Patience in Learning....

Learning: The acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught:
Patience: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious:

This is something I have had troubles with during my life. I am not a very patient person, and learning, well that depends on what it is I need to learn or wish to learn. Coming to the conclusion this morning that as I get older I need a little more rest between times of training and competing. Also making sure I am getting enough nutrition into the body is very important, I can't afford to go backwards and loose weight and keep up the amount of exercise that I do, plus working.  So today I made it as my recovery day. I am spending the day doing a bit of Christmas shopping, and making myself some yummy pork belly for lunch with salad and just chilling out on the computer. Tonight we have a guest coming for dinner, so its a healthy bbq for us. Our friend is trying to drop a few kg's and I am trying to help with us having a healthy dinner. Menu for tonight will be, lean meat, light potato salad, and fresh greens. Light and easy is the way to go. 

Each time I see this quote I laugh, the fun we would have if we were kids playing in the rain, as adults we need to bring the inner child in us out more often, and not worry about what others think of us, as long as we are having fun and not hurting anyone else. 

I feel today is a beautiful turning point for me in my goals to understand that I need to rest, recover in order to be better tomorrow for another session. So instead of training 6 days straight, I will train for 2 days, rest then train for 2 days and rest, and so on. That way the body has time to recover and maintain my weight and most of all maintain good mental strength.

 When I was shopping this morning, I went into the book store and had to have a laugh, I know its not the right thing, but the amount of books that are out for 'diets' and exercise is huge, and I know its a big industry, and yes I am caught up in it myself. The interesting thing is for me that there is nothing really on the commonsense side of dieting and exercise. The quote here is true, we can all workout at the gym, walk, run, cycle, swim, etc, but when it comes down to loosing weight or even trying to gain weight, it comes down to what is on your plate. If you are someone who wants to drop a couple of kg's (pounds) then you really need to look at what you are eating, but most of all the proportions you put on your plate. 

No matter what we are all working on, in our lives stay strong, have patience and we need to learn our lessons...

Have a great one...

Hayley xx