Let it begin

So lets start with life one year ago. This picture isn't from back then, its just one of the only "before pics" I have. When you're 100+ lbs overweight...yes, 100 lbs.... you do NOT have full body shots of yourself on purpose! I have this specific picture from when I wanted to be on Biggest Loser a few years ago with my friend, Liz. As I mentioned in my last post, my world changed a bit when I did the weight loss challenge at the Sports Academy. Doing that challenge gave me the bug - showed me that I could work out & that I could chose to not be overweight. There was about a three month lapse from when that challenge ended, to when I found out about CrossFit through my friend at work. She'd been going the whole time I'd been doing my Sports Academy workouts & every morning we'd sit & talk about our workouts from the day before. So after falling off the wagon a bit, I gave in & went to CrossFit.

Going to CrossFit has been the best thing I've ever done for myself. Its seriously been such a mental & physical game changer for me in losing weight & becoming a strong, able bodied person. My brother Nathan summed it up in his last comment to me on Facebook - I was teasing about not being an athlete at all & he said, " You stopped qualifying for that status when you ran your 10th race of the summer...you are a runner, you're an athlete...get use to it."

This is SO true. I'm doing events & accomplishing things in the last 6 months that you couldn't have convinced me I'd be able to do. I still have a ways to go (45 lbs or so), but now its not so far out of reach. Now I know I can actually get there & I don't have to be on a TV show or be in a competition to be there. I can get up every morning when its still dark outside & go work my BUTT off @ my CrossFit gym - eat healthier rather than not - and I can decide to be a fit, strong person.

Strong is the new skinny.