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Last Week of Rd. 1

What a 21 days! Autumn is right, it takes 21 days to form a habit.

I am just about done with round 1, this is my last week. Here are some things that I feel helped me through the last two weeks.

1.) Meal plan! Meal plan! Meal Plan! I don’t know how many times I didn’t meal plan and we ended up going to the store and getting something quick to cook because we weren’t prepared; hot dogs, frozen pizza, etc. I am sure I would have lost more weight and inches had I meal planned the entire time.

2.) PUSH PLAY! No matter how tired you are and lazy you are feeling; just do it! If it wasn’t for my 6 year old who though the workouts were “fun” (what??) there would have been many days I didn’t work out. The days I didn’t work out, mostly saturdays and sundays, I felt like crap and wished I would have just pushed play!

3.) When you feel like giving up, don’t! The first week is by the hardest week of them all. I wanted to give up after lower fix because I literally couldn’t sit on the toilet my legs hurt so bad. The pain slowly went away and now I get pain if I push myself hard because as Autumn says “it doesn’t get easier, you get stronger.”

4.) Find good, loyal support. This will be your biggest motivator. You need to find someone or a group of people to help you get through your journey. I not only have my coach’s group on Facebook, but I am also lucky enough to have joined Autumn’s support/challenge group. These ladies (and men!) have kept me going. Normally I would go a week, quit, and not get back on the band wagon; but, every time I had a bad meal or missed a workout I went got back on 10x harder than I was.

5.) Ditch the d**n scale! I used to be a scale addict. I weighed myself about 4-5 times a day. Every time (during the day) I weighed myself I saw the number go up. What I didn’t realize was that, your weight can fluctuate a lot throughout the day. During this round I allowed myself to weigh ONCE a week that was it.

6.) Last thing that helped me was DRINK YOUR WATER! The water kept me fuller and actually took my cravings away. My body needs the water now.

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Habits form in as little as 21 days. 

I have 25 days until my vacation. 

Coincidence that I started 21 Day Fix today? I think not! 

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Start of a New Journey

Weight loss, plateaus, diet pills, yo-yo diets, eating disorders, low-cal, low-carb diets; do these sound familiar? The answer is they should if you have ever been one that has had bad body image and are not happy with yourself; this is me everyday.

I am 25 years a mother of 3 with the youngest being almost 6 months old. I am married to my best friend but let me tell you my real story and the reason why I decided to start and document my journey.

I have always and I mean always struggled with my weight. I was the bigger girl in school all the way until about freshmen/sophomore year where I thought I was taking control. I started an eating disorder off and on at the end of my 8th grade year; by sophomore year it was full blown. I was so zoned into my eating disorder that I didn’t care who knew and well my brother caught me. My brother told my mom, my mom told my dad, and my parents were going to send me away to a rehab facility. I promised I would stop, this took me into senior year where I met my now husband.

At 17 years old I turned my eating disorder control into other outrageous behaviors and got pregnant my senior year. Luckily for me I found in March and I was graduating in June. At 18 years old and 80lbs heavier I delivered my first child; a beautiful little girl. That was in 2008; after that pregnancy I only lost 40 of the 80lbs I gained.

In 2010 I got pregnant again and also getting married in July of 2010. This time gaining 50lbs and delivering a beautiful boy! I didn’t lose much of the weight gained with him. I never stepped on the scale after I had him but I am assuming I lost only the baby weight, placenta, and water weight.

In 2014 I got pregnant with my third baby. My starting weight was 254lbs with him. I only gained 22lbs with him, my healthiest, easiest pregnancy of the three. After he was born in December of 2015, I ended up getting Bells Palsy on the right side of my face. If you don’t know what that is, it is “temporary” paralysis of facial movement. Nothing worked on the right side of my face. Between new baby adrenaline and Bells Palsy I dropped down to 249lbs.

Within the last 5 months I gained 9lbs bringing me up to 257lbs. Eating out was just a lot easier with a busy schedule; two kids in school, one in half day school Pre-K, an infant, and a husband that doesn’t get home from work until 6:30pm. Excuse after excuse, fast food and ordering on speed dial. I was seriously going into a downward spiral. I was depressed and put on medication. I was irritated with my kids. I couldn’t go up and down the stairs to do laundry. I sat on my couch on facebook with such exhaustion and fatigue.

Then my friend from school posted about the 21 day fix from beach body. Every time I logged onto facebook she was posting transformation pictures; I was jealous. Jealous of what? That these people stopped making excuses for themselves and did something to better their life? I don’t know what clicked but something did; I had ENOUGH. I contacted her and ordered the 21 day fix.

I played around with it for a week and realized that I loved the program. The workouts were something I could work towards, modified to non-modified. Eating, eating, eating. Healthy foods yes but if YOU want results you need to learn to eat clean and make a lifestyle change. I am ready for this change and I am ready for you to come on the journey with me and hold me accountable for it! I want to play with my kids at the park without having a hard attack, I want to go up and down the stairs without being out of breath, I want to live longer and healthier. There will be “cheat days” there will be times where I am going to have a piece of chocolate because you know what; this isn’t a DIET, I am changing my life!

It takes 21 days to form a habit. 21 days is all I need and then I will be able to do round after round and not think about struggling.

I started this journey at 257lbs

I am now down to 251lbs

Will you come on my journey with me? 21 days to a healthier me and YOU.