Meet the Teacher Memories

This week has been wild with the kids starting back to school and my oldest starting Kindergarten! Amongst all the craziness, Timehop reminded me this week of Thomas' meet the teacher last year. I got tears in my eyes when I saw this photo. 

#1 my sweet boy is SO much bigger &
#2 it brings back so many emotions of how life used to be for me

This was the photo where I made my mind up to do something different with my life. To make a change. We all have moment where we have seen ourselves in a photo and we didn't like the way that we looked, but this was different. I cropped almost my entire body out of the photo when I posted it on Facebook and that was hard.

When I saw this photo, I saw the button that wouldn't close on my dress because the dress was too small. I saw an arm that made me really upset. I noticed that I was larger looking than my husband. How did this happen? What was I doing wrong? So many different emotions and thoughts ran though my mind and I was so upset with the way that I looked AND felt.

I thought I was eating healthy, I was training for a half marathon and I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I knew it would be harder to lose weight with having hypothyroidism and honestly, I thought I may never lose the weight. I had accepted the fact that I would be a size 10 and approx 20 pounds heavier than I wanted for the rest of my life.

Then, I heard about the 21 day fix from my coach posting her transformation on Facebook. I had heard about it before and been approached by another coach but the timing wasn't right for me. This time, I was ready! I knew Beachbody programs worked because I had tried Insanity a few years before and it kicked my butt, lol! The whole idea of portion control, clean eating and 30 minute workouts was exactly what this busy Mom of 3 needed!!

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