01/09/2026
I have known this beauty for many many years…so receiving this unexpected message from her hit a little differently. 🥹
Sharing with her permission…but keeping her anonymous at her request. I am so thankful she trusted me enough to let me share a small piece of her story.
And my good LAWT...look at her! 🔥
But then I read her message.
I remember the seasons when she was motivated and ready to go-and I remember the seasons when life was LIFE-INGGGG and fitness/nutrition simply could not be the most important thing on the list.
So we adapted.
Sometimes we pushed. Sometimes we backed off. Sometimes the goal was progress…and sometimes the goal was simply not disappearing on herself completely.
We met life where it was instead of pretending it wasn’t happening.
I think that’s why her saying she still uses things I taught her all these years later means so damn much to me.
Because THAT was always the point.
Not perfection. Not doing everything exactly right forever. Not building a life where nothing ever gets in the way.
Learning how to adapt when it inevitably does.
How to have a shi**y week without turning it into a shi*y six months. How to give whatever you have when 100% isn’t available. How to pick things back up without punishment or starting over.
She gives me a lot of credit in that message…but the woman in those pictures is the one who made it happen. 100%.
I have had the privilege of knowing and loving her through a lot more than 8,568,904 workouts😂 (and her stunning transformation). Being a small piece of her journey is seriously a blessing.
I am so dang beyond proud of you!!!!
For the obvious transformation…absolutely. But even more for all the parts nobody could ever see in these two pictures. 🩷
West Fitness