A beautiful, 4' 11" woman with an incredibly toned body came in to maurices shopping for jeans. I am not at all bashful, so I asked her what she did for a living. Surprise - she is a IFBB Pro Body Builder, Trainer and owns her own supplement store. As we continued talking she mentioned that she was running an amazing training special through the end of January. She gave me her card and we talked more about it before she left the store. I really liked her, we clicked, and I loved what she had to say about her program and her own personal beliefs on fitness and health. She has been weight lifting and training for 30 years, and became a pro in 2008. You wouldn't believe it if you saw her, by she is 46 years old.
Fast foward two days.....I made the call and scheduled a meeting with her to talk to her more about her program and get signed up. It's time. It has been time. For so many years I have started and stopped working out and eating right, and it is exhausting. I have made jokes at my own expense to make people laugh and break the ice about my weight. I am currently 60 lbs down from my heaviest, and have been 30 lbs lighter than I am right now. It is SO time. During the meeting, we discussed eating right, and our workout plan together, I left the gym on cloud 9, so ready to get started and make a change for good. I am SO committed to making this a permanent change.....I am damn near 30, I gotta do it. There are almost 20 athletes on the team I am part of. It's truly incredible.
In a couple of days she sent me my meal plan, and we set up to meet for the first time on a Tuesday night. We started with legs for our first session. I am much weaker than I have been in the past, but I am not as weak as I thought I would be. With one set of squats left, I thought I was going to have to make a mad dash out the back door to get sick.....It was so embarassing, but I managed to keep my composure, get some water down and finish the set. It was a great workout and I left feeling so uplifted and hopeful. But it gets even better!!
Patrick is always so supportive of me and my intentions to lose weight and get healthy, even if I don't get as far as I want to, or (obviously) stick with it for the long run. As we were talking more about it, my new trainer encouraged me to ask him to join the team. We talked about it and Patrick was extremely excited, but we had to work out some details first. In the end, Patrick joined the team and is now on this journey with me!! I couldn't be more excited to go down this road to health together with the man I love. SO STOKED!!
I have now had two sessions with my coach, doing cardio on my own, and have been following her meal plan for a week and feel good! The first two days after our first workout together I had a hard time sitting down and subsequently getting back up again, it was painful, but it hurt so good :)
I am so motivated and so ready for us to get healthy together, I can't wait to see where this journey takes us.
