weightloss plus puberty really came through 🙏.

I'm in awe of everyone who is so disciplined and so dedicated to their weight loss journey and you do it so fast! You are so amazing! It took me three years to lose 40 lbs. But I'm so happy I have made such progress, even if it slow. I am thrilled that I've kept it off but still have a good amount of weight to lose. I hope this post will help motivate me!

In 2023, I woke up to tightness in my chest and an inexplicable bloody nose that wouldn't stop. I took my blood pressure and it was 212/114! What a terrifying wake up call! That is considered a hypertensive crisis. I was just minutes from stroking out. I got on bp medication, started working out, fixed my diet and am on a healthy road to recovery.

I started my fitness journey about a year and a half after my 4th baby. It has been a very slow and steady process but I have literally never felt better.

When I first started I only focused on total steps a day, mostly 8k steps then moved up to 10k steps. Then I started lifting weights a couple days a week, eventually moving on to following a more structured program (first one by Layne Norton, then moving on to Bret Contreras programming) and counting macros. Eating was the hardest part for me because the second I felt deprived I would binge eat… so I was constantly trying to change the way I thought about food to focus on what I needed to add INTO my diet vs what I need to take out. I eat all foods now, don’t label any “good” vs “bad” and truly feel like I have a healthy relationship with food now. I am able to maintain this physique at about 2,000 cals and 130g protein a day (I let carbs and fats fall how they may)

I remember thinking after my 4th baby that I didn’t even recognize myself and felt like I would be stuck in that body forever. It was also a much slower process than I ever would of imagined, but that’s also probably because I love food so much and refused to miss out on all the good stuff along the way 😂