No Ordinary Life
Here are two songs that I just have to tell you about. If you sing along to them, they will lift you amazingly. I have not included all the lyric, so you can learn more about Roma Waterman by clicking on her name below. The lyrics are just amazing . .
I Was Carried
If you ask me how I’m feeling,
Was broken to pieces, Now I’m healing,
If you ask me, How I get through,
Something stronger, Than me and you
As I look back, I keep smiling,
Coz through the heartache, I kept fighting,
I’m not perfect, Some days I fall,
I don’t give up, Through it all
There has been, A kiss of grace,
On my weary tear-stained face,
And I cannot walk away, From this truth I know
I was carried in the arms of a stronger man,
I was lifted by the angel’s gentle hand,
I was rescued from the eye of a raging storm ,
I was given wings to fly over it all,
There’s no other way to say it,
I was carried . . .
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No Ordinary Life
by Roma Waterman
You can be all you want to be,
You gotta do all you can, So get yourself free,
I believe you’re a miracle child, Don’t be afraid to run yourself wild
We forget that before we die, We gotta dance through life to the music inside,
This is the song we need to be singing, This is the life we need to be living
I wanna to be 17 ’till I’m 95, I wanna live on the edge till I learn to fly,
Climb the mountain just to touch the sky yeaah,
See the world from a different view, Run this race til my dreams come true,
This is no ordinary life . . . .
Couch to 5km UPDATES
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22 August 2008
Weight: 84.8 kg
Food today . . . a little chocolate and two chips, too much carbs and some chicken.
Thought: Never have I been this overweight or unfit. Pregnancy causes you to sit around a lot, especially in the last months, and then when sleep deprived and looking after a newborn 24/7 for months, there is a tendency to sleep when you can, and do some major emotional eating. Especially after a C-section, which requires longer recovery time. After all that, you find you are in a rut!
REMINDER: Starve body of all simple carbs and added fats. Eat high quality proteins and more veg.
Accomplished day 1 of week one of the C to 5K Podcast.
Average heart rate was 78%. Top heart rate was 89-91% after the jogs (91 after the last jog)
During the walking stints I only ever came down to around 78% of my maximum heart rate which, when I was much fitter, I would go quickly down to 55% for the times I did the walking in between the intervals of jogging.
It wasn’t at bad as I thought, and the Podcast is excellent.
Tomorrow I must get this over with first thing in the morning, not wait till evening.
(PS: The normal C to 5k is done only three days a week. This is fine for cardiovascular system improvement, but I need to lose weight and so need to do cardio many more days a week).
23 August 2008
Busy day, cleaning, cooking as visitors arriving in the evening. No time for exercise today.