One Year Later...

June 30 will be my one year fit-aversary. I'll be on the road so I decided to post about it today. The last year fitness wise has not been without incident. Sick kids, missed workouts, low motivation. I still to this day do not "enjoy" working out. I know that it works so it's a necessary evil. I don't hate it as much as I used to because I have seen the good side effects from taking care of myself and moving my body more. I do enjoy running even though some runs just plain suck.

I have learned a lot this past year. What my body is capable of, my own strength (physical and mental), what works and what doesn't. I am not as strict with my eating as some are. I used to be a lot more strict in the beginning because that's what you have to do to lose the weight. Plain and simple. You still have to watch what you eat. All in moderation, that's what I like to preach.

This is the longest I have ever stuck to exercising. I would stop once I got the results I wanted but after 3 kids, you just don't have that luxury anymore. Last year I had a 4 month old so I took my time before I started working out. We had a good nursing schedule and even though sleep was meh, we had a good rhythm during the day. Some days, napping won over working out. That's ok. Don't give up!! Everyone has bad days, dust yourself off and keep chuggin'! I have said it before but I didn't take a shirtless progress picture until I'd been working out almost 3 months because I was so self conscious.

I tend to have ADD hobbies so Adam gives me a hard time and asked me when I would move on from this one. I told him, "This is only the beginning. I've seen so much change and I have too many goals now to give up"! You have to work through the hard days, where your body hurts, where everything goes wrong with your day. You have to make time for it. For yourself. For your family. For your health. If I can do it, you can too!!

I'm so glad I did. On a Thursday, no less. Don't put it off another day.


Just wow.

Pulling the shirt to show how much of that belly is gone

I was nursing last year hence all the bras
This is the first side picture I could find

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  1. AmyJuly 11, 2017 at 4:56 PM

    Thanks for the motivation and I am so impressed. You are awesome and it gives me hope. :)

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