30 days Fit and Fab

It's my rest day after a week of exercise. I did more on spiritual things to exercise my mind.

Today is my rest day after 7 days exercise.

As I have sole aching, I decided to have foot massage to relax my leg and foot muscles. I felt so good and light afterwards.

This is my first race and I am so excited. I collected the race pack on the first day of collection. There were so many people from different races, ages and genders.

Currently I have 10 ladies in my "Absolutely Fabulous" Group. I love to inspire, motivate and educate them. When they take a courage and commitment to change their lifestyle, I can't help not to support them. People may think, maybe there's interior motives or may think that it's just in surface only. Well, for me it's a passion. I never ask anything in return neither ask them to pay for my service and my time. I love when people feel happier and positive because the energy is transferred back to me and it's priceless. If my motive is for my own benefit, I would have charge my service and my time as normal market rate. But for me, if I do it for money, my motivation is not as pure as it's supposed to be anymore and it contradicts with what my heart is. I have been blessed with lots of things, health is number one. My healthy family and positive energy that we have as family. I can't contain it for myself, it's just flowing natura...

Today I achieve my own milestone to do something that I always procrastinated before. I have been observing people use this abs roller and mostly guys in my gym. It looked very hard and I was procrastinate that it's not for me. Until one day, one of my gym-mates introduced and let me try. Indeed, it's really hard. I failed so many times, either wrong postures or wrong muscles used. However, he always motivate me to keep training and practicing. Finally, I manage to get it right and love this exercise. It reflects on my life what we should do. We may procrastinate it's not for me, it's so hard. And somehow we need someone to push us a little bit to try it. Yes, it's really hard in the beginning but if we never give up, keep on training and practicing, we will get it right somehow.

When I take a break from exercise because of holiday, I feel moody, less energetic and negative thoughts start streaming in. That's why I make a commitment to exercise regularly even when I'm travelling. These are benefits of exercise and mental health that I really feel it.

Saw this in the social media, kinda good reminder for all of us. Social media has been manipulating us a lot. Beauty in social media dictionary is having lean body like models and influencers and a lot of people especially ladies have been dragged by this concept of beauty. They are willing to do anything like punishing themselves by starving after indulging in sweets or perhaps consuming all those slimming supplements that claimed to be natural, organic and give a result. As for my principle right start from the beginning, "LESS IS MORE" I never believe in consuming supplements other than natural food. I always come to FIVE basic healthy lifestyle - eat balanced food - self control - regular exercise - enough sleep  - be happy. So far it works well for me, my kids and my family. Thus beauty is not defined by the shape and color but the beauty is inside us. Everyone is beautiful and worth it.

I have written previously about the benefit of exercise in general. Here, I want to share my personal goal why I love exercise and why exercise become part of my daily life. (I can't live without it ) Exercise is like addiction for me in positive way. My primary goal for exercising is not having perfect body like models or influencers in instagram neither having six packs abs etc, but it's for my mental training. I remembered when I started exercising couple years back, weight training with 2kg dumbbells was really something. My muscles were sore afterwards. And now, I have been training with 6kg dumbbells. Previously, I was not comfortable trying something new or using heavy weight on machine, I loved my status quo, exercised the same regime over and over again. But with the help of personal trainer that I hired here and there, he opened my mindset that I need to have a courage to go out from comfort zone. Sometimes, the personal trainer will p...