Hey there everyone!
I know it's been a while since my last blog post but things have been so busy that I haven't had the time lol :) Even though there's a quarantine happing right now big things have changed! I wanted to start off by saying that these two photos were taken about 6 and a half years apart, the one on the right was taken back on December 24th, 2014 and the one on the left was taken just last week WOW! It's crazy, right? I look at the difference between the two and see the same person yet you can see that the smiles are completely different, on the right, the smile is of a shy, awkward introvert girl who didn't realize just how important health and fitness was aside from just running and aiding a salad to my meals, and on the left, is this confident introvert, positive woman who now knows the importance of health and fitness. I look back on how I used to take care of myself and realized that it wasn't perfect and I didn't really know how to fuel my body properly, I never understood what the big deal was with fitness (like I said aside from running three days a week and eating a salad every now and then.)
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| December 24th, 2014 |
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| April 6th, 2020 |
The difference between these photos isn't outward appearances but inward appearances! Yes, I'm smiling in both pictures but you can tell which one has more passion and drive just by fire in the eyes! I can't begin to tell you just how many ups and downs I've had in between these two pictures, I went through many challenges through the duration of the past 7 years, I only just started to get into fitness more the past four years and I can tell you it wasn't pretty lol! I had never really followed meal plans before so when I started my first workout program I followed one and it was probably the hardest thing I'd done, my body just wasn't used to how hardcore and disciplined it was.
The first thing I did was join an accountability group for women, this picture was taken last year in Indiana at the Indiana convention center
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| This is my accountability group! We had just finished writing down our goals! |
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| this was the last night :( |
I came away from that trip with having learned so many new things about myself and what I was capable of, how driven and determined I'd become. Throughout that week I realized just how much community matters, they were always there and it was so much fun getting to know so many new faces and sharing the same experience it was unreal! they were there for me throughout my entire journey and they helped me get through a lot when I started to doubt whether or not I was cut out for something like that. I can't begin to tell you just how much they mean to me, it's a sisterhood like no other! (I'm on the way end the only one in red lol! our team color was black or white and I somehow ended up in red lol)
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| I can't begin to tell you just how much hard work/ discipline went into my journey. |
Hard work is something that most people (not all) as soon as they hear the word they are turned off by it "Hard work? No way, I'm not doing that." But sometimes if you want the best results then you have to put in the HARD WORK! I'm not saying it's easy because let me tell you it's not, but if your willing and determined you'll find a way to get it done and when you are finished you won't believe how amazing you feel!
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| This was after I had FULLY committed to a 100-day program... This was my second round, I had stayed committed for 200 days! You can see I have tears in my eyes because it felt amazing to have finished. |
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We have to check in with ourselves!
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Checking in with ourselves is all part of the journey itself we have to make sure that we're staying on track and holding ourselves accountable for our excuses, I'll be the first to admit that I struggle with checking in with myself every night, it's not easy for me to hold myself accountable I confess but I am trying to more disciplined about it. Something else I learned throughout my journey is that you have to be willing to let yourself fail because its in those moments that we learn to push harder and become more aware of the world and how hard it can be to reach your goals when you have people that want to pull you down.
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| FAMILY PUSHES YOU! |
Family is the most important thing in our journeys because they help push and encourage us to become the best you that we can be, we have to remember that family matters and that their the ones who make sacrifices right alongside with us so we can achieve our goals in life!
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| Stay on track! |
It's very important that we remember to stay positive no matter how negative things get because without positivity there is no hard work and without hard work there can be no goals, and with no goals, we can't make it happen and if we can't make it happen then we're just going to sit on our butts and pity ourselves saying that we "failed" and it's everyone else's fault for not telling us. Let's remember one thing
IT'S NOBODYS FAULT BUT YOURS
that you're sitting down in the first place because they didn't tell you to hit snooze on your alarm, they didn't tell you to skip your workout just because you were too "tired" to get out of bed no, you had a choice and you choose to hit snooze and now you're blaming others for the choices that YOU decided to make. The truth hurts sometimes and there are no excuses as to why it hurts when we were the ones who created the issues, I'll admit that it stills hurts when someone says something mean to me, and yeah I do pity myself sometimes but then I get over it and push harder! As I try to get my career up and running I've learned a lot in the past 2 almost 3 years that people are mean and can sometimes say nasty things because you're achieving your goals, and I'm not saying that it's going to get any easier as we continue on our journeys but we've just got to be strong enough, disciplined enough, and hard enough to take the truth and come out on top feeling amazing because good things come to those who wait!
As I come to the end of this blog I hope you enjoyed it and I hope that everyone is staying safe and remember,
STAY POSITIVE AND WORK HARD!
