Photos Of Myself & My Journey

This post is going to be just so you know where I am coming from - a little background info on myself. I consider myself to be fit. In fact, I consider myself to be in great shape. I think I am probably in extremely great shape for someone who has had three kids. I do not beat myself up - never have. I am not vain (okay, maybe a little), but after the effort I have put in with workouts in combination with great genetics (I can't deny that), I think I have no reason to nit pick at any flaws.

I have always been small (5'1 and 110 pounds), up until I got pregnant with my oldest child. I ended up putting on too much weight during pregnancy (I was 152 at delivery).



The weight took a while to come off. I didn't really workout and I got stuck at various weights. I finally ended up at 117 after a year and a half, which was okay but I certainly wasn't 'fit'. A lot of my 'baby belly' became flab and rolled over the top of my pants. It wasn't a good look, that's for sure.

Then I got pregnant with my second child when my oldest was 18 months old and really took care not too gain as much weight. I ended up gaining around 25 pounds. I worked hard and lost the weight really quickly and ended up back down to 110 pounds.

When my second child was 6 months old, I got pregnant again with my third. Again, I took care not to gain too much and once again gained around 25 pounds.

I began working out and I am still around 110 pounds, which to me is great. I am in pre-pregnancy shape and I often shock people when they find out I have 3 kids. I do all my workouts at home, like I said previously. I use Jillian Michael's workout DVD's because they don't totally bore me like some other videos I have tried in the past.

This is where I am at now:

I am looking to tone up my muscles more. Like I have said in other posts, I do work out but I don't eat the way I should, so my journey is really about improving that. I am hoping with some proper clean eating that I can really shape up my muscles the way I want. 

This is what I am aiming for:

I know not everyone has the same goals, but I think it's a great idea to at least have some sort of motivational image that way whenever you are feeling down you can give yourself a gentle reminder of what you want. This is all just my personal goal. Will I ever be at that level of the picture above? I don't know. I won't kill myself to get there, but it is definitely motivation for me.

We all have different goals and different bodies and it's okay, we just need to try our best to take care of ourselves and I believe the rest will fall into place. Don't beat yourself up if you never get to the goal you want, just knowing that you are putting healthy things in your body and improving your health is even better than wearing size 0 jeans.