Monday, March 7, 2011

Welcome!

Hi everyone! Some of you are friends of mine from years and years before, some of you are new, and maybe some of you have come across my blog randomly. Either way, welcome!

I want to post a little about myself and how I got started on this journey. This is a journey thats about 4 years in the making for me. I've been overweight my entire life, but it was just recently that I "got it" and figured out how to lose weight and keep it off. Some would say that I'm obsessed with weight loss and working out, and yes, they are right! But if you want to become healthy and fit, I think it's something that has to happen. I was a chubby kid all through school, but I was never "obese" until I had my first child in 2007. At that point, I was 210 pounds.

Yes, that was me. This is what you call the "wake-up call". I hated how I looked, how I felt, and everything else about myself. I dropped the weight though, and got down to my pre-pregnancy weight. In 2009 I suffered a miscarriage though, and my weight went right back up to 150. I was a mess emotionally, and then I found out that I was pregnant 3 weeks later with our second child. After I had Jacob, I was back up to 175 again. I felt like I was right back where I started. I wasn't confident, I had no drive, and I was always just so tired. Most of all though, I was just tired of myself. I had never been lower than a size 10 in my teenage years, and all through my adult life. At that point, I was a size 18. Was I ever going to get to a size where I was happy?

One day I decided that I was going to get back on that wagon, no matter what it took. I decided that I had enough of myself. My marriage wasn't what I wanted it to me, and that was because I had no life in me anymore. I was going to fix myself somehow. I started working out to the Bootcamp DVD from Bob Harper's collection. Doing the maximum results program got me going, and I really started losing weight right away. I changed my eating habits drastically, and I stuck with it as much as I could. I started seeing an improvement in everything from my streghth to my endurance. By week 12, around Thankgiving, I was back around a size 10 again. I didn't want to stop there though, and decided it was time to really step it up. I picked up Bob Harpers Inside Out DVD's and since then I've dropped another 20+ pounds and now I'm down to a size 6. I submitted my story to Bob Harper, and he published it and posted my pictures. That was one of the best days of my life!



This is me now! 123lbs and hoping to make it to 115.

The key here though is INSIDE OUT. You have to change internal thinking to get to where you want to go. It's not about how hard you work out, it's about your relationships with food and yourself. This is what I'll be talking about a lot through this blog, because that was really the turning point for me and something I think that people really struggle with.

Until next time!

14 comments

  1. That is awesome that you were so motivated to keep going and never gave up. I think that takes a strong person.

    P.S. Love your hair. That's kind of how mine is but shorter :)

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  2. Thanks Ashley! I love my new hair, I feel like it completes my new look :)

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  3. You look amazing! Thank you for starting this so we can all follow along and learn all of your tips and tricks :)

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  4. Hey there!! Found you on pinterest. I have recently done about the same. I starters around 170 or so. I weighed in at 124 today and also trying to get to 115. You look fantastic. Never give up. We can do this!! Check my blog for my before/after. 125 was my initial goal.

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  5. Love your blog! Found you on pintrest too! I am a mil wife on the same journey! I lost a great deal of weight in 2008 and then was pretty much pregnant from march 09 to just 4 weeks ago and so now am starting all over!

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  7. LOL also found you on pinterest. After my 1st daughter I lost all the way down to with in 28 lbs of my goal (I had lost 66 lbs) and then surprise surprise I found out I was pregnant. My 1st pregnancy was simple and easy but this 2nd one was far from it. My daughter was IUGR Intrauterine growth restricted. I was placed on semi bed rest and was put on a high calorie high protein diet to try to help her get as much as she could. Even through all this she was born only weighing 4 lbs 7.25 ounces at 38 weeks. We are still pretty proud of that because the doctors told us we would be lucky to get her to viability at 24 weeks and we really proved them wrong. But all the stress from a pregnancy that required weekly ultrasounds and weekly ob checks coupled with the diet they had me on caused me to gain 60 pounds. I only lost 16 from having her so that left me with 44 pounds to get back to where I was when I got pregnant. I am happy to say that I am down 14 from that but I still have a long way to go. Well after that BIO lol I started this comment with the intent to tell you that I enjoy your blog and I look forward to more posts!

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  8. I found you on Pinterest as well! Congratulations!! I look forward to being motivated by your updates. Thank you for daring to share!

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  9. I found you on pinterest. You are my inspiration. I never thought it would be possible to go from 210-110 but you did it. I'm 20 and currently weight 210, I'd love to be 110, but I'm shooting for 150 for now. My husband and I plan on starting our family in a couple of months so I've been trying to get this weight loss in gear. I know I should've started long ago. I've already started watching what I eat, so that's a plus. I need motivation to work out at night after a long day at work. Any tips? Thank you for sharing your story....you look amazing

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  10. Wow amazing job!! The hardest part is not putting it back on. I always get it off then something happens with my health and it's right back on.

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  11. I wanna thank you for the last step for motivation, i found you on pinterest (living in the netherlands) i cant order the dvd from bob but i know, if you can find your way, i will to! Thanks for your story i will read your website when i need support!

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  12. Wow good job. I also found you on pinterest. I am starting to loose weight slowly.

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