Getting fit for your mind body and soul.

These set of photos were taken the day after my daughter's communion. After I had filled myself with chocolate biscuit cake and sweets galore. My stomach was so bloated and uncomfortable. So for the next week I got my act together and ate good. I felt so much better and my stomach was flat again. We need to remember that no matter how much we train that if we're not eating the right foods we get clogged up and bloated. What's the point in working your ass off to get your body strong and fit and eating crap food that hinders your results. Combine your training with the right eating and you'll be in super shape, fit, strong and healthy.                                                Some of my meals that helped get that belly flat again.

Follow me https//instagram.com/iluvmymadras For my latest progress on my pull ups This year I want to be able to do dead ringer in Tough Mudder. So they only way is to train. I've started from the bottom on this one and hopefully by July I'll be strong enough to get even 1/4 of the way across that obstacle.

I know the thought of working out can be daunting especially if like me you'd never been inside a gym and your perception of the gym was tank top, muscles, gorgeous confident people everywhere. My other half worked in a gym for 10 years and was always trying get me over to train with him. The tought of it made me sweat. 🙈    After been at home with children you lose your confidence and the ability to strick  up conversation with adults. So any where there's not kids you try to avoid. I know there's so many of you nodding your heads now in agreement with me.   So when the opportunity came up to join a small morning class while the kids were in school, I swallowed my fears, I told myself you won't do it at home moaning about your flabby bits. It was nerve wrecking to say the least. But you know what it didn't kill me, it was the start of my baby steps. SMALL PROGRESS.  The confidence started to build and I could feel myself becoming a happier person.   We under

  In my first blog I mentioned the health benefits of keeping fit. Before I began working out and my overall healthier lifestyle I was always sluggish, bloated and tired, the thought of leaving the house after 7pm was crazy that was pj time soaps and a cup of tea and the biscuit tin!! But as I started to get fitter I noticed my attitude to  food and life changing. I was working hard in my training and felt I was undoing my hard work tucking into a giant pizza every Friday night. I started to change a few small things, I don't believe in dieting, just change things up a bit for the better. •I swapped my 4 slices of white toast in the morning for porridge. •Instead of sandwiches for lunch piled with cheese I started having a salad/ smoothie/ wrap. •We changed white pasta/rice to brown. •White sugar to brown. But now no one uses sugar. •Nearly every meal is home made. (I can't take credit for this BasefitnessIreland is the cook) •We started discovering healthier versions

I started my fitness journey 2 years ago and it's the best thing I've ever  done. I was a stay at home mother to 3 children, and just needed an outlet, I was sick of complaining about my body and hating bits of it and wishing I was fitter. So I got stuck in and started training and running. I fell in love with every aspect of exercise, the feeling of satisfaction when you'd push yourself, the confidence you gain when you see your body changing and the health benefits too. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd come this far and I've Tough Mudder to thank for it. I completed my 1st tough mudder in 2015 and realising that yes I can do this I can push myself out of my comfort zone made me do so much more than I ever expected to do when I started working out. It's great to have an aim for fitness it makes it so much more fun. In the last two years I've taken on 2 tough mudders 1 hell & back 1 run a muck 1 white collar boxing event 2 half mara