06/23/2024
I have been waiting and struggling about making this post and sharing this with you all. A year ago in June I started on this new fitness journey with a friend and my three girls, Taylor, Yasmine and Ella. We all made the decision to do this as a group, support each other and encourage each other to stay the course with our workouts and tracking our nutrition. We all took day/week one pics and a little over a week ago I took my 1 year pics. I’m happy and proud of myself. I stuck with the six day a week workout schedule and tracking my food to make incredible changes. I took this oppportunity to regain myself. You see over the last four years life has taken a toll on my body and I lost the fitness conditioning I have had in the past. Depression over my family splitting up, moving and being alone for the first time in my life, kids leaving home, injuries and the change of life aka menopause had me at the highest weight in my life. I wasn’t happy with how I looked and even tho I was working out I couldn’t lose weight to save my soul. I needed to do something different and this new fitness program was something different! To post my “day 1” pics is hard for me, it’s funny cause I didn’t feel this uncomfortable back in the day before I started with Beachbody. Maybe cause a lot of people have seen me in elite shape and I let that go. However after thinking about it for over a week now I have decided to share because I know someone out there will be able to relate. Life happens and sometimes we have to come to a place when it’s time for us to reclaim our selves. That is exactly what I did! I’m climbing my way back finally, I love the progress I have made and the doors that this journey has opened up for me. I’m incredible proud of my girls too! Taylor and Yasmine especially over the last several months have been grinding it out with me every afternoon in the gym. Their results speak for themselves and I’ll let them share when they are ready but to say their results are inspiring I mean it! I’m excited to see what this next year brings for us all but I know for me it’s just the beginning! I finally feel like I can get back to that elite level I was in my 30’s and I have Gretchen, Taylor Curry, Yasmine French and Ella to thank for the push! 🥰🩵
