My name is Shawnee, I'm 26. I am a mother of a beautiful 9 month old baby boy Sage. His father Aaron, also has 3 previous kids; Azrael (12), Mikaela (10), and Cherish (3), who we have every other week.
So as you can see, I'm a busy lady! Not to mention I am going back to work this week.
I have always struggled with my weight. Always feeling like an ogre, taller than all the other females (in school and my family) and much larger in the waist. What doesn't help is, I feel like I have always enjoyed food, a little too much. I have a very vivid memory as a child being babysat by my neighbors in Suisun, and me asking for chip bag after chip bag like I had never eaten before, and them looking at me like "Whoa! How many bags will she eat?!"
Like I was saying, I have always struggled with my weight. I have never really had much confidence either. I have tried diets since I was in 7th grade, when my Grandma introduced me to the Weight Watchers Point system. It was hard. Since then, I have tried pretty much everything. Both diet and exercise programs. For some reason I seem to have no will power or something. I have also noticed that once I notice the slightest result I "reward" myself, which causes me to slip up my program or diet.
I have also tried being vegetarian and vegan to try and lose weight, although that resulted in me just caring for animals and my food more, but that is a whole other story.
So as you can see, I'm a busy lady! Not to mention I am going back to work this week.
I have always struggled with my weight. Always feeling like an ogre, taller than all the other females (in school and my family) and much larger in the waist. What doesn't help is, I feel like I have always enjoyed food, a little too much. I have a very vivid memory as a child being babysat by my neighbors in Suisun, and me asking for chip bag after chip bag like I had never eaten before, and them looking at me like "Whoa! How many bags will she eat?!"
Like I was saying, I have always struggled with my weight. I have never really had much confidence either. I have tried diets since I was in 7th grade, when my Grandma introduced me to the Weight Watchers Point system. It was hard. Since then, I have tried pretty much everything. Both diet and exercise programs. For some reason I seem to have no will power or something. I have also noticed that once I notice the slightest result I "reward" myself, which causes me to slip up my program or diet.
I have also tried being vegetarian and vegan to try and lose weight, although that resulted in me just caring for animals and my food more, but that is a whole other story.
Since becoming a vegetarian when I was 19, I got a job at Whole Foods here in Napa, when I was just about to turn 21. That is when I really discovered healthy eating! Since working at Whole Foods I became vegan for about 6 months and then I just wanted cheese! I have been back and forth with eating meat, being vegan, being vegetarian, etc. I LOVE vegetables! And I love vegan food! I still tend to over eat even the healthy food though.
Lets fast forward to January 2012. My boyfriend had just broke my heart and moved out the November before and I had become extremely depressed which caused me to actually not have an appetite and I started losing weight. I also had a gym membership at the time which also helped out a bit. I started doing great with my weight loss! I had gone from a 5'6", 195 pound lady while with my ex to 173 pounds in only a few months! I felt great about my body! Later in January I started dating Aaron. I continued going to the gym and watching what I ate, and then June 2012 I find out I am pregnant...
There goes the weight loss....
In the beginning of my pregnancy I had really bad morning sickness so I actually continued to lose weight, but once that went away the pregnancy cravings kicked in and I let myself go since I was pregnant I figured that was ok...
Lets fast forward to January 2012. My boyfriend had just broke my heart and moved out the November before and I had become extremely depressed which caused me to actually not have an appetite and I started losing weight. I also had a gym membership at the time which also helped out a bit. I started doing great with my weight loss! I had gone from a 5'6", 195 pound lady while with my ex to 173 pounds in only a few months! I felt great about my body! Later in January I started dating Aaron. I continued going to the gym and watching what I ate, and then June 2012 I find out I am pregnant...
There goes the weight loss....
In the beginning of my pregnancy I had really bad morning sickness so I actually continued to lose weight, but once that went away the pregnancy cravings kicked in and I let myself go since I was pregnant I figured that was ok...
I weighed 233 pounds a few days before my son was born... :-(
After he was born in February, I went down to 211 lbs.. I have been strggling ever since.
I did a few different work out 30 day challenges, such as the squat challenge, the ab challenge, and a jump rope challenge. I also breastfeed my son and I have been told that it burns up to 500 calories a day! but I have had a bit of a hard time with my eating habits. I have continued to binge on junk food, although I have been able to work many veggies into my daily diet, I still over eat and eat way too much sugar.
My son is now 9 months old and a few weeks ago I weighed 192 lbs, but sadly a few days ago I weighed in at 199 lbs again! Ugh....
Anyway, that brings me to why I have decided to make a blog. I have never done anything like this, but I have read blogs before. I feel like maybe if I have any followers it will give me motivation, and possibly in turn I might motivate others, which would be awesome!
I have heard a lot about Focus T25. So I decided I would try it out. It seems like it's right up my alley!
So my blog from this point forward will be my journey of getting fit while juggling work and family. I will share how my days go, not only with my diet and exercise, but with my struggles as a mom/stepmom,also recipes, tips, tricks and whatver else I can think of!
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