I get from everyone..it really means the world to me.

Next week I hope to have an update on the weight situation and some more progress photos.

:)