On Saturday, March 15th (yes, I remember the dates) I made the decision to ditch my old 24 Hour Fitness membership and to sign up at Self Defined Fitness--a gym much closer for me. At the time the only thing that made my choice to change gyms was the location, since then it's become some much more than that. The day I signed up at Self Defined fitness I had my first conversation with Sylvester Cain, before leaving I decided to do a free first training session with him on Tuesday, March 18th (although I was terrified of being utterly embarrassed).. Looking back on that free training session certainly does bring embarrassment, but I made it through it and at the time that seemed pretty good. That same day I decided to put my big girl pants on and I signed up for my first five weeks of training with Sylvester. These training days were going to bring me right up to our trip to Jamaica and I was excited about the possibility of losing some pounds just in time to get on the plane. And it has all be easy from there....said no one ever.
Signing up with Sylvester has been the single best decision i've made in a long time. Many of you are probably thinking "this girl is nuts". Call me what you want but I have found out more about myself in the last 3 months than I have in probably the last 3 years. Sylvester is more than a personal trainer--he's really a mentor to me now. He pushes me to do things I never thought I could, he supports me on the days I can't get my head straight, he reminds me when i'm messing up and most of all he makes me laugh all while i'm swearing him for making me do one more drop set. He makes me believe I can set and obtain higher goals than I ever dreamed of. He has me believing that anything is possible and that I can physically do anything as long as I put the time in. I could go on and on about how awesome my trainer is but I don't want his head getting too big so I will leave it there for now.
How has my day to day changed you may ask? I train with Sylvester twice a week for one hour each time. I tend to train with him on Tuesdays and Fridays. I am generally at the gym Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Wednesdays I tend to take the day to go for a run and burn some calories dancing around my house while John is gone to volleyball--haha it works for me but my dogs are always very confused. I know you're probably thinking that 6 days at the gym is WAY too much. I beg to differ, I LOVE my gym time. My time at the gym is MY time and only MY time. I can sweat, swear, laugh and push myself both mentally and physically and then go home feeling like a million bucks. Taking 1-2 hours out of my day to day for ME is worth it, I think many could benefit from it! In regards to my eating; for the most part you could sum up my eating to clean eating. John and I do a ton of food prep on Sundays which usually involves ground extra lean turkey, jasmine rice and veggies of our choice and we also prep salads for the week. By having all of our food ready and portioned we can just grab tupperware and go--this makes clean eating MUCH easier. Paying more attention to my food intake has been pretty easy for me. When you're spending so much time in the gym it's easy to not want to undo it all with food. And no i'm not "dieting" i'm simply being more aware of what i'm putting in my body. I used to say "I workout so I can eat what I want" well my friends...that is so far from productive...this I have learned.
So what's changed with all of this hard work? I've lost 12lbs, lost I don't know how many inches and I've dropped sizes in clothes like crazy! When I started I was barely squeezing into a size 10 pant, I am now VERY happy to say I'm a size 6 again and back to size small tops! I've recently taken some progress photos. Though these are not the best depiction of the progress I've really made; i'm proud.
You may be asking why I'm sharing this? I'm not sharing it for the "good jobs" or "holy crap you look good" i'm simply writing my journey in hopes of possibly inspiring someone to make the choice to live healthy. Three years ago I gave all my size 6/small clothes to Good Will and TOLD MYSELF i'd never be that small again. Instead of doing something about my weight gain, I simply was going to accept it. YOU are the only person that can make a change. I know alot of girls out there can relate with buying a size bigger and then another size bigger the next year and not being okay with it but being okay with it at the same time. Find the exercise that you LOVE and make it part of your day--stop making excuses and get active! And when you find it--stick with it. They say things become habit after three weeks, I say they become habit when you see the changes.
If you live in the Denver/Aurora area check out Sylvester Cain and Self Defined Fitness at the below links!
http://www.sccfitness.com/Site/Home.html
http://selfdefinedfitnessprogym.com/
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