But anywhoodles, for the past few months, I have totally changed my eating habits and have been clean eating since May. Let me tell you - I feel great! I can totally feel a major change in every way. I have more energy, don't feel as "blah" and have dropped some pounds as well! The one thing that I have been on & off about is the working out. Yes, I will admit it. And I can give you every excuse in the book if you really wanted me to - but I will save my breath & your time by just giving you a few lol But in all seriousness - I have been so so so busy the past few months. From working a full-time job, doing photography shoots every night after work & on the weekends, editing those shoots, planning my wedding, going to school for my Master's degree, being engaged & wanting to spend all of my spare time with my boo....yeah, all of that has played a major factor into not finding time or even wanting to find the time to workout. Until one day, it just clicked. I realized - I'm not even seeing the best me...and I want to be the BEST me possible. I want to feel like a million bucks every time I look into the mirror. When I lost all of my excuses, that's when I started seeing results. If you always wait for the time when you "feel" like doing something or when it's the "right" time to do it, it will never get done. So, that's when I started saying screw it...I'm doing this for me and dangit, I'm going to do it! NOTHING is going to stop me.
My fiancé and his family love to do obstacle course races, 5k's & etc. I've been dating my hunni for almost 2 years now, and have always been hesitant when it came to working out with him & the guys. Don't get me wrong - I have ALWAYS wanted to...but something was just always stopping me. I think it was fear. Obviously. Fear that I wouldn't be able to keep up with all of these buff guys or bench press 200 pounds. But finally, I faced my fear & got my butt out there with my soon-to-be sister-in-law and we ran the Power Park Fitness course with them. Yes, you heard me - WITH the guys. It was so cool!
I surprisingly did really really good! I kept pace with everyone & did all of the obstacles except the rope climb & this other obstacle that takes an insane amount of arm strength to do. Oh, and I didn't do the salmon ladder either. But still...I was super proud of Alisa & myself for going out there and giving it all we had.
So, there was more. They had tires. Really big ones, too. When I approached the huge monstrosity of a thing, I kinda started second guessing whether I could flip that 90lb thing or not. But then I immediately told my brain to shut-up & just went for it. It was like a high. Something I always wanted to try, but was too timid to do. I was finally doing it. And ohhhhhh boy it was awesome. So yes, it was a struggle for me the very first time - the tire was so close to the ground, it was hard to get a good grip on the tire without smashing your fingers into the concrete. But I did it anyway.
After that, my fiancé drilled some 2x4's into the tires where it would raise the tire off of the ground just a wee-bit in order for us to get our little fingers under there. So, the second time around - I killed it! I gave it my all and did it! It was awesome hearing my hunni cheer me on & tell me that he was proud of me. It just gives me that much more drive to do better, to make him proud.
So - we've been working out together lately. Going on runs in the 100 degree heat & running the course. Whew. Let me tell you - NOT EASY...but it all boils down to how bad do you want it? Badly.
I'm running my first 5k in September! Super excited & I've never officially ran a 5k event - but I'm so stoked to do this one repping Power Park Fitness all the way!
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