WOW!!!

YOU LOOK AMAZING!  WHAT DIET ARE YOU DOING?  YOU LOOK A LOT THINNER.  WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?

These are the things that I’ve been hearing a lot lately.

The truth … no diet, nothing crazy, & I actually have no idea how much I’ve lost!  I finally have figured out a new norm for my body.  I’m finally doing ALL the things for me & consistently.  I’m finally truly taking care of me & the benefit seems to be this stack of jeans that keeps growing & no longer fits.  THAT’S what I’ve been doing!

I know that I’ve dropped a couple sizes.  I know that my metabolism has sped up.  If I had to guess I’d say I've lost 30lbs, maybe more - I NEVER weigh myself (except that 1 time my hubby made me get on the scale).  “The scale” can do a lot of “damage" to the mind.  But none of that really matters if it doesn’t keep working for me.  This isn’t why I started this journey.  And friends… it is a journey!

I’ve worked in the fitness & health industry for 17 years.  In the beginning I really didn’t get why some women just couldn’t achieve the goals they wanted with their bodies - even when it seemed they were doing everything “right”.  I’ve had thousands of clients, tried many different fitness & nutrition programs with them, many have had incredible results, others just couldn’t get the results they wanted.  

Life happened, I expanded my knowledge, I experienced crazy changes in my own life, I had 4 babies, lost 1 sweet little girl,

and then I found myself in a place that some of my clients were in.  I was stuck - I was exercising & I was eating “right”.  BUT I was lacking sleep, my hormones were crazy, my emotions were kind of everywhere, I was pouring into everyone else, I was stressed, I worked a lot, I was trying to do everything on my own,  I had massive diastasic recti that kept discouraging me…. Basically my core was severely“broken”….

4 years ago I began to realize it was way more than just food, water, & exercise.  I began to realize there was lot more of me that needed to be healthy.  I continued to struggle to figure out why I didn’t have the energy, why my core just wouldn’t work, and why I wasn’t as strong or thin or relaxed as I wanted.  

Last year I really dove into taking a little extra time for me, treating myself to a “me day”, letting go of the mom guilt, hiring professionals to support me, & I started going to bed a little earlier.  I found my own daily essential oil “lineup” to support my entire body & mind.   I started letting go of the things I thought I “should” be doing & said yes to more of what I wanted to do. 

Slowly things started to shift.  My core began to actually function for the first time in 5 years.  I felt energized & so much joy.  I was stronger & able to exercise at a higher intensity.  My clothes fit a little better.

In Spring my hubby got on board with better eating habits and that’s when the magic started.  Kyle began to develop amazing eating & drinking habits & was actually into his health more which gave me an automatic accountability partner.  This made it easy for the change I knew I needed to make in my own life.  I needed to eliminate pretty much EVERYTHING in my diet to figure out what my body liked & didn’t.  What made me really bloated, what made me feel good, what worked in our lifestyle….  I basically did the "Whole 30" for a couple weeks & slowly started reintroducing food types in weekly after that.  Thats when I truly tuned in to what my body was saying yes to & what it was screaming no at.  Once I figured out what I needed to fuel my body with, I tested out meal ideas that could work for the whole family AND forever.  I knew that if I had to eat different than everyone else, it wouldn’t be sustainable.

I mastered my nutrition for ME & began noticing immediate physical changes.  I started to reset my metabolism even more by adding in an oil protocol that I now take daily in a capsule.  I was sleeping well.  My hormones were more balanced then they’ve ever been since having kids.  I finally mastered ME, mastered my new norm, mastered what works for our lifestyle.  I did the work, I tried so many things.  NOW I brought it all together and that’s when the magic happened!

Friends, to be truly healthy its about nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, hormones, moods, your mindset… I believe that to be successful with all these things it takes time, it takes energy, it takes accountability, it takes hard work, it take failures, it takes changes that you can make & implement as part of a lifestyle (no quick fixes). 

I am still on this journey of health and will ALWAYS be - that’s what it takes.  Anyone else on this journey with me?  Anyone else want to  start their own?  I’m here, cheering you all on!