New direction

So u may have noticed a blog name change :) over the next few weeks I'm going to transition my blog. It's been a blog about ttc and family and kids for years now and whilst I will continue to blog these things it's time for a change.

Ever since I went on Maternity leave in June 2011 I knew it was going to be hard to return to the work force. Not only as a job in my profession means a lot of travel and time away from the kids sadly my heart was never in it. Over the past 2 and a bit years I have continually looked through the job websites looking at what is out there and where I wanted to be when I headed back to work.

I have thought about a few things including teaching but again I never felt the burning desire to do it, it was more about a good job for my family.

Now before I met B I was really into my fitness I trained around 2 hours every day ate really well etc. I weighed 63kg mainly because my weekend lifestyle of a 23 year old wasn't the best I did like to go out and drink.

Now when I met B he isn't into health and fitness at all, I was working and would travel to stay at his place every night he worked 5 mins walk from home so would cook dinner for when I got there. He loved cooking home made pizza and basically all heavy carb laden stuff. A few years in and I got back into my health and fitness got down to 70kg and completed a certIII in personal training. I was due to complete my cert4 when I fell pregnant with Tyler and I couldn't complete the physical/practical stuff so had to put it on hold. Just over 2 years later pregnant again I still can't do it but I can build myself up to get back to my health and fitness peak.

I have put together a healthy clean eating plan that contains my calorie requirements whilst pregnant and covers all food groups so no nutrients are missing. I am also writing a plan of building up my exercise to 4-5 light sessions a week. I am sufferering bad psd pain so it will be a slow gradual thing.

During this time though I am going to implement a healthy diet focusing on learning clean eating for the whole family. They could all do with cutting out the crap. I won't cut out main food groups though as wheat and dairy etc are all important to growing children and I don't want them developing a permeant allergy.

I am going to re do my veggie garden to make it much better and more manageable.

I do not intend to lose any weight whilst pregnant I simply want to improve my health and slowly build fitness. I am currently 88kg. Have to start somewhere right.

I have a few goals in place for the next 12-18months and I'm looking forward to striving to achieve them.

My main goal is to get into the health and fitness industry as a profession. I know its not all the high paying but I don't care. I have never been about money and being rich. I just want my bills paid and to be happy. If that means doing something I love over doing something for a bucket load of money that's way more important.

Goals (next 6months whilst pregnant)
1. Eat healthy and nutritionally developing and learning more about clean eating
2. Slowly build to 4-5days 40mins light exercise
3. Rebuild veggie and herb garden
4. Declutter and thoroughly clean house (nesting instinct kicking in perhaps)

12months after pregnancy
1. 60kg by march 2015
2. Gold Coast, brisbane and Sunshine Coast think pink triathlons end 2014
3. Get a job in health and fitness industry
4. Start cert4 personal training
5. Start training for full triathlon to compete in late 2015/early 2016

I feel really good and so positive about this :) I finally feel like I have direction.

I haven' talked to B about this as he is going through his own transitional stage. This is partly what promoted mine as it would have been good if I could have returned to work for 6 months leading up to the birth to help him have some time out but I couldn't get a job.
B has given up his business he couldn't cope any more mentally or physically. He has put an application to Join the police force. That's a long slow process and can take 4-6months before u find out if u do or don't make it. In the mean time he has 3 months off work with a medical cert and hopefully he will be able to return to work Soon enough.
I will spend a good 6-12months working away at all this and when B is in a better place talk to him about it :)