The Crazy Things We Do To Get Thin

I think this picture is so funny. I think it's kind of funny how we would do these crazy fad diets and other things to take the "easy way out." We just got to diet and exercise. No excuses. You need to believe in yourself. I believe in you. Yes it may take longer but thats ok. You will at least have the self satisfaction that you lost it on your own. I'm not here to convince you. I'm here to walk with you as I'm going through the same struggles with you. Let's quit the gym and work out at home. Saves money and time. I'm almost done with my first round of Insanity. Can you believe that? I have this week to finish and I'm done. I'm going to do this while working 60 hours a week and going through the stress of worrying about my family. I may not have kids but I have many other things that could take away my time. I know by committing to do my best on every workout I'll get the body I deserve. Yes. Thats right. I deserve a great body if I work for it. So excited to get where I want to be. But that isn't the finish line to working out and eating healthy. I'm going to commit to this for life. I got to do this for me, my family, friends, yes my future family that I might have down the line. Got to end the trend of obesity. Let's do this together. 

Hi. How are you? I hope everyone is doing well. I plan to write in here more often. I'm getting used the blog thing and trying to get some free time to write here. I just found out not that long ago that we have overtime at work now. Which is good for the money wise but not so good for my weight loss goals. I can't wait till I get rid of my debt and move out on my own. I also want to lose weight before I move out in june. I want to be at least 160 lbs before I move out. Yes I want to lose more but at least that before I move out. Yesterday I was so weak. I'm not sure if it's because I haven't been drinking enough water and or eating enough. I'm trying to get over this 20-25 lb plateu I usually have. I haven't got past the 25 lbs loss yet. I usually lose that amount and just stop. I'm learning I have to change my diet and up my intensity on my workouts. I'm on the second month of the Insanity workout and I love how much muscle my body is building. I noticed how my arms, legs and stomach has firmed up. I think I should add more cardio to it. I like the "Pure Cardio" work out and "Cardio Abs" workout. I'm going to add that to my workouts at least 3 times a week. What do you do to get your self into workouts when you feel like you can't push your self or too tired? Please comment, like, ask questions. Have a great day.

The Reason I Joined Beachbody

Hi everyone. I never done a blog before, so I hope this helps benefit both of us. I plan to take charge of my life and get healthy. Most of my life I was heavy. I had never been skinny. I remember how hard life was growing up in school and having to deal with feeling not good enough. Not good enough to date the guy I had a crush on. Not good enough to walk down the halls and not get teased. Not good enough to even try out for any sports. Not good enough to be in the popular crowds. I never felt comfortable enough to go up to someone and just start a conversation. I felt that I wasn't good enough. In school, I had seen this guy who beat me down mentally. He made remarks "I asked you out because I felt sorry for you" "your friend is hott" "I don't talk to you during school because I'm afraid of what my friends would say". That stuff broke me down even more. Yes, I am responsible for letting that happen. He didn't put a gun to my head but I kept going back because at the time it felt it was well worth it when he would put a little nice things in there. I had fallen in to depression in my junior year of high school and gained about 80 lbs in a few months. All I did was eat and sleep. I wish I was like the girls who couldn't eat when their sad or upset. I was an emotional eater. And I also was a bored eater too. Worse thing to do. 


I remember one Sunday I had to give a talk at church and I remember waking up and seeing my self in the mirror. I saw my self so huge. I couldn't even stand to look at my self. I felt so horrible. I didn't even want to go to church that day because I was too darn fat. How horrible is that? I went to church and had a hard time even speaking that day because all I was thinking of how fat I was and that I should've stayed home. I couldn't even look at my self that day. You would have thought that would have been my ah haa moment. You know the moment when you actually make the decision to loose weight on your own. But no. Just felt even more horrible for myself and eat more. Yeah. That would help solve the problem. Not. 


I had went to Hawaii end of April of 2010. It was an LDS (The church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints) singles trip. I had a great time. The trip was amazing. Everything about it was great. I so would like to go back there again someday. I would have had a better time if my weight wasn't an issue. I kept comparing myself to others. I know we're not supposed to do that but I do. I'm working on that. I didn't want to worry about how I looked in my swimsuit. Yes, Hawaii is amazing but who wants to be worrying about how fat they look in their swimsuit. 


I had booked another LDS singles trip in October 2011. I'm going on a cruise from Venice to Rome, Italy. That's when I decided to make a change. I wanted to have a great time. Not worry about how I look. And feel confident about my self again. And don't give that crap all it takes is confidence to get a man. I tried it but no. I want a guy to ask me out for a change. That's why I'm working on getting my self healthy so I could be where I want to be. And I want to be able to love my self first. And yes I know the dating life would come along after that. Can you believe it? I'm going on a trip of a lifetime. I am. I never thought I would be able to go. Now this is my year to shine. I am the only one that could make it happen. No one else. : ) I had made the decision to change my life. 


Oh ok. That's great. Now that I made the decision to lose the weight, how do I do it? How am I going to stay committed to it? I'm looking back and seeing what I did in the past. I went to the gym and worked out 3-5 x a week. Eat a little healthier. Well, from what I knew was healthy. I was all gun ho all at first and I just stop. I get to those lovely cravings. I would fall when I would stop at a Whataburger or a McDonalds. I was all in or all out. And when I was all out. It was hard going back in it. If I was not ready, I didn't care. I just ate all the junk food I wanted and didn't even exercise. I went though this cycle over and over again. And I knew I wanted to go back to the gym after the holidays. I knew I was going to make a change but I was afraid of going back into the cycle again. 


I was so grateful to see my friend Soomey post on Facebook that she just order Insanity. I was wondering what that was. I never heard of that. She said that it's a step up from P90X. I had seen P90X on TV several times and I heard that it was intense. I decided to check it out on google. I saw the videos of it. My first thought was "Wow. I couldn't even do that. She's insane." Then something about it intrigued me. I saw the results people were having. It was amazing in a short amount of time. It was your own weight resistance. No weights at all. : ) I liked that part. And to top it off, Shaun T is hott. : ) I kept watching it over and over. I was speaking with my friends and trying to speak with them about if I should do it. I was 50/50 at that time. I was scared because most of the people I saw on there were already thin and they are saying that they thought the warm up was hard. My friend told me that she saw some obese people trying on the informercials before and that I would just need to do the best I can do. That's what hooked me. It didn't matter if I couldn't even do all the stuff they were doing on the show. I just needed to do the best I could do. I didn't even know there was a fit test that you could do from the website. I didn't check it out that much. I just ordered it. And 7 days later I pushed play to that Insanity work out. On my first workout, which was the fit test, "what was I thinking?' And I was telling my self that I am going to give it my all and I'm going to quit making excuses. I wanted to give it my all for the 60 day workout program. And I know if I could complete round 1. I could complete multiple rounds. I have seen the difference in my body and in my energy. 


I also became a beachbody coach to help me stop the cycle of stopping and to be accountable. I don't give a flying squirrel if I make a dime from this. I don't care about that. I joined to help me stay accountable and keep pushing my self to do better. I know that this works. I have an amazing coach that helps and inspires me. She's doing P90X and Insanity. Yups at the same time. Wow. You go girl. I go to her when I have questions. And believe me I have a lot. I am here to help people get fit and healthy. I'm a coach because I know what it's like to not have that hope. To lose inspiration. Do be in the stand still where your doing the best you can and you're not seeing the numbers go down. I'm there with you along the way. So, I'm not here to make a stinking profit off of you. I want you to succeed. I want you to get healthy. I want to help you get where you want to be. Don't feel like you have to be on a show to get the results that you want. 


I'm here trying to save you money. I have saved a lot since I joined beachbody. I don't spend $25/mo at the gym anymore and I don't spend $6/meal at fast food anymore. Yes sometimes I would eat out once, twice or even maybe three times a day. Wow. That adds up. Now I just push play every time I go home from work and give it my all. I pack my meals for the next day and save money there. I do take Shakeology now. What's that? Shakeology is a protein/nutrition drink that helps you feel more energized, reduce cravings, lose weight, improve digestion and regularity. When you diet you're loosing on the nutrients that you need. I've been doing it for less than a month now and I love it. I loved the taste of it and how full it makes me. I've tried other protein/meal replacement drinks and they we're not so good. I love how it gives me my chocolate fix. It has different recipes. You can even make cookies and pie from it. I tried the cookies this morning. Yummy. I only pay $3/meal. I went from $6 to $3. I only replace one meal a day. See, that's saving money there. If you order it, you can get it for $3/meal if you're a coach or $4/meal if your not.  That's another advantage for being a coach. You get a 25% discount. And you can get paid to lose weight. You decide your success. I'm not here to convince you. I'm here to work with the willing. I know you can do it. Please follow me here and we can help motivate and inspire each other. Please feel free to comment and let me know what you like about my weight loss journey. Check out my sites below. And yes, I did my first YouTube video. Woot Woot.  And yes I lost 20 lbs so far and I'm going to keep going. 


Check this site out for shakeology. Check out the video on "the Doctors" tab. Let me know what you like about it. 


http://myshakeology.com/esuite/home/ldslady84


Here's my YouTube video site:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiSXqn0Ziic


Here's my site. 


http://beachbodycoach.com/ldslady84