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Overall Goal: Failure is part of life. The challenge is how you come back from it and stop it from happening again. It starts with being honest with yourself.
Fit Status:
I jumped off the wagon, thinking I had wings to carry me, but instead I fell hard and now I'm working of coming back stronger than ever.
After high school I had to have surgery on my hip to rebuild it because it wasn't fully developed. Call it a birth-defect I guess. Anyways, during physical therapy I started noticing muscle tone in my legs and I was so excited that I had made that. After therapy, I joined a gym and found a free weight workout by Denise Austin that was in some magazine. I did that workout like every day along with some major cardio. My diet also changed dramatically by cutting out all junk foods for the most part. Before I knew it, I was a new woman. My fingers got smaller, my face changed and I was no longer that 175 lb. girl I was in high school.
Why I Love It:
Ever since I picked up my first set of weights, my life has never been the same. The drive to workout has taken me to a place I never thought possible. I love the results and I love the heads that turn when people see me. It's hard for me to put on muscle, so when I was finally able to it was an awesome feeling. I also love how working out makes me feel emmotionally, mentally, spiritually, and of course physically. I feel like I can do anything when my body is in shape and I love being a woman whose not affraid to go lift with the big boys. Before bodybuilding became a part of my life I always felt like I never fit in anywhere, but when I started to seriously work out, I gained a lot of respect from everyone in the gym. Now I have guys asking me to spot them.
How I Stay Motivated:
After losing 50 lbs. I was so thrilled with my new body that the thought of ever going back to that heavier stage scares the hell out of me. My body isn't perfect by any means, and that keeps pushing me to eat better and stay active. Sometimes I feel like the only posative thing I have control over is my body and that is one thing I'm not going to let go of.
BB Accomplishments:
I haven't competed in bodybuilding and I don't know if I ever will, but when I see a picture of myself and my body looks lean and muscular, it such a huge reward.
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Normal is not something to aspire to but something to get away from.
Failure is part of life. The challenge is how you come back from it and stop it from happening again. It starts with being honest with yourself.
Goal (Long):
Things have changed a lot these past four months. Change can be good but it really messed me up. I was doing great with working out and eating clean. It was as normal as breathing in and out. But then something changed. I lost all control and discipline. My motivation was lost and all I felt was tired and down. But I couldn't figure out why. I thought I might have been overtraining or something, but that couldn't be the case when I was barely training at all. Then it happened, CRASH! Mentally I just crashed. It felt familiar, like it's happened in the past, like the last time I screwed with my medications. See I'm not ashamed to talk about this cause a lot of people out there live thier lives on some kind of medication that keeps them stable. Well I thought I was doing great so I decided to slowly take myself off my meds and it backfired on me. FInally it made sense why I lost my motivation and why I was binging all of the time. I thought I was just going through a phase, but it was something I brought on myself by messing with meds that were in fact helping me live a stable life. The symptoms of binging, dragging ass, not wanting to work out were all signs of depression I was having and I didn't even realize it until that day at work where I started having a panic attack and thought if I didn't get help now...things would turn out very badly for me.
Now I'm getting back on my meds and already I'm feeling better and back to my hard-working self. I did some damage to my lean body in that time though. The binging all caught up with me as I've shown in my "progress" pictures. But I'm showing this so people can see that we all have our fallouts, but that it's possible to come back from them and be even better than before. THat's why I'm posting all of this. I'm not where I want to be yet, but I WILL get there! I've learned a valued lesson and I now know that because of a previous head injury, meds will be something that I'll be needing for the majority of my life and that's ok. Despite my "disability" if that's what you want to call it, I won't let it stop me from being healthy and challenging myself to being in the best shape of my life. On my 30th birthday instead of seeing myself all lean and ripped and sexier than ever, I found myself in a Doctors office, working on getting myself back together. And I WILL come back better than ever!
Never gives up on taking care of himself and by doing so, sets an example for so many others. Amazing results from hard work and dedication. A great role model for those who say their too old to get into shape.
What type of injury was it? How long were you injured? How did you recover?
My back is always a killer. Once I reinjure it I could be out for weeks. Finally I started seeing a chiropractor and I'm hoping it will continue to heal me. If not I'm going for acupuncture.U
- Updated Sep 16, 2008 4:01am
What is the most common reason that somebody gets injured while lifting?
Of course, they're not doing something right. I'm guilty at times but I really try to keep my form sharp.
- Updated Sep 16, 2008 4:01am
What celebrity body would you most like to have? Why?
In the celebrity world, the more muscle the better. Madonna is amazing and has awesome mucles. So does Pink and I really admire that they're not affraid to be ripped.
This weeked I indulged BAD!! I thought I could play it cool in the weeked but it got out of hand. Today though was the day for the comeback, not only in the gym but in my clean eating. I started the day off with very low carbs so I could get back onto my carb deplete, but that may not...
LOL- it's the lighting. Your email was a wonderful TG day trreat and I'm working on a response now that all the leftovers and dishes are put away! Talk 2 u soon....
No worries on the email. Glad to hear you're moving towards getting back to your normal party hearty heartbreaking player girl self! Have a great weekend Eden :)
Sorry to read you were not feeling well but glad that it turned out you could go hit the gym. Rice in your chicken soup? Must be the asian in you! Take care and big hugs. Next time your ill, let me know and I'll order you some Won Ton soup!
