So after seeing how successful a blog can be in inspiring motivation I have decided to begin my own.
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| Honeymoon 2013 |
After many years of being unhappy with my body image, and having low self esteem I have decided to make a change in my life. No more excuses. At first it was the hectic life I led while in college, and the little funding I had to achieve a successful shopping trip that did not include soft drinks, sweets and caffeine. Next, I got married through the civil court, graduated college moved away to DC, got happy and comfortable, eating out every day and out of pure laziness, not engaging in any cooking. After a sad job market and expensive life in DC my husband and I decided to move back to lovely friendly San Antonio. I decided to pick up the pieces of my shattered dreams of begining a career in research and took a temp job as an order entry , issue resolver person. Luckily I had a decent job, a nice home, and got hired permanently. Since my lovely husband and I had not been married through the Catholic church, he was viewed as my boyfriend, and in an effort to resolve this issue, and fullfill this girl's fantasy of having a fairy tale wedding we decided to get married in the Fall of 2011. It was a beautiful wedding, and I really did plan on losing weight, but school, work and wedding planning made it fairly difficult, and I found myself eating more everyday. Luckily that day I fit in my dress, I felt like a princess (although I wish I would have looked slimmer). Always too busy to do anything and learn anything new, with a full time job and full time class schedule, I was grabbing easy (fattening) fast food, whether I was on my way to take a test or on my way to work long hours, looking after my body was not priority. I graduated in May of 2013, and it was quite a refreshing feeling. Having my time back to do, well... whatever... I decided to surf Facebook one day, my cousin had posted some pictures from Easter. As I clicked through them, I came upon a picture of her son, and somewhere off in the corner was a huge person, for a moment I wondered who had been at our gathering because I didn't recognize that person, slowly, and with a small dread irking in my stomach I realized it was me. I had no idea my body had changed so much, I did not realize when it happened, how it happened... all I knew was I had to change it.
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| Here we are, Wedding Dress and All |
In July 2013 my husband and I took our honeymoon trip, yes I know almost 2 years later, but as I stated before I was a very busy girl. I set my motivation to lose weight for our trip so I signed up for weight watchers, week by week I lost 15 pounds, but got easily sidetracked. Disney World was amazing, and I would do it all over again, it was so magical, a place I never thought I would ever get to go to, you see, even though I am from California and lived 20 minutes away from Disneyland, I only got to go once or twice with aunts and cousins but never with my parents as they could not afford to do so. The castle was enchanting and every moment lived there was one to remember. When I got back I found I had lost focus on my weight goal, and was having a hard time finding motivation again. So as I searched on Pinterest for cute outfits I probably need a smaller body for, I found the Half Princess Marathon Run held at the Walt Disney Resort in Orlando, Florida. Eager to find a goal to motivate me, and being that my new found love oddly enough is running. I want to participate in the Marathon in the year 2015 as the registration for the 2014 one has already sold out. Here I will document my progress to being in better health, fit and strong. I know it is a long road but I am ready to engage in this, I do not want to be unhappy with myself, and am excited on embarking on this new journey.
My goal is not to be super skinny model thin, I want to be fit and healthy, strong, have the ability to run and move and not be lazy. This weekend as I cleaned out my room I rid it of all clutter, it seems that if my plan is to eat clean and be healthy it would make sense in my life to be less cluttered. And as if running the half marathon was not motivation enough, my company awarded me with an MVP all expenses paid trip to Hawaii in October, so I am definitely sure I want to look amazing that week! I'd like to add that all I am doing comes from me, I am blessed and lucky to have a husband who says in his eyes I am beautiful every day. I am a pink, princess, tiaras, glitter, sparkle and fairy tale fanatic! So I only saw it fit to name my blog after my passions.
Challenges: Love sweets, chocolate, cheese cakes, mixed drinks, pizza and hamburgers.
The Plan: FitMiss Supplements- Burn (only diet pill that has not made me sick to my stomach) Tone (just started this today for belly fat), Delight (protein shake to assist with my sweet cravings) and Ignite (to aid with the endurance for my workouts)
Workouts- Running 40 minutes in intervals from running, to jogging to power walking as well as Blogilates workout videos, love this girl, she makes everything feel so easy and fun, and so girly.
Have I mentioned I am a very girly girl? Fitmiss products being black and hot pink and blogilates being all about girls and sparkles have really inspired me, as far as food goes I am using Fitness Pal to make sure I am taking in the healthy amount of calories my body needs. I have also given up Coke, and all soft drinks as well as juices. My new best friend is water... and it tastes good!
