Running with Curves

Salutations!
Hello and hi!
Today I reminded of something …. I can do hard things!
Today we left at 6:45 for a wee hike… 9km to be exact!
The elevation was ridiculous… all the way up my lungs wanted to explode and on the way down my knees and feet ached! Good thing the view was amazing and the company grand!
It’s a start to something I need to work on… balance! My word for the year

🤍 need to see this today!
Been feeling so flat, unhealthy and all in my head for far too long!

I am a ferocious cyclist 🙆‍♀️

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This Strava comment was left on a long ride I did last year. It was meant to be helpful and I tried to take it in that spirit. But I wanted to share it today because for a few months now I have been living my best cycling life and for way too long (since waaaay before that comment) I refused to let myself pursue fun active things because I felt like I couldn’t be a ‘proper athlete’ until I was thinner (or, “10kg less”). I put off spending money on gear or kit or coaching because I was too embarrassed to try and take a sport more seriously when I was an L or XL bib shorts (still am), in comparison with most of the women cyclists I looked up to, who were each about the size of my one leg (still are). At one point I even stopped cycling for a few months because I’d gained weight and couldn’t fit into my shorts and told myself ‘you can only ride again when you can comfortably fit back into those shorts!’ It was not a fun time, emotionally.

Eventually, my mental health demanded that I get back on the bike (with new, bigger shorts) and I started loving it so much that I just gave up on waiting/trying to be thinner and started putting my time/energy/money into getting physically stronger on the bike and more involved in the cycling community - and life has featured a ton of cycling joy (and just regular joy) since then.

My body shape and size still changes a lot and my relationship with food will always be a work in progress. But I have never gone back to telling myself that I will “wait until I am [‘more / less of something’]” before pursuing a thing that I really want to pursue. Which feels good.

The point:

We all deserve to be happy

And to feel like we are good enough

And to pursue the things that spark personal joy

So less waiting

More pursuing

Please 🤙

When good things keep on happening 🌱💚🌿

Love opening a new bottle of product!

The two of me...
Not mutually exclusive
Hope you have happiness in your heart today 💫

Sunday sweat sesh!
Getting back on the horse!
Everything hurts! But thats okay!!

Muizies to Kalk Bay and back... 5km for what an honour to spend the morning with some amazing woman!
Took a moment to think about my friends who have fought that horrid flucking cancer! Sending love and light for those who are battling with breast cancer now

Sunday is face mask time!!
Love that my products are gentle enough for my soon to be 13 year old!
Hoping to get her into a good skin care routine early!
George is already proving to be more disciplined than I!
The is mixed with the cleansing wash to make a mask...
have I mentioned that these products smell so good, don’t contain nasties and no bunnies 🐰 are harmed in the production of these products? 🍃

Thursday 6th of August
Breakfast was a pita, sliced in half and toasted with avo on the one side and liver pate on the other!
Coffee with cream!
Lunch was some veggie soup made with the Delish veggies from .hungryrabbit ! With a half a pita from
I caved in the afternoon! I was fighting nonexistent WiFi and the cold! Found a rusk and had that with some coffee!
Dinner was a mish-mash of left overs and fried egg!
And red wine!

Wednesday 5 August

All the delicious food!
All keto
Need more water and more green veggies... I know!
Breakfast was half a pita with cheese sauce and boiled eggs
Lunch left over keto quiche 😉
Dinner was bobotie inspired mince with creamed spinach....
Connor reckons one of his top 5 dinners!

Tuesday 4 August
Omg.
The weather is turning and it’s cold again!
Breakfast was half a low carb pita with boiled egg and left over cheese sauce ... it is absolutely Delish!
Lunch wash the other half of the pita with peanut butter and some dry wors
Dinner was a crustless quiche... with bacon, left over toast chicken, sweet potato ans some fried onion! With a wee salad!

Monday 3 August
Breakfast was low carb toast with egg and on another slice of toast was fish paste
Lunch was a salad with some cheese and couple of slices of salami and avo! Had to fight the cat for that!
I also had a naartjie
Dinner was obscene ... I was so hungry... roasted pork belly... some roasted chicken and an assortment of veg
And wine
Decided to boot milk for a bit... so no tea today and coffee was with cream! So so so good!