Finding happiness

May 17, 2013 Home No comments

People say that happiness is a state of mind or rather a choice, which means that if you are unhappy it is you choice to be that way.  I am not 100% sold of this idea.  Sometimes I get really home sick and that makes me sad  and unhappy as does outside influences messing with my feelings or making me feel uneasy, it’s not that I am not choosing to be happy it is that my happiness is being messed with by outside influence, that  for the most part is out of my control.

I am a pretty positive person, I don’t ever really get upset,  emotional or throw fits like most girls I know, and if I do I only give myself 15 minutes to be upset about something (especially if it is out of my control) and believe me in those 15 minutes I get REALLY upset, I pull out all the stops from ‘the ugly cry’,  to screaming into my pillow, and jumping up and down like a 5yr old, I have even been known to kick shit.  I can go full retard and be emotional for 15 minutes because after that I don’t allow it to affect me any longer (or at least I try my damnest to not let it affect me) and I think this is how for 95% of my life, I am genuinely happy.

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Eliminate the problem

May 10, 2013 Daily Ramblings No comments

I have stopped buying things that are only going to tempt me into cheating and not reaching my goal.  Bye Bye my beloved Rice Cakes and my delicious Seed/Nut Loaf, I shall see you again in 2 months!

Bye Bye Beyonce

Sometimes cutting out the crap is the best thing a girl can do ESPECIALLY when it is messing with reaching your goal.  Rice Cakes aren’t worth it, neither is seed loaf, want to know what IS worth it?  Doing 15 pulls up and running a half marathon in under 2 hours (also fitting into the “S” labelled clothes on a clothing rack is my version of Cocaine) and looking like Heidi Klum

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That is what I am focusing on:

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Pulls ups. Challenge accepted

May 9, 2013 Daily Ramblings No comments

I have never had great upper body strength, something that isn’t that noticeable because considering how weak they are, my arms are pretty defined, which is strange I know (thank you gene pool)

My cousin (bless his 19yr old sole) made me watch some videos of a guy called Hannibal and since watching said videos I just feel like before I die, I need to be able to do a pull up.  So this is the mission, and I have chosen to accept it.

“Yussus mainers, I’m going to me so flippin ripped, it is ganna be crayzee”

I am unsure how to even begin with this “Do a pull up before I die” mission but I have done some You tube searching (all great research starts on You tube really) and when I can finally do one, I shall record my own video to show you all.  This also needs a time limit, so by December, I shall be doing pull ups like it ‘ain’t no thang but a chicken wang’

So here is the video that inspired me (I know its a bunch of dudes, but thanks to feminism that isn’t a valid excuse anymore, if they can do it, then ladies, we can do it

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Treadmill Level: Expert

May 8, 2013 Daily Ramblings No comments

I feel like I have been doing ‘The treadmill’ wrong this whole time.  Must get better, must learn the treadmill dance!

Get that time down

May 7, 2013 Home, Running Diaries No comments

I have had one mission lately ‘become a better runner’ and by better I mean faster.  So with that goal in mine my friend Curtis who is does km’s in under 5 mins took me for a run (Crap).

4 kms in just over 20 mins which means that I averaged about 1 km in just under 6 mins which is pretty good going even if I do say so myself.  Yes I was exhausted (especially since you have to run up the biggest hill ever to get home) but I did it, and next time I will be faster for longer…. which is exciting.

I have a new excitement for life and working out that I had lost.

I give all the credit for my new excitement for life to the Baz Luhrmann Song with possibly some of the best advice you will ever receive (and one of my fav songs in the whole wide world). Have a listen below and I hope it hits a few notes with you and gives you the motivation you needed to keep on keeping on!

 

The perks of having “Foodies” as Friends

April 30, 2013 Daily Ramblings No comments

So tomorrow is the 1st of May, or ‘May Day’ as the Zimbabweans call it, it is also a public holiday and the perfect day to start my super strict health regime all over again.

I have enjoyed these last few days with my “Pizza for Breakfast”, “Milk in my Coffee”, “Chocolate as a food group” eating habits, yes I have been eating worse than I ever have in my life before and I MAY have put on a kg or two, but I’ll lose it quickly so I ain’t bovvered.

That being said, I have this lovely friend, and said lovely friend is a Foodie.  She also makes the most delicious brownies this side of the Equator (and probably the other side of the Equator too) which you can get through her soon to be “beautiful little bakery and deli serving freshly baked breads and gorgeous sandwiches” called The Counter

That being said. I gave Meg a challenge “MAKE MY DIET LESS BORING” I even typed it in Caps Lock, cos I meant SERIOUS business.  So she came to the rescue with delicious healthy alternatives for me to make such as Cauliflower Dip, Chimichurri and Tomato and Chilli Salsa to name a few. Thank you Meg, THANK YOU!

You need to all check out her recipes on her blog Little Food Baby - Trust my taste buds, you WANT to try these things out.

Love you Meg, and thank you, again

xoxo

Taking a break

April 29, 2013 Daily Ramblings No comments

“WE ARE ON A BREAK” – If you don’t get that line and you didn’t watch Friends back in the day, how are WE friends? (We’re probably not)  That being said, I am on a break, a break from my DIEt cos it is literally killing me, (hence the DIEt emphasis) and a break from working out.

After 7+ months of no drinking alcohol, no eating of carbs, no dairy and worse of all NO SUSHI OR CHOCOLATE I have given myself a break.  Not a long break, just a week, but a break that was very much needed.

I literally feel like a kid in a candy store (cos I had candy this weekend, it was so good it felt like a religious experience) and I got to experience all these things that I felt like I had been missing out on because I have been on the worlds strictest eating plan for 7+ Months.  I mean you guys, I FINALLY had Wakaberry Frozen Yoghurt! It lived up to the hype, I may have eaten so much that I felt sick after, but I was sick and I was happy and it was glorious!

Wakaberry FroYo

Taking a break is a good thing,  I feel as if its a healthy thing to do.

I was beating myself up so badly because I was freaking out that I had lost my Willpower (which as we all know is amazing) and I was cheating and falling off the band wagon too often, and then feeling awful because I was cheating and it was just the most awful cycle that I was going through.

I am sure ANYONE who has ever had been on an eating program has had this problem with cheating and this is usually the point where they fall off, and never get back on, I don’t want to be that person, I am not that person, and THAT is why I am taking a break from being healthy for a bit, to live a little.

I hope you all live a little, have a few glasses of wine, eat that red velvet cupcake if you want it, take a break, have a break… sometimes its the healthy option, it’s the reason we get given “days off” from work, because your body, and your brain just need a break.

So basically what is happening in my life till I start all over again on the 1st of May is:

Eating Food

Night time trail runs

April 24, 2013 Running Diaries No comments

I am all about doing new fun and fascinating things and testing myself to see if I can in fact do them.  So when my friend got hold of me and was like “Hey, come try trail running” and then proceeded with “Oh, by the way it’s at night time” I was kind of intrigued and thought “Agh, if not, why not?”.  So off I went.

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“Head Lamp Up”

 I suggest that any road runners trying trail running for the first time start with a “baby” distance just to adjust and see what you are in for (I chose the baby 4km distance because I am unfit and lazy but Hey, this is a judgment free zone)  – However I am glad I was being lazy because as a first timer the adjustment from road running to trail running is quite different in that your ankles take more strain from not running on flat ground as well as stopping and starting to ‘Jump up’ or ‘Step down’ which really does mess with your running rhythm (or did with mine).  That being said, it was different but super fun.  The night races are held at Golf Courses around Johannesburg and run by a company called Kinetic Gear, everyone arrives with their head lamps (or head lamps can be bought there) and attacks the course for some trail running fun, and that’s exactly what it is, fun.  I highly recommend it.

My first trail run went much better than I thought it had actually, I came 37th out of I think it was 101 people, my time for the 4km course (see, 4kms, I am lazy now) was 20 minutes  or 21 minutes which I mean isn’t bad going, I’m pretty impressed with that.  Go Justine.

I definitely want to get better and faster and do more trail runs because who doesn’t love Endorphins? Even if I curse everyone and their mother while I am doing them.

Have any of you done trail runs?  Which ones and how did you find them?  I would love to hear from you.

Supporter Signs you want to see during a race

April 22, 2013 Daily Ramblings No comments

I have really rad readers, and sometimes these really rad readers send me cool stuff, so cool that I have to share it with you all (also because it’s super funny)

So imagine this, you are 15 kms into that 21 km half marathon and you hurt, you hurt so bad, you can’t remember a time when your thighs didn’t feel like jelly and you can feel your toe nails falling off (I never said running was a pretty sport), but then you come around the corner and you see one of these signs…. It sure would make me smile.

I bless you all with this some of the best signs by race spectators, ever.

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Winner of the Canderel Guilt-Free indulgence is….

April 12, 2013 Competitions No comments

Thank you all for your comments on the blog, I have loved reading how you all indulge (I think we all need to, and I know over Easter I indulged probably a little bit more than I should have).

 

I am happy to announce the Winner of a guilt free indulgence is Andrea Brown, congratulations!!!!

 

 

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Please may you mail me your details to me@justinejoyit.co.za so we can organise delivery of your delicious prize that you can indulge in, Guilt-free thanks to Canderel.

 

 

 

 

 

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