Day 1!
Hi everyone…… or anyone? Anyway, I thought I would
start my very first post off by recapping this past year and how its
led up to the start of this blog (finally!). I apologize in advance for
the novel-length post, and can assure you
this will be the last time ;) Again, if you’re not in the mood for yet
another weight loss/fitness/foodie blog then I suggest you scroll down
and watch the videos, or just look at the pictures.
My journey to today started exactly 1 year ago. I
feel like my entire life – at least my preteen to now life, I have
struggled with keeping a good healthy weight and body image. I don’t
think I have ever been obese, but I have definitely
been overweight. I would bemoan my thinner healthier friends and
wonder what I wasn’t doing. I can tell you now that there was a whole
LOT that I wasn’t doing! I had, and still have, a very skewed view of
what I think I look like. However, when I was larger,
I assumed I was smaller than I actually was – I became good at not
looking in a full length mirror. I would work out, occasionally, I even
taught fitness classes at our local YMCA. Now, I understand being
healthy doesn’t mean you need to be stick thin, but
I just wasn’t healthy. I was a poser. I didn’t notice that I was slowly
but surely buying bigger jeans, that my clothes weren’t fitting right,
but I would insist on squeezing into them – I was in denial and
uncomfortable, and apologize for those who had to
look at my muffin top all these years L
I finally had it when I went to buy new jeans that actually fit, and
came home with 2 pairs of size 12. How could this happen, how did I
just give up let myself get this way.
Let me tell you, the Chinese buffet, Sunday night Dominos nights, and
large concrete mixers from Culvers probably didn’t help. I was eating
as if I was immune to food and I wasn’t – it finally caught up to me as I
tipped the scale to my largest of 167lbs
and I finally noticed.
Now this next part will sound a little cheesy and cliché, but it’s my blog, so I guess I don’t care :) I’m sure many of you
have seen a variety of fitness programs on infomercials and in
advertisements. I always did, and always thought about ordering them, ironically as I was laying on my couch eating my pint of Ben and Jerry’s.
After my light bulb moment with the jeans, I realized I
had to do something different. Obviously going to the gym wasn’t
working, I needed something new. I saw an infomercial for a 12 week
program called TurboFire from the company Beachbody.
It looked awesome, and just what I needed. Enough was enough ,so I
went online at 11pm that night and ordered it. I was nervous because I
knew the way I had been living couldn’t go on anymore. Could I really
give up pizza Sundays and Ben and Jerry’s? Well
I was going to find out, and I was excited. I got the program about a
week later and read through everything. I wanted to be as informed as
possible. I know what you’re thinking about an at-home workout program,
probably this…
(is it sad that the song kinda pumps me up? Where's my unitard?! )
I hate to say it but
you are all wrong.
TurboFire has been one of the most life changing things that I have
done. Chalene Johnson knows her stuff! Turbo will be my first fitness
love for the rest of my life, and I don’t care if I’m
still doing it when I’m 60 years old – I hope I am! I will discuss the
program more along with my results in another post, but for this post, I
am saying it was the program that started it all for me, it’s changed
my life and I can’t believe it’s been a year.
Since then I have completed 2 5k’s – big deal for me cause I don’t
exactly “enjoy” running;) I completed ChaLean Extreme last fall, and
Insanity this past winter. I am a Beachbody junkie and I don’t care who
knows it!
I’m not going to post my before and after pics
quite yet – that takes a huge amount of courage that I don’t quite have,
but I will someday. I
will say this, because of these programs, and changing
my eating habits to healthy I have lost 36 pounds
and have kept it off. I have a little bit left to go, but I’m getting
there. I feel like I’m gaining the knowledge and have made this my new
lifestyle.
So listen up friends, NO I am not on a diet, NO
just because my programs are set up for 12 weeks doesn’t mean they ever
“end”. This is a new life for me and I will keep putting my all into
it. We all deserve to be as happy as possible,
and I feel lucky that I have found the way to do that for me. I still
have things I need to work through – but again, that’s for another
time. I will leave you with this. If you want to change your life you
can. If you want to get healthy, lose weight,
run a marathon, learn to cook, or climb a mountain you can! I may not
be the best at this – whatever “this” is, but I’m better than where I
was a year ago. I have learned quite a bit, and if I can share that
with anyone I will.
So that’s that. I will get off my soapbox now and
let you all go on with your daily lives, I’m sure you have much more
important things to do that read my ramblings. But if you decide to
come back, you will not be disappointed! But maybe
you will, you be the judge.
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