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le four -- the oven

pour faire cuire au four -- to bake

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Monday
05Oct2009

Client Results With Photos

Libby,

Bonjour!  Well it's been two months since I left Camp Biche.  I'm still going strong and the exercise has been working.  I'm sending you some pictures that show the progress I've been making.

I have an ab routine that consists of 200 (only 1000 less than when I was with you), and also do strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates.  Not all in the same day of course but that was one of huge take home lessons for me. Work outs are so boring if you do the same thing everyday.  All of your trainers brought their own expertise and passion to their classes.  Every time I do yoga or Pilates I think of Joke with her soft convincing voice coaxing us to the point of exhaustion but making us feel that we could do more.  Loic was amazing also.  He is the reason I'm still doing strength training. 

You know for years I've been doing things that put a duration or time span on when you will have success. (Slim in six weeks, this body in 90 days,  eat this way for two weeks then that way for four weeks, cut out this food group etc.)  I'm long past my carbophobic days and eat with pure pleasure....just less. Exercise has become part of my routine, not something I'll do for a set period of time and hope for miraculous results. Of course there are always set backs, but that is life.  There isn't a reset button any more.  I don't say "Oh I'll wait until Monday and start that program again"  I get my tennis shoes on and just get going.  I feel stronger all the time.  I have a very physically demanding job in orthopaedics and I've noticed a difference while at work.  My stamina and strength have greatly improved. 

I have a ways to go but I'm not discouraged.  Camp Biche has taught me to persevere.  When you say boot camp it is meant in the true sense.  The first few days I thought I would surely die.  By the end of my stay I was doing things I didn't know I was physically capable of.  Once you experience that feeling of accomplishment, it acts as a motivator or catalyst to continue. 

It was a spiritual and physical journey that I'm grateful to have traveled.  Thanks for everything, Libby, it was truly a life changing experience.

Kae

 

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