Clairearella – 20 Week Challenge

Once upon a time there was a woman named Claire,
Who was stuck in a very black hole of despair.
She said, “I know what I’ll do,”
“I will resort to my usual source of comfort – food!”
It was only when a hundred kilos hit,
And she screamed, “Bloody hell! Oh no! Sh@t!”

That by some lucky fate,
Along came a 20 week challenge to drop that dreaded weight.
Dear girl, what she really wanted was to feel happy again,
Get back to her old self – oh how she missed that dear old friend.

Claire stayed on track until week ten,
Then drove both me the trainer and herself around the ‘flamin’ bend!
“I can eat cake if I want to!” she would yell.
Her trainer roared, “You want to end up back in fat hell?”
For the next five weeks her weekly sessions would start, “Well I was on track until……”
Then under her breathe would utter, “ It would be a lot easier if there was some magic pill!”

Week in week out,
She would stomp and shout,
“It’s no use, I keep messing up!”
The meanie pants trainer would just shriek, “Come on girl hurry up, move your big butt!”
“I hate you!” Would echo in the gym (she didn’t really mean it despite her murderous look),
After all did she really think I , me of all people would let her off the hook?

Moaning and groaning, “Twenty weeks is a REALLY LONG TIME,”
I cried, “What part of competition do you not understand I need you at your prime!”
She whimpered, “Don’t you know how hard this is for me?”
“Shut up and give me 50 push ups. I’ll let you do them on your knees!”
Finally after all the lame excuses she realised and had to admit,
For her to feel better again, more human, wasn’t going to happen if she quit.

Weeks sixteen to twenty flew on by,
With plenty of gruelling work outs and sweat dripping down her eyes.
It all paid off in the end,
Not that she wanted to do this so-called ‘stupid’ competition ever again!
She won best overall body -shape change,
Smiling Claire remarked, “It certainly was worth all the hard work and pain!

© Belinda Edmondston 2013.  All rights reserved.  Cultivating Your Inner Pearl, Reinvention from the Inside Out, Body, Mind, Soul – ISBN 978-0-473-25241-0