I feel like I've been trying to transform for a decade and if you were to see my progress photos you'd see I kind of have. A few years ago I couldn't run a mile, I hated the treadmill. I hired a trainer and started Weight Watchers to take me from a whopping 250 pounds when I delivered my son to about 160 pounds. I'd workout at 4am to get it done before my busy day of working, being a wife, and mother started. I'd have to put the alarm across the room to make myself get up. But after just a couple weeks I loved it. I craved the energy and the way I felt starting my day with a good workout!

For the last 5 years I've yo-yo'd between 160 and 180 pounds. My goal has always been 145 but once I get to 160 I start binge eating and gaining weight. I'm ready to stop this cycle. After trying every diet, working with several trainers and starting over time and time again, this will be the last time. I'm working with a great trainer online, lifting, doing cardio and eating clean. I'm doing this 100% the natural way and I am confident I will get there!

I love the way I feel, especially now that I've tied goals to my fitness. I've completed triathlons, warrior dashes, 10Ks and 10 milers, and planning on a half marathon in 2013! I started lifting weights and now am often lifting heavier than the guys in the weight room. I love seeing the look on people's faces when i walk in, looking average because of a poor diet but out performing everyone around me. Seeing people just sitting there on the weight equipment between sets completely dry and me walking by dripping with sweat gets me going because I know I'm doing everything I can to achieve the body I want.

When I look at Oxygen, Muscle and Fitness Hers, Fitness RX and the like, I see inspiration. When i go to the gym, I see thin people but not people that look the way I want to look and it fuels me to see that inside me when I look in the mirror. I want to match my outside to my inside. So people aren't only inspired by seeing the weight I'm lifting and the cardio I'm doing based on how I look but they look at me and know I worked hard for what I have!