NEWS!

Well, its been a busy past few months.

Last year I burnt out my adrenals and have been having thyroid problems since. My hormonal profiles were off and I was told that chances are I would not be able to have kids unless everything normalized. Well, apparently they were wrong as I am now 3 months pregnant! The little guy would have been conceived when steve flew down to San Jose to drive me home!

Its pretty ironic how the body trys to tell you things. Shortly after I got back I started having back problems. Id have it adjusted, it would feel great, and then the moment I would do something it would slide back out of place. At one point it wouldnt even let me do a 35kg snatch deadlift! But because of the back, I dropped out of provincials, which is fortunate because if I had not dropped out I would have trained rightup till christmas and cut weight. Its also ironic because all a sudden I stopped craving coffee and after two years of not eating bread, it was all I wanted (pretty much the only good thing about bread is its fortified with folic acid-something that is important for fetal development and contained in prenatal vitamins, which I was not taking as I was not aware I was pregnant).

I was a little to slow to catch onto what was going on, and it was not until I had an ultrasound down for an unrelated matter only to have the ultrasound guy go “look theres the heart beat”. I remember my first thought was “I didnt know tumors had heart beats” the look on my face must have been priceless. But what surprised me more than anything else was my reaction. I was happy and calm! I knew that Steve would be delighted (and he was) but I would have thought that I would have been atleast a bit freaked out, but I wasnt.

So the first 3 months are over, (sure goes by fast -guess it helps when you dont realize your pregnant for the first two months lol), and the anticipated due date is July 31st. I still plan on coaching throughout and will just take a few weeks off after the baby is born.

Coaching a whole lot of o-lifting, but put my training on hold. Been exausted, and just working out when I feel like it (which has still been 3 or 4 times a week), but substantially scalled workouts with no jumping or squats:(

and thats that!

Will keep you updated on the little guys progress.

kel