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Okay, so I'm not gonna lie. I have been down this road before. Trying these workouts and starting out with boundless motivation. When I first started in 2017, though, I was basically on my own. Does anyone else have family that isn't the most supportive in changes that you're making in your life?! Or is that just me. Don't get me wrong, they're not like constantly putting me down, it's just not the uplifting pep-talks or hype that you see in so many health/fitness pages. 

    I restarted my health & fitness journey this year a little after getting weighed at a doctor visit. The number on the scale that day will forever be imprinted on my brain. I was at the heaviest I had EVER been in my entire life. & just to give you the complete realness here because I'm obviously not an instagram model or like those fitness models you see; I topped the scales at 214 lbs. Look, I knew the entire time when I was not eating healthy or moving my body that I had been gaining weight. I just never imagined it to be to that extent. For some reason, in the past any time I would be nearing 200 pounds, BOOM, that was my motivation to get to work on my health. Not because of the number exactly but because that is around what my mother weighs. And my mother is not the healthiest of people. So any time I would near the weight, it was like subconsciously I was telling myself: Do something NOW before you head down that same road! So I would. 

    This time though, I basically just ignored it; and just kept on unhealthily blocking from my head the fact that I was heading down THAT road. So when that number came up on the scale at the doctor's office it was a slap in the face that I had been trying to ignore. It took me about a week after before I actually started making changes because I honestly I tried to block it out again. Because who wants to believe that they are actively CHOOSING to lead an unhealthy life?!

    I finally dove back in though. Starting my fitness journey this time around was different in the fact that I was no longer alone. This time I am working along side a group of women that are endlessly hyping me up and supporting me every step of the way. No one is perfect but together we strive to be better physically and mentally! I started out with a week of some yoga just to get my body used to moving again. I was expecting the stretch but definitely didn't expect to be sore from yoga! I loved it though, because the soreness is just (to me) like growing pains. Growing in the right direction though; growing stronger! I then started a different program, a more intense one that I have been loving. I am now finishing out the third week; day 18 out of 21. There is another 3 weeks to it, a more advance version of it, but I will be going in for a 2nd round of this one first. I am loving the community that I am surrounded with full of women that I are proud of me and that I am immensely proud of as well! We are in this together, and that makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE!

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