I was so tired of saying how I was going to start being healthy and fit. I knew if I didn't take the opportunity to have serious "New Years" resolutions then I would never be serious about having a healthy lifestyle. I started out by saying goodbye to fast food, soda, and even my first love, candy. I wanted more than just resolutions for the beginning of the year, so I've picked kind of a crazy goal mark to really test my fitness. Tough Mudder! It looks like something that may perhaps kill me at this current fitness level lol, but that's why I don't want to stop. I want to be the type of woman who challenges herself with new things all the time; the woman who lives fearlessly and confidently, without regret. I've been doing pretty good so far, running into "binges" here and there but my biggest fear is that I will get scared and give up on myself. Being a nurses aid for five years has given me incredible insight to what happens when people do not take their lives, that God has blessed them with, seriously. In between me just getting started and Tough Mudder I've joined a fit competition at my gym. The competition ends in about 9 more weeks. So far I am in 3 weeks: down about 3% body fat and about five lbs less. Here goes nothing!

For years I was on-again and off-again with working out or eating "healthy". I never realized until this year how far I'd be able to push myself and how certain things are not off limits like I had thought. I am realizing just how great working out and meeting goals makes me feel. There are days when it is such a drag to actually get myself up and get to the gym but when I get there, pop in my head phones and get in the "zone", I feel limitless. I'm definitely not an athlete but I'm excited to be the very best me that I can be and after that who knows. I'd never really tried to sculpt my body before but the combination of cardio and weight lifting makes it exciting to see the lack of muscle I had really turn into potential.