I personally trained women for the past three and a half years and it was intensely rewarding.  I was pretty good at it and it is hard to explain to you how good it feels to watch a woman transform her body and become fit in front of your eyes through proper eating and regular exercise.  It's friggin' awesome.  The way she looks at herself, the determination in her eyes when you tell her the routine for the day and the sweat dripping off her red face when it is done are all priceless.  I loved it.

However, after finding out I was expecting our third child in Nov 2012 I knew the time had come for me to spend my evenings at home with my family and so at 32 weeks pregnant I led my final boot camp.  I still miss it.  I miss the friendships that I built under the Texas sun and the support of those women as we powered through our burpees and sprints.  It was a sweet time together and every time I get to see one of my campers/friends out and about it makes me get all giddy inside.  

All this to say that I can train other women well, but training myself is a whole other ball game.  So here I am seven and a half months post childbirth and at the end of my first month of training to lose thirty pounds.  When I went to the hospital in labor I weighed in at 190 pounds (I am five foot two inches {at least that is what my license says-hehe}) and so 190 pounds is a lot of weight to carry around town.  BUT, I knew it was coming.  I gained 52 pounds with my first child, 40 with my second and 50 with my third.  It's super easy for me to gain it.  I have intense cravings, I never throw up a calorie and I don't workout when I am pregnant.   There I said it. Let's be real.  I get tired.  I'm chasing two big kids and my hips friggin' hurt dang it.  {Don't judge me.  I'm also hormonal.}  Not to mention I have a metabolism that struts along at the speed of a snail.  It took me seven months to get myself to this point with my children where I know it is time to get this done.  I had lost all the weight from the baby and placenta, water, etc. and was holding steady at 167.5 pounds.  In the past month I have lost ten pounds and this morning I weighed in at 157.5.  {It is painful to share these numbers with all of you and put myself out there because I have so many friends who have no idea what it feels like to look at the scale and see a number so high.  But there are also women out there who know exactly how it feels.  There are women out there to know what it feels like to see a much higher number and I want to encourage you!  We can all be fit and fast.}  I believe fit and fast is how God designed our bodies to be but that is a blog post for the future.

My program is a hodge podge of paleo/south beach/livefit eating with #livefit and my boot camp style of training combined.  I have three kids remember?  I have to be flexible because you never know when someone is going to be sick or teething or have to work late.  I will get more detailed into my daily eating routine and workout schedules in future posts.  This one is just to say HOWDY and let you know where I stand…ten pounds lighter than I was one month ago.