#fitish

It's been a over a week now and I'm FINALLY getting back into my groove and it feels good.🍲 I'll be working out at home today, since I will not be able to make it to the gym.

Which will probably include some lifting (or cardio) and stretching. 🏋️🏽‍♀️ Afterwards, I'll probably play a bit of D2 or BF2. 🎮

Stay hydrated and healthy!

Gym update vol. 3

I was shuffling through various photos on my old Facebook account and came across several that I've nearly forgotten.

It was a bit humorous running through all of them.

It made me realize how much things have changed in the last 10 years.

I remember being one of those girls in high-school, who constantly felt insecure. I had terribly low self-esteem and I compared myself left and right to every single girl that walked by me.

I would think:

”I wish I had a thigh gap.”

”I wish I had a flat stomach.”

”I wish I had a pretty face.”

”She looks better than me.”

”She’s smaller than me.”

And the list just went on. 🤦🏽‍♀️ I literally compared myself to other girls on a daily basis. It was unhealthy.

I constantly thought that I needed to be ”skinny” or ”smaller” to be considered ”pretty” or ”attractive”.

This led me to starve myself, weighing myself on a daily basis, insulting my body, and desperate to be (what I thought was considered) beautiful.

I was impatient and if I didn’t see a change in my weight during the first week, I switched things up.

I would overexert my body with exercise, with little to no food throughout the day.

Eventually, I stopped altogether (being an impatient and ignorant teenager).

A year or two after my attempt, I turned to diet pills, skinny teas, considered liposuction, starvation again, eating way too little, exercising far too much, etc.

I was literally killing my body and all to be ”skinny” and to have a small waist.

Each and every time I tried to lose weight, It would either never work or come back in less than a couple of weeks.

It wasn’t until after my husband and I moved, that I decided to start focusing on weight loss, once again.

I was close to 190lbs and wanted to drop the weight (the healthier way) to decrease my asthma attacks.

I ended up losing a good 10lbs and shortly after I got pregnant.

Fast forward to starting my health and fitness journey, again (a few months after I had our daughter) and I decided I wanted to get serious.

I started digging deeper and truly educating myself on calories, exercise, foods, etc.

Through the first year, I focused on cleaning up my meals and cardio.

Toward the end of that year, I started looking into using weights and the reason why building muscle and adding in strength training was important.

Honestly, I felt intimidated. I had never lifted a weight over 2-3lbs (around 2010-2011), because of the misconception surrounding women who lifted weights.

That following year, I got a set of 8lb weights and that's when it all started.

I was lifting (4-5x a week), doing cardio (6-7x a week), and cleaned up my diet.

As I got stronger, I started lifting heavier.

Gradually, the weight started to fall off, my asthma was 10x better, and I had a ton of energy.

I fell in love with being healthy and exercising, over the last 3-4 years.

2019 is coming to an end and I’ve learned (still learning) to love myself, I’m more confident (still working on this), and I’m healthier (excluding those 20lbs I’ve gained 🤣).

Before you begin, try to educate yourself as much as you possibly can.

There is A TON of contradicting and misleading information out there, fad diets, etc.

Don’t fall for it.

I know how it feels to be desperate, to want the weight to just melt off, but these things take TIME and PATIENCE.

Health and Fitness IS NOT a one size fits all.

Every person and every body is different.

Simply because you “want to look like” a certain fitness/health model, doesn’t mean that you will.

Your body is meant to look like your own, not someone else’s. That’s not how this works.

I have a story that I’m sure many of you can relate to-the ongoing battle between our love for food and our desire to stay fit.  Continue reading Me vs the donut~ The struggle is real