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How This Mum Transformed Her Life with Myprotein's 8-Week Body Transformation Challenge
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Jan 30, 2025
Watch this mum's amazing 8-week body and mind transformation, where she learns to accept herself and lose weight at the same time. 8 weeks ago, Myprotein challenged Jade to our 60 day transformation challenge - the Time Between - to reach her weight loss goal. Watch how she achieved that goal, and learnt how to accept herself and become a lot more confident in the process. ********************************* Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MyproteinUK?sub_confirmation=1 If you like this, you'll love this: https://youtu.be/FEThVI3krFI Find more transformations powered by Myprotein here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLpqIP9TFL8&list=PLkb17OgnhB-FkHtBr2fEZyP5RgMCM7rqN Download the Myprotein App: https://bit.ly/3dhVVUE ********************************* #weightloss #weightlossjourney #myprotein How This Mum Transformed Her Life with Myprotein's 8-Week Body Transformation Challenge
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hi i'm jade and i finally just want to
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feel comfortable in my body
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my protein are providing me with a eight
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week transformation program and that
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involves having a personal trainer keira
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he was also providing me with a
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nutrition plan i'm really excited so
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yeah looking forward to it
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so my previous
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experience with diet and exercise is
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mostly just kind of
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fad diets
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i did that for majority
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of my years i'd say from maybe like 16
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and then after then i started doing some
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weight training and really enjoyed that
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and was just eating healthily and i
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became vegan and i did really really
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enjoy it but then eventually lockdown
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came and we all started snacking and
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staying indoors and i can only exercise
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once a day and i ended up gaining a lot
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more weight
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and then the pandemic was over but i
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ended up getting pregnant i'm a single
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parent so i've not really had any time
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to do anything i need this
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transformation because
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i think this is probably the worst i've
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felt about myself in a really long time
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there's been times where i've been this
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heavy and not felt as afraid to look in
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the mirror people are taking photos and
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i refuse to look at the photos because i
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don't want to see myself and i think i
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need to get better at that because i'm
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afraid to take photos with my son
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sorry
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i'm about to get emotional sorry
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just bear with me one second
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um i'm afraid to take photos with him
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and
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that's a really sad thing because
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he's so little
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and
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the way
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that my son looks at me is the way i
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should see myself
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um
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you know i i don't look at any photos of
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him and think oh that's awful
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why does he look like that and i know
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that he doesn't think of me that way so
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i need to start loving myself a lot more
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um because this year's been really tough
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um and i think i'm doing a good job
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and yeah i just want to do it for him
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really because
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i want to feel better and i want to do
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things then without feeling
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uncomfortable or awkward
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did you reach your goal we have reached
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it but there's been tears there's been
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tantrums and i don't mean from kingsley
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i mean from us
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so
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that was new we should be very proud of
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ourselves um because
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there were times where i really just
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didn't think we were going to get there
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you need to just keep remembering what
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your goals are and why you're doing it
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and you know look in the mirror and just
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say like i feel good about myself are
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you more comfortable being in photos now
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i do so much better in photos now i
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don't mind taking them don't mind being
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in them part of them
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because i'm working with this new body
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on how to like position myself so i look
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at them and think
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okay that's good you need to be kinder
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you have to be kind got to say that
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because it's so easy to get swept away
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and be mean to yourself and say you're
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not working hard enough you are working
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as hard as you possibly can don't hate
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on how you look so much because it
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really doesn't matter in the end
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these things will come a time but i
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think at the minute you're focused on
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what you're going to look like at the
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end but you just need to enjoy the
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experience that's really important but
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don't be so focused on what you
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physically look like think about your
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mental health you know how far we have
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actually come and how you feel around
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kingsley
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so let's just kick start off by talking
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exactly what you're expecting and what
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you want to achieve over the next eight
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weeks working together so what i'm
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hoping for is a little bit more uh
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confidence um i think that's my biggest
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goal really encompasses everything so i
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don't really feel very good about my
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body at the moment and i had a baby and
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pandemic before that so a lot is kind of
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happening executively consecutively
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and it's just delayed any progress that
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i may be making or just you know my
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general habits of going to gym and
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keeping fit and stuff and eating
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healthily yeah so jade is a first-time
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mum and for her time is very important
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equally we've gone for four days of
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strength training where she can get to
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the gym but they're nice and short and
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sweet so it's not going to take up a big
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chunk of a day so i just want to feel a
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little bit better about myself have a
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nice routine and a healthy balanced diet
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and something that is quick and easy and
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i can fit around
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my son as well and same goes with
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nutrition where it is meals that are
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simple and quick to make so that if she
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is looking after her son she doesn't
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have to stress too much about spending
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too much time in the kitchen and for
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jade
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one of her big struggles is things like
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including carbs into her diets we've
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made sure to include these things in a
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nice balanced way and we're going to
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teach her how she can have these things
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every single day every single week and
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still make the progress that she wants
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okay so what we're gonna do now is we're
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gonna hop into the gym and we're gonna
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do a little bit of an assessment
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right so we're gonna do three different
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fitness tests now that we're gonna use
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to compare in eight weeks time hopefully
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see a little bit of an increase in your
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strength and your stamina so we're gonna
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be doing maximum plank hold
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our max amount of push-ups in a minute
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and our max amount of squats in a minute
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right starting in three two one and off
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we go there
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and the more you tense up the easier
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you're going to make it for yourself
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that's fine
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37 seconds
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right our next one is going to be
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the maximum amount of squats that we can
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do in a minute three two one and off we
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go there
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i'll count your reps for you
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i'm relaxing there that's it
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all right so that was 19
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and then our last one a minute again
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we're gonna go for the maximum amount of
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push-ups three two one and off we go
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that's it so that's slight look forward
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trying to get that chest nice and low
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that set rests in there
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16.
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we're gonna use this in eight weeks time
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and we're gonna do another little bit of
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a reassessment and just see where you're
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at in terms of how many reps you could
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get or what your form is looking like
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and just making sure that there are no
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imbalances
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so i've just got back from the gym i
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obviously forgot to film myself
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i'm so conscious of being there that i
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think um i just kind of wanted to get on
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with my workout i was determined to do
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it i'm back i've had my snacks i've had
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um three rice cakes with peanut butter
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and banana rum and then i'm also having
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my um
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protein shake which is the clearway
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isolate and i'm really enjoying it
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good morning day two
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i am feeling incredibly sore
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so i know i've worked hard enough yeah
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so today i'm enjoying my breakfast i've
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got
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some yogurt low-fat yogurt with um my
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protein
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cocoa crispies i think they're called
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with banana and strawberry and then a
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little bit of almond butter as well
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forgive me because it's in
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in my son's bowl
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mama doesn't have time today
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so
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this is what it looks like
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good morning
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day
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three
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i'm so
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so tired today just strained of energy
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because of
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uh kingsley not sleeping last night
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and i'm just absolutely craving um sugar
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obviously trying not to do that right
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now
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hello
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um so i'm having my second snack of the
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day so it's the strawberry cheesecake
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with the cocoa powder and the protein
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chocolate spread you see
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it looks really cute it's just in a lot
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of regular glass
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update on the cheesecake it was
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delicious
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something i haven't said is how much of
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a scale addict i am but i do feel really
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deflated and demotivated at the minute
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because
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my number hasn't actually changed if
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anything i've gained two grand 200
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pounds
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and it's really difficult because i've
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been working really hard in the gym i've
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been eating everything on the meal plan
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um
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i'm not getting 10k in every day you
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know i've tried to get a minimum of
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seven
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um but there's two days where i've got
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like two and a half
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three
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and when this kind of thing happens i
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get very um
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self-sabotaging so
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i don't want to do that i'm trying my
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absolute hardest
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i know that i'm gonna feel so much
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stronger with the workouts and stuff
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that we're doing but and i feel but i
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feel better by going to the gym this
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week you know and eating all the food
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that i have i feel healthy
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um but i just yeah i'm just really
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gutted about it and i feel like my hard
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work has gone to waste
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excuse the pun i went home on my
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hamstring stretches today to make sure
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that um
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i was really trying to loosen them up
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and stuff but yeah i went to the gym did
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my
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sets and it was really good really
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enjoyed it but yes i feel a lot better
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my legs feel a lot stronger already
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i
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feel like they're looser as well i just
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feel great about this week so i'm really
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excited to see um how i've progressed in
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the other sets that i've got coming up
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so today um please excuse the fact that
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it's almost falling off my plate
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um but today i'm having
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um brown rice and chicken curry
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really really excited to eat it um
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it clearly wants to get away from me
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it's trying to get off my plate
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currently out just going to pick up my
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son at the moment
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um
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so the 10 minute drive or a 35 minute
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walk so
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i used to do this all the time i used to
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walk there and back all the time um
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i think just with like fitting stuff in
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throughout my day especially you know
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having to go to the gym as well
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i wouldn't always be able to
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but
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i don't know i've either missed
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something on my list today of things to
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do or
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i'm just super bad um
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yeah either way i'm off now walking
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about 25 minutes left so
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i'll go and get him then we'll go to the
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park
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get some more steps more exercise i'll
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be running around after him
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and then go
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so i just wanted to give myself a bit of
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appreciation
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um
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i've said on my journey so far
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how easy it is for me to get kind of
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overwhelmed and bogged down with
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the reality that i'm not losing weight
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really rapidly
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um and i don't see the numbers change on
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the scale
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and i have been very demotivated on
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occasion
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um so yeah i just want to say congrats
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to me
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because
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even though i have been demotivated by
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it i haven't self sabotaged myself
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it is so difficult to think about
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feeding yourself when all you're
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concerned about is the next thing you've
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got to do for the child or children
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um so for the first time in a really
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long time i'm eating three meals a day
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and that is just
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pat on the back for that um because it
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just it's never really happened since
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i've had my son
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so quick video um obviously at the gym
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um i'm doing load press at the minute
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and
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i was starting on 73 because that's what
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i ended up lifting for the day
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but it's not heavy enough i've realized
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that i can probably do way more than 15
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reps on that so i've decided to
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up it's 93 and it seems to be better so
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just finished legs today
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i think my body
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has had quite a bit of rest my son only
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woke up once last night so that was
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stella absolutely stella i'm a new woman
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i really am i'm so refreshed can you
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feel can you just feel how i'm speaking
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it's because i've had a good amount of
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sleep and if i was like this every day i
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would be blessing
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having quite a hard morning i was really
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um pepped up and perked up this morning
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after doing my gym session
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um
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but i'm just having a really hard time
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because
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i've only just got back and had
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something to eat 10 minutes ago
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and my son
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is gonna be home in one hour and um
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i haven't i've only just eaten i've
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still got stuff i need to do around the
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house my house is a mess i definitely
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cry probably every day
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um
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but yeah it's just
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really overwhelmed me today
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because i'm just desperate to just have
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a shower
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to just wash my hair just have a cup of
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tea
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um
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and i'm probably not going to get the
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chance to do any of that today we're in
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eaton park don't worry we're looking at
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a picnic
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so i've brought all of my
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picnic stuff
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currently holding this this is for
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this little guy not me it's difficult
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not to want to eat bits of it though
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tipped mommy's lunch on the floor didn't
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you
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oh he's saying no you're a liar you're a
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liar
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uh yeah so he knocked my actual lunch on
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the floor
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which was coconut pasta with chicken and
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so um i have no lunch
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so i'm just gonna snack on those things
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until i get home and then i'll have
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something then
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yeah should we get our steps in well
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mommy because you're in the pram
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yeah
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um also i took my
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progress pics
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today so compared to four weeks ago
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i see no progress
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um i know i feel so much you know better
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i feel physically stronger
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you know i know i'm improving but
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physically i don't see it
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so talk to me a little bit about how
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you've been finding things over that i
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think we're about
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just three weeks on our fourth week how
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have things been going for you with your
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training and your nutrition the
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training's been really good
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so
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i've enjoyed it i think it's very easy
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for me to get
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um
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frustrated if i don't see results within
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the hour i think you know it's the most
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ridiculous thing but it's easy for me to
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be like that whenever
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yeah yeah but i've been really enjoying
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it actually um i like going to the gym i
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feel better i feel healthier stronger
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yeah and the prepping meals i've really
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enjoyed
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i tend to eat like the
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same kind of things just so it's so much
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easier for me and if i enjoy something
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why not and even having like my snacks
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throughout the day and stuff that's been
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beneficial because it means i don't want
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to go and have a crunchy or whatever
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and know that i shouldn't have had that
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i can have a protein bar and it tastes
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sweet and it is really good
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talk to me a little bit about the
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progress that you've made so far in
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terms of
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how you look how you feel
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how is that going at the moment
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um so i think it's really difficult for
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me to look in there i think when you see
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yourself every day it's really hard to
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look at yourself and say i think i've
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changed you know unless you're really
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dropping kilos like significantly
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you know i am enjoying my food now and i
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am lifting weights so that makes it
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different you know i know yeah i'm not
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you know just running on the treadmill
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and expecting to shift the fat so i know
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that my weight won't shift as much my
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physique will start to look better
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i don't hate what i see in the mirror
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because i know i'm working towards
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something and i think i see my legs
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changing a little bit um and i i see
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myself
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it sounds weird to say but i see myself
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looking stronger yeah um even when i'm
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lifting and obviously i'm having to look
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at myself you know i know i'm doing a
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lot better absolutely good yeah and you
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know the bonus is although it doesn't
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really feel like it shows
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on my button at my my jeans i've had to
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put a new button in so that's good
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that's great
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so there are changes i think like you
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said if you look at yourself every
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single day in the mirror you don't
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necessarily see all the changes but they
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definitely are and one thing there where
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you said you stand out i think one day
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you're really gonna own that i think
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you're gonna love that about yourself
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it's just building that confidence and
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feeling a little bit better in yourself
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i really like the gym i struggle
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physically being in there and knowing
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there's other people around i think i've
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just got that massive fear that
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someone's watching me then thinking like
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what is she doing yeah or god i could do
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20 more of those and i think that's also
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a bit of a motivator you know i will
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push myself significantly significantly
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harder because there's people around but
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also i just need to be
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you know being kinder to myself it's
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more compassionate to give yourself some
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compassion
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[Music]
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so just about to have one of the
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lunches off the new menu today pasta
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with
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basil pesto
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roasted peppers and tomatoes this is
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what it looks like
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a lot less pesto than what i'm currently
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you know used to i've like put like
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three teaspoons for maybe teaspoons of
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faster one but yeah this has got
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10 grams so not much at all hopefully
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it's really nice and really tasty
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because i've got it for two more days
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during the week
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is tomato chicken
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what do you want
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this is tomato chicken casserole
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um
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yeah quite excited to try it
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it's supposed to be chicken meatballs
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but instead it's just pieces of chicken
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i didn't really have the time to mash up
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stuff mince the meat to make meatballs
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so happy to have chicken pieces
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just willing to pop on and say i know
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i've been feeling super negative about
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not necessarily seeing my body change um
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but today i went out with kingsley and
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we went to an outlet
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and
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there was some like sports shorts on
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sale for seven pounds so i've picked
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those up even a holiday i don't wear
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shorts
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um i think the last time i did i was 19
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so
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um and i think i look alright in them
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you know i've my i've not changed
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significantly
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but
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the bits that i didn't like seem to be
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sorting themselves out so that's really
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positive and the legs is a massive thing
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i'm very conscious of my stomach and my
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legs so today was really nice to try
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those on and feel better about myself
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it's been really really good
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i'm gonna have to take a few days off
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um
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i feel
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awful
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absolutely awesome
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i've been sick all night
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literally vomiting all night
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and all this morning
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yeah
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and i can't keep anything down
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i don't even keep water down
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i don't know what's wrong with me
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um
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i'm obviously not going to be in
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anything
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if i even eat at all i know what i have
19:09
to do to keep my energy levels up but
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i'm struggling
19:15
just at the gym
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but it's the first day back after
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um stuck at home feeling well
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um so i don't have a lot of strength
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today
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obviously because i've not been eating
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uh
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on my own plan either um
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and china's decorating and stuff where
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possible but
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i've just not been eating very well so i
19:40
feel good enough to do a workout i just
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don't have
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you know
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masses of strength to push myself too
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hard today
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so i'm at the gym
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i've not even gone in yet
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i don't want to go today
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i just don't want to go
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i'm just not feeling it i think i've
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just faffed about so much this morning
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um i've like demotivated myself and
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obviously i'm gonna go in i'm here main
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effort's gone but
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i just don't want to get in today i just
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i can't be bothered i don't want to do
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any exercise i'm actually really pleased
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with only one week left because like i
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said i'm losing motivation here i don't
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want to quit on this process
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but um i'm just struggling to want to
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continue it right now
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and i don't want to let myself down or
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anyone else down
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um so i'm going to continue but i think
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after this i need a break from
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doing stuff for for a week or or so just
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because it's too much for me right now
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but yeah anyway not going to the gym
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today got stuff planned for kingsley
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and we've got a heavy weekend so
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eight weeks done
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really really thankful to have had the
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eight weeks anyway i think it's been
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brilliant it's taught me a lot yeah for
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now just really proud of myself for
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continuing the process and
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yeah so kind of sad actually to be at
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the end
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hi jade i'm darren my protein pt and
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first of all i want to congratulate you
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on completing your eight week
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transformation so what we're going to do
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today is go through your final
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assessment so we're going to look at the
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things you've done the first the first
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time on and go again and see if we can
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improve on those scores so i'm going to
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go with plank first time okay
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go
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30 seconds
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and dial the goal
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45 seconds good job well done
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so this time we're going to do press-ups
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so upon assessment you've done 16 in one
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minute let's go
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all the way down there we go
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10 seconds
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give me one more five seconds to go
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25 good stuff so this time we're going
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to do we're going to assess your squats
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last time you done 19 go
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and time
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good job
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that was absolutely awesome so you've
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done 25 so six more than in obviously
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what you've done eight weeks ago so
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definitely a big part of the body should
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feel
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she'll feel super proud of yourself for
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that
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i do feel a little bit lighter and like
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my body has more energy
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i think my body just feels a little bit
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more thankful if that makes any kind of
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sense because
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although i'm exerting a lot more energy
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i have a lot more energy to give i've
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been looking in the mirror i've caught
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myself a few times and been like hmm
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but i think other people have noticed
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that i look different and when i see
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photos of myself i do see that you know
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i'm more defined like around my waist
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and my legs are taking shape but give it
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a little couple more months a little bit
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more time
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and i will be
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really really happy with the results but
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i am so far i am happy with them it
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takes time and this is a lifestyle not
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not a short-term thing so
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i'm going to keep going to the gym i'm
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going to keep lifting i'm going to learn
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about the different types of weight
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machines that i you know i can use and i
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want to use and start making my own
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workouts i enjoy lifting weights i enjoy
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feeling strong it's something i've
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always liked
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if i want to feel better about myself i
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need to stop using
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my experiences and things that are going
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on as an excuse for
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why i can't get myself into the shape
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that i want to get into or get myself to
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a healthy point yes i had a baby this
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past year and a half
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and there's so much going on and it is a
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lot to deal with it's very easy
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especially as a parent to put your
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child's needs and everybody else's needs
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around you first and foremost before you
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put your own and i have been doing that
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since i had kingsley a lot more because
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he is my priority but it just means that
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jade isn't she's not even on the list at
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that point
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so i did have to change that and i'm
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glad because i have time for me
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and
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right now the time for me needs to be
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focused on making myself feel better
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physically
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and so when i look in the mirror i don't
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look away or
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when i see photos of myself i don't
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think oh god i just can't see those it
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needs to get to a point where i'm not
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shying away from looking at those
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because that is who i am and i'm trying
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really really hard to get to a better
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place
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