I felt that a blog update was deserved for the new journey I’m
about to embark on. So here goes:
For several months I have been going back and forth. Debating, pondering,
weighing my options. I wouldn’t say it was a tough decision. I knew I wanted to
do this but I wanted to make sure it was right for me and that I would be able
to fully commit to it once I started.
It’s no secret that I have been going through the motions
with my weight for years and it wasn’t until about 2-3 years ago that I
actually started to feel more comfortable in my skin and that was when I became
a Beachbody coach. Being a coach has not only given me a secondary income but
it has also introduced me to some amazing people and amazing products. These
products along with the things I’ve learned while being a coach has contributed
to my confidence in a big way.
More recently, I’ve noticed that my confidence has been
lacking a bit lately. That saying ‘Shit Happens’…. FACTS! That saying has been
my life for the past 5 months, maybe longer. My last job, I would use the word
hate but I’m sure whatever feelings I had towards it, hate would not come close
to describing it. I was so stressed that I was working out to offset the stress
but whenever you are as miserable as I was in any part of your life, everything
is going to be thrown out of whack. My weight completely stopped and I hit a plateau.
Now that I have a new job and the stress is pretty much gone I have found peace
but with that peace has come about 10lbs. I don’t know how it happened but I do
know that it happened quickly! I guess the happier I am the more I eat? Lol.
The moment I realized that I had gone back to my old lazy
self, Lisa before Beachbody, the Lisa I told myself I would never be again. That
was a miserable day for me. Thinking about all the hard work I had done to lose
weight and then to gain back 10lbs so quickly… That is when I started weighing
my options, I knew I had to get back to working out like I had been but I also
knew that going back to just my soul-mate workout Turbo Fire was not going to
do it. I have 30lbs (used to be 20lbs but we won’t talk about that anymore) to
hit my goal weight so that means my high intense cardio love is going to need
something to kick it up a notch. My coach Kristy has been telling me for the
longest that weight lifting will help me in so many ways and for the longest I’ve
felt like I am not the weight lifting kind of girl, that I just wouldn’t be
able to do it. It’s that exact way of thinking that gets a lot of us into the
mindset that we are not good enough when that is a lie!
So I had a true golden
moment of growth. You know what that is right? A moment where you keep telling
yourself ‘I can’t do it… I’m not good enough… Why am I even bothering?…’ and
then you wake up and realize, ‘why the hell would I choose failure when success
is an option?!’. You push through and in that special moment you grow for the
better. You grow stronger and become more confident in yourself and your abilities
to handle situations. This is where
confidence is created, strength is formed, and you become this person that you
never dreamed you could be and do things you never imaged.
I had my golden moment of growth when I realized that
failure will NOT be my option because I have the tools, everything I need to
succeed with any goal I set for myself.
So starting today I begin a 90 day weight lifting program called Les Mills
Pump. Here we go!
