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A tiny step makes a huge difference
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Early morning walk, Howqua Vic
What I saw while I was out walking this morning.
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Challenge completed!
I posted this challenge to a few people and on the hutch above my desk at work:
Total weight change for December: down 2.1kg!
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Basketball Update
Veteran’s basketball lasted all of one week. I woke up the following day with a sore left knee, and a trip to By Design Holistic Health to get the news that I had damaged my medial collateral ligament (MCL) and my posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)! It’s been a bit of a struggle to get my strength back, but mostly because it’s been so busy that I haven’t taken the time to do my exercises!
The U10 Girls have also had a fairly rough time of it since moving up to B Grade. There has been some great work, but it’s hard not to get demoralised when the opposition is a fair bit better and more experienced.
2015 will be a better year!
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Veteran’s Basketball
My mum aged several years when I broke it to her that her baby son was playing in a veterans basketball team!
The team was running short of players, I need something to help me stayget fit, and it will help me with my coaching and credibility if I’m in the trenches playing the game as well as coaching.
It’s a fun match, the guys don’t train but we get out there and have some fun. There was plenty of tips for me which was great as it’s been 15 or so years since I’ve played.
Interestingly the jersey I was thrown was number 7, which was my number when I played back in primary school (Winter 1980 Premiers!!!)
The results were about 32-20 down, but some of the guys reckon we should have beaten them, and there are plenty of better and taller teams in the competition. Yikes.
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Basketball – Round 5 – B Grade!
A few good wins at the the end of grading has seen the team pushed in to B grade, which is going to be a huge stretch for all of us. We started the game by scoring in the first minute, but by half way through the 1st half we were 10-2 down. It was quickly apparent these girls were seasoned players, and the final score of 63-6 was plainly visible on all our girls faces at the end. 🙁
We were simply far too slow, not getting back to defend and not passing well at all.
A great learning experience, hopefully we can turn it around next week.
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Halloween Pumpkin
Oops, i completely forgot to post this, but the girls wanted to do a bit of Trick or Treating. for Halloween, and we also decided to get and carve a pumpkin.
I’d never done it before
, but I was quite happy with how it came out.
I’m not sure if anyone saw it sitting on our front porch, so I thought I’d post some pictures here.
It’s worth noting that I 
couldn’t stand spending $7.50 for a huge, bright, orange traditional pumpkin that I believe you can’t really even eat, so I found a standard Kent pumpkin that cost $3 and made a delicious Thermomix pumpkin and sausage risotto afterwards.
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Basketball rounds 3&4
Rounds 3 & 4 of the grading rounds saw us have a couple of great wins, 29-10 in round 3 and 34-12 in round 4. We played really well as a team in round 3, maybe not so much in round 4, even though the score line was better.
We still need to work on our defense, and running back to be in position.
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10Kg Lighter
I started Isagenix 90 days ago, mainly to support my darling Bernie, but also to shed a bunch of Kg’s that seem to have slowly accumulated over the last about 9 years. From the age of about 33 I found I couldn’t just eat whatever I like and put on no weight at all. 🙁
What is Isagenix?
Isagenix is an organic “food system” that takes a balanced lifestyle approach to better supporting the body’s natural cleansing and replenishing needs.
Isagenix is;
NOT a “diet”, BUT a sustainable “lifestyle”
NOT a “weight-loss program”, BUT a “body composition system” that builds muscle while burning fat
NOT a “fast or detox program”, BUT a “nutritional cleanse” that supports the body’s natural cleansing/replenishing processes with whole-food nutrition.What I love most are the results; more energy, better sleep, more lean muscle, faster recovery, stronger performance and less body fat!! Transforming lives, one person at a time!!
I have now released 10Kg, and feel so much better! I’ve also done this with fairly close to no exercise at all. Now is the time for me to start the exercise and really make a difference.
Has it been easy? No, not always. Has it been manageable? Certainly. Have I fallen off the bandwagon and decided I’m eating and drinking whatever I feel like today? Yep, but it often didn’t make me feel that great, and I got back on the wagon each and every time.
It’s about the little steps.
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Basketball results round 2
What a difference a week can make! Unfortunately we were unable to train this week so I have had no time with the girls at all since the last game.
On the up side, we scored another new player this week, bringing the total to 8, which is a really good number.
We headed into round 2 with 2 players I’d never met before, 1 new one who had played last week, and the five that had trained the week before. Lizzie had sprained her ankle at school, and even though I strapped it up, she didn’t think she would be up to playing.
I made the mistake of benching the 2 new girls right at the start so I could have a quick chat with them, find out skill levels etc. only to find neither have played competition before at all, just a bit at school.
Not wanting both new players on the court together (initially) had to do a bit of careful subbing, but we made it through.
The score line accurately reflected our skills compared to the other girls, finishing 9-6 down.
I’m really hoping we can train this week, though it will have to be on some outside courts, but we all just need some time together, and to go over some basics.