My TT and BL Journey - Saint Louis, MO

All my life I have always had a lower belly and then after having kids and some weight gain, the belly became bigger. I used to drop the weight but gain it back. Each time I drop the weight I said I didn’t want to go back but did anyway.

We had this management class at work one day “Becoming a Corporate Athlete” and in that meeting they asked up to make goals for ourselves. He said he didn’t want to see “I want to loose weight” because if it was just that, we would have lost it by now. He asked us to dig deep and determine why we keep gaining weight.

I believe my deep issue was I was addicted to food and didn’t want to exercise and would have like to find an easy way to do it. So I made the following goal: I will become healthy and take care of body. I will admit that I am addicted to food and will take it day to day and in the process, if I loose weight, then great….

I changed mentally by telling myself I need to feed my brain good foods but not denying myself of other things if I will watch the amount I eat and make sure I do a little extra in my workout. I also changed physically. I began working out three to four times a week and now I’m up to four to six times a week. I keep my workouts very versatile (Zumba, dance cardio, gym and a little jogging (new).

Now for the physical part. I think one of the reasons I always gained the weight back was because although the loose weight and shrink, I still looked the same, just smaller. This time I’m going to do something about the look so I do not get discouraged. So this is the reason I’m here today.