A Journey to Fit & Fast

I feel I’ve made it abundantly clear in the last few days, but mountains are my ‘soul sister’ of this earth. Between mountains and oceans, I think they foster a lot of serenity, deepness in thought and genuine peace within me. It’s genuinely my time to breathe, reflect, grow. And I feel that way each and every time I am there, regardless of the occasion.  The energy of them is just so calming to me. So this trip was no exception. I went into the trip at a kind of tough point mentally. Life starts to add up, be it both the stress of being a parent and being a spouse. And it can be a lot. I knew that I had to make a change, as I heard my child’s heart in the middle of a counseling session “I’m afraid that my mom and Eli are going to break up, because they are arguing a lot and I just don’t want to go through a divorce again.” OUCH. BIG TIME OUCH. But also awesome.  Because real is awesome.  Doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt, but it’s awesome. And growth comes from real and pa...

I’m in the midst of a Farrell’s challenge, and it is making me reflect A TON on the journey that is lifelong weight loss and life long fitness. I think if you would have told me that it’s a journey of up and down, and finding the next thing to challenge yourself I probably either would have a) not believed it, or b) completely given up. I mean, who, in the grand scheme of things, wants to gain any amount of weight back just to find another thing that helps them get that back off? Probably no one.  I started my journey where I had started it MANY times: weight watchers in 2011, after stopping and starting 13 (no joke) times there. I started running, and got to a point where Weight Watchers wasn’t the nutrition plan that I needed. So I branched off and did my own healthy eating, nourishing myself and holding myself accountable. And I did fine on that for several years. I got divorced, ran a marathon, gained a few pounds in the process. Started a new relationship, gained some mor...

I found this picture today, which I think accurately depicts my journey with health/weight loss. In fact, I think a lot of people who've maintained weight loss for years would tend to agree with this. I have made it pretty transparent to those that are closest to me that I had let my health journey and weight loss and maintenance journey slide in the last year or so. I let other factors affect my journey, and I left stress allow myself to put myself down on the list of 'most important things in life.' I'm blessed to say though that my threshold of reaching out for help is lower, seeing as how I'm not 218 pounds like I have been previously. I've still maintained a 40-45 pound weight loss for going on 7 years. Which is absolutely something to rejoice for, while also seeking to do better. I am back mentally to the place where I have to do this for my health, for my children, and being around to see them grow and live, because a family history of everything (se...