So I guess I've become a blogger. Not really sure how it all works, but here 'goes!

My Weight Loss Journey

These last 4 years have been a challenge for me.. Mostly because I have been relatively small most of my life. Genetically I should have been a large girl growing up because I got my grandparents side of "bread lovin', pasta lovin', extra cheese please" - thank God for dancing!! Had I not found my love for dancing as a young girl who knows how much bigger I'd be! After being on the dance team in high school (mind you, not eating good AT ALL!!) and still being skinny I figured I'd lucked out in the gene pool by being able to eat whatever I wanted and not gaining a pound! (SWEEEET!!!) Unfortunately, as high school came to an end, so did my daily regiment of dancing..However, my appetite for all things carbs did not! 

The longer I was out of high school and the older I got (cough 21 cough) I enjoyed the alcohol probably a little too much!! As we all know, drinking has TONS of empty calories, not to mention all the junk food you inhale when you're intoxicated-- I LOVE me some pizza!

Lets fast-forward another couple years to now! I have been with my live-in boyfriend for 4 1/2 years! We have been best friends for about 6 years which is wonderful! It's like a fairy tale romance! However, with all that romance comes comfortability...(maybe a little too much! I'll spare you all the gory details..HAHA!) And with comfortability, at least in my experience, you don't feel the need to work out or eat right to maintain a nice body.. Why the hell would you?!? You're with a wonderful man for over 4 years who loves you just the way you are! At first, it's a wonderful feeling to not have to care so much and just be able to lounge around in your pj's and not worry if he thinks your sexy because you know he does! After a couple years that happiness of just being the so 'comfortably in love' couple fades.. and that spark you used to feel when you got all dolled up and noticed cute guys checking you out came back with a vengeance! Not that I was looking for another man... but after a long time the butterflies fade and you want him to look at you like he used to when he first saw you! :) 

Then one day I just looked in the mirror one day and noticed how frumpy and fat I'd let myself become not caring how I looked... and that is when I heard about Beachbody products! Everybody under the sun has heard of P90X but that was never something I thought I could do or want to do. So I decided to look into Insanity- getting that surge of adrenaline thinking of the possibilities of being skinny again! Once I received Insanity I had second thoughts about starting such an insane workout! (pun intended!) 

So while Insanity sat on my shelf, I decided to try Jillian Michael's 30 day shred... that was fun and challenging for a couch potato like me..Needless to say I was feeling it the next day! I did that for a couple weeks and.. not to sound like a workout video slut.. I googled some other Beachbody workouts and came across Turbo Fire on youtube...so of course I had to try! I am soooooo glad I did you guys! It is the BEST and most fun I have ever had in a workout!!!! I look forward to doing it every single day! It is more dance-y which is why I like it, so if you don't like dance you won't like this! But it is dance/kickboxing!

I am only a couple weeks in to my 3 month program, and haven't lost any pounds but I have lost more than 3 inches!!! Since I am just truly starting out in a workout program I wanted to start a blog to hopefully inspire people and have people keep me inspired! Going through something as tough as a weight loss journey is way easier when you have people rooting for you!! :) 


'til next time-
Linds