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Assume the Positions (Cougar Challenge, Book Five)

Book five of the Cougar Challenge series. Damn Cougar Challenge! Rachel’s thankful for the new friends she met while attending an erotica-book convention. They instantly connected and began sharing the relationship woes unique to older single women on their Tempt the Cougar blog. Then Monica issues that challenge… How is Rachel going to convince a younger man to have sex with her? Hell, even she doesn’t want to look at herself naked. To control her growing angst, she makes a list of eligible men then… Nothing. It’s been too long and her divorce was too painful. She’ll never be able to do this. Ethan, one of Rachel’s physical therapy patients, is pissed when he learns of the challenge. Not because he finds it silly—because he’s not on Rachel’s list! So he does what any self-assured young stud would do. The luscious police officer gives her a copy of the Kama Sutra then asks her to make a new list. And assume the positions…

Book five of the Cougar Challenge series. Damn Cougar Challenge! Rachel’s thankful for the new friends she met while attending an erotica-book convention. They instantly connected and began sharing the relationship woes unique to older single women on their Tempt the Cougar blog. Then Monica issues that challenge… How is Rachel going to convince a younger man to have sex with her? Hell, even she doesn’t want to look at herself naked. To control her growing angst, she makes a list of eligible men then… Nothing. It’s been too long and her divorce was too painful. She’ll never be able to do this. Ethan, one of Rachel’s physical therapy patients, is pissed when he learns of the challenge. Not because he finds it silly—because he’s not on Rachel’s list! So he does what any self-assured young stud would do. The luscious police officer gives her a copy of the Kama Sutra then asks her to make a new list. And assume the positions…

Resolve remains 'undisputed' for Holyfield By LYLE FITZSIMMONS, Sports Network

It'll be 20 years ago this April.

And looking back, Evander Holyfield admits he learned a little something from George Foreman, even if he couldn't actually say it at the time.

Foreman, then 42, was mounting a challenge for Holyfield's IBF/WBA/WBC heavyweight titles and telling the few who'd listen that his advanced age was not a "death sentence."

"Big George" lost a decision after 12 spirited rounds in Atlantic City, but proved his point three years later by KO'ing the man who'd subsequently taken the champion's belts -- Michael Moorer.

Now, as he prepares for the 56th fight of a 26-year career that many claim has dragged a decade too long, Holyfield recognizes the other foes his one-time opponent was facing.

But he remains just as determined to prove a similar point.

"Even as I was sitting there at 28, I was thinking about the things George Foreman was saying," said Holyfield, now 48. "I was in agreement with him, about age not being a death sentence, but I couldn't say that because I was getting ready to fight him and it was my time.

"But the fact of the matter is even though he didn't beat me, he beat the man who beat me and he reached his goal. People said he'd never do it and he did. Now, because I'm continuing toward the goal that I have, the people have a problem with it.

"What they don't realize is that I started boxing with a goal when I was a little kid -- to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world -- and it took me 20 years to get it. I lost it in 1992 and didn't get it back right away, so maybe it'll be 20 years until I do. But I still have the goal.

"If you have a goal and you're patient enough and good enough, why quit until you get it?"

Holyfield puts the "I'm not done yet" mantra to the test again on Jan. 22, when he faces journeyman Sherman Williams in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The bout is billed as the initial defense of Holyfield's universally-ignored WBF championship, but is as much a means to stay active and relevant enough to maintain flickering hope for another legitimate title chance.

He parlayed a 10-month, four-fight win streak over names like Bates, Oquendo, Maddalone and Savarese into a failed WBO shot against Sultan Ibragimov in 2007, which was followed 14 months later by a trip to Switzerland for a majority decision loss to then-WBA champ Nikolai Valuev that many ringsiders thought Holyfield had won.

He's fought once in the two-plus years since, stopping multiple-time second banana Francois Botha in eight rounds to capture the aforementioned WBF crown at his old Thomas & Mack Center stomping grounds in Las Vegas. It was Holyfield's first bout in Vegas in seven years and his first trip back to the UNLV campus since a unanimous loss to Lennox Lewis in 1999.

Still, the would-be resurgence has the Georgian placed no higher on today's world stage than the No. 16 slot he occupies in the IBO's computerized rankings for January.

And just as insistent in his ears is the ringing of naysayers who say it's the money -- and not the glory -- that drives him toward rings at lesser venues like Colonial Hall at The Greenbrier, where the Williams fight is set next week.

Holyfield stubbornly claims the harangues carry no weight.

"I've become who I am and accomplished what I've accomplished because I'm not easily distracted," he said. "There's always somebody who's going to say something, but what they've learned from me over the years is that I'm not insecure about anything I do. There will always be something and I've never let it interfere with what it takes to do the job."

Instead, he says, his biggest concerns remain with the practical tools of the trade, and the increased necessity at his age to make sure his body peaks at the right time to guarantee maximum performance.

Whereas a training camp "back in the day" might have included multiple weeks of hard running and intense sparring, the 2011 version focuses more on pacing, recovery and taking advantage of technologies unavailable to fighters even 10-15 years ago.

"It's a bigger, better world with better equipment and more knowledge," Holyfield said. "And if you take care of your body you can do more than the people without that knowledge can do. Nothing I do is particularly amazing for my age, it's just the advantage that a person with knowledge can have if they take care of themselves."

Holyfield weighed 220 pounds for the stoppage of Botha, just two pounds more than he'd weighed for the infamous ear-biting disqualification over Mike Tyson in 1997. He was a career-high 221 pounds for the first of a three-fight series with John Ruiz in 2000.

Botha's 250 pounds, meanwhile, were 28 more than he weighed for his initial title fight in 1995.

"If you don't let your weight go up between fights, you don't take as m

I had always been a fat child. I remember weighing 12 ? stone in grade 5 and yo-yo dieted all through high school and up until the age of 44 years. I would lose 20kg at a time and when life got a bit hard, I would put it all back on again and sometimes more. I think I have done this 5 or 6 times since leaving high school.

My mother and I have always had an up and down relationship – this was one of the main reasons I would binge eat or emotionally eat, then when I was 33 years of age I found out I was adopted. This took me quite a look a while to come to terms with.

At 43 years of age, I decided to get counselling to help me deal with my issues. At the end of the year I became very unwell and was weighing in at 97kg. I decided that it was time for a new me – the head was getting help, now time for the body. In January 2009, I joined a local gym. Weighing 97kg, I wore the baggy t-shirts and baggy pants as we all do when we are overweight. I thought I would die in my first boxing class but the support and encouragement of the staff kept me attending.

Before long I started to feel better and in May of 2009, I decided that I would like a bit of an extra push so I signed up to do PT sessions with Kate at 6.15am every Monday morning. I didn’t know Kate prior to my first session and I would turn up on Monday mornings feeling very anxious, not knowing if Kate would push me to where I wished someone would just “beam me up to a far nicer place” but Kate is a fantastic person and trainer. She took me outside my comfort zone gradually – now I enjoy the challenge!

Nearing the end of 2009, my weight had reached a plateau and had been there for about 4 months so I decided to join up for a 12 week challenge that included a whole lot more of the nutrition side of things which was to begin in February 2010. During January I also set a goal of riding my pushbike to and from the gym each morning setting off at 5.45am as part of my training for the Great Victorian Bike Ride (another goal) and I am also determined to keep doing this during the winter months.

I set my goal for weight loss during the challenge at 5kg, my first weigh in was 82.5kg – which wasn’t bad considering I was 14.5kg heavier 12 months earlier. During the challenge I was exercising 6 days a week. I filled in my first food diary for Kate and she identified that I was not eating enough carbs and this was likely to be the reason my weight loss had slowed so I would need to increase my food intake. For days, I would say “I can’t eat all the food required”, and of course her response was “You have to!”. I persevered and even before the half way mark of the challenge I had reached 5kg weight loss. I set a new goal of 7kg, reached that too! New goal – 10kg. Well, didn’t quite make it but I was extremely happy with a 9.1kg weight loss, final weigh in was 73.4kg. Everyone would comment on how good I looked and were happy for me. I admit, I was very strict with my diet and was very diligent in filling in the food diary. My very supportive husband who I have been married to for 25 years who I love dearly and my teenage son cannot believe how much I have lost. But one comment from my husband – he is stating that I am now “high maintenance” as I have needed to go and buy new clothes now the old ones just don’t do it for me anymore!

Since joining the gym, I have lost 23.6kg and I am a different person both mentally and physically. I will not put the weight back on like before as I have dealt with the issues that would cause me to binge and emotionally eat.

A big thank you to all the staff at the gym and Kate, my personal trainer, for always being so supportive and giving lots of encouragement to not only myself but to all the members in reaching their personal goals. I am just as motivated today to go to the gym as I was when I first joined.

I hope my story might inspire other people who are overweight to deal with the underlying issues. Then life will become that bit easier, the weight will come off and you will feel you can conquer the world!

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