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My last reblog... it's important to spread awareness. This isn't a part of me I typically share with my fitness friends... but it is so much a part of me. There is a healthy way to do things and a super unhealthy way to do things. When I was younger I was really really unhealthy about how I maintained my body. This is literally the first time I've ever taken control of my body in a healthy manner. I was dx with an ed at the age of 13 and have struggled with it my entire life. Am I allowing a disorder to run my life? No. do I struggle to continue doing things the hard (healthy) way when I know how much easier I personally take things when I do allow the disorder to run my life? Hell yes. But... I am strong. I've got this and I value my health a hell of a lot more than that. This picture is me currently. This is big for me. But it is a hell of a lot smaller than I was a year ago. AND tiny me didn't have the strength or energy to be a mom or live the life I live. Am I at my goal yet? No. but I love myself and I'll just keep working.

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Ask and you shall receive

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For healthy living and fitness tips: for-fitness-sake

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It’s no secret that a year ago I was in the worst shape of my life. I’ve lost 65 pounds since then, dropped from a size 24 to a size 10/12, and most importantly rediscovered my love for the gym, and free endorphins! :) <3

What is sort of a secret though is that one of my goals is to eventually be in good enough shape and strong enough again to meet people at the gym. There was a time in my life that getting guys numbers at the gym was not an abnormal thing. For me, that’s when I’ll know I’ve got my body back. 

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For healthy living and fitness tips: for-fitness-sake

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My employees officially think I'm nuts cause i eat these with a spoon at my desk.

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For healthy living and fitness tips: for-fitness-sake

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my size 6 is my best friends size 2 and one of my other friends size 10... everyone’s sweet spot is different because what is most healthy is different. Health does not come in a “one size fits all” package. 

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For healthy living and fitness tips: for-fitness-sake

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All In 2017

I'm going all in for 2017. I'm so excited to do another challenge rather than my every day products. It's been soooo long! 😘

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<3 this. so much this. When I started this journey - what I learned super fast is that I basically starve myself when I don’t set reminders in my phone to eat. Somewhere along the line I messed up my own metabolism enough that my body seems to have stopped reminding me to eat. Throw ADHD in the mix and I literally have to set reminders in my phone to eat. I eat 10x what I used to eat but it is alll sooooooo much better for me.

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I used to strive for this. Everything about this.... thing is - for me THIS wasn’t healthy. For me I could never see myself as this even when I had attained it. I always needed to be smaller or more flexible or needed better form. This is exactly what I don’t strive for. Yes, she is beautiful - but for me, striving for this is enabling a disorder. I scrolled through my old tumblr tonight and was appalled at how tiny and how disordered I was. We live and we learn. Sure, small is cute... but strong is sexy.

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p.s.- I should add that I’m down to a 12-14… Next stop - size 8 by Saint Patrick’s Day!

This dress has been my goal for over a year. I bought it before fuck face moved out (right after we broke up) - it has a S/M/L size label which I usually avoid at all costs but I got a good deal on it. I knew it wouldn’t fit when I bought it but I knew it would some day. I tried it on on Christmas Day and IT FITS FOLKS! I’m beyond excited.

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HR

I went to the gym today(duh)…. for some reason the second machine in the circuit I decided to do today spiked my heart rate every time… like we are talking 195-200 just for doing this one machine and it happens within a couple of seconds — i think it has to do with the position it puts you in…. but I love the feeling of it on my legs. Well, that was my thought of the day… I should probably ask my trainer how normal/abnormal that is for that machine…. I’ve had heart issues in the past and am not sure if it’s me or the machine.

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Today at the gym I had to work side by sides with a woman in her mid 40′s… She accidentally forgot to reset the leg press to her own weights after I used it and then complained that it was really difficult… my leg press had 160 pounds over what she usually does… the fact that she was capable of doing it means she isn’t actually gaining anything from the weights she’s been setting it at… she wanted nothing to do with re-setting her weights either. 

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