getnfit@38
Cathlete
I've really come to realize with the help of many of you here that there comes a time when we need to take a realistic look at the facts and accept that "Rome wasn't built in a day!" and neither is the body we want!
I get so much more "motivation" from seeing realistic pictures of fit and strong bodies like Connie and Francine just to name the 2 that stick right out in my mind at the moment. They are "real" to me, no air brushed photo in a magazine, but honest real photos of a body that has taken time and effort to achieve.
This does more for me than any photo in a magazine!
I use to want to have the body of a dancer, long and lean (no full length mirrors in my home folks! It's easy to fool yourself that way!)
But seriously, now I look at my frame, and I see what I'm working with, and I can see where as I nip and tuck and hammer and chisel, where I'll probably fall, and I won't be long (I'm 5'4" for craps sake!), and I'm not going to be but so lean, but I can be leaner, and I can get fitter, and it's not going to happen overnight!
It may take me another 3-5 years of consistently working myself to achieve the results I want, and now I really understand the term, "there's no quick fix!"
So for me, and for many of my "check-in" buddies, we just have to be patient with ourselves and our bodies, and keep reminding ourselves that "nothing worthwhile comes easy!" and that everyone here we admire so much for what they've achieved, they worked at it hard before we got here! And they continue to work hard on themselves.
We just have to give ourselves time to mature in our individual programs. And I think that's the hard part, allowing ourselves the time our body needs to develop like we want it to.
But one day we'll be posting our pics and some "newbie" will be saying, "WOW! How can I look like you!?" And we'll be telling them the same thing the "educated crowd" tells us, "it takes time and consistent effort, but you can do it!"
(I REALLY wish I could click my heels 3x and be there right now though!)
Donna
Fitness~ it's a journey, not a race!
I get so much more "motivation" from seeing realistic pictures of fit and strong bodies like Connie and Francine just to name the 2 that stick right out in my mind at the moment. They are "real" to me, no air brushed photo in a magazine, but honest real photos of a body that has taken time and effort to achieve.
This does more for me than any photo in a magazine!
I use to want to have the body of a dancer, long and lean (no full length mirrors in my home folks! It's easy to fool yourself that way!)
But seriously, now I look at my frame, and I see what I'm working with, and I can see where as I nip and tuck and hammer and chisel, where I'll probably fall, and I won't be long (I'm 5'4" for craps sake!), and I'm not going to be but so lean, but I can be leaner, and I can get fitter, and it's not going to happen overnight!
It may take me another 3-5 years of consistently working myself to achieve the results I want, and now I really understand the term, "there's no quick fix!"
So for me, and for many of my "check-in" buddies, we just have to be patient with ourselves and our bodies, and keep reminding ourselves that "nothing worthwhile comes easy!" and that everyone here we admire so much for what they've achieved, they worked at it hard before we got here! And they continue to work hard on themselves.
We just have to give ourselves time to mature in our individual programs. And I think that's the hard part, allowing ourselves the time our body needs to develop like we want it to.
But one day we'll be posting our pics and some "newbie" will be saying, "WOW! How can I look like you!?" And we'll be telling them the same thing the "educated crowd" tells us, "it takes time and consistent effort, but you can do it!"
(I REALLY wish I could click my heels 3x and be there right now though!)
Donna
Fitness~ it's a journey, not a race!