Beachbody is now in my life

Most of my current journey revolves around a few things. My family and my own fitness goals. So these are the posts you will see from me!

You might think, "what about a job or career?" well, my family's wellness is my "job" in a sense and instead of focusing on a money making job, I am going to be better about embracing my young children while they are still young and I have the blessed opportunity to stay home with them. That being said, I do make a small income with falls in line with my fitness goals as an instructor.

As a fitness instructor, I do like to walk the talk and trainers need trainers too!!! I have had a life long struggle with my weight and body imagine, as I assume lots of people my age have had as well. Dieting was something I just ruled out as a possibility for the magority of my life. I would not consider changing my eating habits to have a better body, because, well, I love food and it's apart of my life!

I'm going to fast forward this story a little since we all know how I joined Fit4Mom's Body Back, lost the baby weight, gained it back with Starbucks and lost it again last fall. Before I re-lost the weight,  and I was struggling with losing weight but was having trouble with motivation. My friend Courtney recommended that I tried 21 Day Fix. As far as I got with that was ordering the program from amazon and reading the program. I still couldn't find the motivation and time to start the program. She had had amazing success from the program and I wish I had started then.... but I didn't. It was all too overwhelming with being a sahm with 2 jobs and training for a marathon at the time. (reasonable right??)

Well, when I started weight watchers last fall, I started an at-home workout program called Bikini Body Guide (not to be confused with Bikini Body Mommy, they are different programs, both great!). The biggest struggle with BBG was that it was at home. No one there to push me or to tell me to start the timer and just workout. But I got it in my mind "if you start a program, you can't complain about it unless you give it a real chance". Not that I wanted to complain, but I wanted to just start my healthy lifestyle again!

I finally finished that program mid-march. I lost a total of 20lbs with the help of Weight watchers. But I like to shake things up and the thing that BBG helped me with is getting comfortable with working out at home. I can still watch my kids and workout and not have to wait for cole to be home, or take them to a gym day care! (plus it made me stronger than I've ever been and was able to hold a 6 min plank afterwards and do 18 up and downs' on each arm in a row, and 40 push ups in a min......not to brag :) )

But, I like change. I like changing things up and learning new things. So I was cleaning out my cookbook cupboard and stumbled on 21 Day Fix(21DF) that I had ordered a year ago! I texted Courtney, she hooked me up with her coach and the next day I was apart of a challenge group! Since my 20lbs weight loss from BBG, I gain and lose the same 6lbs. So with 21DF, I lost those 6lbs. Then gained them back in the maintenance week because of holidays, then did 21DF extreme and lost 3lbs, and it was a hard program!!! However, with both programs, I had lost inches all over my body and gained in my legs where I could feel my muscles growing! So for me, these are wonderful results!!!

It's getting me away from the scale and helping me focus more on strength goals! I've really enjoyed the short workouts and sweat so much from them. So now I am about to finish my 3rd round and decided to become a coach. I feel as though these workouts have really made me stronger!! Which is helping me FINALLY get to my point. Beachbody is now apart of my life. I drink shakeology, and I press play to one of their workouts every single day. (except on vacations) I ordered another program called The Master's Hammer and Chisel and also 3 Day Refresh. Since 3 day refresh doesn't recommend a hard workout, I am going to restart Hammer and Chisel next monday. I will be starting 3 day refresh tomorrow and will post a review of day one!!!

I will report back about how its going tomorrow!!!

Lastly, I know I jump around a lot with things I'm "in to". But it's good to have hobbies and learn new things! I can't promise my journey with beachbody will be forever. In fact, I can with certainty say it won't be(unless I'm crazy successful at it) but it's working for me right now and as Autumn says "you're only promised today".