Same Girl-New Dreams:The Ultimate Wedding Transformation
When I was in seventh grade I had no friends to sit with for lunch. I was teased so badly that on this particular day, I brought my lunch tray into the bathroom. It had tons of food loaded up, my only comfort. I felt like no matter what I did, wore, or how I acted I couldn't escape being teased at school. As I walked in the bathroom I remember a girl laughing at me for eating in the bathroom stall. "Eww your eating in there" was all I heard. I almost choked on my pizza. My eyes filled with tears. I didn't want to finish my lunch. I just wanted to be invisible. I just wanted to be normal. Not heavy, not overweight, but I struggled with giving up my number one comfort, food.
I have long forgiven the girl who laughed at me and made me so upset that day, but rather I think of the day as a positive. I am not that overweight, unmotivated, afraid girl anymore.
Since seventh grade I struggled with my weight trying every diet under the sun. Before I entered high school I lost 30 pounds and felt more accomplished then ever before. Although I played sports throughout high school and college, I never understood why if I was exercising so much the weight wasn't budging. I went into a vicious cycle of gaining and loosing until I graduated college. I weighed almost 200 pounds. I am not even 5'2 so I have a hard time hiding extra weight anywhere--it just shows. Looking at my graduation pictures I felt so horrible. I would start tomorrow, no the next day, no maybe next week, just take this week off. Besides, I was eating at subway and places like that I wasn't doing too bad. Or so I thought and tried to tell myself.
I had so many misconceptions about diet. I thought that if I exercised more I could eat more, I always thought three meals a day was the way to go, and I never valued breakfast.
The biggest new difference I learned was that weight training could really help re shape my body. As I look through my wedding day pictures I am so proud of my arms and shoulders. But they could have never been transformed without at least three weight training sessions per week over the course of the last year. Cardio didn't get me there, and as big a supporter as I am of eating a clean diet I can't attribute my love for Tosca Reno's philosophies souly. It's everything combined. It's a a steady persistent mindset taking on:
*eating clean and healthy (having a meal readily available and making SURE I ate every few hours defiantly helped change my metabolism. )
*weight training persistently and smartly. Rest is so important to see results.
*cardio through different methods. I tried cycling, bootcamp, running indoors and outdoors, I always change it up! I get bored easily so I learned that trying new classes would help me stay motivated and determined.
I talked to a trainer(Grace Carney ISSA certified personal trainer and Bombshell) at my gym(The Brunswick Rec Center) and began working out with her. Grace never let me give up and week after week I got stronger and leaner in my quest to go from 200 pounds to 120 pounds. My first week my legs hurt so badly that I could barely get out of my car and walk inside to my apartment after work. I was lunging quite literally to a new me and with Grace behind me there was no way I was giving up. Her heart and determination in her own personal success as a competitor was contagious to me and became my new way of life. No exaggeration on the pain I first experienced.. I took baths, tried to sleep longer, hated my life. But somehow I knew this time I was making the change for good. I didn't want to be the girl in the bathroom stall, the girl who hid from cameras, the girl who always put myself down and didn't believe I could ever look how I wanted to. I wanted to succeed and I wanted to be the person I was meant to be deep down. I took control and have never looked back. Doing things the healthy way I have steadily lost weight eating 5-6 meals a day, exercising, and learning to believe in myself and mentally becoming happier and more confident then I have ever been before.
Two weeks back from my honeymoon, I can honestly say that I felt proud, confident, and most of all happy on my wedding day. I achieved my goal of loosing 80 pounds in less then one year. Working hard today will make you a different person inside and out. You deserve it to treat your body the very best you can. By investing in tools like an MP3 player, a wonderful support system and trainer who understands how to properly exercise, and becoming active in a fitness or healthy lifestyle board or group online you can ensure that your success will happen. Take the first step to becoming the new you all it takes is one step and before you know it you will not even remember why you lived any other way. Just remember that there are heroes and angels among us and for me, mine was Grace Carney.
In health and happiness,
Katie
Fitness By Grace
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