First and foremost I would like to put a disclaimer that I eat what I want. I do not follow diets and do not care for them.
I would like to share with others what I am doing to be physically fit because I feel better about myself and I love the way it makes my body feel. I also want to document my fitness journey because of accountability so I don’t regress.
I started running when I was 8 years old. That year I ran my first 5 K in the 2nd grade. I felt so accomplished and I loved the feeling I would get when my blood was pumping and the oxygen going in my lungs even if I was utterly exhausted. I ran the 5 K every year from that year but I stopped in the 7th grade. In middle school a lot of my friends were not active and I could say it was laziness on my part but honestly it’s because I hated going to the doctor and didn’t want to get a physical done to be able to join athletics at my school. I dreaded the doctors office.
I didn’t take up running again until my senior year of high school and I joined our cross country team. I could run 3 miles in 30 minutes. I was always last place except for one of my races I was second to last. Why am I sharing this? Well, you see… I didn’t care that I was last place. I loved the feeling I would get when I ran and how energized my body felt afterwards.
I recently started running again about a month ago. I purchased a treadmill with my mother. At first I was running about once or twice a week. Now I am running at least 3 days a week. I also started doing ab exercises. When I first started doing crunches I couldn’t even lift my head off the floor, now I can. At first, I couldn’t even hold a plank for 5 seconds, now I can hold it for at least 30 seconds. At first, it took me 25 minutes to walk/run a mile, now I can do it in 15 minutes.
I know it sounds like I have absolutely no muscle or endurance. I haven’t worked out since before I married my husband almost 6 years ago. Even after I had our daughter I didn’t work out. I am 5 foot 3 inches tall and weighed 162.5 lbs as of May 21. I do not care for weighing myself but I will do so to document my journey.
I am doing this because I love myself and I want to stay healthy. I want to be able to run after my toddler. I also, want to be an example for her so she never doubts herself and her abilities so she knows she can do whatever she wants with her life.
My daughter looks up to me, I see it when I’m running on the treadmill and she tells me she wants to do it too. I see it when I am doing jumping jacks and she says she can do it too. I see it when my husband and I are doing sit ups and push ups and she says she can do it too. When she finishes she goes “I win!” It makes me so happy that she enjoys these activities with me. There’s no shame with wanting to be comfortable in your own skin and being happy with yourself.
I hope that you will follow along on this journey as well.
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