Guess who ????!!!!!!

Hello dear blogland!! It's ME! I am still alive ! Sincere and heartfelt apologies for abandoning you...I didn't mean to take a hiatus! Suffice it to say I have undergone something of a transformation these past few months. In a GOOD way! All part of the plan to be less focused on self and more looking outward. All about the next challenge. The next phase of life. It all began with Twitter, funnily enough! One extremely hungover Sunday morning in January I was idly scrolling through Twitter when I happened upon @inkilterfitness aka Stuart Amory who had set his followers a challenge for January which was not to drink alcohol. I figured it was probs a good idea to get involved and so I did! Over the next few weeks I noticed little motivational tweets from Stu here and there, spurring us all on, encouraging us to stick with the challenge and publish results. This was when the penny dropped as to what twitter is all about! Also during aforementioned hungover Sunday, I was also 'tweeted' by @markpt aka Mark Raynsford who recommended a vile concoction to restore my poor dehydrated body after poisoning it with wine. It worked a treat! So I started following him as well. Cue the beginnings of endless banter, merciless teasing, great friendship and a whole lotta learning! Long story short, there is a pretty amazing pt community firmly establishing itself in twitter land, and with all my aspirations in that direction I am loving all that I am learning from these people. Sometimes in life, connections with people just grab you and impact your life in a myriad of ways. It's weird. But also cool ! So, over the past 2 months I have..... 1. Maintained my weight (and lost a little bit more) and been at my ww goal for a year! yep - 14th Feb was the day! How cool is that ! 2. Made MANY adaptations to the way I eat (more on this later) 3. Changed the way I workout - or at least, I am on the way to changing it! 4. Qualified at the first level of my pt course ! 5. Got myself a mentor for all things pt 6. Made some very exciting connections in the fitness industry and 7. Hatched some very exciting plans for the not too distant future!! So, I'm back and ready to blog ! Thanks for not abandoning me !! Love, Liz xoxo

Twitter.....

.....I've been on it for a while but have only just begun to use it properly! I think I love it even more than facebook!!

Feel free to follow me

@lixwall

www.twitter.com/lixwall

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

love Lizzie xoxox

A year ago today.......

....I ran my first ever 10k distance! It was on the treadmill at my gym and took me 72 minutes. I was SO PLEASED with myself and absolutely BUZZING that my body could DO THAT!! Guess what? It didn't kill me, I didn't hurt too much afterwards, it was truly amazing! All it did was give me a greater passion for running - shortly after I made the transition to running outside and now I cannot imagine my life without being able to just head out for a run! It was a few weeks before I hit my ww goal too and I am certain the extra push activity-wise contributed to actually getting to goal. AWESOME.

I now run 10k in 50 minutes...and sometimes under! Who knew THAT would happen in a year?!!

When it feels tough and you can't be arsed, have a think back to what you have achieved. We do some pretty amazing things on our individual and combined health and fitness journeys y'know!!

Have a great day!

Love Lizzie xoxoxox

Happy New Year!

Happy 2011 peeps! I realise I am a tad late to the party but it has taken me till now to get back in the swing of things! I am very excited about this new year + as such am not gonna do a massive retrospective on 2010. Suffice it to say that I had a great year of getting to goal, changing my body, dramatically increasing my fitness + above all else getting HEALTHY. I had a massive NSV of appearing on stage half naked and in short I further revolutionised my life and my outlook thereon.

This year is all about being outward looking. I took a year to focus on myself in 2010. Now it's all about putting it out there. For this is the year I will qualify as a pt! Me. A bona fide health + fitness professional! And health is my aim and overriding objective. Not weight loss this year, but continued health and fitness + my own personal aim to be the best me I can be.

I'm really excited! It means lots of changes but rather than freak out it's much easier just to embrace it. More on all that later but I just wanted to check in + say hello!

How you all doing? What's your aim for the year?

Heaps of love

Lizzie xoxoxo
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MeRrY ChRiStMaS!!!!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas indeed, and a truly happy, healthy & prosperous 2011!

Thank you for all your love, support, comments, emails, tweets and facebooking this year. You really are wonderful and this blog is so much a part of my continued success with the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle....Couldn't do it without you!!!! Lots of love to you all, Lizzie xoxo

The ballet world is a-buzz!

Oooh! Go read this! From the lovely Charlotte. I won't recreate the post here (she + her readers I am sure will say it all!)but I am most definitely formulating some thoughts about this! Most probably ones that will be contrary to popular belief! I cannot wait to see the film in and of itself, never mind all the hoopla that is sure to surround it!

Too bad it's not out here till January.....

Lizzie xoxo

Pain in the neck...

Quite literally!

Please bear with me folks! What is it with me, December and flipping injuries!? Just when the season of eating is upon us and I aim to rely on my carefully honed gym attendance and running skillz, I am afflicted with a horrid injury. Last year was the debacle of ITB and this year is all about the neck! I have had a niggling neck pain for a little over a week now and despite using copious amounts of ibuprofen & Deep Heat it is showing no signs of abating. I cannot get comfortable when I sleep - so much so that I have been relegated to the spare room because the husband cannot function on so little sleep! It's fine when I am moving but all of a sudden when I sit still a wave of pain coems over me. Apparently, this is a muscle spasm.

I went to the GP this morning who firstly suggested I fashion a neck brace out of several sheets of newspaper and 'one of your mother's silk scarves'. Yes, apparently, I went to the Doctor's in the 1950's today, so that was nice. What a quack. He did, however, give me some super duper pain killers and some super strength deep heat and recommend physiotherapy, which is paid for by the nhs HURRAH, so the referral has gone in. I am booked in for a sports massage on Weds should the muscle relax enough to actually be manipulated. At present, my right shoulder is higher than the left. Delightful. So we shall see. Hopefully the painkillers will do the trick. I couldn't work out all weekend so I anticipate the twitchy legs and crippling paranoia about weight gain will kick in soon.

BLOODY BUGGERY BUMS. (sorry)

Madly, in my head I actually considered going to the gym this evening. I don't think I'll get away with BodyPump.....but I am NOT becoming enslaved to the stupid recumbent bike again....think I might wait till Weds, see what Mr PT has to say and then go from there.

I am in a foul mood. I reeeeeeeeally suck as a patient.

I'd better go..... there's a tennis ball with my name on it that I need to do some self mfr with. Oh the glamour!

Hope you're all well!!!

Love Lizzie xoxo