Apologies for my disappearing act… I have been and am still under the weather… I seem to have picked up a virus of some sort and it’s driving me nuts. For someone who likes being active, and is currently trying to train for my next challenge Landrover G4… it is now starting to get to me.

I have stayed in all week, except teaching a few classes…(which is obviously the wrong thing to do) as I am not recovering!  but I guess sometimes your body needs to just rest and let the virus take it’s course.

I am sitting with my cup of tea, staring out the window reflecting on my Unbreakable experience…my body hasn’t been the same ever since. I have been ill loads since I got back in June. I have taken myself beyond exhaustion…, to the point of collapse.. have been on an emotional rollercoaster… have seen some amazing places and have done stuff that I will never experience again. Would I do it all again?  Absolutely…

I have no regrets…I now train differently, and do loads more outdoors stuff… it’s so much nicer than being in the gym. If you want to get fit, seriously fit… start going outdoors. There is so much more to see, brave the elements and get out there.

I look at life differently now… I thought I was all heels and handbags…and since I’ve got back I’ve worn my stillettos once. I detach myself from idle gossip… going out without make up on doesn’t bother me… I see the positive more so in complicated situations…I appreciate simple pleasures…I am less stressed… I see situations with a new set of eyes.

People ask me if I now want to settle down after my incredible experience… it’s actually had the opposite effect.. now there is so much more that I want to see and do.

But the most amazing thing that has come out of Unbreakable, the thing  that never would have happened if I hadn’t of done the show, is that I’ve met the person I want to spend the rest of my life with… remember the guy who trained me? the guy who had me in stitches in the pool for my swimming lessons?  well…swimming lessons changed to dating lessons and things went from friendship to happy ever after… that’s right Unbreakable is actually a love story. I never even saw it coming… it just kind of hit me when I least expected it!!

After all my years of patiently waiting for my Knight in shining armour to rock up on his horse, there he appears in a pair of speedos.. It  must have been my goggles that did it.

So it just goes to show doesn’t it?  If you take a different course in life, do something different, go against the flow of “whats normal”… follow that gut feeling of wanting to do something outrageous, something scary, something off the beaten track… then you never know who you’ll meet or what it might lead to…

Finally before I wrap up my Unbreakable experience… If you have any questions you would like to ask me, please feel free to drop me a line… either write in the comment box below, or email me at carla@carlaterry.com

Bye for now x