{"id":150,"date":"2015-10-26T18:08:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=150"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:08:03","slug":"slow-and-steady-wins-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow and steady wins the race &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So this weekend was the weekend I decided I was going to remeasure myself after eight weeks .. \u00a0I was feeling really good feeling fitter, clearer skin, shiny hair, cold nose just like a healthy dog really &#8230;..until I put the measuring tape around me and to be honest I was \u00a0a little bit disappointed by the loss . \u00a0I think secretly I was expecting to have dropped masses I felt better so I figured I must be thinner. I prepared myself for that biggest loser moment where you&#8217;re jumping up and down all excited and flapping tears away from your eyes instead it was a bit of a \u00a0MEH!, moment. \u00a0So what did I do in the face of adversity did I going to the kitchen and raid the fridge no ! Did I go in to the kitchen and raid the cupboards no! did I go down the garage and fill my pockets with chocolate and then fill my face with chocolate no !,&#8230;. \u00a0What I did was text my coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/finishstronguk?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Pom<\/a> &#8230;now what a breakthrough that was !! the reason I&#8217;m writing this blog right now is because I think it&#8217;s important that you know what reply I got my text .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">My text to him said &#8220;Right Pom I think we need to ramp things up a bit &#8230;done my measurements and they aren&#8217;t as drastic as I would&#8217;ve liked &#x1f61f;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Now at this stage I think most trainers would probably be hitting the books looking for more cardio throwing more weights at me telling me I need to do more sessions a week and get me to fill in a food diary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This is the reason that I like Pom&#8230; \u00a0The quintessential difference between a personal trainer and a coach the following is a screenshot of the reply I got to my text message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot_2015-10-26-17-50-42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-153\" src=\"http:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot_2015-10-26-17-50-42-169x300.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2015-10-26-17-50-42\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot_2015-10-26-17-50-42-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot_2015-10-26-17-50-42-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot_2015-10-26-17-50-42.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Did you notice?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">He wrote we are the tortoise not you are the tortoise &#8230;why? Because we are in this together .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everything is part of the process, what you&#8217;ve got to remember when you have disappointments is not to quit is to remember why you started ! and okay I didn&#8217;t lose as many inches as I would&#8217;ve liked, but I have lost inches and okay they are not off my gargantuan butt but they are off my thunder thighs so every cloud has a silver lining and that hare can run as fast as he likes \u00a0but is not going to beat me because forever rest he takes I&#8217;m going to keep going and eventually I&#8217;m going to reach that finish line look-back smile and say kiss it Big Ears &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this weekend was the weekend I decided I was going to remeasure myself after eight weeks .. \u00a0I was feeling really good feeling fitter, clearer skin, shiny hair, cold nose just like a healthy dog really &#8230;..until I put the measuring tape around me and to be honest I was \u00a0a little bit disappointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}