Day Seven – Patience Is A Virtue

It’s been an amazing week!
First of all it kicked off with the beginning of the six pack challenge and the launch of the website.
Since going live on Monday we’ve had over 1,300 page views coming from 13 different countries and some wonderful comments; do leave us your thoughts and comments, we love reading them!
There was another launch this week – Tom Venuto’s new Holy Grail Body Transformation Programme– now, I’m not often one to blow my own trumpet, but I’m featured in the introduction for it because I did something a bit ‘weird’ over the course of his very first Burn the Fat Holiday Challenge.
I lost fat AND gained muscle at the same time and after 50 days, was one pound heavier than when I started but had 7% less body fat *grin*
I’m on several health and fitness lists and the Holy Grail is THE hot topic of the moment, so I keep opening emails only to see me looking back at myself, and listening to audios talking about how I put ON weight and ended up with less body fat – THAT has been a lot of fun this week, if not a bit surreal.
Work wise it’s been stupidly busy and with Christmas rapidly approaching, all the PRs are ramping up for the big push – there are so many bits and pieces on my desk to review, it’s CRAZY.
Next week is going to be just as busy – I’m off to London on Thursday to attend the launch of a range of Italian spa skincare products called [Comfort Zone]; part of the [Comfort Zone] experience is a head and back massage by one of the top beauty therapists in the country.
I’m all for stepping out of the proverbial comfort zone, but I’ve seen the training for this week! Let me tell you, come Thursday I’m going to be more than happy to step back into it for half an hour and enjoy every single second of that head and back massage.
My week one results were good – can you feel my lack of enthusiasm for them? – I don’t want ‘good’, I want GREAT! I want FANTASTIC! I want SUPER MEGA AWESOME!!!! And I’d rather like them now…if that’s ok.
And then I rein myself back in, remind myself I’m not going to see huge changes inch by inch, week by week anymore; those days are gone!
Now it’s about refinement. I go back and look at the original day one pictures from the end of April last year and compare them with today…not bad; absolutely right not bad, pretty bloody MARVELLOUS! (oooh there I go blowing my own trumpet again *to-do-doooooo*).
They say that patience is a virtue and it’s something I’m practising being good at; really I am – sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. Today it was 50/50 when I put together my results for week one and that Savage Chickens cartoon pretty much sums up my relationship with the ‘P’ word; it made me laugh!
In my ‘10 things’ ebook, I mention about the importance of visualisation in helping you achieve your goals, and if you’ve read my starting facts, figures and goals then you’ll know that I’m not only chasing a six pack, but also a rather pert bottom and slim hips.
I knocked up a V E R Y rough visual in photoshop this evening, using today’s back photo to create an image that shows very clearly what I want.
Here it is…

I don’t know how that looks to you, but for me it’s subtle on the one hand and Mount Everestesque, in terms of what it’s going to take to achieve, on the other!
I’ve got nine weeks…NINE; NOT achieving that visual is just not an option – that bum has been with me looking like that for too long…it’s days are NUMBERED!
Bring on week two, that’s all I can say…