From then to now...

So, this is where it all started and excited to start sharing my story and everyday victories and struggles...

I was at the Beachbody Coach Summit this past weekend and a lot of it is to focus on our WHY? for why we love being involved in helping others find a solution to help guide them to a healthy lifestyle....here is a quick story on why I named my Beachbody business "Fit with Faith." When I was going through my weight loss, no one was there to help me, guide me, encourage me or root me on. Especially not the ones I thought should have been there for me the most like family but all I got from the ones I trusted the most was, "just don't eat as much," "if you really wanted it, you would do something about it," "why don't you just not put it in your mouth", "just workout everyday" and the list goes on and on and on and on!

Well, I prayed and prayed to God daily about giving me the strength...I knew it wasn't up to anyone else to do it for me, it was up to me but with a lifelong struggle of fighting being over weight and being teased about it all through my already struggle..it was gonna take a lot of FAITH. 

From the time I was young, my weight was always an issue for my parents and they used to take me to Weight Watchers meetings when I was in middle school. Nothing more embarassing than having to walk up the stairs to the meeting location that the Weight Watchers was at and see old women there and I was only a young teenager who was already fighting my weight. I was active and played sports just didn't know how to lose weight. I got to the point where I just knew it is just the way it was going to be and especially going through college and having kids, the task to lose weight got even HARDER. I had to do something so I decided to take Action...

I remember going on NIke.com after seeing a promotion for a new engraving technique they had that you could do to personalize the face of their watches and I thought it was sooo awesome I went on to get one but I sat and thought forever what "cool" thing I could have engraved on the face of that watch so everytime I looked at my watch I would see this word that would keep me motivated. Well, that word I had engraved was FAITH. I knew it would take Faith within me to keep going becasue no one else would be there cheering me on. Faith means a belief that is not based on proof..so I was putting my Faith in myself to keep going because before then I would always quit so this was a huge step for me and when I saw that word, it would remind me not to give up!

When I work out, I am such a clock watcher and it is very easy for me to convince myself to stop and I would look at my watch and see how long I had been working out b/c I didnt want the others behind me at the gym judge me b/c I could only run onthe treadmill for 15 min..so I would check to make sure it was an adequate amount of time. But having the word FAITH engraved on the watch..evertime my mind forced me to look at it, I had to have the FAITH and strength to keep going but it wasn't going to happen without my FAITH of TRUSTING that what I was doing was going to pay off in the end...

So....over thinking very hard about where I have come from and the struggles I have endured and overcome throughout my entire life..FIT WITH FAITH...was born.