Today is the beginning of the rest of my life! I have decided enough is enough and it is time to make a change. Throughout my life I have gone from fad diets to purchasing crazy pieces of exercise equipment and everything in between. The one problem with every thing I have tried is I lose motivation. Well I'm here to say NO MORE! I am 30 and it is time to make a change!!! You are going to help keep me accountable ;)
I've been spiraling down for some time. I have always been overweight/obese for as long as I can remember. In high school it's no fun being the fat kid, but I had great friends and I didn't let it get me down. In college, I put on a little bit of weight but it wasn't too bad. My roommate and I did the South Beach diet for awhile and I lost 20lbs. I was able to stick with it for as long as I did, because I had an accountability partner. After I graduated from college, I got engaged and moved in with my fiancee in the city. Well that's when things went from bad to worse. I worked full time, started a part time master's degree, and let the stress eat me alive. We rarely cooked dinner at home and I almost never exercised. I bought an elliptical and it turned into a hanger :( I probably put on 50 lbs through our first 3 years of living together. Then I maintained and didn't lose. To be honest, I wasn't really motivated. My husband loved me for me and I had no health problems that would motivate me. Sure my doctor always said something, but it didn't really phase me.
After 2 years of marriage we bought a house. We moved to Southern Maryland where we could afford a single family home. But with the affordability of the home also comes the commute. My husband and I would commute together which was a nice time for us to be able to connect and talk about everything going on, but it meant we were gone from our house about 11 hours or more a day. We got a puppy because my husband had always wanted a Corgi, but with that came the rambunctiousness of well a puppy. So we hired a dog walker, and when he was still too much for us to handle we adopted another doggy from the shelter. Of course next logical step is kids. So we started trying. After 3 months of nothing, I finally decided to start Weight Watchers. I figured if I wasn't getting pregnant then it was time to lose some of this weight I had put on through the years. I lost 15 lbs and bam I got that positive pregnancy test. Well, you are not allowed to do Weight Watchers when pregnant so I had to stop. And of course I took it to heart you can eat anything you want so I did. I put on about 25lbs with my first son, but I lost it right after he was born. I was doing ok for awhile then the weight started to creep back on. I decided to try Weight Watchers again, but this time I wasn't as motivated. It was hard to get to meetings when I had a baby at home, dogs, and I was commuting 2+ hours a day. So eventually I gave up. When we decided to start trying again, I knew I had to be better with eating. So we started eating more vegetables and fruits and cooking more lean meats at home. Through my second pregnancy I did not gain any weight! I couldn't believe it. A week after giving birth to my second son, I weighed 20 lbs less then I did when I got pregnant with him. CRAZY!
Well of course, I haven't been eating as healthy as I should, I definitely haven't been exercising, and I am lacking sleep. I know the sleep thing may not be able to change much as I have a 6 month old, but the other two certainly can use some improvement. I've been self loathing for awhile and I knew I needed to make a change so I started looking for something to help motivate me. Luckily I saw one of my old high school classmate's, Nikki Johnson, posting about the difference Beachbody has made in her life. So I decided to hear her out and now here I stand on my journey as to fitness, health, and becoming a better me.
