In college, I joined a moms (even though I wasn't one) bootcamp. I was in it for a year, and completed my first triathlon through the bootcamp. I loved being in the bootcamp! The women in the group were amazing, and very inspiring. With that said though, I joined the bootcamp for someone else. I wasn't working out for myself, and so I never stuck with it, and didn't put my all in it. I did learn a lot, which I am thankful for.
Overtime I have belonged to 3 different gyms. But like I said, working out was never for me. So, it never stuck.
Well, here I am. A mother of 2. I think what got me to start working out again was my daughter (soon to be 3). She would ask me to play, running around outside, or play in her (fold up) tent. When I told her that "Mommy couldn't play in her tent because she couldn't fit and would get stuck", well that kind of caught my attention...that I need to do something about my weight. Not just for me, not just for my husband, but for my kids. God willing, we won't be done after 2 kids. And I wanted to be able to run around outside with them, and to be able to play with them however they wanted. I didn't want to keep telling them that "Mama was too big". And so, I decided to start working out, and watching what I ate. I texted my sisters and some other people to be my support system. A little challenging with them being in CA and me in TX. But we are making it work! After talking to one of my sisters, I started using the 'my fitness pal' app to keep track of food. (By the way, this all started January 2014). After a month or two (once I knew, and kind of proved to my husband that this wasn't just another "I wanna lose weight phase") we decided to use his "good job" work points to buy an elliptical trainer (since that was what I liked using at the gym). It is nice! Just a basic model, but I'm not a runner and never seemed to get into workouts on dvd. And just recently, we were able to get my a heart rate monitor (since I noticed/getting frustrated that the elliptical was saying that I was only burning 100 calories or so in a 30 minute workout)!
And here I am, beginning of April, and have lost (almost) 22 pounds!!! I have a long ways to go to reach my goal. (Ps...in one of my previous phases, my husband bought me a dress that was a size smaller than what I was....needless to say, I have NEVER wore that dress. And its been at least 5 years.) So that dress is my goal...to be able to fit into it!
Sometimes I am afraid that the weight loss will just stop, and I won't be able to wear that dress, but then I think about losing 22 pounds so far. I have reached the point (I think) that I can seriously believe that I can keep going! I told myself at the beginning that "I can do this" but then it was kind of a far stretch in my mind.
