A Little History

My name is Cathy, I am a 33 year old mother of 3, and have explored many ways to help with weight loss and health.  I have found that I lost this passion recently, and it has led to where I am now.  Doing a blog about getting healthy, trying to get some motivation and therapy all in the same place!

 

I want to start my blog posts with a little history about me and my journey that got me here.  To start lets look at me in high school: (ok the picture is old, but gives you the idea)

 

This is little ole me in my teens, maybe pushing 125, I was thin and fit, I had muscle and danced a lot!  I could eat what I wanted and never gained weight!!! 

 

These two pictures are of me in my 20's, I had 3 beautiful boys in my 20's and managed to lose the weight and remain healthy, without a ton of effort.  I managed my eating, ran and did yoga regularly, this helped me stay around 140 (which I am more than ok with).

 

 

Finally this is me now, in my 30's, and unhealthy!!!  It has been crazy the last 3 years, and I have gained about 40 pounds.  When I hit my 30's I started a new job and started gaining weight, I still ate right and worked out sometimes, I gained weight quickly.  At 31 I went to the doctor for my annual check up, and wake up call, weight gain, high blood pressure, and suprise, hormones were off!  What does this mean, well, I have a high amount of estrogen, and low amount of progesterone, this makes it really easy for me to gain weight (since estrogen is carried in fat cells).  So with this news I got on progesterone cream and thought 'YES this will fix it!'.  Boy, Was I wrong!!!  I stopped working out regularly and really didn't care what I was eating, this led to more weight gain.  So here I am now, determined to not only get my body in shape again, but also determined to get rid of this so called "hormone problem".  I am going to do this with food, exercise, and yoga.  I am not doing anymore get thin quick "fixes", that led to quick weight loss and then gaining even more weight then I lost!!!

 

I have realized that my health, and the health of my family, are the most important things in this life, I need to treat this with the up most respect and treasure it.  My body wakes me up in the morning, gets me moving, it is the vessel in which I hug my children, and my husband.  My health and my body are the number one ways I can give back to my children, and my life here today in this world.  Well and lets face it, when Zombie's attack, I don't want to be out of shape!!

 

My journey will change, probably weekly but I will put every single moment in this blog, please let me know your progress and also pointers that help you!!!  I have many resources to help me get started and one of the things I am going to start with is Shakeology, this product is one of the best I have found and it makes me feel amazing!!!  I will be replacing 1 of my 5 meals today with one!  I am also going to start jogging again, and starting with one day a week with yoga, I will do a post on what yoga I like the best and what I have tried.  Also I will post more on Shakeology and why I like it.

 

So here is to your health and mine, keep it up and make this the best life it can possibly be!!!