My first post!

So, I will start with why I decided to start a blog, something I've never been particularly good at keeping up with. 
First of all, I am a health and fitness coach with Beachbody.  I love my job!  I get to help and inspire others to reach their health and fitness goals.  I have been into health and fitness for probably the last 10 years.  I started getting into when I randomly decided to become a "runner" about 10 years ago.  I am a competitive person by nature, mostly with myself.  So when I decided to start running and could barely run down the street without gasping for air, I knew I had to change some things in my life and study on how I could get this running thing down.  Now, I never became a super fast runner, partly because I am only 5'3 and all torso, but I was able to run several mini-marathons and even one full marathon in the past 10 years.  I also competed in a couple of small triathlons.  As a competitive person, I was always trying to beat my last time, always out to set a new PR.  So, I had to learn a little about nutrition because that definitely plays a big role in running success.

When I became pregnant with my 3rd child in 2012, I stopped running due to health reasons.  So after I had my beautiful daughter, I couldn't wait to start running again.  But, it wouldn't be so easy.  I was so discouraged every time I went out to run, because I just could never find my groove.  I was also having a hard time losing the last bit of "baby weight."  At 36 years old, it wasn't as easy to drop those pounds as it was with my first two babies.  So, that's when I decided to try something else and purchased my first Beachbody workout, the 21 day fix!  Loved it and lost the rest of my weight in those 21 days (8pounds).  Now, I've never been an overweight woman, but I've always been active and did some sort of exercise.  I certainly haven't always been healthy either.  There was definitely a time in my life where I was very unhealthy due to making very poor choses in what I ate (or didn't eat).  But Beachbody taught me how to eat the right foods and how much food to eat.  It made it so easy.  In January of 2015, I joined my first challenge group on FB.  The results I got after that challenge group kept me wanting to do more.  The group kept me motivated and held me accountable.  I stopped making excuses for why I couldn't work out or eat healthy.  I felt so good, that I decided I wanted to help others feel this same way.  So, I became a Beachbody coach. 

As a coach, I am no expert but I am always learning.  I love to learn new exercises and recipes that taste great and are good for you.  I always have health and fitness on my mind which brings me to why I decided to start a blog.  I am always having these thoughts bouncing around in my head so I figured maybe I should write them down.  Maybe, just maybe one or some of these thoughts may help or inspire someone else.  Who knows!?  At least, that is my hope!
 
"I want to inspire people....I want someone to look at me and say
Because of you I didn't give up."